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Russia's domestic intelligence agency claimed Saturday that Ukraine can obtain sensitive information from troops using the Telegram app on the front line, reports Bloomberg. The fact that the claims were made through Russia's state-operated news outlet RIA Novosti signals "tightening scrutiny over a platform used by millions of Russians," Bloomberg notes, as the Kremlin continues efforts to "push people to use a new state-backed alternative." Russia's communications watchdog limited access to Telegram — a popular messaging app owned by Russian-born billionaire Pavel Durov — over a week ago for failing to comply with Russian laws requiring personal data to be stored locally. Voice and video calls were blocked via Telegram in August. The pressure is the latest move in a long-running campaign to promote what the Kremlin calls a sovereign internet that's led to blocks on YouTube, Instagram and WhatsApp... Foreign intelligence services are able to see Russia's military messages in Telegram too, Russia's Minister for digital development, Maksut Shadaev, said on Wednesday, although he added that Russia will not block access to Telegram for troops for now. Telegram responded at the time that no breaches of the app's encryption have ever been found. "The Russian government's allegation that our encryption has been compromised is a deliberate fabrication intended to justify outlawing Telegram and forcing citizens onto a state-controlled messaging platform engineered for mass surveillance and censorship," it said in an emailed response.

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Fossil fuels produce NO2, which is linked to asthma attacks, bronchitis, and higher risks of heart disease and stroke, according the EV news site Electrek. But the nonprofit news site Grist.org notes a new analysis showing that those emissions decreased by 1.1% for every increase of 200 electric vehicles — across nearly 1,700 ZIP codes. "A pretty small addition of cars at the ZIP code level led to a decline in air pollution," said Sandrah Eckel, a public health professor at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine and lead author of the study. "It's remarkable." The study was done at the University of Southern California's medical school, by researchers using high-resolution satellite data, reports Electrek: The study, just published in The Lancet Planetary Health and partly funded by the National Institutes of Health, adds rare real-world evidence to a claim that's often taken for granted — that EVs don't just cut carbon over time, they also improve local air quality right now... The researchers ran multiple checks to make sure the trend wasn't driven by unrelated factors. They accounted for pandemic-era changes by excluding 2020 in some analyses and controlling for gas prices and work-from-home patterns. They also saw the expected counterexample: neighborhoods that added more gas-powered vehicles experienced increases in pollution. The findings were then replicated using updated ground-level air monitoring data dating back to 2012... Next, the researchers plan to compare EV adoption with asthma-related emergency room visits and hospitalizations. If those trends line up, it could provide some of the clearest evidence yet of what we already know: that electrifying transportation doesn't just clean the air on paper; it improves public health in practice. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader jhoegl for sharing the article.

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mithrilian

Купила новый планшет вместо треснутого старого, тоже Леново, тоже за 150-170 фунтов. На старом годами слушала фанфики с программой AI Reader. Простенькая, использует гугл-голоса и сервис(?) но без рекламы и удобная.

Так вот. На новом планшете та же программа в те же блютузные наушники выдала жесть в буквальном смысле. Жестяной звук, жуткий скрежет, все слышно но дико противно.

Я офигела, полезла в гугл, потом в девелоперский режим, выяснила всё про кодеки и драйвера... Хрен. Ладно, пошла в плейстор, а там от того же мужичка новая программа, оформленная не как упдейт, а как новая. Беру, качаю, ура, звук прежний. Радуюсь, ставлю 5 звезд, несколько дней слушаю как прежде.

Сегодня утром все хорошо. Включаю днем - ОПЯТЬ ЖЕСТЬ скребет в уши!!! Офигеваю мрачно, ничего же не меняла, ну ничего. Утром слушала ж нормально!!

Только что случайно выяснила причину. Ну то есть условие, при котором качество звука обнуляется в жесть.

ЗВУК ХОРОШИЙ ТОЛЬКО ПРИ ПОДКЛЮЧЕННОМ ВАЙФАЕ! Отключаю вайфай - падает в жесть.

Блютузные наушники трехлетней давности, хорошие. Никогда такого с ними не было, я использую их и с телефоном без проблем.

Я ваще. Это что? ЧТО ЭТО??!! И это не вина программы, это проявилось сперва со старой версией программы на новом планшете, а потом и с новой.

На ум просится конспирология, что кто-то в Гугле или Леново или андроиде хочет знать, что именно я слушаю.

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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/22/2019241/long-before-tech-ceos-turned-to-layoffs-to-cover-ai-expenses-there-was-worldcom?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Jeopardy time. A. This company spurred CEOs to make huge speculative capital expenditures based on wild unverified claims of future demand, resulting in the layoffs of tens of thousands of workers to reduce the resulting expenses, harming their core businesses. Q. What is OpenAI? Sorry, the correct response is, "What is WorldCom?" In 2002, WorldCom, the second largest long-distance company in the U.S., entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy after disclosing accounting fraud that eventually totaled $11 billion, the biggest ever at the time. CEO Bernard Ebbers was subsequently sentenced to 25 years in prison. CNBC reported that an employee of WorldCom's Internet service provider UUNet set off a frenzy of speculative investment and infrastructure overbuild after he used Excel to create a best-case scenario model for the Internet's growth that suggested in the best of all possible worlds, Internet traffic would double every 100 days, a scenario that would greatly benefit WorldCom, whose lines would carry it. Despite no evidence to support it, WorldCom's lie became an immutable law and businesses around the world made important decisions based on the belief that traffic was doubling every 100 days. "For some period of time I can recall that we were backfilling that expectation with laying cables, something like 2,200 miles of cable an hour," AT&T CEO Michael Armstrong said. "Think of all the companies that went out of business that assumed that that was real." In 2003, NBC News reported: Armstrong and former Sprint CEO Bill Esrey struggled for years to understand how WorldCom could beat them so handily. "We would look at the conduct of WorldCom in terms of their pricing, revenue growth, margins, in terms of their cost structure... and the price leader almost every quarter was WorldCom," Armstrong said. Added Esrey, "We couldn't figure out how they were pricing as aggressively as they were.... How could they be so efficient in their costs and expenses?" AT&T and Sprint began cutting jobs to push down their costs to WorldCom's level. "The market said what a marvelous management job WorldCom was doing and they would look over to AT&T and say, 'these guys aren't keeping up.' So, my shareholders were hurt. We laid off tens of thousands of employees in an accelerated fashion [in a futile effort to match WorldCom's phantom profits] and I think the industry was hurt," Armstrong says. "It just wrecked the whole industry," says Esrey.

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https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/02/22/1926234/open-source-registries-dont-have-enough-money-to-implement-basic-security?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Google and Microsoft contributed $5 million to launch Alpha-Omega in 2022 — a Linux Foundation project to help secure the open source supply chain. But its co-founder Michael Winser warns that open source registries are in financial peril, reports The Register, since they're still relying on non-continuous funding from grants and donations. And it's not just because bandwidth is expensive, he said at this year's FOSDEM. "The problem is they don't have enough money to spend on the very security features that we all desperately need..." In a follow-up LinkedIn exchange after this article had posted, Winser estimated it could cost $5 million to $8 million a year to run a major registry the size of Crates.io, which gets about 125 billion downloads a year. And this number wouldn't include any substantial bandwidth and infrastructure donations (Like Fastly's for Crates.io). Adding to that bill is the growing cost of identifying malware, the proliferation of which has been amplified through the use of AI and scripts. These repositories have detected 845,000 malware packages from 2019 to January 2025 (the vast majority of those nasty packages came to npm)... In some cases benevolent parties can cover [bandwidth] bills: Python's PyPI registry bandwidth needs for shipping copies of its 700,000+ packages (amounting to 747PB annually at a sustained rate of 189 Gbps) are underwritten by Fastly, for instance. Otherwise, the project would have to pony up about $1.8 million a month. Yet the costs Winser was most concerned about are not bandwidth or hosting; they are the security features needed to ensure the integrity of containers and packages. Alpha-Omega underwrites a "distressingly" large amount of security work around registries, he said. It's distressing because if Alpha-Omega itself were to miss a funding round, a lot of registries would be screwed. Alpha-Omega's recipients include the Python Software Foundation, Rust Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, OpenJS Foundation for Node.js and jQuery, and Ruby Central. Donations and memberships certainly help defray costs. Volunteers do a lot of what otherwise would be very expensive work. And there are grants about...Winser did not offer a solution, though he suggested the key is to convince the corporate bean counters to consider paid registries as "a normal cost of doing business and have it show up in their opex as opposed to their [open source program office] donation budget." The dilemma was summed up succinctly by the anonymous Slashdot reader who submitted this story. "Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money!"

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juan_gandhi

"Русская лыжница", подумал Штирлиц.

И это ещё не биатлон, слава те господи.

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https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/02/22/1810206/researchers-develop-detachable-crawling-robotic-hand?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot writes: Researchers have developed a robotic hand that can not only skitter about on its fingertips, it can also bend its fingers backward, connect and disconnect from a robotic arm, and pick up and carry one or more objects at a time. This article in Science News includes footage of the robotic arm reattaching itself to the skittering robot hand, which can also hold objects against both sides of its palm simultaneously, and "can even unscrew the cap off a mustard bottle while holding the bottle in place." With its unusual agility, it could navigate and retrieve objects in spaces too confined for human hands. When attached to the mechanical arm, the robotic hand could pick up objects much like a human hand. The bot pinched a ball between two fingers, wrapped four fingers around a metal rod and held a flat disc between fingers and palm. But the bot isn't constrained by human anatomy... When the robot was separated from the arm, it was most stable walking on four or five fingers and using one or two fingers for grabbing and carrying things, the team found. In one set of trials with both bots, the hand detached from the robotic arm and used its fingers as legs to skitter over to a wooden block. Once there, it picked up the block with one finger and carried it back to the arm. The crawling bot could one day aid in industrial inspections of pipes and equipment too small for a human or larger robot to access, says Xiao Gao, a roboticist now at Wuhan University in China. It might retrieve objects in a warehouse or navigate confined spaces in disaster response efforts.

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cantanapoli

«Хищные вещи века» — это близнец-антипод «Понедельника». Они писались буквально одновременно, и обе книги одинаково проникнуты чувствами и мыслями той оттепельной эпохи.

Но «Понедельнику» достался светлая и веселая часть этих мыслей, а вот в «Вещах» авторы изложили свое неприятие и беспокойство. Так что и судьба книг оказались очень разной.

И сказать по честному, книга получилась очень неровной. Если взяться пересказывать сюжет «Хищные вещи века» без всяких конкретностей и деталей, то история получится весьма странная:

«Главный герой приезжает в курортный город вроде как по важному делу. При этом он явственно ничего не знает о жизни города и пытается составить мнение о ней, пользуясь довольно мусорными источниками: туристическим путеводителем, общением с таксистом и случайным сотрапезником, из подслушанного на улице.

Дальше вообще начинается какая-то дикая кутерьма — наркотики, женщины, драки с незнакомцами. А заканчивается все тем что герой оказывается секретным агентом Интерпола, приехавшим искать источник нового электронного наркотика. Внезапно.»

Сюжет откровенно слабоват и вторичен и существует, похоже, для того чтоб продемонстрировать авторское видение. Чего?

Однозначного ответа нет. Цензура тех лет, например, посчитала что образ «мира всеобщей обеспеченности» не очень похож на капиталистическое общество и является скрытой издевкой над советским социализмом. А книга, таким образом — «критика слева» советского строя, теряющего «идейность» взамен на материальную обеспеченность.

Причем из авторских комментариев мы знаем что по крайней мере некоторые резоны в такой идее были — в самых ранних версиях повести действие происходило не в будущем, а в тогдашнем СССР, на отдаленном острове в Балтийском море. Правда трудно сказать насколько это была та же книга, уж очень много всего было переписано.

На мой взгляд все-таки нет, «Хищные вещи» не было завуалированной сатирой. Это была модель будущего, выстроенная авторами на основе тех самых идей, о которых я говорил в разборе «Понедельника» — технооптимизма и смены бюрократии технократией.

В советском изводе такое развитие должно было привести сначала к НИИЧаВо, а затем, лет эдак через сотню-другую, к миру Полдня.

А что для мира капитализма? В результате технического развития производство становится автоматизированным, а массовые товары дешевыми. Массовый труд делается все менее затратным по времени и все более смещается в сферу услуг — и, вуаля, получаем тот самый курортный городок из «Хищных вещей».

Стругацкие того времени были правоверными коммунистами, и такой вот рай капиталистического изобилия должен был им казаться как раз такой отвратительной карикатурой на коммунистическое изобилие, которое и нарисовано. Вместо роста и развития — безудержное потребление, наркомания всех видов, спонтанное насилие и отсутствие будущего.

Конечно они были страшно наивны тогда, ограниченные и своей идеологией и советской информационной клеткой. Но даже несмотря на это — многие детали они смогли спрогнозировать с пугающей точностью — массовое погружение в фальшивые реальности, разнообразные электронные и информационные зависимости.

Но в основном тезисе они совершенно закономерно ошиблись. Экономика изобилия (хоть социалистическая, хоть капиталистическая) не была построена. Несмотря на увеличение производительности труда и автоматизацию — в мире огромное количество людей с ужасом смотрит в завтрашний день, ожидая безработицы и безденежья.

Даже мир «Хищных вещей» оказался несравнимо добрее чем реальный мир. Это, конечно, не проблема авторов, это проблема мира.

И это равным образом моя проблема. Потому что мне всегда казалось что этот самый растреклятый реальный мир — чуть ближе к рисуемым Стругацкими образам. Хоть бы даже и к миру «Хищных вещей».

P.S. Мой финал оказался отражением финала разбора «Понедельника». Я ж говорю — книги-близнецы.

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https://slashdot.org/story/26/02/22/1632217/ai-now-helps-manage-16-of-americas-apartments?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Imagine a 280-unit apartment complex offering no on-site leasing office with a human agent for questions. "Instead, the entire process has been outsourced to AI..." reports SFGate, "from touring to signing the lease to completing management tasks once you actually move in." Now imagine it's far more than just one apartment complex... At two other Jack London Square apartment buildings, my initial interactions were also with a robot. At the Allegro, my fiance and I entered the leasing office for our tour and asked for "Grace P," the leasing agent who had emailed us. "Oh, that's just our AI assistant," the woman at the front desk told us... At Aqua Via, another towering apartment complex across the street, I emailed back and forth with a very helpful and polite "Sofia M." My pal Sofia seemed so human-like in her responses that I did not realize she was AI until I looked a little closer at a text she'd sent me. "Msgs may be AI or human generated...." [S]he continued to text me for weeks after I'd moved on, trying to win me back. When I looked at the fine print, I realized both of these complexes were using EliseAI, a leading AI housing startup that claims to be involved in managing 1 in 6 apartments in the U.S... [50 corporate landlords have funded a VC named RET Ventures to invest in and deploy rental-automating AI, and SFGate's reporter spoke to partner Christopher Yip.] According to Yip, AI is common in large apartment complexes not just in the tech-centric Bay Area, but across the entire country. It all kicked off at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, he said, when contactless, self-guided apartment tours and completely virtual tours where people rented apartments sight unseen became commonplace. Technology's infiltration into the renting process has only grown deeper in the years since, Yip said, mirroring how pervasive AI has become in many other facets of our lives. "From an industry perspective, it's really about meeting the renter where they are," Yip said. He pointed to how many renters now prefer to interact through text and email, and want to tour apartments at their convenience — say, at 7 p.m. after work, when a typical leasing office might be closed. The latest updates in technology not only allow you to take a self-guided tour with AI unlocking the door for you, but also to ask AI questions by conversing with voice AI as you wander through the kitchen and bedroom at your leisure. And while a human leasing agent might ghost you for days or weeks at a time, AI responds almost instantly — EliseAI typically responds within 30 seconds, [said Fran Loftus, chief experience officer at EliseAI]... [I]n some scenarios, the goal does seem to be to eliminate humans entirely. "We do have long-term plans of building fully autonomous buildings," Loftus said.... "We think there's a time and a place for that, depending on the type of property. But really right now, it's about helping with this crazy turnover in this industry." The reporter says they missed the human touch, since "The second AI was involved, the interaction felt cold. When a human couldn't even be bothered to show up to give me a tour, my trust evaporated." But they conclude that in the years ahead, human landlords offering tours "will probably go the way of landlines and VCRs."

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https://slashdot.org/story/26/02/22/0650216/amazon-disputes-report-an-aws-service-was-taken-down-by-its-ai-coding-bot?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Friday Amazon published a blog post "to address the inaccuracies" in a Financial Times report that the company's own AI tool Kiro caused two outages in an AWS service in December. Amazon writes that the "brief" and "extremely limited" service interruption "was the result of user error — specifically misconfigured access controls — not AI as the story claims." And "The Financial Times' claim that a second event impacted AWS is entirely false." The disruption was an extremely limited event last December affecting a single service (AWS Cost Explorer — which helps customers visualize, understand, and manage AWS costs and usage over time) in one of our 39 Geographic Regions around the world. It did not impact compute, storage, database, AI technologies, or any other of the hundreds of services that we run. The issue stemmed from a misconfigured role — the same issue that could occur with any developer tool (AI powered or not) or manual action. We did not receive any customer inquiries regarding the interruption. We implemented numerous safeguards to prevent this from happening again — not because the event had a big impact (it didn't), but because we insist on learning from our operational experience to improve our security and resilience. Additional safeguards include mandatory peer review for production access. While operational incidents involving misconfigured access controls can occur with any developer tool — AI-powered or not — we think it is important to learn from these experiences.

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mithrilian

Все чаще вижу "спросил ИИ", окститесь, бросьте бяку! В лучшем случае вы получите цитату из Википедии, но это в лучшем.

Задайте ему вопрос "Мне надо помыть машину. Автомойка в ста метрах. Мне идти или ехать?"

На Ютубе видео показывает, что десяток ответили идти (для здоровья и экологии в основном) и только Грок, дескать, справился. Но если вслушаться, то и Грок козлит, ибо "конечно, ехать, это круче, чем тащиться с ведром пешком". То есть по Гроку машина уже на мойке и надо к ней добраться и принести орудия труда для мытья.

Я спросила свой чатгпт - тоже ответил идти лучше.

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https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/02/22/0510212/man-accidentally-gains-control-of-7000-robot-vacuums?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

A software engineer tried steering his robot vacuum with a videogame controller, reports Popular Science — but ended up with "a sneak peak into thousands of people's homes." While building his own remote-control app, Sammy Azdoufal reportedly used an AI coding assistant to help reverse-engineer how the robot communicated with DJI's remote cloud servers. But he soon discovered that the same credentials that allowed him to see and control his own device also provided access to live camera feeds, microphone audio, maps, and status data from nearly 7,000 other vacuums across 24 countries. The backend security bug effectively exposed an army of internet-connected robots that, in the wrong hands, could have turned into surveillance tools, all without their owners ever knowing. Luckily, Azdoufal chose not to exploit that. Instead, he shared his findings with The Verge, which quickly contacted DJI to report the flaw... He also claims he could compile 2D floor plans of the homes the robots were operating in. A quick look at the robots' IP addresses also revealed their approximate locations. DJI told Popular Science the issue was addressed "through two updates, with an initial patch deployed on February 8 and a follow-up update completed on February 10."

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Lockheed Martin's F-35 combat aircraft is a supersonic stealth "strike fighter." But this week the military news site TWZ reports that the fighter's "computer brain," including "its cloud-based components, could be cracked to accept third-party software updates, just like 'jailbreaking' a cellphone, according to the Dutch State Secretary for Defense." TWZ notes that the Dutch defense secretary made the remarks during an episode of BNR Nieuwsradio's "Boekestijn en de Wijk" podcast, according to a machine translation: Gijs Tuinman, who has been State Secretary for Defense in the Netherlands since 2024, does not appear to have offered any further details about what the jailbreaking process might entail. What, if any, cyber vulnerabilities this might indicate is also unclear. It is possible that he may have been speaking more notionally or figuratively about action that could be taken in the future, if necessary... The ALIS/ODIN network is designed to handle much more than just software updates and logistical data. It is also the port used to upload mission data packages containing highly sensitive planning information, including details about enemy air defenses and other intelligence, onto F-35s before missions and to download intelligence and other data after a sortie. To date, Israel is the only country known to have successfully negotiated a deal giving it the right to install domestically-developed software onto its F-35Is, as well as otherwise operate its jets outside of the ALIS/ODIN network. The comments "underscore larger issues surrounding the F-35 program, especially for foreign operators," the article points out. But at the same time F-35's have a sophisticated mission-planning data package. "So while jailbreaking F-35's onboard computers, as well as other aspects of the ALIS/ODIN network, may technically be feasible, there are immediate questions about the ability to independently recreate the critical mission planning and other support it provides. This is also just one aspect of what is necessary to keep the jets flying, let alone operationally relevant." "TWZ previously explored many of these same issues in detail last year, amid a flurry of reports about the possibility that F-35s have some type of discreet 'kill switch' built in that U.S. authorities could use to remotely disable the jets. Rumors of this capability are not new and remain completely unsubstantiated." At that time, we stressed that a 'kill switch' would not even be necessary to hobble F-35s in foreign service. At present, the jets are heavily dependent on U.S.-centric maintenance and logistics chains that are subject to American export controls and agreements with manufacturer Lockheed Martin. Just reliably sourcing spare parts has been a huge challenge for the U.S. military itself... F-35s would be quickly grounded without this sustainment support. [A cutoff in spare parts and support"would leave jailbroken jets quickly bricked on the ground," the article notes later.] Altogether, any kind of jailbreaking of the F-35's systems would come with a serious risk of legal action by Lockheed Martin and additional friction with the U.S. government. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader Koreantoast for sharing the article.

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mithrilian

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english

Перед вами - записи в блоге, с описанием того, что якобы произошло с рассказчиком. Каждая запись имитирует язык предыдущего столетия. Как далеко вглубь веков вы сможете прочесть? Первые триста лет я читала вообще без проблем, 1300 я еле смогла, знание контекста выручает, но 1200 просто нечитаем, по крайней мере для меня.

Не спойлить содержание!

elvit

1. До прошлых выходных не знала, что в Москве существует армянский музей. Не просто существует, а их даже два О_о Сегодня доехала до одного, который "Тапан". Поехала-то за выставкой Алексея Харитонова "Сквозь снег", потому что понравились картинки анонса, очень люблю такую манеру, но на месте оно глянулось меньше.

В самом музее нашелся один Сарьян и пара работ Налбандяна, а остальных фамилий, конечно же, не знаю и не запомнила.

2. В галерее "Наши художники" идет выставка "Частная коллекция". Очень приятная: Тархов, Борис Григорьев, Анненков. Личное открытие - Павел Челищев. Звучит смешно, конечно, ага. Но раньше как-то на него вообще не обращала внимания, хотя работы попадались. Надо будет теперь смотреть повнимательнее.

linuxorgru_feed

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/proprietary/18226599

12-го Января 2026 вышла новая версия SpiderBasic 3.20

Программа предназначена для создания приложений для Android. Синтаксис бейсикоподобный. Компилятор преобразует код в JavaScript, который работает внутри контейнера Cordova, который в свою очередь получает доступ к фукнциям текущей системы.

Для установки вам понадобится установить пакеты npm, curl, openjdk-21-jre, openjdk-21-jdk и отдельно gradle-8.13 и выполнить скрипт install-cordova.sh. Для подписки APK-приложений установить пакет apksigner.

Возможности:

в новых версиях добавлен современный интерфейс в библиотеке Mobile;
с помощью Спрайтов можно создавать 2D игры;
с помощью Canvas можно нарисовать любой интерфейс;
также много других библиотек, 2D-рисование, векторное рисование, математические, списки, массивы, карты, регулярные выражения, упаковщики, шифрование, геолокация, тачскрин и т. д.;
синтаксис аналогичен PureBasic, поэтому код переносимый между SpiderBasic и PureBasic с небольшими модификациями.

basic, phone

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/proprietary/18226599

pargentum

С 1 марта в России начнет работу единая федеральная система — регистр беременных, которая будет содержать данные о постановке женщин на учет, ходе беременности, родах и состоянии новорожденных детей

Current Music: Do not suspect your neighbour, report him!

alex0rozoff

В 2019-м у меня был дан прогноз рубежа падения для КНР: 2023 год.
2019-07-22 Гонконг: инфарктное сердце китайского дракона. Модель агонии глобальной экономики.
https://alex-rozoff.livejournal.com/127347.html
2019-12-23 Экономика Китая впала в кому по схеме гибели к 2023-му. Финансовый мир онемел от ужаса
https://alex-rozoff.livejournal.com/200385.html
Смотрим, что получилось (ниже дан текст, но видео выразительнее)

21 дек. 2025 г Конец Китая? Почему экономика №2 рухнет
ТУРИЗМ ОЖИДАНИЕ vs РЕАЛЬНОСТЬ https://youtu.be/HgNqMy5x1yw
[цитирую выборочно]
Последние 30 лет мы привыкли смотреть на эту страну с благоговением и страхом. Мы смотрели на неё как на абсолютное экономическое чудо, не имеющее аналогов в истории. В наших глазах Китай стал синонимом будущего. Мы видели фабрики, которые не спят ни секунды, 24 часа в сутки, 7 дней в неделю, одевая, обувая и снабжая
электроникой всю планету от Нью-Йорка до Найроби. Китай убедил нас в своей неизбежности. Он продал нам идею своей непобедимости. Нам казалось, что XXI век будет веком Пекина, что Юань вот-вот заменит доллар, что их авторитарная система - это идеально отлаженная машина, которая, в отличие от хаотичной демократии, не знает сбоев, усталости и ошибок... История жестокий преподаёт нам один и тот же урок, который мы постоянно забываем.
Великие империи никогда не падают в момент своей очевидной слабости. Нет, они падают в момент своего величайшего триумфа, когда их амбиции становятся тяжелее, чем реальность, на которой они стоят.
...это история не о локальном кризисе одной азиатской страны. Это история о том, как заканчивается привычный нам мир.
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https://www.linux.org.ru/news/russia/18226842

В феврале 2001 года команды IPLabs Linux Team и LRN решили объединиться, а результатом объединения стала компания ALT Linux. На протяжении четверти века мы вносим весомый вклад в разработку свободного программного обеспечения в России.

В активе команды — миллионы строк кода, сотрудничество с лидерами международного Open Source-движения и один из крупнейших независимых репозиториев свободного ПО в мире — «Сизиф».

На протяжении 25 лет мы неизменно следуем простому, но великому принципу:

«Интеллектуальный вклад каждого — достояние всех»

Именно такой подход позволяет нам решать важнейшую государственную задачу в обеспечении технологической независимости страны в сфере информационных технологий.

Спасибо каждому, кто был с нами все эти годы!

altlinux, basealt

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/russia/18226842

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Programmer/entrepreneur Paul Ford is the co-founder of AI-driven business software platform Aboard. This week he wrote a guest essay for the New York Times titled "The AI Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun," arguing that Anthropic's Claude Code "was always a helpful coding assistant, but in November it suddenly got much better, and ever since I've been knocking off side projects that had sat in folders for a decade or longer... [W]hen the stars align and my prompts work out, I can do hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of work for fun (fun for me) over weekends and evenings, for the price of the Claude $200-a-month." He elaborates on his point on the Aboard.com blog: I'm deeply convinced that it's possible to accelerate software development with AI coding — not deprofessionalize it entirely, or simplify it so that everything is prompts, but make it into a more accessible craft. Things which not long ago cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to pull off might come for hundreds of dollars, and be doable by you, or your cousin. This is a remarkable accelerant, dumped into the public square at a bad moment, with no guidance or manual — and the reaction of many people who could gain the most power from these tools is rejection and anxiety. But as I wrote.... I believe there are millions, maybe billions, of software products that don't exist but should: Dashboards, reports, apps, project trackers and countless others. People want these things to do their jobs, or to help others, but they can't find the budget. They make do with spreadsheets and to-do lists. I don't expect to change any minds; that's not how minds work. I just wanted to make sure that I used the platform offered by the Times to say, in as cheerful a way as possible: Hey, this new power is real, and it should be in as many hands as possible. I believe everyone should have good software, and that it's more possible now than it was a few years ago. From his guest essay: Is the software I'm making for myself on my phone as good as handcrafted, bespoke code? No. But it's immediate and cheap. And the quantities, measured in lines of text, are large. It might fail a company's quality test, but it would meet every deadline. That is what makes A.I. coding such a shock to the system... What if software suddenly wanted to ship? What if all of that immense bureaucracy, the endless processes, the mind-boggling range of costs that you need to make the computer compute, just goes? That doesn't mean that the software will be good. But most software today is not good. It simply means that products could go to market very quickly. And for lots of users, that's going to be fine. People don't judge A.I. code the same way they judge slop articles or glazed videos. They're not looking for the human connection of art. They're looking to achieve a goal. Code just has to work... In about six months you could do a lot of things that took me 20 years to learn. I'm writing all kinds of code I never could before — but you can, too. If we can't stop the freight train, we can at least hop on for a ride. The simple truth is that I am less valuable than I used to be. It stings to be made obsolete, but it's fun to code on the train, too. And if this technology keeps improving, then all of the people who tell me how hard it is to make a report, place an order, upgrade an app or update a record — they could get the software they deserve, too. That might be a good trade, long term.

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Telegram Disputes Russia's Claim Its Encryption Was Compromised

EVs Are Already Making Your Air Cleaner, Research Shows

Спецы по андроидным девайсам, ХЕЛП!

Long Before Tech CEOs Turned To Layoffs To Cover AI Expenses, There Was WorldCom

'Open Source Registries Don't Have Enough Money To Implement Basic Security'

хрестоматийный пример

Researchers Develop Detachable Crawling Robotic Hand

Прощание с АБС. Хищны ли вещи?

AI Now Helps Manage 16% of America's Apartments

Amazon Disputes Report an AWS Service Was Taken Down By Its AI Coding Bot

Народ, прекращайте!

Man Accidentally Gains Control of 7,000 Robot Vacuums

F-35 Software Could Be Jailbreaked Like an IPhone: Dutch Defense Minister

Знатокам английского

Выходное выставочное

SpiderBasic 3.20

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Анализ успеха и краха экономики КНР. История одного прогноза

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