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Разные степени преувеличения

— Известие о смерти его императорского величества…
— Несколько преувеличено, — спьяна сострил Мышлаевский.
М. Булгаков, "Белая гвардия".

Слухи о смерти президента Трампа оказались сильно преувеличенными.
Детальная журналистика.

Switzerland Releases Open-Source AI Model Built For Privacy

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https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/03/2125252/switzerland-releases-open-source-ai-model-built-for-privacy?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Switzerland has launched Apertus, a fully open-source, multilingual LLM trained on 15 trillion tokens and over 1,000 languages. "What distinguishes Apertus from many other generative AI systems is its commitment to complete openness," reports CyberInsider. From the report: Unlike popular proprietary models, where users can only interact via APIs or hosted interfaces, Apertus provides open access to its model weights, training datasets, documentation, and even intermediate checkpoints. The source code and all training materials are released under a permissive open-source license that allows commercial use. Since the full training process is documented and reproducible, researchers and watchdogs can audit the data sources, verify compliance with data protection laws, and inspect how the model was trained. Apertus' development explicitly adhered to Swiss data protection and copyright laws, and incorporated retroactive opt-out mechanisms to respect data source preferences. From a privacy perspective, Apertus represents a compelling shift in the AI landscape. The model only uses publicly available data, filtered to exclude personal information and to honor opt-out signals from content sources. This not only aligns with emerging regulatory frameworks like the EU AI Act, but also provides a tangible example of how AI can be both powerful and privacy-respecting. According to ETH Zurich's Imanol Schlag, technical lead of the project at ETH Zurich, Apertus is "built for the public good" and is a demonstration of how AI can be deployed as a public digital infrastructure, much like utilities or transportation. The model is available via Swisscom's Sovereign Swiss AI Platform. It's also available through Hugging Face and the Public AI Inference Utility.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/03/2125252/switzerland-releases-open-source-ai-model-built-for-privacy?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Google's Latest Pixel Drop Brings the Material 3 Expressive UI To Older Devices

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https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/09/03/2118243/googles-latest-pixel-drop-brings-the-material-3-expressive-ui-to-older-devices?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Google's September Pixel drop brings the new Material 3 Expressive UI, AI-powered Gboard writing tools, and Bluetooth Auracast upgrades to older Pixel devices, including the Pixel 6 and Pixel Tablet. "Among other tweaks, Google made it possible to add 'Live Effects,' including a few that cover the weather, to your phone's lock screen wallpaper," notes Engadget. "Material 3 Expressive also gives you more control over how the contact cards your phone displays when your friends and family call you look. Even if you're not one to endlessly tweak Android's appearance, as part of the redesign Google has once again reworked the Quick Settings pane in hopes of making it easier to use." On the audio front, Pixel Buds Pro 2 gain intuitive nod-and-shake gesture controls, Adaptive Audio for balanced awareness, and Loud Noise Protection to guard against sudden sound spikes. Voice clarity has also been improved with Gemini Live in noisy environments. A full breakdown of what's new can be found here.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/09/03/2118243/googles-latest-pixel-drop-brings-the-material-3-expressive-ui-to-older-devices?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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прожект Зеленой Энергии

Если вспомнить, что Зеленые Источники электроэнергии производят за всю свою жизнь примерно столько энергии, сколько было затрачено на их изготовление (это достижение, раньше было меньше), то вот альтернативный план: загрузить корабль батарейками, заряжать их в Китае от угольных электростанций, везти на Запад, и тут подключать к электросети. А как разрядятся, то можно батарейки не выбрасывать, а везти назад в Китай и там опять заряжать! Дайте мне сотню миллиардов на воплощение!

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If every Muslim in America converted to Christianity
tomorrow I’d still want them deported for being brown.

"From 1er september, all ministries without exception will have to use this secure state instant messaging. An imperative of security and sovereignty.

Its name is a tribute to Claude Chappe, an 18th-century French engineer, behind one of the first optical communication processes. From this Monday, all French state agents and ministries are required to use the tchap secure instant messaging to exchange professional letters. So no more WhatsApp and Signal applications, or even Telegram, accused of maintaining ties to the Kremlin."

~~Ведь может собственных Маркони и быстрых разумом Поповых Французская земля рождать.~~ Хотите, чтобы было как в Париже?

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https://iogannsb.livejournal.com/4307661.html

Теперь Петя больше не живет на горе. Он все еще живет выше меня. Так что к нему наверх, а вниз ко мне. Но это не на горе. Это у нас на районе. Минут пятнадцать ходу.
Так что в ночи теперь возвращаться не по веселому тинейджерскому Кармелю вниз, а по разудалой хипстерской Масаде.
Английский, арабский, иврит с вкраплениями русского со всех сторон. Наша местная улица Рубинштейна.

- Понимаете, это взяло на себя слишком много дел, - говорит серьезная девушка трем тинейджерам напротив. Тинейджеры кучерявые внимательно слушают.
- А зовут тебя как? - спрашивает один из них.
- Лера, - борюсь с желанием тормознуть и послушать разговор, но благоразумно иду дальше. Ночь на земле. Джим Джармуш. Я не в такси, но мимо мелькают граффитти полустершиеся, самый маленький кукольный театр в Израиле, красивый подъезд со стеклянными дверями - кого только в нем не снимала, арабское кафе с английской музыкой, юноша с собакой, русское кафе с арабской музыкой, юноша, пьющий пиво из банки, напротив граждане за столиком едят суши, огромное финиковое дерево, как будто вылезающее из подворотни со свисающими корнями.

Я опять на своем курорте под названием Хайфа. Застрявшая волею случая.

- Буду через двадцать минут, - звонит Миша.
Я жду его на повороте между улицей Ахалуц и переулком Двора (улица Пионеров-первопроходцев и переулком Пчела). Целых минут двадцать на жаре. Если честно, мне хорошо, когда жара и когда небо такое глубокое-синее. И еще сегодня облака. Тоже приятно.

- Куда едем?
- В центр.
- В центр это куда?
- Под Афулу.

Новенькая база с отличной кухней. Не так часто приезжаешь, а там уже все готово. И еще у них куча правильных кухонных приспособлений. Обычно как? Правильный ортодоксальный еврей садится перебирать рис, чтобы никакой живности. А тут специальная машинка - сюда высыпаешь, отсюда высыпается.
Правильная специальная машинка - загрузили морковку, автомат ее вымыл и почистил правильными кружками. Лук нарезанный. Мясо порубили.
Рабе, правда, очень волнуется. Сто раз повторил уже - ani hayev lehadlik et ha'ash - я должен зажечь огонь.
- Конечно, конечно, бетах, - говорю я ему, - мы уже почти год ездим, не волнуйся, правила знаем, - перехожу на английский.

Правда потом появляется еще один рабе и говорит то же самое.
- Наверное, вам надо договориться между собой, - смеюсь. А они такие серьезные. Один из них тридцать лет прожил в Штатах. И в Чикаго, а потом в Нью Йорке в Бруклине. Работал шеф-поваром. Но родители старенькие пришлось вернуться. А тут война. Так что он в милуиме.

В части полным полно кошек - белые с рыжими пятнами. И неожиданно проскакивает абсолютно черная, а на хвосте белый кончик. Прибегает милая большая белая собака, дружелюбно мотает хвостом. И тут же клацает зубами на зазевавшегося кота.

Плов готовится. Я болтаю с девушкой Евой. Ева - сержант. Мама из Москвы, папа из Новосибирска. Ева родилась в Израиле. Ева все время спрашивает не принести ли нам чай, кофе, напитки, еду и прочая, прочая.
- Не волнуйся, мы взрослые, разберемся.

И когда плов готов и вся часть собирается на ужин - самый приятный момент. Когда после ужина каждый подходит и очень, очень сильно благодарит. Говорит разное трогательное - первый раз так вкусно! Спасибо, это прямо как дома!

Один парнишка, он еще плов не пробовал, говорит своему приятелю по-русски:
- Можно сравнить. У нас в Киргизии плов настоящий. А тут непонятно.
- А у нас повар из Узбекистана, - говорю.
Он потом подходит и говорит, что таки да, настоящий плов. Даже сравнивать нечего.

Я говорю Еве - надо придумать проект про евреев, у нас в конце курса задание такое. Самые интересные получат деньги на реализацию.
Жаль, конечно, что очень сильно ограничено национальностью. А так я бы про бедуинов или про друзов. Но в такой ситуации, поселенцы мне тоже очень интересны. Однажды лет двадцать назад мы проехались по поселенцам Самарии и Иудеи. Поселенцев принято не любить. Но.
- Да уж, - говорит Ева, - эти люди из Тель Авива совсем не понимают, что на их счастье есть поселенцы, первыми принимающие удар на себя, эдакий буфер между нами и желающими нас убить. (если что, автор не любит, когда у него в журнале ругаются или пишут что-нибудь неприятное, автор не про демократию в отдельно взятом журнале).

Возвращаемся в сумерках. В розовом небе плывут оранжевые облака. На хлопковом поле убрали весь хлопок.
Мы встречаемся с Петей напротив русского заведения Родео. Идем на улицу Арлозорова в магазин Премьер. Раньше до войны это был магазин Путин. Покупаем бутылку немецкого сухого, галеты, мягкий сыр и сухарики, спускаемся обратно на Масаду.
У Пети теперь есть крыша с видами и вальяжная чужая кошка белая с черными пятнами. Мы не виделись со времен нашей маленькой победоносной войны с Ираном. Петя улетел за три часа до ее начала. Нам столько всего обсудить. В том числе про утилизацию диктаторов.
Жизнь потихоньку налаживается. А завтра будет море.

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The evening report

Well.

I've finished putting together Civilized Behavior, including the front matter and the blurb. I haven't compiled it yet. Weighing whether to make a call for tyop hunters before compiling. Probably the sensible way to go about it. So! Watch the Skies. In, yanno, an easygoing and relaxed sort of way.

A reprint opportunity came in this afternoon, so I did get that story out.

Checked my story cards, the previous Constellations, and pertinent contracts, then wrote to Madame the Agent, asking her to find if Baen might be interested in a sixth Constellation. There is one story still under Exclusivity, but that ends in November, and even if Baen wants another collection, there's no way it will be out before November.

Trooper did not eat at Happy Hour.

Our appointment with the vet is at 8:15 tomorrow morning. They wanted us early, so it would be as quiet and peaceful as possible.

Referencing the above, I may or may not be around the internets much tomorrow. Thank you for your understanding.

Everybody stay safe.

Cat census from earlier in the day:

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Wednesday books

cattitude and

adrian_turtle finished reading The Prisoner of Zenda--the original swash-buckling Ruritanian romance-- aloud to me and each other. We all had a lot of fun with it. We may (or may not) go back and read the sequel at some point, but not right away.

I also read The Birding Dictionary, by Rosemary Mosco: a humor book about bird and bird-watching, in the format of a dictionary. Cattitude, who borrowed this from the library, seemed to find it funnier than I did.

Current reading:

The Winged Histories, by Sofia Samatar. This is eight loosely connected stories, each with a different narrator. I'm enjoying it, but having trouble settling in to read much at a time. The ebook is now overdue at the library, so I am carefully not synching my kindle until I finish reading it.

На острове Уайт найден игуанодонт со спинным парусом

https://elementy.ru/novosti_nauki/434374/Na_ostrove_Uayt_nayden_iguanodont_so_spinnym_parusom

Новый раннемеловой вид игуанодонта, описанный по находкам с английского острова Уайт, имел длинные остистые отростки спинных и хвостовых позвонков, что предполагает наличие на его спине своеобразного «паруса». Эта анатомическая особенность могла служить как местом прикрепления сухожилий, так и визуальным сигналом.

https://elementy.ru/novosti_nauki/434374/Na_ostrove_Uayt_nayden_iguanodont_so_spinnym_parusom

Garmin Beats Apple to Market with Satellite-Connected Smartwatch

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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/03/2038216/garmin-beats-apple-to-market-with-satellite-connected-smartwatch?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Just days before Apple's expected launch of the satellite-enabled Apple Watch Ultra 3, Garmin unveiled its Fenix 8 Pro -- the company's first smartwatch with built-in inReach satellite and cellular connectivity, SOS features, and a blindingly bright 4,500-nit microLED display. MacRumors reports: With inReach, the Fenix 8 Pro can send location check-ins and text messages over satellite using the Garmin Messenger app. There is also included cellular connectivity, so the smartwatch can make phone calls, send 30-second voice messages, and provide LiveTrack links and weather forecasts when an LTE connection is available. LiveTrack is a feature that allows the wearer's family and friends to keep track of their location during an activity or adventure. For emergencies, there is an SOS feature that will send a message to the Garmin Response center over a satellite or cellular connection. Garmin Response will then communicate with the user, their emergency contacts, and search and rescue organizations to provide help. Garmin says that its Response team has supported over 17,000 inReach incident responses across over 150 countries. The Fenix 8 Pro smartwatch launches September 8, with the AMOLED model starting at $1,200 and the 51mm microLED version priced at $2,000. Both require a paid inReach satellite plan beginning at $7.99 per month for full functionality.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/03/2038216/garmin-beats-apple-to-market-with-satellite-connected-smartwatch?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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Нью Йорк 2025, Upstate New York

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Covid vaccine access in Massachusetts

Governor Healey has overridden the CDC restrictions, and authorized pharmacists to give the covid vaccine to everyone over the age of 5 (younger children will have to get it from their pediatricians).

I heard about this first from my state senator's office: I emailed over the weekend to ask him to work on fixing this, so his staff knew I was interested. There's an article in the Globe, but pay-walled: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/03/metro/healey-covid-booster-massachusetts-trump-kennedy-vaccine/

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unexpected excitement

First: we're all fine.

I got a phone call this afternoon from someone at the company we rent a storage unit from. She was calling to tell me that a construction crew doing something on the lot next door had last control of one of their machines, which breached the wall of our storage unit.

She was calling to tell me that, and to ask my permission to cut the lock on the door, so they can go inside and move everything to an undamaged unit. She wanted that ASAP, so they can start work tomorrow at 7 a.m.

I was on the bus when my phone rang, so while I could give her my approval right away, when she asked for my drivers license/state ID number, I told het I'd call her back, the information was hard to read on a moving bus

So, our plans for tomorrow now involve getting up early(ish) and going to Medford to look things over, and so the company can give us keys for the new lock.

I'm glad the phone was in my pocket when she called: otherwise I might not have noticed and listened to the voicemail before their office closed for the day.

AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube, Drowning Out Real History

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https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/03/2028206/ai-generated-boring-history-videos-are-flooding-youtube-drowning-out-real-history?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media, written by Jason Koebler: As I do most nights, I was listening to YouTube videos to fall asleep the other night. Sometime around 3 a.m., I woke up because the video YouTube was autoplaying started going "FEEEEEEEE." The video was called "Boring History for Sleep | How Medieval PEASANTS Survived the Coldest Nights and more." It is two hours long, has 2.3 million views, and, an hour and 15 minutes into the video, the AI-generated voice glitched. "In the end, Anne Boleyn won a kind of immortality. Not through her survival, but through her indelible impact on history. FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE," the narrator says in a fake British accent. "By the early 1770s, the American colonies simmered like a pot left too long over a roaring fire," it continued. The video was from a channel I hadn't seen before, called "Sleepless Historian." I took my headphones out, didn't think much of it at the time, rolled over, and fell back asleep. The next night, when I went to pick a new video to fall asleep to, my YouTube homepage was full of videos from Sleepless Historian and several similar-sounding channels like Boring History Bites, History Before Sleep, The Snoozetorian, Historian Sleepy, and Dreamoria. Lots of these videos nominally check the boxes for what I want from something to fall asleep to. Almost all of them are more than three hours long, and they are about things I don't know much about. Some video titles include "Unusual Medieval Cures for Common Illnesses," "The Entire History of the American Frontier," "What It Was Like to Visit a BR0THEL in Pompeii," and "What GETTING WASTED Was Like in Medieval Times." One of the channels has even been livestreaming this "history" 24/7 for weeks. In the daytime, when I was not groggy and half asleep, it quickly became obvious to me that all of these videos are AI generated, and that they are part of a sophisticated and growing AI slop content ecosystem that is flooding YouTube, is drowning out human-made content created by real anthropologists and historians who spend weeks or months researching, fact-checking, scripting, recording, and editing their videos, and are quite literally rewriting history with surface-level, automated drek that the YouTube algorithm delivers to people. YouTube has said it will demonetize or otherwise crack down on "mass produced" videos, but it is not clear whether that has had any sort of impact on the proliferation of AI-generated videos on the platform, and none of the people I spoke to for this article have noticed any change. "It's completely shocking to me," Pete Kelly, who runs the popular History Time YouTube channel, told Koebler in a phone interview. "It used to be enough to spend your entire life researching, writing, narrating, editing, doing all these things to make a video, but now someone can come along and they can do the same thing in a day instead of it taking six months, and the videos are not accurate. The visuals they use are completely inaccurate often. And I'm fearful because this is everywhere." "I absolutely hate it, primarily the fact that they're historically inaccurate," Kelly added. "So it worries me because it's just the same things being regurgitated over and over again. [...] It's worrying to me just for humanity. Not to get too high brow, but it's not good for the state of knowledge in the world. It makes me worry for the future."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/03/2028206/ai-generated-boring-history-videos-are-flooding-youtube-drowning-out-real-history?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Cursed Number

https://xkcd.com/3137/

Another group of mathematicians is working to put an upper bound on the number, although everyone keeps begging them to stop.

https://xkcd.com/3137/

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В Украине снова подешевели огурцы

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Ida 2025

Перебор в очко по-украински

Украинская ПРАВДА,2025-08-18:

Изменения в Правила пересечения границы, касающиеся мужчин в возрасте от 18 до 22 лет включительно, опубликованые в "Урядовом курьере", вступили в силу, пограничники уже их применяют.

[...]

Для выезда за границу в возрасте от 18 до 22 лет мужчинам необходимо иметь загранпаспорт и военно-учетный документ в бумажной или электронной форме.

Перезедент Украины Зеля Боневтiк, Украинская ПРАВДА, 2025-08-29:

Статистика ухудшается. У нас мальчиков, которые заканчивают школу в Украине, становится все меньше и меньше. У нас был широкий круг консультаций, прежде всего с военными и педагогами. Нам очень нужно, если мы хотим сохранить мальчиков-украинцев в Украине, нам прежде всего нужно, чтобы они здесь закончили школу. И чтобы родители их не вывозили. А они их начинают вывозить без окончания школы. И это очень плохо, потому что именно в это время они теряют связь с Украиной. На сегодняшний день это факт...

Мы понимаем, что этот возраст (18-22 года) – университетский возраст, студенческий возраст, что дети могут спокойно не только в Украине заканчивать школы, но и, что важно, поступать в украинские вузы, не за границей, а в Украине. И что важно, заканчивать их здесь. Поэтому был найден именно такой ответ, который не имел никакого влияния на обороноспособность нашего государства.

Мы не видим никаких массовых выездов. Есть аналитика... Мы верим, что большой процент вернется после войны, но для этого нужно работать. Если ребенок не заканчивает школу в родном государстве и уезжает, то он уезжает еще не взрослым человеком, и риски того, что он не вернется, очень высоки.

Пресс-служба ГБР, Украинская ПРАВДА, 2023-09-03:

По предварительным данным, 1 сентября около 18 часов пограничный наряд во время патрулирования границы заметил двух мужчин, которые перелезали защитные сооружения и двигались в сторону Молдовы. На законные требования правоохранителей остановиться они не отреагировали. Во время преследования пограничники произвели несколько предупредительных выстрелов в сторону нарушителей.

Украинская ПРАВДА, 2023-09-03:

Сообщается, что впоследствии было обнаружено тело одного из беглецов с огнестрельным ранением, несовместимым с жизнью. Другого мужчину пограничники задержали на месте.

В ГБР сообщили, что погибшим оказался 23-летний харьковчанин, при котором были паспорт для выезда за границу и личные вещи.

Знаете, если бы Германия была бы ещё той самой Германией, на следующий день канцлер Мерц стоял бы перед Мемориалом Берлинской Стены и объяснял бы немецким журналистом, почему, зачем и для каких целей немецкие бюргеры должны оплачивать весь этот позор.

И просто заголовки

На Волыни найден застреленным пограничник 2025-09-03 18:19
Зеленский прибыл во Францию на саммит "коалиции решительных" 2025-09-03 20:41
Мадяр показал августовский рейтинг военных подразделений по е-баллам 21:08
В Киеве подросток ради развлечения избил прохожего: обидчику грозит 15 лет тюрьмы 22:00
"Полный ад": в результате ночной атаки РФ пострадали два приюта для животных 2025-09-03 22:42
В Херсонской области открыли две новые подземные школы 2025-09-03 23:04

[ Project: War_202202_NsF_Psy RU DW ]: Черновик краткого учебника новейшей истории / / 2022-03-19 (Список основных постов на тему разбора психологии войны 2022-02)

Supermarket Giant Tesco Sues VMware, Warns Lack of Support Could Disrupt Food Supply

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Tesco is suing Broadcom and reseller Computacenter for at least $134 million, claiming that VMware's perpetual license support agreements were breached after Broadcom's acquisition. The supermarket giant warned it "may not be able to put food on the shelves if the situation goes pear-shaped," writes The Register's Simon Sharwood. From the report: Court documents seen by The Register assert that in January 2021 Tesco acquired perpetual licenses for VMware's vSphere Foundation and Cloud Foundation products, plus subscriptions to Virtzilla's Tanzu products, and agreed a contract for support services and software upgrades that run until 2026. Tesco claims VMware also agreed to give it an option to extend support services for an additional four years. All of this happened before Broadcom acquired VMware and stopped selling support services for software sold under perpetual licenses. Broadcom does sell support to those who sign for its new software subscriptions. The supermarket giant says Broadcom's subscriptions mean it must pay "excessive and inflated prices for virtualization software for which Tesco has already paid," and "is unable any longer to purchase stand-alone Virtualization Support Services for its Perpetually Licensed Software without also having to purchase duplicative subscription-based licenses for those same Software products which it already owns." The complaint also alleges that Tesco's contracts with VMware include eligibility for software upgrades, but that Broadcom won't let the retailer update its perpetual licenses to cover the new Cloud Foundation 9. The filing names Computacenter as a co-defendant as it was the reseller that Tesco relied on for software licenses, and the retailer feels it's breached contracts to supply software at a fixed price. Tesco's filing also mentions Broadcom's patch publication policy, which means users who don't acquire subscriptions can't receive all security updates and don't receive other fixes. The retailer thinks its contracts mean it is entitled to those updates. The filing suggests that lack of support is not just a legal matter, but may have wider implications because VMware software, and support for it "are essential for the operations and resilience of Tesco's business and its ability to supply groceries to consumers across the UK and Republic of Ireland." "VMware Virtualization Software underpins the servers and data systems that enable Tesco's stores and operations to function, hosting approximately 40,000 server workloads and connecting to, by way of illustration, tills in Tesco stores," the filing states. Tesco's filing warns that Broadcom, VMware, and Computacenter are each liable for at least $134 million damages, plus interest, and that the longer the dispute persists the higher damages will climb.

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If your politics are focused on means and not ends,
it’s not just that you'll never win. You never meant to.

"The Bay Area has lost more than 11,000 tech jobs so far in 2025, a slump in hiring punctuated by disclosures of fresh layoffs in the region by big players such as Google, Walmart and Microsoft ... San Francisco-San Mateo suffered a net loss of 5,400 tech jobs ... The South Bay lost 3,400 tech jobs ...The East Bay shed a net total of 2,100 tech jobs."

Думаете надо больше баб в хайтек устроить по квоте или все таки крестный ход гейпарадом проводить пока мораль не заимпрувится?

Instagram Is Coming To iPad, 15 Years Later

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After years of requests, Instagram is finally releasing a dedicated iPad app on September 3rd... "But it will be slightly different than the mobile app users are accustomed to," reports The Verge. From the report: Most significantly, the iPad app will open directly to a feed of Reels, the company's TikTok competitor -- perhaps a sign of the short-form-video times. [...] Other features will be available on iPad: Stories will still line the top of the homepage, and users will be able to switch to a "Following" tab where they'll be able to swipe between feeds that more resemble the mobile Instagram experience (including a chronological option). The bigger screen means more space and fewer clicks: comments on Reels will appear next to full-size videos, and the DMs page will have your inbox alongside chats, similar to what Messenger looks like on desktop.

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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/03/207217/instagram-is-coming-to-ipad-15-years-later?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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sad dirty elder millennial commie seeks friends for virtual coffee

Name: Mary Cuntrarian or Kat, my real nickname. She/They

Age: near 40

I mostly post about: Right now my journal is new so I'm not exactly sure but I haven't written anything since about 2015. I'm mostly posting stream of consciousness thoughts and things that won't leave my brain like themes in fiction and in life. I might make my journal friends-only soon since that's a thing I can do and write things that are more personal because my life is sort of a mess at the moment and I need to write it out. I'm an artist and I've been putting a lot of effort into my art career recently so I know I'll be writing about my process and struggles there.

My hobbies are: I dabble in all kinds of painting and crafts, but mostly watercolor and ink. I crochet, do some embroidery, I'm relearning web design and have started making web pages as art and for fun. I used to play more video games but nothing has caught my interest lately but I have played Disco Elysium, Fallout 76, Stardew Valley, Breath of the Wild, some GTA Online, Animal Crossing (Pocket Camp, but it counts!) and other random rpgish games. I also have been playing a lot of Dungeons and Dragons lately, and I love coming up with characters! Trying to get back into writing, right now just blogging but maybe fiction and poetry soon. I don't know if I'll write fanfic, I have started making icons again and I think I'll have fully regressed into my old LJer self if I write fanfic again. Which might not be BAD.

My fandoms are: Currently I have some hyperfixations but I hesitate to call them fandoms in the old fashioned way. I'm less obsessed with things than I used to be but I will say my old fangirl tendencies have popped up a little again.

Right now I'm into The Matrix movies including Resurrections, Neo/Trinity might make me read fic again and I'm also watching Sense8 for the first time and I'm really liking it so I'm in a Wachowski Sisters kinda mood.

I love AEW wrestling and I'll list my favorite wrestlers for you if you care. lol

I'm also watching Legends of Tomorrow and almost done with it, pretty into it and I love Constantine.

I recently read the Southern Reach series and could talk about those books forever. Jeff Vandermeer and Edward Carey are my favorite living authors with Shirley Jackson being my favorite classic writer.

Music I'm fannish about is Lord Huron and Tyler the Creator. I'm into indie hip hop and I've gotten into riot grrrl music for the first time recently.

I'm looking to meet people who: Just want to talk and connect? No bullshit, just sharing random cool thoughts and ideas. I'm a stoner, can we start an internet blunt rotation? lol

I've seen a lot of people saying this online recently but I'm looking for that old internet feeling again. I made a Neocities page, I want to talk to people about shit again and not just tweet a few sentences and hope it gets likes.

My posting schedule tends to be: Sporadic as of late but I'm going to post more now that I'm here. I was posting on tumblr here and there but I felt like there were no conversations to be had there. I'm aiming for once a week at least.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: No bigotry, no terfs, no AI worshippers, MAGA-heads or generally fuckery. I'm basically a dirty commie and I'm not too afraid to talk about it so if that makes you uncomfortable oh well.

Before adding me, you should know: I'm currently struggling quite a bit in life, lost a lot of my agency and control because of lack of money, lost my apartment, and my general sense of self so I might talk about that at times. I'm disabled and queer, neurodivergent and cannot find a job to save my life and currently live with my partner and their family which is rough. If you don't want to hear about my personal bullshit from time to time, I'm probably not the person to follow.