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Oracle is dropping GraalVM support after JDK 24.

Our free guide breaks down your options — from OpenJDK to high-performance platforms.

📊 See the full breakdown → https://bit.ly/4q1kWab

#Java #GraalVM #OpenJDK

#AI #copyright

A Plan to Rebuild Gaza Lists Nearly 30 Companies. Many Say They're Not Involved A presentation that has been shared with the Trump administration references Tesla, Ikea, TSMC, and more in its plan to rebuild Gaza. Some of these companies say they had no idea they were mentioned.

a Gaza reconstruction plan shared with Trump admin officials features the names and logos of more than two dozen companies, but some told WIRED they had no knowledge they were involved

“This was surprising and new information for us,” an IKEA spokesperson said

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Get Signal.

haters will say ffmpeg is hard to use

This little thing I made a little over a year ago got picked on CodePen!

Tabs with rounded corners + borders. Has keyboard navigation.

#CSS #JS #SVG #subgrid

“They assumed that no one was ever going to check and scan all these satellites and see what was out there. That was their method of security,” Schulman says. “They just really didn't think anyone would look up.”

#cybersecurity #DontLookUp

"Why does so much tech insist on being so shitty?".

I am asking the same question this morning.

#Java apps can now run transformer-based AI models directly in the JVM - no Python, REST wrappers, or microservices required!

Integrate #ONNX-powered inference with:
• Tokenizer support
• GPU acceleration
• Modular deployment
• Observability

🔗 #InfoQ article: bit.ly/4709xA5

#SoftwareArchitecture

Ubuntu 25.10 lands: Rustier and Wayland-ier, but Flatpak is broken Canonical's Questing Quokka waddles in at 5.7 GB with AppArmor woes The latest interim release of Ubuntu is here, showcasing some significant changes. This isn't a long-term release, yet many of its differences will be in 26.04 next year.…

Ubuntu 25.10 lands: Rustier and Wayland-ier, but Flatpak is broken

What follows is good but depressing - we've gone actively backward since 2024 on building accountability mechanisms for big tech, and for world-wide collaboration between countries that seemed democratic.

Overall: a great book by an author with unique combination of tech & politics insight. 9/10

Mozilla has started the development of a free VPN feature for Firefox users.

This will be a separate product from Mozilla VPN, the company's commercial OS-level VPN.

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I now realize that for my entire adult life, I've had a very narrow conception of what "supporting and defending the Constitution" means. Standing on business when armed agents of the State are knocking on your door is way more important, by a country mile, than anything I did overseas

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

Generative AI’s Productivity Myth | TechPolicy.Press People may be using artificial intelligence, but that doesn’t mean it’s useful, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

Studies are beginning to reveal fissures in the argument that AI boosts productivity, writes Tech Policy Press fellow @eryk.bsky.social. Nonetheless, companies and governments are pouring investments into speculative growth without ample evidence.

A black hole fell into a star – then ate its way out again Stars often fall into black holes, and now it seems the opposite can also occur, producing an extra long-lasting explosion as the star is consumed from within

A black hole fell into a star - then ate its way out again www.newscientist.com/article/2499...

‘Little lungs are paying’: 1.6m claimants head to high court as carmakers finally face punishment for Dieselgate Carmakers accused of cheating air pollution rules have faced little punishment in UK but trial brought by 1.8m motorists is about to begin

‘Little lungs are paying’: 1.6m claimants head to high court as carmakers finally face punishment for Dieselgate

#dieselgate #airpollution
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Carmakers chose to cheat to sell cars rather than comply with emissions law, ‘dieselgate’ trial told Mercedes, Ford, Renault, Nissan and Peugeot/Citroën face group action in which damages could exceed £6bn

Car manufacturers "took a conscious decision that customer convenience, which helped the industry sell more cars, was more important than reducing pollutants causing death”, court told

#dieselgate #airpollution
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"The widespread dieback of warm-water coral reefs is already underway, and it's impacting hundreds of millions of people who depend on the reef for fishing, for tourism, for coastal protection, and from rising seas and storm surges."

#environment #climatechange

Before AI Exploits Our Chats, Let’s Learn from Social Media Mistakes | TechPolicy.Press Privacy in the age of conversational AI is a governance choice, write Hugging Face's Lucie-Aimé Kaffee and Giada Pistilli.

Neither in the United States nor in the European Union are regulations yet fully prepared for the mix of intimacy and monetization that AI chatbots can introduce, write Hugging Face's Lucie-Aimée Kaffee and Giada Pistilli. We need to learn the lessons from past failures on social media, they say.

The Affordable Pironman Alternative Mini PC Case for Raspberry Pi 5 We have a new option in tower cases for Raspberry Pi 5. This one has a lower price tag but does that make it worth a purchase?

Power meets affordability. Your Pi 5 deserves this case.

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well this is a shock.

Get Microsoft out of your schools.

It is a waste of money, violates privacy and bad for the students.

Seek open source alternatives and *FUND THEM*.

#eu #gdpr #opensource #privacy #education

More Evidence Emerges That One of Saturn’s Moons Could Harbor Life Previously undetected organic compounds have been found in ice ejected into space from Enceladus, making the satellite a prime candidate for further research.

More Evidence Emerges That One of Saturn’s Moons Could Harbor Life www.wired.com/story/more-e...

Trump officials cancel major solar project in latest hit to renewable energy Esmeralda 7 in Nevada would have produced enough energy to power 2m homes

Trump officials cancel major Nevada solar power - would have been biggest in N America, powering 2m homes

- who wants cheap, clean energy anyway?

#climatecrisis
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The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

The One where a Wired journalist attempts to explain Peter Thiel's insanity.

#religion #surveillance #privacy #siliconvalley

www.wired.com/story/the-re...

When you choose the most incompetent and corrupt people to lead.

I like how the clouds roll.

ok, thanks!

John Oliver rips presidential library loophole Plus: There shouldn’t be secret law. Pam Bondi didn’t get the memo

John Oliver sounded the alarm this week on how secret donations to presidential libraries provide cover for bribery. We couldn’t agree more.

It’s time to close the library loophole — and you can help.

Read this story and much more in our secrecy newsletter, The Classifieds.