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Azul @azulsystems.bsky.social · 6h

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

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 1h

#AI #copyright

IGN @ign.com · 2h

The Japanese government has made a formal request asking OpenAI to refrain from copyright infringement. This comes as a response to Sora 2’s ability to generate videos featuring the likenesses of copyrighted characters from anime and video games.

Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World

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Matthew Champion @matthewchampion.bsky.social · 1h

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

www.wired.com/story/a-plan...

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.

www.wired.com

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 1h

Get Signal.

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 1h

There's a more secure alternative to texting via your phone's native messaging app. Signal is a free app that employs end-to-end encryption and we have a step-by-step guide to help you learn how to use it. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

How to: Use Signal

Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android: 7.38.6 iPhone: 7.5.1 License: GPLv3 Level: Beginner Time required: 15-20 minutes Other reading: https://signal.org/ https://support.signal.org/ https://signal.org/blog/ Table of Contents Download and Install Signal Register and Verify...

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 9h

haters will say ffmpeg is hard to use

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Ana Tudor @anatudor.bsky.social · 8h

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

Ana Tudor @anatudor.bsky.social · Oct 13

Here's an example where I'm using something like this: switching between tabs.

Originally made this on @codepen.io after someone asked how to create tabs with rounded corners *and* borders.
codepen.io/thebabydino/...

Then finally polished it this weekend. Vanilla #CSS + #JS + a bit of #SVG magic.🪄

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 1h

“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

evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 3h

"Starting in December 2024, the researchers began contacting the affected telecoms. T-Mobile responded by encrypting its satellite transmissions within weeks, but responses from other cell carriers were mixed."

Everything is cool and normal.

www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 10h

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

I am asking the same question this morning.

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InfoQ @infoq.com · 11h

#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

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The Register @theregister.com · 13h

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.…

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 1d

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.

connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussio...

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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 1d

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

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

“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.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Generative AI’s Productivity Myth | TechPolicy.Press

People may be using artificial intelligence, but that doesn’t mean it’s useful, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

www.techpolicy.press

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d

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

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

www.newscientist.com

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 1d

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

#dieselgate #airpollution
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www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘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

www.theguardian.com

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 1d

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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www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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

www.theguardian.com

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 1d

"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

Slashdot @slashdot.org · 1d

Earth's Climate Has Passed Its First Irreversible Tipping Point and Entered a 'New Reality'

https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/13/1340224/earths-climate-has-passed-its-first-irreversible-tipping-point-and-entered-a-new-reality?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Earth's Climate Has Passed Its First Irreversible Tipping Point and Entered a 'New Reality'

Climate change has pushed warm-water coral reefs past a point of no return, marking the first time a major climate tipping point has been crossed, according to a report released on Sunday by an international team in advance of the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP30 in Brazil this Novembe...

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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.

www.techpolicy.press

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It's FOSS @itsfoss.bsky.social · 1d

Power meets affordability. Your Pi 5 deserves this case.

itsfoss.com/elecrow-rasp...

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?

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 1d

well this is a shock.

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 1d

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

noyb @noyb.eu · 1d

📰🧒 "The DSB, #Austria’s data protection authority, has ruled that #Microsoft is illegally #tracking students with Microsoft 365 Education and uses student data for its own purposes."

👇 Read the full article, including a comment by Max Schrems 👇

Austria says Microsoft illegally tracked school kids with 365

Microsoft accused of illegally tracking students, Austrian DPA rules

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d

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

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.

www.wired.com

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 1d

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

- who wants cheap, clean energy anyway?

#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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

www.theguardian.com

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