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    | LWN
    Version 1.91.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include promoting aarch64-pc-windows-msvc to a tier-1 platform, a new lint to catch dangling raw pointers from local variables, and a fair number of newly stabilized APIs.
    | LWN
    The kernel's file-I/O subsystems have been highly optimized over the years in the hope of providing the best performance for a wide variety of workloads. There is, however, one workload type that suffers with current kernels: applications that perform many short reads, in multiple processes, from t [...]
    | LWN
    The Universal Blue project has announced the Fall update for the Fedora-based Bazzite gaming distribution. This release brings Bazzite up to Fedora 43, includes support for additional handheld gaming systems, as well as drivers for a number of steering wheel devices, and more.
    | ScienceDaily
    Researchers in Japan have revealed how some gourds draw pollutants into their fruits. The secret lies in a protein that carries contaminants through the plant sap. By manipulating this protein’s structure, scientists hope to breed crops that resist contamination or serve as natural soil purifiers. T [...]
    | LWN
    Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (java-21-openjdk and libtiff), Debian (pdns-recursor and xorg-server), Fedora (bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, dtk6core, dtk6gui, dtk6log, dtk6widget, fcitx5-qt, fluidsynth, gammaray, kddockwidgets, LabPlot, mingw-qt6-qt3d, mingw-qt6-qt5compat, mingw-qt6-qtactiv [...]
    | ScienceDaily
    Researchers have made germanium superconducting for the first time, a feat that could transform computing and quantum technologies. Using molecular beam epitaxy to embed gallium atoms precisely, the team stabilized the crystal structure to carry current without resistance. The discovery paves the wa [...]
    | ScienceDaily
    By electrically stimulating macrophages, scientists at Trinity College Dublin have found a way to calm inflammation and promote faster healing. The process turns these immune cells into tissue-repairing helpers, enhancing regeneration and blood vessel growth. Safe, effective, and based on human cell [...]
    | LessWrong
    Published on October 26, 2025 8:33 PM GMTThere is a very famous essay titled ‘Reality has a surprising amount of detail’. The thesis of the article is that reality is filled, just filled, with an incomprehensible amount of materially important information, far more than most people would naively exp [...]
    | LWN
    Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Pixnapping attack; Fil-C; Debian ftpmasters; GoFundMe complaints; Safer user-space access. Briefs: Man pages 6.16; Btrfs on AlmaLinux; Fedora Linux 43; ICANN report; PSF grants; Rust Coreutils 0.3.0; Tor Browser 15.0; [...]
    | LessWrong
    Published on October 21, 2025 4:40 AM GMTThis is a cross-post from https://www.250bpm.com/p/eu-explained-in-10-minutes.If you want to understand a country, you should pick a similar country that you are already familiar with, research the differences between the two and there you go, you are now an [...]
    | LessWrong
    Published on October 3, 2025 5:08 PM GMTPeople don't explore enough. They rely on cached thoughts and actions to get through their day. Unfortunately, this doesn't lead to them making progress on their problems. The solution is simple. Just do one new thing a day to solve one of your problems. Intel [...]
    | LessWrong
    Published on October 14, 2025 2:48 PM GMTCurrent AI models are strange. They can speak—often coherently, sometimes even eloquently—which is wild. They can predict the structure of proteins, beat the best humans at many games, recall more facts in most domains than human experts; yet they also strugg [...]
    | LessWrong
    Published on October 9, 2025 10:02 PM GMTIntro LLMs being trained with RLVR (Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards) start off with a 'chain-of-thought' (CoT) in whatever language the LLM was originally trained on. But after a long period of training, the CoT sometimes starts to look very we [...]
    | Wikinews
    Thursday, October 9, 2025   Logo Global Sumud Flotilla Israel Related articles 9 October 2025: Israeli naval ships intercept Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla 15 September 2025: Thousands of pagers explode in Lebanon killing twelve people and injuring thousands 25 April 2025: Police recover rem [...]
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