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State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’
Robbie Gramer and Nahal Toosi,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

_Stephan: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a man who throughout his career has made it clear that he is utterly lacking in honorable ethics, in service to Dictator Trump, is now doing something straight out of the Hitler playbook. This is exactly what Hitler did, although few in the media seem to know this. It is just another … ⌘ Read more

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Via porn, gore and ultra-violence, extremist groups are sinking hooks online into the very young
John Leicester,  Reporter  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: Concurrent with the coup in the United States, something equally dangerous to democracy is going on internationally: the weaponization of the internet by terrorists and fascists. If you have young children who spend hours of their day on the internet, you would be wise to underst … ⌘ Read more

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Ten Times Scientists Created Astonishing New States of Matter
Most people are well aware of the three main states of matter: solids, liquids, and gases. Some might even know about plasma, a fourth state made of charged particles and found throughout the universe. But how about swirlons? Does the phrase Rydberg polaron mean anything to you? As scientists expand their understanding of the universe, […]

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10 Times Humanity Tried to Redesign the Calendar
For most of us, the Gregorian calendar is simply the way time works. But history is filled with people and cultures who believed they could build something more rational, accurate, or aligned with nature or ideology. Some were utopian dreams, others were bureaucratic rethinks—but all of them tried to challenge what we now take for […]

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Planning for Scotland, second try
My fiancée and I were in Scotland in 2023 on an Interrail trip. But with some bad luck, we got COVID-19 after half of the trip and had to go home and recover. We always said we wanted to finish our trip in one of the next years. ⌘ Read more

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iPhone 18’s Costly 2nm Process Adoption Could Lead to Price Hikes
Apple’s iPhone 18 models will adopt TSMC’s 2nm manufacturing process for the next-generation A20 chip, which will bring substantial performance and power efficiency improvements to next year’s iPhones, but it may also incur significantly more costs that Apple could pass onto the customer.

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 17, 2025
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

  • Front: APT 3.0; Fedora 42; Lots more LSFMM+BPF coverage.

  • Briefs: CVE funding; Yelp vulnerability; Fedora 42; Manjaro 25.0; GCC 15; Pinta 3.0; Quotes; …

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iOS 18.4.1 Update Released with CarPlay Fix & Security Patches
Apple has released iOS 18.4.1 update for iPhone, along with iPadOS 18.4.1 for iPad. The software updates include a few bug fixes and important security patches, making them recommended to update. Additionally, iOS 18.4.1 includes a bug fix for a particular issue with CarPlay not connecting properly in some situations. If you have been experiencing … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/04/16/ios-18-4-1-up … ⌘ Read more

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MacOS Sequoia 15.4.1 Update Released with Bug & Security Fixes
Apple has released MacOS Sequoia 15.4.1 as a software update for Mac users running the Sequoia operating system. The update focuses exclusively on security updates and bug fixes, and contains no new features. Separately, Apple also released iOS 18.4.1 for iPhone, iPadOS 18.4.1 for iPad, and updates to tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS, and those updates … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/04/16/macos-sequoia-15- … ⌘ Read more

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[$] What’s new in APT 3.0
Debian’s Advanced Package Tool (APT) is the suite of utilities that handle package
management on Debian and Debian-derived operating systems. APT recently received a
major upgrade to 3.0 just in time for inclusion in Debian 13
(“trixie”), which is planned for release sometime in 2025. The version bump is
warranted; the latest APT has user-interface improvements, switches to [Sequoia](https://sequoia-pgp.org/pr … ⌘ Read more

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Catanzaro: Dangerous arbitrary file read vulnerability in Yelp
GNOME contributor Michael Catanzaro has written a blog\
post about a noteworthy vulnerability in GNOME’s help browser, Yelp.

I don’t normally blog about particular CVEs, but Yelp CVE-2025-3155 is
noteworthy because it is quite severe, public for several weeks now,
and not yet fixed upstream. In short, help files can rea … ⌘ Read more

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My mother-in-law doesn’t understand why I keep my cat after he was too slow to catch a mouse (he’s 10 years old). She says, “If an animal stops being useful, it’s a waste of money to take care of it”Read more

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The CNCF TOC @ KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) provides technical leadership to the cloud native community. Strong TOC participation at this year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in London enabled in-person discussions and strategic planning for CNCF project technical priorities… ⌘ Read more

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[$] Parallel directory operations
Allowing directories to be modified in parallel was the topic of Jeff
Layton’s filesystem-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF). There are certain use
cases, including for the NFS and Lustre filesystems, as mentioned in a patch set
referenced in the topic\
proposal, where contention in cre … ⌘ Read more

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[$] Taking BPF programs beyond one-million instructions
The BPF verifier is not magic; it cannot solve the
halting problem. Therefore,
it has to err on the side of assuming that a program will run too long if it
cannot prove that the program will not.
The ultimate check on the size of a BPF program is the
one-million-instruction limit — the verifier will refuse to process more than
one-million instructions, no matter what a BPF program does. Alexei Starovoitov gave
a talk at the 2025 L … ⌘ Read more

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CISA extends funding to the CVE program (BleepingComputer)
Sergiu Gatlan reports
that the US government has extended funding for the Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program, following yesterday’s reports that funding
would run out as of April 16.

“The CVE Program is invaluable to cyber community and a priority of
CISA,” the U.S. cybersecurity agency told BleepingCompu … ⌘ Read more

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[$] Improvements for the contiguous memory allocator
As a system runs, its memory becomes fragmented; it does not take long
before the allocation of large, physically contiguous memory ranges becomes
difficult or impossible. The contiguous memory\
allocator (CMA) is a kernel subsystem that attempts to address this
problem, but it has never worked as well as some would like. Two sessions
in the memory-management track at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit looked at … ⌘ Read more

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Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gvisor-tap-vsock, kernel, and kernel-rt), Fedora (chromium, dnf, dotnet9.0, golang, lemonldap-ng, mariadb10.11, perl-Crypt-URandom-Token, perl-DBIx-Class-EncodedColumn, php-tcpdf, podman-tui, and trunk), Red Hat (java-17-openjdk and kernel), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (apache2-mod_auth_openidc, cosign, etcd, expat, flannel, kernel, libsqlite3-0, libvarnishapi3, mozjs52, Multi-Linux Manager 4.3: Server, Multi-Linux Manager 5.0: Server, … ⌘ Read more

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Trump Administration Fires Hundreds of Climate and Weather Specialists
Editorial Staff,    -  Yale Environment 360

_Stephan: The Trump authoritarian coup is very anti-science because science is about facts and facts are the one thing that frightens dictator Trump. The result of what he and his servants are doing has been the devastation of all the science, healthcare, and climatology agencies.  As this article from Yale University reports climatologists … ⌘ Read more

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Patient Safety Network Abruptly Cut by Trump Administration
Jeremy Faust, MD, MS, MA,,   Editor-in-Chief   -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: American healthcare has been devastated by dictator Trump and his servants, and the Republicans in Congress have stood by and watched while they sucked their thumbs. The only chance we have of retaining a democracy in the United States, assuming the 2026 election is not rigged in advance, is to vote all Republicans in the House and t … ⌘ Read more

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‘The Homegrowns Are Next’: Trump Promises to Send American Citizens to El Salvador in Harrowing Comments to Bukele
Colby Hall,  Founding Editor  -  Mediate

_Stephan: I am surprised the media isn’t saying out loud what is actually going on. American dictator Donald Trump has made a deal with dictator Nayib Bukele of El Salvador to run a concentration camp for which he will pay him $6,000 per person of your tax doll … ⌘ Read more

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Polling shows growing number of Republicans identify with the MAGA movement
Ben Kamisar,    -  NBC News

Stephan: What you rarely hear anyone talking about is how many Germans supported Hitler for years after they voted him into office. You may find it hard to believe but that is exactly the same thing happening in the United States, Here are the facts.

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(#eetsbtq) @javivf@javivf Generally speaking if it has been reviewed, discussed and merged, then we accept it as a standard to the set of sp …
@javivf @adn.org.es Generally speaking if it has been reviewed, discussed and merged, then we accept it as a standard to the set of specs we support. However we might want to document this process and set some guidelines about this to be clear 🤣 We’ve been fairly lax/lose here and I think that’s okay given teh s … ⌘ Read more

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10 Wonderful TV Shows That Started Strong but Ended Unfinished
Anyone who has competed in track and field at any level knows it’s easy to start out strong. What’s much more difficult is maintaining that initial burst of speed for the entire race and then finishing strong. Some TV shows come out of the gate swinging, with strong casts, clever writing, and highly compelling plotlines. […]

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10 Rare & Interesting Versions of Common Animals
The animal kingdom is never short on variety, with over 1.5 million living animal species in existence today. And yet, our interests tend to focus on a common few—the black bear, the ring-tailed lemur, the gray wolf. But for every common species, there is an equally uncommon and interesting variation that hardly anyone pays attention […]

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