Collaborate Disseminate
Phoronix reports on a presentation this week by Meta engineer Gregory Price at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague:
With today’s memory shortages, high prices, and ever increasing memory capacity needs, Meta engineers have been working on Compres… Continue reading Meta Developing Compressed RAM ‘CRAM’ For Linux: Better Than ZRAM and Zswap?
Reuters reports:
Flock plans to let go of about 18% of its employees, people with direct knowledge of the plans said on Thursday, as the maker of AI-powered surveillance cameras and license-plate readers faces mounting opposition to its products from… Continue reading AI Surveillance Startup Flock To Cut Several Hundred Jobs Amid Backlash, Sources Say
From the transportation news site MotorBiscuit:
In late September 2026, 23-year-old Liz Lindseay Isaacs testified before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee about her harrowing experience after a Flock camera misidentified her Dodge Durango, linking her t… Continue reading Flock Blamed for Wrongful 13-Day Imprisonment and a Police Stalking Incident in Florida
– In 2022 Altair Engineering open sourced “OpenRadioss”, an industry-leading finite element solver under the GNU AGPL License, reports Phoronix.
– Siemens acquired Altair Engineering last year
– Siemens closes access to OpenRadioss.
“Siemens didn… Continue reading After Siemens Re-Licenses OpenRadioss, Rocky Linux Announces Open-Source Fork
PC Magazine reports:
In September, the infamous ShinyHunters hacking group claimed it had infiltrated the FBI job recruitment portal, stealing confidential data belonging to 5,000 employees and even changing the FBI logo to its own. The group has b… Continue reading FBI Detains Teenager Linked to Group That Stole Data on 5,000 FBI Employees
“Russian health authorities have taken precautionary measures in response to the death of a woman who worked at an anti-plague research facility,” reports Axios, “but have not confirmed that she contracted plague.”
On Sept. 25, 28-year-old Daria Ship… Continue reading Researcher At Russian Plague Laboratory Dies of ‘Unknown’ Infection
“Russian health authorities have taken precautionary measures in response to the death of a woman who worked at an anti-plague research facility,” reports Axios, “but have not confirmed that she contracted plague.”
On Sept. 25, 28-year-old Daria Ship… Continue reading Researcher At Russian Plague Laboratory Dies of ‘Unknown’ Infection
What happened when AI-created bots competed in the classic Blizzard videogame StarCraft? “Struggling to stay apace with its competitors, OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra apparently changed strategy mid-tournament and opted to cheat,” Kotaku reports:
StarSkirmish… Continue reading OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Gets Frustrated Losing At StarCraft And Decides To Cheat Instead
Python’s security developer-in-residence Seth Larson reports from this year’s official core developer Python Language Summit:
“No one said ‘don’t do this’ last year”. After testing the waters at PyCon US 2025, [software engineer] David Hewitt returne… Continue reading How Python Will Test Adding Rust Into CPython
Last month, the U.S. House passed the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. They call it “a bipartisan effort to require AM radio in new vehicles,” adding that the bill now “awaits action in the Senate, where a companion measur… Continue reading Radio Broadcasters Support America’s ‘AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act’