QEMU 11.1 released
Fonte: LWN.net
Version 11.1 of the QEMU emulator has been released. The release contains more than 3,200 commits from 285 authors and includes a long list of improvements; see…
Security updates for Wednesday
Fonte: LWN.net
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (fence-agents, firefox, frr10, gstreamer1-plugins-good, iscsi-initiator-utils, isns-utils, kernel, kernel-rt, per…
Appalachian Voices: Black lung benefits haven’t kept up with inflation
Rance Garrison · Cardinal News
The real buying power of the modest black-lung benefit has decreased because it is tied to cost-of-living increases for federal employees rather than inflation.…
Why Self-Directed Mastery Beats the Trillion-Dollar Credential
Meda Parameswara Reddy, Ph.D. · Real Clear Science
I nearly failed organic chemistry. That is not how these essays usually open, but it is the truest place to start. I was a student at Andhra Christian College i…
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Reflexions on The Meaning of Meditation - Chief Rabbi Eric Ackerman
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Countdown to Sophie Adenot's first spacewalk
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MIT Technology Review
How the “censorship-industrial complex” is changing the Internet and US policy
Eileen Guo · MIT Technology Review
I first heard the term “censorship-industrial complex” on April 15, 2025. That’s when I got the tip that a small office in the U.S. State Department, which foc…
AI Genie in the Wild
Bruce Schneier · Schneier on Security
When I give talks about AI genies, I use this sort of example as a hypothetical. It’s happened. The story is from Australia. Someone named Andrew tasked OpenCla…
Linux 7.3 Bringing A KCFI Optimization To Benefit Older Intel CPUs
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Expected to be merged during the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window is a Kernel Control Flow Integrity (KCFI) improvement intended to benefit older Intel processor…
Intel Xeon 678X Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 26.04 Performance With The HP Z4 G6i
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
HP recently launched their Z4 G6i workstation that I have been testing out the past few weeks. The HP Z4 G6i is powered by Granite Rapids WS with the review uni…
Science Daily
Potatoes may have given Indigenous Andeans a digestive superpower
Fonte: Science Daily
The rise of the potato in the Andes appears to have left a lasting mark on human DNA. Indigenous Peruvians carry exceptionally high numbers of a starch-digestio…
Minor Optimization Coming For AMD Athlon XP Era Systems Running Linux
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
A minor performance optimization is on the way to the Linux kernel for roughly two decade old CPUs that have SSE but lack SSE2. Among those CPUs to benefit are …
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The Wars We’ve Learned To Live With
🎙 Finbar Anderson · New Lines Magazine
Journalist and humanitarian Arwa Damon joins Faisal Al Yafai on the podcast to discuss the war in Iran, the collapse of the rules-based order and why we no long…
Fiscally challenged city of Radford hopes new power contract will give it more diversity and control
Erick Solorzano · Cardinal News
The city entered into an agreement with CMS Energy Resource Management. The post Fiscally challenged city of Radford hopes new power contract will give it more …
Outlandish Publication Fees Are Hindering Scientific Research
Michael Aaron Cody · Real Clear Science
Academic science is a tale of broken incentives. Scholars must choose whether to publish what advances their career or to pursue what actually advances their fi…
CachyOS August 2026 Release Preps For Upcoming Server Edition
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
CachyOS is out with its latest media refresh of the year. Beyond the usual desktop improvements for the performance-optimized CachyOS, they continue working tow…
On this day in space! Aug. 9, 1976: Soviet Luna 24 sample return probe launches to the moon
Fonte: Space.com
On Aug. 9, 1976, the Soviet space program launched its last moon mission. Luna 24 was a robotic sample return mission and the third of its kind.…
Science Daily
Chemists set electrons free and break a decades-old chemistry barrier
Fonte: Science Daily
Chemists have developed a catalyst that breaks a long-standing rule governing which molecules receive electrons during chemical reactions. By releasing electron…
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Dinosaurs became giants — so why did they never become tiny?
Fonte: Science Daily
Dinosaurs conquered the land at enormous sizes, but strangely, they almost never evolved into truly tiny animals. New research suggests that physiology alone ca…
Partido Novo manifesta preocupação com eleições no RN e cobra investigação sobre posssivel abuso de poder de Allyson Bezerra
Rodrigo Freire · Blog do BG
O Partido Novo/RN divulgou uma nota manifestando preocupação sobre a lisura das eleições após novos dados apontarem possível ligação entre uma rede de perfis qu…
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Sessão da 1ª Turma Revisora CSMP - 19 de agosto de 2026 (14h)
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