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Comment Tiny PCs are easily shipped every day. (Score 1) 101

Still overkill but not remotely impractical. Sending a "whole computer" would be no more difficult than shipping tiny PCs to Ebay buyers who often buy several at once for our "home lab" style setups.

A typical tiny PC plus power brick and its cord easily fits in a flat rate box (though for Important Stuff best sent next day air).

Submission + - Does Growing Food Reduce your Petroleum Foorprint More Than an EV? (youtube.com) 1

Submitted by Skystrider
Skystrider writes: Paul Wheaton, author and gardener, asks if we can really reduce our petroleum footprint.

explore practical ways to reduce our petroleum footprint beyond simply driving less or buying a more efficient vehicle. By looking at where petroleum is actually used—from transportation to food production—the discussion challenges conventional advice and highlights lifestyle changes that can have a far greater impact.

Instead of focusing on sacrifice, are there solutions that improve quality of life while dramatically reducing petroleum consumption? Sharing resources, growing food, shortening supply chains, and building stronger local communities can reduce thousands of gallons of petroleum use each year, demonstrating that regenerative living can be both more resilient and more rewarding.

Submission + - xAI sues Minnesota over its first-in-the-nation law banning 'nudification" tech (apnews.com)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: Elon Musk’s company xAI has sued Minnesota over the state’s first-in-the-nation law that bans “nudification” technology on websites and apps, potentially providing a test for how far states can go in constitutionally regulating the use of artificial intelligence.

Musk’s company sued Monday in federal court, days before the law is set to take effect Saturday and make Minnesota the first state to try to outlaw the increasingly proliferating technology that lets people use AI to to create fake nude images of real people. The law was signed in May.

Submission + - China wants physical buttons on cars instead of touchscreens (autobuzz.my)

Submitted by cantle2000
cantle2000 writes: The Chinese Government has mandated physical buttons on Chinese built cars instead of using touchscreens, from July 1st 2027. Essential functions such as the demister, defogger, power windows, lighting,and gear shifting will be button controlled instead of touchscreen controlled.

Submission + - IBM says AI-powered cyberattacks now cost companies $6 million on average (nerds.xyz)

Submitted by BrianFagioli
BrianFagioli writes: IBMâ(TM)s 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report says more than one in four malicious breaches are now AI-enabled, up 56 percent from last year. These incidents cost companies an average of $6 million, about $1 million more than the global average breach cost of $4.99 million. Deepfake impersonation and AI-enabled malware were among the most common forms of attack.

The report also found that companies extensively using AI and automation in security operations cut breach costs by an average of $1.93 million and reduced response time by 65 days. Still, many organizations lack basic protections, including AI access controls, vulnerability management, and encryption for sensitive data.

Submission + - Hamburg is replacing a bridge in one huge piece (tagesschau.de) 2

Submitted by Qbertino
Qbertino writes: The northern German City of Hamburg is currently in the process of replacing one of it's bridges in one single gigantic piece. The new replacement weighs 3700 metric tons and is carefully being moved into place in the next few days over a stretch of 500 meters, requiring extreme patience and precision maneuvering. Some places leave only 40 cm of room to neighbouring buildings. The bridge is expected to be put in it's place by the end of next weekend.
German Tagesschau has an article with pics and video.

Submission + - FSB Issues "Arrest Warrant" for Telegram's Pavel Durov (dw.com)

Submitted by D,Petkow
D,Petkow writes: The honeymoon is over. In 2024, French authorities nabbed Telegram founder Pavel Durov and the Kremlin had a geopolitical meltdown over their definition of 'freedom of speech.'
Now the FSB has issued its own international arrest warrant for Durov, charging him with 'facilitating terrorism.'
According to DW, the FSB is furious that Telegram's lack of moderation is biting them back.
They claim Ukrainian intelligence has been using Telegram dating bots to pose as young women, lure Russian teens, and get them to commit arson and sabotage against police stations. Essentially: 'Hot singles in your area want to burn down a draft office.'
Classic hypocrisy. Kremlin suddenly discovers unmoderated free speech isn't fun when it's happening in their own backyard and reverts to the trusty authoritarian playbook. Meanwhile, Telegram learns that playing neutral command-and-control platform for a ground war is a great way to end up on everyone's most-wanted list.

The official Telegram response on X/twitter is just a middle finger from Durov himself.
Durov thought he could ignore law enforcement forever, but it may turn out doing nothing unites East and West in the race to lock him up.

Submission + - The first active shooter suppression service

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Schools to tackle active shooters with pepper-spraying drones that can ram attackers

Pepper-spraying drones aimed at tackling active school shooters are being rolled out at campuses across three states.

The drones, part of the Campus Guardian Angel program, can ram into targets at speeds of up to 70 mph and are capable of weaving through the air to avoid gunfire. Three schools in Florida, five in Georgia and one in Colorado are part of pilot schemes using the aerial technology.

Comment Re: Thinkpad parts and screen swaps. (Score 1) 30

by couchslug (#66261318) Attached to: Review Roundup: Framework Laptop 13 Pro

Before buying a top or donor Thinkpad I check to see if a better panel donor is available. I've built many Thinkpads from wrecks because it's generally so easy. I don't care about warranty service because I don't own a corporate fleet and keep my machines long past warranty expiration and EOS.

The HMM are free downloads from Lenovo making it even easier to work on Thinkpads. Their community is large, dedicated and helpful. I rarely damage mine but if I do I've plenty of spares, and thanks to easy drive removal (I never buy notebooks with soldered storage or RAM) I can toss the drive into another Thinkpad then sort out the first at leisure.

Those advantages are why the Thinkpad community like them. Of course some models suck but not buying those is effortless.

Comment "Thinkpad" is not specific. Models/specs matter. (Score 1) 30

by couchslug (#66261296) Attached to: Review Roundup: Framework Laptop 13 Pro

Always post the MODEL and SPECS because as with any make that matters greatly.

Wise notebook buyers study specific models under consideration. Wiser buyers do not buy new notebooks and let the rich beta test.
The classic way to buy Thinkpads is choosing used, proven models the Thinkpad community knows well.

I rarely buy new notebooks (and even then only established models) because I get far better bang for buck letting someone else take the hit then buying opportunistically.

Submission + - AI Co's bulk-buying rare books, remove spine, high speed scan and shredding them (x.com) 3

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

This is irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.

"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026.

Submission + - Diving suits allow cyborg cockroaches to also search for survivors underwater (smithsonianmag.com)

Submitted by fahrbot-bot
fahrbot-bot writes: Smithsonian Magazine and Popular Science are reporting on newly developed diving suits for cyborg cockroaches, that would allow them to search underwater for disaster survivors.

Previously, researchers created electrical implants to control cockroaches’ movements for search-and-rescue missions. Now, they’ve made 3D-printed suits that provide oxygen, allowing the critters to survive submerged for up to three hours.

Scientists have developed tiny diving suits for cockroaches with electrical implants to control their movements. The technology, described in the journal Nature Communications on June 29, builds on previous research that created remote-controlled insects. The goal is to deploy them to survey damage and search for survivors after natural disasters, but they were limited to dry land.

Now, a team led by engineer Hirotaka Sato has fashioned Madagascar hissing cockroaches that can survive underwater for up to three hours, allowing them to be used in a wider range of scenarios.

“Our new insect diving suit works like the oxygen tank used by human divers. It generates oxygen and delivers it directly to the insect’s breathing holes, allowing the cyborg cockroach to survive and move in underwater or low-oxygen environments,” says Sato, of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, in a statement.

Cockroaches could be a helpful rescue tool. They’ve evolved over millions of years to wiggle into tight spaces and survive harsh environmental conditions. The research team specifically worked with Madagascar hissing cockroaches because of their durability, lack of wings and large size of up to four inches long.

Submission + - Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency And LLM-Generated Code Projects (hackaday.com)

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: Community-led open source project hosting site Codeberg has formally announced that projects whose code is largely or fully machine-generated through LLMs and other ‘AI’ tools will no longer be welcome. This follows on the heels of a similar ban on cryptocurrency-related projects.

The community vote was on two issues, the first being the notion that scraping of project code for the use in LLMs should be forbidden, which was a motion that easily passed. The second motion was on disallowing projects whose code was substantially generated by LLMs like Claude, OpenAI Codex, and similar. This motion passed with 358 in favor versus 144 against.

In the earlier linked blog post the reasoning behind especially this second issue is expanded upon, covering not only ‘license whitewashing’, but also the direct and indirect hardware costs, with the expanding ‘AI’ datacenter hyperscaling having massively increased hardware costs for Codeberg over the past years, as the costs have been largely externalized.

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