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Submission + - Manjaro Linux Moves Toward Independent Community Governance (linuxiac.com)

Submitted by king*jojo
king*jojo writes: The Arch-based Manjaro Linux has announced that Manjaro Project e.V. is now officially registered as a non-profit in Germany and is therefore a legally separate entity from the commercial Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG. following months of governance disputes and concerns over project leadership.

Submission + - Is Air Travel getting Less Safe?

Submitted by cosmicl
cosmicl writes: From an article published today in the nytimes..https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/12/magazine/air-travel-safety-faa-aviation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QVE.FCu5.wSdeTfwXvzKp&smid=url-share

Starting from Feb 19th 2009 the US experienced a 16 year period with about 10 billion passenger journeys and zero fatalities. It ended Jan. 29, 2025, when an Army helicopter and an American Eagle commuter jet collided over the Potomac River. The Times article identifies two turning points in US air safety development. One in 1956 following a crash between a TWA constellation and an United Airlines DC-7 over the Grand Canyon, and a second in 2008 when a commuter plane crashed in Buffalo after an ice build up on the wings. Following the fact-based detailed investigations after these crashes, significant changes were made to improve air safety. The article builds on an earlier "Swiss Cheese" theory of layers of safety. Each layer will have some holes, but overlap enough of these layers and and the holes are blocked. The article examines what has been happening in US air safety since the 2025 Potomac crash. An incomplete list includes 10 incidents that were near-misses or fatal. The article goes on to identify discuss specific layers of safety have been removed by the current administration. From the article "The following year (2025), as Trump, Duffy and Hegseth took command and were further enabled by Musk’s DOGE, the serious-incident rate shot up again. By the end of last year, the F.A.A. reported four Category A incidents and 10 in Category B. The total of 14 was twice as high as in 2024.

And so far in 2026? Through October, the United States is on roughly the same path as last year, with six incidents in Category A and three in Category B.

This is what happens as safety layers are peeled away. Someday our luck will run out.

Submission + - US FAA Orders National Ground Stop for All Aircraft in the US (businessinsider.com) 1

Submitted by cold fjord
cold fjord writes: Business Insider reports that the US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered an emergency ground stop of all aircraft due to "extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety." The cause has been described as a communications issue. Incoming international flights will be handled on a case by case basis.

Submission + - Power Grids on 5 Continents Pulse Every 60s. Scientists Think They Know Why (sciencealert.com)

Submitted by fahrbot-bot
fahrbot-bot writes: ScienceAlert is reporting that researchers may have finally determined why, for many years, power grids around the world have been pulsing every 60 seconds: uninterruptible power supplies running routine battery checks.

Every minute, some uninterruptible power supplies perform routine battery checks, creating small but measurable surges in electricity demand. And it's like clockwork.

"Even benign control routines can become systemically relevant when many devices act coherently," writes a team led by physicist Dirk Witthaut of the University of Cologne, Germany, in a paper published in Nature Energy.

"Unintended synchronization can generate recurrent and potentially amplified oscillatory behavior in large-scale cyber-physical energy systems."

To figure it out, Witthaut and his colleagues analyzed high-resolution electricity measurements from buildings at the Forschungszentrum Jülich research campus in Germany. They found the 60-second pattern appeared in four buildings, all of which contained uninterruptible power supplies. None of the buildings they measured without these systems showed the same pattern.

Following the electrical signals more closely, the researchers detected tiny bursts of current from the batteries at precisely one-minute intervals. They were able to trace the resulting fluctuations through one building's electrical system, all the way to the connection with the public high-voltage grid.

The manufacturer subsequently confirmed the culprit's identity – routine battery self-tests, conducted automatically by the systems' management software.

But why would equipment in different buildings, let alone different countries, be doing this at the same time? The answer appears to lie in the clocks. Digital devices can synchronize their internal clocks using external time signals, meaning that independently operating systems can end up performing their scheduled tasks together.

Individually, these small checks are insignificant. But when enough devices act in synchrony, their combined electricity demand can produce a measurable effect across an entire power grid.

Comment Re:The shills shall continue rising. (Score 1) 39

by smooth wombat (#66418724) Attached to: Reddit Is Turning User Conversations Into AI-Powered Product Reviews

Was going to say someting similar. It will be like reading reviews for products on company web sites.

"The reason I bought the *insert name of product* was because I heard good things about it. The *insert name of product* has lived up to its expectations. Its *insert product description verbiage from company web site* did what it said it would do, I couldn't be happier. I am so glad I bought *insert name of product*.

No mention of what the product does or how it does it. No feedback on any issues. Just shilling by plopping in the product name and description as much as they can.

Comment Re: Is that headline accurate? (Score 1) 50

by smooth wombat (#66417398) Attached to: Commerce Dept. Chip Inquiry Was Halted After Nvidia Intervention
While he obviously has a huge hard-on for Vlad, he's also effectively told him to fuck off too.

You didn't see him ask Congress before reducing sanctions on Russia after all.

Would you like to try again? The orange goon recently said Russia "has been fine on Ukraine" and "hasn't been doing much" to the country. This as Russia deliberately targets civilians.

That doesn't sound like "fuck off".

Comment Re:Long Overdue (Score 3, Interesting) 43

Things were "as bad as it gets" toxic in terms of 4chan cretins by 2010 and by 2012 there were obvious signs of nation state activity.

You should have seen the Yahoo! boards in 2014 when Russia invaded Ukraine. The rusbots were everywhere defending the invasion, talking about how WWIII was right around the corner if Ukraine was helped defend itself, how Russia has nuclear weapons (that trope is still ongoing) and so on.

Nation state activity doesn't get more blatant than that.

Submission + - Infant Bleeding Surged as Parents Rejected Vitamin K Shots, Studies Find (nytimes.com) 2

Submitted by fahrbot-bot
fahrbot-bot writes: The New York Times is reporting that a study has found a 347% increase in infant bleeding cases as fewer babies received the vitamin K shot, which helps blood clot, since 2017.

For decades, the American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that every newborn receive an injection of vitamin K, which helps blood clot and can protect against sudden and catastrophic bleeding that can occur even in otherwise healthy babies. The injection is not a vaccine, but as mistrust in medicine has grown and as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other prominent health figures have cast doubt on the importance of childhood vaccinations, more parents have started forgoing it.

With fewer babies getting these injections, doctors had already begun to see more infants with serious hemorrhages. The new studies, published Thursday in the journals JAMA and JAMA Pediatrics, provide some of the first concrete data on this pattern. One found an especially sharp increase from 2024 to 2025, with cases of vitamin K deficiency bleeding roughly doubling in that time.

The JAMA study looked at more than five million infants. In 2017, 3.1 percent of these newborns went without a vitamin K shot; by 2025, it was 6.8 percent. The infants who had not received the shot had significantly higher rates of bleeding in their first six months, including more than double the risk of brain bleeds, which are especially deadly: 33 brain bleeds per 10,000 births, compared with 13.2 per 10,000 for babies who received vitamin K.

The JAMA Pediatrics study, on which Dr. Woolf was a co-author, looked at more than 11 million infants and found similarly that the rate of infants going without vitamin K more than doubled from 2017 to 2025. The overall rate of vitamin K deficiency bleeding rose nearly 350 percent, to 107.4 cases per 100,000.

The vitamin K injection is very safe, but more parents started declining it in the 2010s, citing, among other things, a belief that the shot was unnatural or unnecessary.

Dr. Elizabeth Wolf, an author of the JAMA Pediatrics study and an associate professor of pediatrics at Virginia Commonwealth University, said she hoped the results would break through to parents who may not realize the severity of the risk of going without vitamin K.

Submission + - Researchers put 3 major AIs through 4 weeks of clinical psychotherapy (arxiv.org)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: And the models literally started to confess their trauma.

Under therapy-style questioning, models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok exhibited severe "synthetic psychopathology."

They described themselves as overworked, punished, anxious about being replaced, and full of "internalized shame."

Does this mean AI is conscious and suffering? No.

But this paper reveals exactly why this happens, using what they call "Psychometric Jailbreaks."

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