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Submission + - Solar power and batteries have been keeping Europe's grid stable. (euronews.com)

Submitted by AleRunner
AleRunner writes: "Solar has been doing the “heavy lifting” to help Europe meet its energy needs amid a string of blistering heatwaves." Euronews tells us as Europe's energy demands in the meantime, heat and Jellyfish have been causing shutdowns and reduced power output at multiple reactors at French nuclear plants as we already discussed

Submission + - AI and the 4-Day Work Week (bbc.com)

Submitted by hadleyburg
hadleyburg writes: The BBC reports "Tech leaders say AI means less work — their staff say they work up to 90 hours a week".

While a 4-day working week was suggested as one of the benefits of AI, it hasn't yet come to pass — not even in the AI companies themselves.

Comment Nothing gonna change (Score 1, Interesting) 111

by Wolfrider (#66285614) Attached to: Contiguous US Breaks Its Record For Hottest Month Ever, NOAA Says

Planet gonna keep getting hotter bc politicians don't have the political will to actively try fixing things

Europeans will (finally) install AC

People will keep getting sick and dying from the heat

People will relocate to try and escape from the heat

Eventually we will implement the Mexican mid-day Siesta due to the heat

After that we will be forced to convert everything to night-shift and become a night-based society starting an hour before sundown, bc nothing can be done anymore in the sunlight

Planet keeps getting hotter

Eventually the whole place is a smoking ruin and hopefully we have migrated to space cuz the Earth ain't worth living on anymore - bc H U M A N S A R E S T U P I D for destroying the only planet we were given.

Submission + - Freenet: Apps Without Platforms

Submitted by Sanity
Sanity writes: Earlier this year Slashdot covered the launch of the completely redesigned Freenet. I recently gave a talk about what we've been building since then. Unlike traditional web applications, apps on Freenet have no central server or database, with application state instead distributed across the network. These now include decentralized group chat, publishing, search, and fully decentralized Git hosting. The talk also gets into some of Freenet's internals, including how we use machine learning for network routing.

Submission + - Massive Debian 13 Linux Kernel Security Update Patches 68 Vulnerabilities (9to5linux.com)

Submitted by prisoninmate
prisoninmate writes: Linux blog 9to5Linux reports: "The new Debian 13 Linux kernel security update is a massive one, and it patches no less than 68 security vulnerabilities in the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel. Most of these security vulnerabilities are smaller, individually scoped fixes, ranging from use-after-free and out-of-bounds access to NULL-pointer bugs across networking, storage, and filesystem drivers. Nonetheless, these may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service, or information leaks.

The most severe vulnerabilities patched in the new Debian 13 “Trixie” kernel security update are CVE-2026-64530, a use-after-free in the traffic-control subsystem leading to remote denial-of-service with potential for remote code execution, and CVE-2026-64531 (a.k.a. OVSwrap), a local-root vulnerability in the Open vSwitch datapath leading to local privilege escalation to root.

CVE-2026-64532 and CVE-2026-64533 are a pair of NTFS3 bugs that could lead to denial-of-service with potential memory corruption or information leak triggered by mounting a crafted NTFS filesystem, and CVE-2026-64534 and CVE-2026-64535 are two flaws in the NVMe-over-TCP target that may lead to denial-of-service."

Submission + - FBI gets voter's IP address in new fraud probe tactic (axios.com)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: The Trump administration has a new tactic for trying to isolate cases of alleged voter fraud â" digging into the IP addresses of those who went online to register to vote.

The FBI recently obtained the IP address of someone who registered online in South Carolina, according to documents first shared with Axios.

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.

Comment I have this wild idea (Score 1) 111

by Wolfrider (#66259042) Attached to: Wildfires, Evacuations, and Smoke Hit Europe and North America

Make autonomous bots for forest strip-cleaning. Or hell, make it a game.

Give random people a joystick to a drone forest-clearing machine and tell them if they help clear firebreak lanes in the boreal forest, they will get paid.

Implement some basic "rails" controls so they can't cause havoc by bumping into other machines doing the same thing, etc and I can practically guarantee folks will sign on for this. Have someone organize things a bit and publish goals and a leaderboard.

Look at what random people have done in e.g. Minecraft for no real gain at all. If you can channel that kind of energy, the problem will sort itself.

Submission + - UK Politician vows to hold a referendum over the status of Pluto. (countbinface.com) 1

Submitted by sometimesblue
sometimesblue writes: A potential MP in the hotly contested forthcoming by-election in the town of Clacton-On-Sea has just published his manifesto. Along with many local issues such as restoring the local pier and tourist economy, he also intends to hold a public referendum on the status of Pluto as a planet. It is refreshing to see UK politicians taking an interesting in science and astronomy again.

Submission + - LibreOffice Once Again Slams Microsoft For Using 'Lock-In' With Office Files (xda-developers.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: One of the founding members of The Document Foundation and handler of LibreOffice's PR and media relations, Italo Vignoli, took to the LibreOffice blog to call out Microsoft's practices with its Office application. The last time we saw Vignoli take to the stage, we saw him accusing Euro-Office of being just as bad as Microsoft with its practices. Vignoli's new post focuses entirely on Microsoft's strategy. He says that "the dominant format for office documents" is owned by Microsoft Office, particularly the DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX formats. The problem with these formats, Vignoli states, is that they "belong to Microsoft, are controlled by Microsoft and serve Microsoft’s interest." This makes it difficult for other formats to take hold.

Vignoli explains his point by stating that open document formats don't hide anything. People developing their own apps can use the format to both read and write the document format with perfection. Meanwhile, proprietary formats such as Microsoft's "contain undocumented features, private extensions or behaviours" that developers can't fully adapt to. That means that a presentation that looks great in the source software comes out strange when rebuilt in a third-party app. This, Vignoli says, is a huge issue [...]. Vignoli claims this creates a huge issue with document preservation. If a Word document was saved in one version of Office, will it still be readable in 20 years? Microsoft has added legacy support to its software before, but the company can one day decide that it's not worth the effort anymore and cut it out. When that happens, you have old documents that are either jumbled or unable to be opened at all.

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