QUIC for the Kernel

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Ready to give LWN a try? With a subscription to LWN, you can stay current with what is happening in the Linux and free-software community and take advantage of subscriber-only site features. We are pleased to offer you a free trial subscription, no credit card required, so that you can see for yourself. Please, join […]

Ubiquiti Launches UniFi OS Server for Self-Hosting

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Ubiquiti just released UniFi OS Server in Early Access, allowing you to self-host the complete UniFi network stack on your own hardware. Initially, it will support UniFi Network and Innerspace. Besides UniFi Network and InnerSpace, you can also run UniFi Identity on UniFi OS Server, which was not possible with the self-hosted UniFi Network server, […]

PixiEditor 2.0 – A FOSS universal 2D graphics editor

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What is PixiEditor? Up until today, PixiEditor was known as a pixel-art editor. Version 2.0 is much more than that. It’s a Universal 2D Editor – a brand new category. It’s not yet another Photoshop alternative. We take the word “Universal” much more seriously. We built an extremely configurable raster/vector render pipeline, which you can […]

Ursa: A Leaderless, Object Storage–Based Alternative to Kafka

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Multi-tenancy allows multiple teams, departments, or customers to share the same infrastructure while keeping data, resources, and workloads securely isolated. With fine-grained access control and resource quotas, it ensures optimal performance, scalability, and cost efficiency—empowering organizations to streamline operations without compromising security or stability.

MacBook Pro Insomnia

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For a number of years now I have a MacBook Pro Silicon M1 Max. It worked beautifully. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, I started noticing that the battery drained over night when I left the notebook somewhere, not connected to power. This got worse and worse, up until the point that I’ve had enough of […]

Ongoing Lean formalisation of the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem

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An ongoing multi-author open source project to formalise a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover. The project is currently being led by Kevin Buzzard. Until September 2029 it is being funded by grant EP/Y022904/1, awarded by the EPSRC. The project is hosted at Imperial College London. Kevin would like to extend […]

Releasing open weights for FLUX.1 Krea

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Today, we’re releasing an open version of Krea 1, our first image model trained in collaboration with Black Forest Labs  to offer superior aesthetic control and image quality. This checkpoint is a guidance distilled model fully compatible with FLUX.1-dev  allowing seamless integration with the existing ecosystem. FLUX.1-Krea [dev] has been distilled to match the quality […]

What is gVisor?

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It has been a really long time since I last wrote something here as life happens, things get busier, etc etc. I am now trying to get back into writing things down and here we go! So, imagine a tool or a service that allows you to run some arbitrary code via a shell. Either […]

OpenAI’s “Study Mode” and the risks of flattery

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Learning requires friction, frustration… and (usually) other humans “Study Mode,” a new educational feature released yesterday by OpenAI to much fanfare, was inevitable. The roadblocks were few. Leaders of educational institutions seem lately to be in a sort of race to see who can be first to forge partnerships with AI labs. And on a […]

2,500-year-old Siberian ‘ice mummy’ had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals

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4 days ago ShareSave Georgina Rannard Science correspondent ShareSave G Caspari and M Vavulin High-resolution imaging of tattoos found on a 2,500 year old Siberian “ice mummy” have revealed decorations that a modern tattooist would find challenging to produce, according to researchers. The intricate tattoos of leopards, a stag, a rooster, and a mythical half-lion […]