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MacBook Pro 2025: Apple streicht das Netzteil auch bei Laptops – nur in Europa
iPhones liefert Apple längst ohne Netzteil aus, jetzt fehlt es auch beim neuen MacBook Pro. Die Änderung gilt allerdings nur für Europa.

DLR untersucht Drohnenvorfälle an deutschen Flughäfen
2024 wurden dem Luftfahrt-Bundesamt 118 Drohnenvorfälle gemeldet. Das DLR hat diese unter anderem auf wirtschaftliche Schäden untersucht.
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Bought a new black computing rectangle (a.k.a. a laptop) yesterday as the current one doesn't have enough umph...also, I might've beat it down a bit too much. Went with a Lenovo Thinkpad P14s Gen 6 AMD laptop that was on sale because I wanted Linux support as a given (definitely been bitten by that before).
Went with the Ryzen 9 HX PRO 370 CPU (12c/24t) which has a very strong integrated GPU as well (890M). Told them to install [insert OS that isn't Windows on it because …

Deutschland will Führung bei EU-Projekt für Luftverteidigung
Deutschland will die Führung bei einem geplanten Projekt zur Stärkung der EU-Luftverteidigung übernehmen. Verteidigungsminister Boris Pistorius (SPD) sagte in Brüssel, die Bundesrepublik biete den Partnern ein entsprechendes Engagement an. Das sogenannte European Air Shield ist eines von mehreren Flaggschiffprojekten, die EU-Kommissionsprä…
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Beratungen im Ramstein-Format: Worauf die Ukraine jetzt hofft
Der Winter steht bevor - Russland zielt vor allem auf die Energie-Infrastruktur der Ukraine. Was braucht das Land, um den Angriffen standzuhalten? Darum geht es bei einem Treffen im sogenannten Ramstein-Format.

LubDubDecoder: Bringing Micro-Mechanical Cardiac Monitoring to Hearables
Siqi Zhang, Xiyuxing Zhang, Duc Vu, Tao Qiang, Clara Palacios, Jiangyifei Zhu, Yuntao Wang, Mayank Goel, Justin Chan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10764

LubDubDecoder: Bringing Micro-Mechanical Cardiac Monitoring to Hearables
We present LubDubDecoder, a system that enables fine-grained monitoring of micro-cardiac vibrations associated with the opening and closing of heart valves across a range of hearables. Our system transforms the built-in speaker, the only transducer common to all hearables, into an acoustic sensor that captures the coarse "lub-dub" heart sounds, leverages their shared temporal and spectral structure to reconstruct the subtle seismocardiography (SCG) and gyrocardiography (GCG) waveforms, and extr…

😔 5 plead guilty to laptop farm and ID theft scheme to land North Koreans US IT jobs
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/11/5-plead-guilty-to-laptop-farm-and-id-theft-scheme-to-land-north-koreans-us-it-jobs/

5 plead guilty to laptop farm and ID theft scheme to land North Koreans US IT jobs
Fleets of laptops run from US residences gave appearance workers were in the US.

Sources: Microsoft aims to produce most new products, including servers and Surface laptops, outside China from 2026; AWS is also adopting a similar strategy (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/supply-chain/m…

Microsoft aims to make most new products outside China from 2026: sources
AWS and Google also step up overseas supply chain shift

Liftable mapping class groups of certain branched covers of torus
Pankaj Kapari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11788 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11788

Liftable mapping class groups of certain branched covers of torus
Let $S_{g,n}$ be a closed oriented hyperbolic surface of genus $g\geq 0$ with $n\geq 0$ marked points, with the understanding that $S_{g,0}=S_g$. Let $\mathrm{Mod}(S_{h,n})$ be the mapping class group of $S_{h,n}$ and $\mathrm{LMod}_p(S_{h,n})$ be the liftable mapping class group associated to a cover $p:S_g\to S_{h,n}$. For the cover $p_k:S_k\to S_{1,2}$, in his PhD thesis, Ghaswala~\cite{ghaswala_thesis} derived a finite presentation for $\mathrm{LMod}_{p_k}(S_{1,2})$ when $k=2,3,4$ and a fin…

Fridays I work from home. Do I work? Of course, of course, but not really of course 😆
Looking forward to prepping the travel laptop; in two weeks I'll head back for a couple of days.
What's on it? FreeBSD and the River window manager.
And then the mystery of the liveslaks; dloading the latest KDE iso as we speak, so I can install it on the work laptop. If it works, that is.
That's all the real work I'll be doing 🤣

My wife's Macbook laptop from 2015 was causing her problems because the operating system was old, the disk was always filled with Mac's shit she couldn't control, wasn't able to install modern applications, etc...
So, I've installed Ubuntu in her laptop and everything goes faster & smoother than before, and she has now a modern operating system in a perfectly working piece of hardware.