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When you are a windows hacker, every October 14, 2025 is Xmas!
https://prospect.org/power/2025-10-02-microsoft-abandoning-windows-10-hackers-celebrating/

Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.
The company will stop supporting the OS on October 14. Advocacy groups warn this will leave up to 400 million computers vulnerable to hacks or in the dump.

Großes Update für Canva, Affinity wird kostenlos
Das Grafik-Tool Canva bekommt mehr KI, besseren Video-Schnitt, Marketing-Werkzeuge, Mail-Designer und Formulare – zudem trägt die Affinity-Übernahme Früchte.
https://www.…

So glad I found the new and "more serious" forum for discussions on all things Affinity.
signup before the big rush happens after the reveal on the 30th.
#Affinity

This day 30 years ago - on Oct 26th 1995, #CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) was announced to the world by Jarkko Hietaniemi – CPAN's Self-Appointed Master Librarian (OOK!), to the comp.lang.perl.announce newsgroup.
Happy Birthday, CPAN!

Pour résumer : la police belge dispose d’une importante stack logicielle propriétaire et vieillissante. Un projet de modernisation a été confié Š Sopra Steria, mais celui-ci n’a pas abouti, le système ne fonctionnant pas comme prévu. En revanche, une partie logicielle (Focus) développée en interne par une autre équipe a permis de limiter les dégâts et de maintenir certaines fonctionnalités opérationnelles.
#police

I finished marking on Friday.
Co-pilot is integratrd into Matlab; some students made use of it (with permission).
LLMs cannot interpret graphs; at all. Their attempts to do so make abundantly clear that no analysis or interpretation takes place.
Most students using LLMs did so effectively, generating outputs in a few lines of code that could have been done with one function call, but nevertheless working.
Those who relied on it for analysis? Ouch! ~20% mark. So much…

Revisiting Node Affinity Prediction in Temporal Graphs
Krishna Sri Ipsit Mantri, Or Feldman, Moshe Eliasof, Chaim Baskin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06940 https://

Revisiting Node Affinity Prediction in Temporal Graphs
Node affinity prediction is a common task that is widely used in temporal graph learning with applications in social and financial networks, recommender systems, and more. Recent works have addressed this task by adapting state-of-the-art dynamic link property prediction models to node affinity prediction. However, simple heuristics, such as Persistent Forecast or Moving Average, outperform these models. In this work, we analyze the challenges in training current Temporal Graph Neural Networks …

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers stormed through Santa Ana, California, in June, panicked calls flooded into the city’s emergency response system.
Recordings of those calls, obtained by ProPublica, captured some of the terror residents felt as they watched masked men ambush people and force them into unmarked cars.
In some cases, the men wore plain clothes and refused to identify themselves.
There was no way to confirm whether they were immigration agents o…

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.

For today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent here's a tiny tool we have used in our pipeline: pyRenamer is a simple app to rename/renumber a bunch of files.
Unfortunately it's pretty much an abandoned fork of a Python 2 app that has been abandoned for even longer ago. It still works and for renumbering there's no easier solution at hand. But for file name search & replace …

“It is a shocking situation to be in that I don’t think anybody anticipated a year ago,”
Wrong. EVERYONE who was paying attention anticipated it... in 2017.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable…

Unfettered and Unaccountable: How Trump Is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.