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Worked on some more #Gentoo global #jobserver goodies today.
Firstly, Portage jobserver support patch: #PyTest jobs will also be counted towards total job count.
Again, it's not a perfect solution, but it works reasonably. The plugin still starts -n jobs as specified by the arguments, but it acquired job tokens prior to executing every test, therefore delaying actual testing until tokens are available. It doesn't seem to cause noticeable overhead either.

Speicherkrise: PC-Hersteller erwägen chinesischen Speicher
HP, Dell, Acer und Asus sollen teilweise schon DRAM aus China zertifizieren, um den Liefermangel möglicherweise abzufedern.
https://www.

Source: Microsoft is in talks to design future custom chips with Broadcom, which would involve Microsoft switching its business from Marvell (Abram Brown/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/microsoft-discusses-custom-chips-broadcom

Microsoft Discusses Custom Chips With Broadcom
Microsoft is in talks to design future custom chips with Broadcom, which would involve Microsoft switching its business from Marvell, another maker of custom chips, according to one person involved in the discussions. Those discussions come amid intense demand for such chips as companies like Microsoft race to acquire more semiconductors and increase their AI products. Nvidia lords over the

US and Russia Agree to Restart Military-to-Military Talks (Magan Crane/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-05/us-and-russia-agree-to-restart-military-to-military-talks
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p44#a260205p44

Srsly, fuck this timeline. Can someone give 45 an Oculus and a world simulator so he stops screwing up the real world?
https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/115850233260885949

BREAKING: Ukraine, Russia agree on exchange of '314 prisoners' during peace talks, US envoy says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/05/breaking-ukraine-russia-agree-on.html

Cisco in advanced talks to acquire cyber startup Axonius for $2 billion
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bjxge1de11l

Cisco in advanced talks to acquire cyber startup Axonius for $2 billion
Exclusive: The deal would follow a string of major acquisitions as Cisco strengthens its enterprise security portfolio.

Cybersecurity company Varonis agrees to acquire AllTrue, which develops specialized tools for AI trust, risk, and security management, for $125M in cash (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/varonis-to-acquire-alltrue-a…

Cisco in advanced talks to acquire cyber startup Axonius for $2 billion
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bjxge1de11l

Cisco in advanced talks to acquire cyber startup Axonius for $2 billion
Exclusive: The deal would follow a string of major acquisitions as Cisco strengthens its enterprise security portfolio.

Sources: Cisco is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity company Axonius for $2B; Axonius has raised ~$700M and was valued at $2.6B during earlier rounds (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bjxge1de11l

Cisco in advanced talks to acquire cyber startup Axonius for $2 billion
Exclusive: The deal would follow a string of major acquisitions as Cisco strengthens its enterprise security portfolio.