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Floods have devalued Australian homes by $42bn. Experts say that’s the cost of ‘a changing climate’ https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/22/floods-have-devalued-australian-homes-by-…

State of Local News report: in the past four years, monthly pageviews at the 100 largest newspapers fell by 45% , and only 11 experienced any readership growth (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/in-medil

In Medill’s latest State of Local News report, a “festering, 20-year-old problem” looms larger than ever
“Digital news sites don’t come close to replacing the number of newspapers and journalism jobs being lost. And the digital news providers are almost entirely concentrated in metro areas, leaving vast swaths of the country with little to no access to local news.”

How could this happen in a country that *checks notes* has made itself entirely beholden to US Big Tech and Big Pharma?
#Ireland

'Outrage' as former tech giant lobbyist appointed to Data Protection Commission 
Privacy experts and digital wellbeing activists say appointment 'reflects a concerning level of disregard for EU law

Don't trust your family history to the cloud or an online software company. #Ancestris version 13 is out. https://www.ancestris.org/index.html It's free and has some unique tools and reports not foun…

¿Así que hoy había una fila de cuadras para entrar al Mall Costanera? 😬
¿Tanta es la necesidad de consumismo navideño? Si yo me pillo con una fila así me devuelvo. Imagino el infierno que debe ser adentro de ese centro comercial.
#Chile #EspirituNavideño

C’est un véritable séisme dans le monde politique vaudois. Rebecca Ruiz, conseillère d’Etat vaudoise en charge de la Santé, a annoncé, ce mercredi, sa démission. L’élue socialiste de 43 ans tient une conférence de presse en début d’après-midi, dans la foulée de la traditionnelle séance hebdomadaire du gouvernement. Les six autres ministres ont vraisemblablement été informés de la nouvelle durant la matinée.
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/vaud/rebecca-ruiz-annonce-sa-demission-du-conseil-d-etat-vaudois?shouldPreventPurchase=true&inAppView=3.18.1&didomiConfig.user.externalConsent.value={"purposes":{"consent":{"enabled":["abtesting-p6FL2BYL","audiencem-hJxaeGrR","cookies","create_ads_profile","create_content_profile","device_characteristics","geolocation_data","improve_products","market_research","measure_ad_performance","measure_content_performance","parselyne-Ya2EC4dG","select_basic_ads","select_personalized_ads","select_personalized_content","use_limited_data_to_select_content"],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"vendors":{"consent":{"enabled":["amazon","c:aws-cloudfront","c:bannerwise-EeHwBjLT","c:chartbeat","c:cloudflare","c:echobox-GqD96L9K","c:forecast-ZRJPAUT7","c:googleana-4TXnJigR","c:hotjar","c:jsdelivr-xdD77X6w","c:jw-player","c:kameleoon-experiment","c:kameleoon-personalization","c:keycdn","c:linkedin","c:magnitein-ePEpbCQ7","c:meta-43HDmFRa","c:microsoft","c:nonli-jnWf8kqD","c:pianohybr-R3VKC2r4","c:pinterest","c:spyri-XAtBPx3i","c:tapadinc-VDTUUcKw","c:tiktok-KZAUQLZ9","c:unrulygro-nKyLqdKi","c:youtube","facebook","google","twitter",1,10,1020,1021,1028,1046,1069,108,109,11,1126,12,120,1269,128,13,130,131,1310,132,136,137,138,142,143,1449,154,156,16,164,202,209,21,211,23,238,24,241,243,25,253,264,28,284,290,30,301,32,36,39,4,412,422,45,469,475,493,50,519,52,559,58,61,612,617,68,684,69,73,76,77,783,790,793,80,81,811,84,85,855,898,91,92,95,965,98],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"user_id":"36B03261-8BC8-4FB4-A026-0543FF748710","created":"2025-05-28T08:36:56.058Z","updated":"2025-11-08T21:05:15.048Z","source":{"type":"app","domain":"ch.letemps.LT"},"action":"webview"}

Apple unveils Mini Apps Partner Program, offering a reduced 15% commission on IAPs for mini apps, or "self-contained" experiences built with web tech like HTML5 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/13/apple-halves-commissions-for-m…

Apple halves commissions for mini app makers | TechCrunch
Apple introduces a new program for app developers offering a reduced 15% commission on qualifying mini app transactions.

@… Thank you for sharing.
I see some similarities with my own experience of American Christmas, being raised in a Scandinavian culture where Jul (Yule) is a very different tradition.
The consumerism, the self-centrism, all feels very gross and not at all what I connect the holiday with.

MoBiLE: Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Inference on Consumer GPU with Mixture of Big Little Experts
Yushu Zhao, Yubin Qin, Yang Wang, Xiaolong Yang, Huiming Han, Shaojun Wei, Yang Hu, Shouyi Yin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12357

MoBiLE: Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Inference on Consumer GPU with Mixture of Big Little Experts
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models have recently demonstrated exceptional performance across a diverse range of applications. The principle of sparse activation in MoE models facilitates an offloading strategy, wherein active experts are maintained in GPU HBM, while inactive experts are stored in CPU DRAM. The efficacy of this approach, however, is fundamentally constrained by the limited bandwidth of the CPU-GPU interconnect. To mitigate this bottleneck, existing approaches have employed prefetch…

To solve marine plastic pollution, experts say production and consumption patterns must change fundamentally https://phys.org/news/2025-10-marine-plastic-pollution-experts-production.html

To solve marine plastic pollution, experts say production and consumption patterns must change fundamentally
Many measures have been initiated to reduce plastic pollution in Norway. Only a few of them will lead to extensive change and cleanup, a new study shows.