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Syncthing V2 is out!
https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/releases/tag/v2.0.0
Of all the open source projects I use, this is by far the most useful AND has the most friendly community. Funny how those things go together. If you are at all interested in decouplin…

Release v2.0.0 · syncthing/syncthing
⚠️ First 2.0 release ⚠️ This is the first release of the new 2.0 series. Expect some rough edges and keep a sense of adventure! 🙏 Major changes in 2.0 Database backend switched from LevelDB to SQ...

Apparently the absurd timeline cuts both ways. I'm excited to see how this plays out.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/republicans-jeffrey-epstein-files-release

I was trying to package #FlexiBLAS for #Gentoo, and to be honest, it doesn't look that good.
The first red flag is lack of an open bug tracker. Apparently, there is the tracker on GitLab that's limited to "members of their group and selected external contributors", but it doesn't seem to be used much. So it's "send us an email", and wonder how many people sent us the same bug report before.
The git repository is currently at something tagged 3.4.80 that seems to be prerelease, and its build system is quite broken. Not exactly the best path to verify that the bugs you are hitting are still there.
Now, upstream seems to insist on either using vendored netlib #LAPACK, or statically linking to the system library (we don't install the static libraries). Apparently I can specify the shared libraries instead, but it doesn't work — and it's unclear to me whether it doesn't work because I'm using the shared libraries, or because it doesn't support my LAPACK version. If I build LAPACK without deprecated symbols, it refuses to load it at runtime because of missing symbols. And if I build it with deprecated symbols, it fails to find some symbols at CMake time.
Honestly, I feel like I've spent too much time on this project already, especially given that its future is entirely unclear to me — the current git is quite broken, I have no clue how many issues were reported already and whether my bug reports will receive any reply. It definitely doesn't fare well for a package that we might start to rely heavily on. We don't want a cathedral there.
https://www.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/projects/flexiblas
https://gitlab.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/software/flexiblas-release

NSD-Imagery: A benchmark dataset for extending fMRI vision decoding methods to mental imagery https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06898

NSD-Imagery: A benchmark dataset for extending fMRI vision decoding methods to mental imagery
We release NSD-Imagery, a benchmark dataset of human fMRI activity paired with mental images, to complement the existing Natural Scenes Dataset (NSD), a large-scale dataset of fMRI activity paired with seen images that enabled unprecedented improvements in fMRI-to-image reconstruction efforts. Recent models trained on NSD have been evaluated only on seen image reconstruction. Using NSD-Imagery, it is possible to assess how well these models perform on mental image reconstruction. This is a chal…

The CSA releases Matter 1.4.2 to improve reliability, stability, and cross-platform coordination, like Wi-Fi-only commissioning to cut its Bluetooth dependency (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/matter/757179/matter-1…

Matter’s latest update doubles down on stability and pushes the platforms to play better together
Updates to how Wi-Fi routers work in Matter, how devices connect to the network, and the addition of Wi-Fi commissioning arrive with the latest Matter spec.

The party whose base believes there's a secret network of politically-connected child-abusers... should probably avoid these headlines.

I’m getting the distinct sense nobody at Google saw this. Or at least nobody with authority. So if you work there, forward it to your boss.
“My Request to Google on Accessibility”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/05/my-request-to-google-on-accessibility.html…

My Request to Google on Accessibility
Hey, Alphabet or Google or Chrome or whomever in that illegal monopoly continues to release things to the web platform that are full of accessibility barriers, I have what I think is a straightforward request. My Request Please, if your team cannot explain how the thing satisfies all WCAG Success…

Kudos to @… here, demonstrating how to report on a press release without parroting it. That extends to the headline, arguably the most important place not to just swallow the PR dept’s framing:
After AI setbacks, Meta bets billions on undefined “superintelligence”
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/06/after-ai-setbacks-meta-bets-billions-on-undefined-superintelligence/

Subtooting since people in the original thread wanted it to be over, but selfishly tagging @… and @… whose opinions I value...
I think that saying "we are not a supply chain" is exactly what open-source maintainers should be doing right now in response to "open source supply chain security" threads.
I can't claim to be an expert and don't maintain any important FOSS stuff, but I do release almost all of my code under open licenses, and I do use many open source libraries, and I have felt the pain of needing to replace an unmaintained library.
There's a certain small-to-mid-scale class of program, including many open-source libraries, which can be built/maintained by a single person, and which to my mind best operate on a "snake growth" model: incremental changes/fixes, punctuated by periodic "skin-shedding" phases where make rewrites or version updates happen. These projects aren't immortal either: as the whole tech landscape around them changes, they become unnecessary and/or people lose interest, so they go unmaintained and eventually break. Each time one of their dependencies breaks (or has a skin-shedding moment) there's a higher probability that they break or shed too, as maintenance needs shoot up at these junctures. Unless you're a company trying to make money from a single long-lived app, it's actually okay that software churns like this, and if you're a company trying to make money, your priorities absolutely should not factor into any decisions people making FOSS software make: we're trying (and to a huge extent succeeding) to make a better world (and/or just have fun with our own hobbies share that fun with others) that leaves behind the corrosive & planet-destroying plague which is capitalism, and you're trying to personally enrich yourself by embracing that plague. The fact that capitalism is *evil* is not an incidental thing in this discussion.
To make an imperfect analogy, imagine that the peasants of some domain have set up a really-free-market, where they provide each other with free stuff to help each other survive, sometimes doing some barter perhaps but mostly just everyone bringing their surplus. Now imagine the lord of the domain, who is the source of these peasants' immiseration, goes to this market secretly & takes some berries, which he uses as one ingredient in delicious tarts that he then sells for profit. But then the berry-bringer stops showing up to the free market, or starts bringing a different kind of fruit, or even ends up bringing rotten berries by accident. And the lord complains "I have a supply chain problem!" Like, fuck off dude! Your problem is that you *didn't* want to build a supply chain and instead thought you would build your profit-focused business in other people's free stuff. If you were paying the berry-picker, you'd have a supply chain problem, but you weren't, so you really have an "I want more free stuff" problem when you can't be arsed to give away your own stuff for free.
There can be all sorts of problems in the really-free-market, like maybe not enough people bring socks, so the peasants who can't afford socks are going barefoot, and having foot problems, and the peasants put their heads together and see if they can convince someone to start bringing socks, and maybe they can't and things are a bit sad, but the really-free-market was never supposed to solve everyone's problems 100% when they're all still being squeezed dry by their taxes: until they are able to get free of the lord & start building a lovely anarchist society, the really-free-market is a best-effort kind of deal that aims to make things better, and sometimes will fall short. When it becomes the main way goods in society are distributed, and when the people who contribute aren't constantly drained by the feudal yoke, at that point the availability of particular goods is a real problem that needs to be solved, but at that point, it's also much easier to solve. And at *no* point does someone coming into the market to take stuff only to turn around and sell it deserve anything from the market or those contributing to it. They are not a supply chain. They're trying to help each other out, but even then they're doing so freely and without obligation. They might discuss amongst themselves how to better coordinate their mutual aid, but they're not going to end up forcing anyone to bring anything or even expecting that a certain person contribute a certain amount, since the whole point is that the thing is voluntary & free, and they've all got changing life circumstances that affect their contributions. Celebrate whatever shows up at the market, express your desire for things that would be useful, but don't impose a burden on anyone else to bring a specific thing, because otherwise it's fair for them to oppose such a burden on you, and now you two are doing your own barter thing that's outside the parameters of the really-free-market.

When and How Ultrasound Enhances Nanoparticle Diffusion in Hydrogels: A Stick-and-Release Mechanism
Pablo M. Blanco, Hedda H. R{\o}nneberg, Rita S. Dias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08918

When and How Ultrasound Enhances Nanoparticle Diffusion in Hydrogels: A Stick-and-Release Mechanism
Nanoparticles (NPs) are widely used as drug carriers in cancer therapy due to their ability to accumulate in tumor tissue via the enhanced permeability and retention effect. However, their transport within tumors is often hindered by the dense extracellular matrix, where diffusion dominates. Several studies suggest that ultrasound (US) irradiation can enhance NP diffusion in ECM-mimicking hydrogels, yet the underlying molecular mechanisms remain unclear, and experimental findings are often cont…

#ChatGPT5, it appears, is full of shit.
"#OpenAI’s products are no longer primarily aimed at consumers but at investors. As long as you avoid a full-scale user revolt (which GPT-5 actually did incur…), you can continue to assuage or even attract more backers on your path of relentless e…

GPT-5 is a joke. Will it matter?
How the fraught release of the most-hyped AI product yet clarifies the stakes.

“I witnessed how they put my father in handcuffs, chained him from the waist and from his ankles,”
Contreras said at a press conference in LA on Monday morning.
“My family and I haven’t had communication with my dad.
We don’t know anything.”
Jacob and Romero were among dozens of people arrested in immigration enforcement actions in Los Angeles this weekend,
raids that sparked a roaring backlash and eventually led to the deployment of the national guard in the ci…

How To Rise and Keep Rising https://mirlo.space/stan-stewart-muz4now/release/how-to-rise-and-keep-rising?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Reading through the changelog, I’m struck by how many new features we have. How is it platforms like Threads, Bluesky, and Twatter take forever to release a new feature with the huge resources they have???
https://mastodon.social/@mastohost/114821931700210430

The Ultimate Guide to #Git Branching Strategies
https://blog.prateekjain.dev/the-ultimate-guide-to-git-branching-…

🎸 BAND-MAID's MIKU Kobato Talks About the Future and How the Band Decides on Album Names
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2025-07-23/band-maid-miku-kobato-talks-about-the-future-a…

BAND-MAID's MIKU Kobato Talks About the Future and How the Band Decides on Album Names
BAND-MAID is hot off a successful tour and following the recent release of their latest song "What is justice?," we spoke to MIKU about what's next.

"Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in"
' “The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,” a senior adviser to the then prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said in 2006. An Israeli court ordered the release of documents showing the details of those macabre sums two years later.'
And how many Democratic senator…

"Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in"
' “The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,” a senior adviser to the then prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said in 2006. An Israeli court ordered the release of documents showing the details of those macabre sums two years later.'
And how many Democratic senator…

From Rapid Release to Reinforced Elite: Citation Inequality Is Stronger in Preprints than Journals
Chiaki Miura, Ichiro Sakata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07547

From Rapid Release to Reinforced Elite: Citation Inequality Is Stronger in Preprints than Journals
Preprint has been considered to mainly supplement journal-based systems for the rapid dissemination of relevant scientific knowledge, and has historically been by studies indicating that preprints and published reports have comparable authorship, references, and quality.However, as preprint increasingly serve as an independent medium for scholarly communication rather than precursors to the version of record, it remains uncertain how preprint usage is shaping scientific discourse.Our research r…

"Trump is systematically corrupting our system of justice."
"…Trump’s DOJ simply ignores 35% of substantive rulings in key cases."
"…he…refuses to release federal Epstein files…because they could show just how close the relationship really was."
https://

Behind the Headlines: How Trump Hijacked Justice
From judges to lawyers to media, Trump’s war on justice escalates.

how to make 1 gajillion dollars https://variety.com/2025/film/global/ozzy-osbourne-black-sabbath-final-concert-film-release-2026-1236464523/
(still totally going to see that at a cinema)

Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath's Final Concert Film to Release in 2026
A film of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath's final concert, titled "Back to the Beginning: Ozzy's Final Bow," will release in theaters early 2026.

Take-Two reports Q1 net bookings up 17% YoY to $1.42B, net revenue up 12% YoY to $1.5B, vs. $1.32B est., and raises its FY 2026 net bookings projection (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/take-two-gta-6-pricing-debate-june…

Take-Two Boss on 'GTA 6' Pricing Debate, Latest Earnings
With the "Grand Theft Auto 6" release date no longer in question, exactly how much is this game going to cost?

Breaking Anonymity at Scale: Re-identifying the Trajectories of 100K Real Users in Japan
Abhishek Kumar Mishra, Mathieu Cunche, Heber H. Arcolezi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05611 …

Breaking Anonymity at Scale: Re-identifying the Trajectories of 100K Real Users in Japan
Mobility traces represent a critical class of personal data, often subjected to privacy-preserving transformations before public release. In this study, we analyze the anonymized Yjmob100k dataset, which captures the trajectories of 100,000 users in Japan, and demonstrate how existing anonymization techniques fail to protect their sensitive attributes. We leverage population density patterns, structural correlations, and temporal activity profiles to re-identify the dataset's real-world locatio…

How to write a release 101: https://esq.social/@NationalLawReview/114557843845477792

wow, #kde kmymoney, the changes in the interface also resulted in the inability to move transactions from one ledger to another. Gosh, how can a working piece of software be so messed up in one new release?

»June 7: Initial release – first github commit for Kubernetes«
This was June 7, 2014, so 11 years ago. For some people, in IT everything older then 10 years already counts as vintage.
Source: https://blog.risingstack.com/the-history-of-kubernetes/

The History of Kubernetes on a Timeline - RisingStack Engineering
To tell the story of how Kubernetes evolved into the great tool that we know today, we visualized the major milestones on an interactive timeline!

Explaining Christian Wilkins' Raiders release: What happened, how do the finances work, and what's next?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/explain…

Mastodon 4.4 is out now,
and it brings changes for profiles and lists and also lays the groundwork for quote posts.
With #profiles, you can feature specific hashtags so that people can see all the posts you’ve tagged with those hashtags.
Mastodon is also making a change to how #pinned posts work: you can…

Mastodon is improving profiles and getting ready for quote posts
Mastodon 4.4 release brings for things like profiles and lists and also lays the groundwork for quote posts.

“In fact, our new research shows that with the right coordination, cities can transform from energy consumers into flexible energy hubs able to store energy and release it as necessary. This would make it possible to avoid billions of dollars worth of grid upgrades.”
https://

How EVs and electric water heaters are turning cities into giant batteries
Electrification means more demand on the grid. Smart charging of EVs and electric hot water systems could be the solution.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22073 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

A Closer Look at the Existing Risks of Generative AI: Mapping the Who, What, and How of Real-World Incidents
Due to its general-purpose nature, Generative AI is applied in an ever-growing set of domains and tasks, leading to an expanding set of risks of harm impacting people, communities, society, and the environment. These risks may arise due to failures during the design and development of the technology, as well as during its release, deployment, or downstream usages and appropriations of its outputs. In this paper, building on prior taxonomies of AI risks, harms, and failures, we construct a taxon…

Disney's live-action Lilo & Stitch grossed $610M globally in just 10 days, and could reach $950M; the film cost $100M and may make $300M in box office profit (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/busines

How ‘Lilo & Stitch’ Became One of the Most Profitable Movies in Years
The film was originally aimed for Disney+. But it was rerouted to a theatrical release and is on pace for at least $950 million in ticket sales.

Remember how Epstein's suicide wasn't captured on camera because of two camera failures (2019)?
Remember how Epstein's suicide was captured but the footage was accidentally erased (2020)?
Cool that the FBI was able to release the footage now. Not sus. Very normal. Thanks FBI.

- Don’t overlook how misogyny amplifies the harm of this breach: user base is mostly female, and one can’t understand how this release of photos personal info home addresses carries threats of harassment, assault, and violence without understanding how our society targets women. In a very concrete sense, you need gender theory to understand the practical security implications here.
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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15383 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

DESI Mg II Absorbers: Extinction Characteristics & Quasar Redshift Accuracy
In this paper, we study how absorption-line systems affect the spectra and redshifts of quasars (QSOs), using catalogs of Mg II absorbers from the early data release (EDR) and first data release (DR1) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). We determine the reddening effect of an absorption system by fitting an un-reddened template spectrum to a sample of 50,674 QSO spectra that contain Mg II absorbers. We find that reddening caused by intervening absorbers (voff > 3500 km/s) has an…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07138 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

Contiguous Zero-Copy for Encrypted Transport Protocols
We propose in this paper to revisit the design of existing encrypted transport protocols to improve their efficiency. We call the methodology "Reverso" from reversing the order of field elements within a protocol specification. We detail how such a benign-looking change within the specifications may unlock implementation optimizations for encrypted protocols during data transport. To demonstrate our findings, we release quiceh, a QUIC implementation of QUIC VReverso, an extension of the QUIC V1…

How To Rise and Keep Rising
#FolkSong #NewMusic
https://mirlo.space/stan-stewart-m…

How Do Community Smells Influence Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Machine Learning Projects?
Shamse Tasnim Cynthia, Nuri Almarimi, Banani Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15884

How Do Community Smells Influence Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Machine Learning Projects?
Community smells reflect poor organizational practices that often lead to socio-technical issues and the accumulation of Self-Admitted Technical Debt (SATD). While prior studies have explored these problems in general software systems, their interplay in machine learning (ML)-based projects remains largely underexamined. In this study, we investigated the prevalence of community smells and their relationship with SATD in open-source ML projects, analyzing data at the release level. First, we ex…

Explaining Christian Wilkins' grievance against Raiders after his abrupt release https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6515836/2025/07/26/christian-wilkins-grievance-raiders-nflpa/

Exploring the change in scientific readability following the release of ChatGPT
Abdulkareem Alsudais
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21825 https://

Exploring the change in scientific readability following the release of ChatGPT
The rise and growing popularity of accessible large language models have raised questions about their impact on various aspects of life, including how scientists write and publish their research. The primary objective of this paper is to analyze a dataset consisting of all abstracts posted on arXiv.org between 2010 and June 7th, 2024, to assess the evolution of their readability and determine whether significant shifts occurred following the release of ChatGPT in November 2022. Four standard re…

How does the chemical composition of solids influence the formation of planetesimals?
Konstantinos Odysseas Xenos, Bertram Bitsch, Geoffrey Andama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12864

How does the chemical composition of solids influence the formation of planetesimals?
The formation of planetesimals is a necessary step in the formation of planets. While several mechanisms have been proposed, a local dust-to-gas ratio above unity is a strong requirement to trigger the collapse of pebble clouds into planetesimals. A prime location for this is the water-ice line, where large water-rich pebbles evaporate and release their smaller silicate cores. This enhances the local dust-to-gas ratio due to the different inward drift speeds of large and small pebbles. Previous…

If — heaven willing — we are in for months and years of sustained protests, we are going to be hearing a whole lots from police about how protestors were “assaulting officers” and “resisting arrest.”
We will unfortunately be hearing about people detained under violent and inhumane conditions “suffering medical distress.”
Please learn to spot the BS right away, from that very first press release, •before• there’s video. Practice that now. Have that mindset at the ready.
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The Midas Project and Tech Oversight Project release The OpenAI Files, a 50 page analysis of OpenAI's governance, leadership, and organizational culture (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/openai/688783/the

The ‘OpenAI Files’ will help you understand how Sam Altman’s company works
Two tech industry watchdog organizations released a research report called the OpenAI Files that covers OpenAI’s corporate structure, its restructuring to a for-profit organization, CEO Sam Altman’s portfolio of investment companies, and more.

Determination of Effect of the Movement of a Finite, Dip-slip Fault in Viscoelastic Half-space of Fractional Burger Rheology
Pabita Mahato (Mondal), Seema Sarkar (Mondal)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03977

Determination of Effect of the Movement of a Finite, Dip-slip Fault in Viscoelastic Half-space of Fractional Burger Rheology
The seismically active regions often correlate with fault lines, and the movement of these faults plays a crucial role in defining how stress is stored or released in these areas. To investigate the deformation and accumulation/release of stress and strain in seismically active regions during the aseismic period, a mathematical model has been developed by considering a finite, creeping dip-slip fault inclined in the viscoelastic half-space of a fractional Burger rheology. Laplace transformation…

Explaining Christian Wilkins' grievance against Raiders after his abrupt release https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6515836/2025/07/26/christian-wilkins-grievance-raiders-nflpa/

Only on Mirlo: How To Rise and Keep Rising
#NewMusic #FolkSongs
https://mirlo.sp…

As expected, they've fallen for it, again.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/18/this-is-a-much-better-place-wsj-bombshell-unites-a-frayed-maga-00464182

Gravitational Waves from First-Order Phase Transitions Assisted by Temperature-Enhanced Scatterings
Arnab Chaudhuri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13135 https:…

Gravitational Waves from First-Order Phase Transitions Assisted by Temperature-Enhanced Scatterings
Scatterings whose cross sections increase as the cosmic temperature decreases, known as temperature-enhanced scatterings, can have a significant impact on the thermal effective potential of scalar fields responsible for driving cosmological first-order phase transitions. In this work, we systematically investigate how the inclusion of temperature-dependent corrections to the effective potential affects key phase transition parameters, including the nucleation temperature, latent heat release, a…