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Merz: Kein harter Schnitt für Autobranche durch Verbrenner-Aus 2035
Beim Autogipfel in Berlin ging es auch um das Ende des Verbrenners 2035. Kanzler Merz will das verhindern.
https://www.

🚶 Valve rejoins the VR hardware wars with standalone Steam Frame
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/11/valve-rejoins-the-vr-hardware-wars-with-standalone-steam-frame/

Valve rejoins the VR hardware wars with standalone Steam Frame
SteamOS-powered headset sports semi-modular design, wireless “low-latency” PC streaming.

PSA (i don't use Chrome so haven't tested)
https://www.neowin.net/news/chrome-140-make-is-it-harder-to-install-ublock-origin-but-it-is-still-possible/

Chrome 140 makes it harder to install uBlock Origin, but it is still possible
Google recently released Chrome 140, and with it, made it harder to use MV2-based extensions, such as uBlock Origin. Fortunately, you can still make it work. Here is how.

Paraphrase of my #IOT hardware rant on slack (unsurprising, since I maintain https://github.com/unixorn/internet-of-trash/)
In a perfect world IOT hardware companies should:
- Have to escrow the firmware. And escrow the source code, not just the binary blob
- The firmware isn't allowed to use binary blobs as device drivers. Chip manufacturers will have to suck it up and document their chips or hardware companies won't be able to use them
- Have to escrow any keys required to update the firmware
- To be sold, have to have a local API, with at a minimum, functionality to update the firmware once the hardware company stops support. No "You have to use our crapware that only works on a phone/computer OS two major versions old, and it has to download firmware from our servers that got turned off when we went out of business / dropped the product's support
- Eighteen months with no updates causes release of the escrowed firmware and update keys. There are bound to be at least some security updates required in that time
- Have to have clearly labeled pads on the board for updating firmware and running diagnostics.
- Not be allowed to lock consumers out of reflashing the firmware. If someone flashes custom firmware before the escrowed firmware is released, and the custom firmware bricks the device, that's on the person who reflashed it, not the company.
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Data Hoarder Uses AI to Create Searchable Database of Epstein Files https://www.404media.co/data-hoarder-uses-ai-to-create-searchable-database-of-epstein-files/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Indigo De Souza:
🎵 Heartthrob
#IndigoDeSouza
https://indigodesouza.bandcamp.com/track/heartthrob
https://open.spotify.com/track/0VLpixe3z00qGfY8fUQltX

heise | Porträt von John Ternus: Ist er Apples nächster CEO?
John Ternus leitet Apples Hardware-Entwicklung und führt iPhones und Macs zu immer neuen Höhen. Wer ist der Ingenieur, der Tim Cooks Nachfolger werden könnte?

OpenAI und Jony Ive: Neue Details zur Arbeit an erster eigener KI-Hardware
Zusammen mit Jony Ive arbeitet OpenAI an KI-Hardware, noch gibt es aber Hürden. Ein Zeitungsbericht legt nun nahe, dass der angepeilte Markt schwierig ist.

HLRS-Supercomputer Herder kommt mit CPUs und GPUs von AMD
Stuttgart bekommt 2027 einen neuen Supercomputer. Herder nutzt Venice-CPUs mit 2-nm-Technik und Instinct-MI430X-GPUs.
https://www.