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A US law firm has accused Lenovo of violating Justice Department strictures about the bulk transfer of data to foreign adversaries, namely China. From a report: The case filed by Almeida Law Group on behalf of San Francisco-based "Spencer Christy, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated" centers on the Data Security Program regulations implemented by the DOJ last year. According to the suit, these were "implemented to prevent adversarial countries from acquiring large quantities of behavioral data which could be used to surveil, analyze, or exploit American citizens' behavior." The complaint states the DOJ rule "makes clear that sending American consumers' information to Chinese entities through automated advertising systems and associated databases with the requisite controls is prohibited." The case states the threshold for "covered personal identifiers" is 100,000 US persons or more and lists a range of potential identifiers, from government and financial account numbers to IMEIs, MAC, and SIM numbers, demographic data, and advertising IDs.

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Residents of Potters Bar, a small town just north of London, are trying to block what would be one of Europe's largest data centers from being built on 85 acres of rolling farmland that separates their community from the neighboring village of South Mimms. Multinational operator Equinix acquired the land last October after the local council granted planning permission in January 2025, and the company intends to break ground this year on a development it estimates will cost more than $5 billion. The UK government's decision to classify data centers as "critical national infrastructure" and a new "gray belt" land designation that loosens building restrictions on underperforming greenbelt parcels helped clear the path for approval -- even though objections from locals outweighed signatures of support by nearly two-to-one during the public consultation. A protest group of more than 1,000 residents has since appealed to a third-party ombudsman and the UK's Office of Environmental Protection, but has so far failed to overturn the decision.

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Маяковский - "Я из вечности выдирал
                                                       Окровавленные
                                                                 Страницы".

Рембо - "Виски сжала тонкокружавая сталь" (о головной боли). Не в его стиле, конечно.

Помню только отдельные строки.
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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman expects "human-level performance on most, if not all professional tasks" from AI, and believes most work involving "sitting down at a computer" -- accounting, legal, marketing, project management -- will be fully automated within the next year or 18 months. He pointed to exponential growth in computational power and predicted that creating a new AI model will soon be as easy as "creating a podcast or writing a blog."

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Britain has lost more than 14,000 pubs since 2009, a decline from roughly 54,000 registered public houses and bars to under 40,000 by 2022, according to a new analysis of UK business register data by data analyst Lauren Leek. The North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands lost 25 to 30% of their stock; London saw the smallest decline. Leek trained a random forest model on 49,840 pubs and found spatial isolation -- how far a pub stood from its nearest neighbour -- was the single strongest predictor of closure. Median nearest-neighbour distance for surviving pubs is roughly 280 metres; for closed pubs, 640 metres. Each closure pushes remaining pubs further into isolation, a dynamic Leek calls a "spatial death spiral." Much of that isolation traces to ownership. Stonegate, Britain's largest pub company and a holding of PE firm TDR Capital, carries over $4 billion in debt from its 2019 leveraged acquisition of Ei Group. PE-backed and overseas-owned companies now control roughly a quarter to a third of all British pubs.

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Mark Fischbach, the YouTube creator known as Markiplier who has spent nearly 15 years building an audience of more than 38 million subscribers by playing indie-horror video games on camera, has pulled off something that most independent filmmakers never manage -- a self-financed, self-distributed debut feature that has grossed more than $30 million domestically against a $3 million budget. Iron Lung, a 127-minute sci-fi adaptation of a video game Fischbach wrote, directed, starred in, and edited himself, opened to $18.3 million in its first weekend and has since doubled that figure worldwide in just two weeks, nearly matching the $19.1 million debut of Send Help, a $40 million thriller from Disney-owned 20th Century Studios. Fischbach declined deals from traditional distributors and instead spent months booking theaters privately, encouraging fans to reserve tickets online; when prospective viewers found the film wasn't screening in their city, they called local cinemas to request it, eventually landing Iron Lung on more than 3,000 screens across North America -- all without a single paid media campaign.

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An anonymous reader shares a report: A moderator on diyAudio set up an experiment to determine whether listeners could differentiate between audio run through pro audio copper wire, a banana, and wet mud. Spoiler alert: the results indicated that users were unable to accurately distinguish between these different 'interfaces.' Pano, the moderator who built the experiment, invited other members on the forum to listen to various sound clips with four different versions: one taken from the original CD file, with the three others recorded through 180cm of pro audio copper wire, via 20cm of wet mud, through 120cm of old microphone cable soldered to US pennies, and via a 13cm banana, and 120cm of the same setup as earlier. Initial test results showed that it's extremely difficult for listeners to correctly pick out which audio track used which wiring setup. "The amazing thing is how much alike these files sound. The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't," Pano said. "All of the re-recordings should be obvious, but they aren't."

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Our Socialist Prime Minister who hates private sector snd private enterprises.



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Micron has begun mass production of the 9650 series, the industry's first PCIe 6.0 SSD, capable of sequential read speeds up to 28 GB/s and random read performance of 5.5 million IOPS -- roughly double the throughput of the fastest PCIe 5.0 drives available today. The drive targets AI and data center workloads and ships in E1.S and E3.S form factors across two variants: the Pro, available in capacities up to 30.72 TB, and the endurance-oriented Max, topping out at 25.6 TB. Both variants share the same peak sequential and random speeds but diverge on mixed workloads and endurance ratings -- the Max 25.6 TB carries a random endurance rating of 140,160 TBW compared to 56,064 TBW on the Pro 30.72 TB. Power draw holds at 25 watts, unchanged from high-end PCIe 5.0 enterprise SSDs, though the 9650 is Micron's first drive to support liquid cooling alongside air. Consumer platforms are not expected to adopt PCIe 6.0 until 2030.

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В Израиле только три сезона: лето, война и выборы. И никто не знает, какой будет следующий.
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Up to a third of people worldwide have shoulder pain; it's one of the most common musculoskeletal complaints. But medical imaging might not reveal the problem -- in fact, it could even cloud it. From a report: In a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine this week, 99 percent of adults over 40 were found to have at least one abnormality in a rotator cuff on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The rotator cuff is the group of muscles and tendons in a shoulder joint that keeps the upper arm bone securely in the shoulder socket -- and is often blamed for pain and other symptoms. The trouble is, the vast majority of the people in the study had no problems with their shoulders. The finding calls into question the growing use of MRIs to try to diagnose shoulder pain -- and, in turn, the growing problem of overtreatment of rotator cuff (RC) abnormalities, which includes partial- and full-thickness tears as well as signs of tendinopathy (tendon swelling and thickening). "While we cannot dismiss the possibility that some RC tears may contribute to shoulder symptoms, our findings indicate that we are currently unable to distinguish clinically meaningful MRI abnormalities from incidental findings," the study authors concluded.

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China's courts are now handling more than 550,000 intellectual-property cases a year -- making it the world's most litigious country for IP disputes -- as the nation's own companies, once notorious for copying foreign designs and technology, find themselves on the defensive against a domestic counterfeiting epidemic fueled by excess factory capacity. The problem runs from knockoff "Lafufu" plush toys (cheap copies of Pop Mart's wildly popular Labubu dolls, which prompted a nationwide crackdown and a Shanghai police bust of a $1.7 million stash in July) to copied motorcycles and solar panels. Judges in Shanghai, the preferred venue for IP litigation, are working through cases at a rate of roughly one per day, and it still takes three months for a case to land on a court's docket. Chinese companies are also increasingly clashing abroad: patent-related cases involving Chinese businesses in America surged 56% in 2023, according to data from GEN, a Chinese law firm. Luckin Coffee and Trina Solar have both filed suits against foreign-based copycats.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/ElectricUnicycle/comments/1r6dis4/ive_owned_a_euc_for_less_than_a_day_and_ive/ Я владею EUC меньше, чем за день, и я уже проехал 47 миль... Я подсел.
Обменял мой Onewheel PintX на v11, первая поездка была вокруг блока ~ 4 мили, затем мы взяли его прямо на 20-мильную велосипедную тропу. ПОЧЕМУ Я СДЕЛАЛ ЭТО РАНЬШЕ?
Кривая обучения не существовала для меня, и диапазон настолько лучше, что даже не смешно.

Это буквально то, о чем я всегда говорю. Надо просто не тормозить, а попробовать. Все эти аргументы «а вот велосипед…», «а вот самокат…», «а вот…» - просто чушь. Колесо точно понравится. Колесо точно окажется удобным и практичным. Даже если какие-то нереально особые обстоятельства, просто получите удовольствие от обучения.

Срок обучения чувака конечно же не типичный. Возможно, помогла практика на онвил.

«Я сейчас продаю свой велосипед, потому что это просто скучно и непрактично по сравнению с EUC. Моноколесо несравним с любым другим хобби, которое я когда-либо делал весело, катание на лыжах - это самое близкое сравнение, но оно включает в себя так много хлопот и 90% сидения на кресельном подъемнике, поэтому EUC весь день каждый день»


Не все согласны:
«Мне нужно и то, и другое. Они не царапают мне один и тот же зуд.»
«То же самое, все говорили, что я хочу продать свои Onewheels. Этого не произойдет.»
«Я держал свою OW некоторое время после изучения EUC, но было неизбежно, что мой интерес к OW в конечном итоге умер. EUC просто гораздо более способный. И подвеска означает, что я никогда не хотел снова ездить на OW lol.»

Но, во-первых, они не против моноколеса, признают его преимущества. Просто хочется по фану обе вещи. Во-вторых, даже если оневил улетно по фану, оно безусловно капитулирует по практичности. В-третьих, не все бывшие оневилисты с ними согласны:
«Я держал свое одно колесо столько, сколько мог, но у меня не было желания ездить на нем. Я всегда предпочитал использовать eUC, и как только я купил свое второе колесо, в этом не было необходимости.»
«Я только когда-либо держал свое одно колесо, чтобы ездить по песку на пляже. С тех пор, как я переехал в пустыню полтора года назад, я ни разу не прикасался к своему колесу. Я просто позволяю друзьям использовать его, когда мы иногда ездим вместе. Я даже не демон скорости, никогда не был быстрее 41mph на EUC, но, ступить на OneWheel, просто кажется таким медленным и недостаточным. Ноль желания больше ездить на нем.»

Кстати, есть коммент: «Осторожно с велосипедными дорожками. … Мы попробовали один раз, и темп был слишком медленным, путь был слишком узким и слишком много людей. Мы ездим исключительно по улицам для безопасности всех». Это как раз то, о чем я говорю. Велодорожки работают, пока на них никого нет. Велов там никогда не будет. А вот электро – будет. Поэтому делать классические дорожки заведомо ошибочно.

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Feb. 17th, 2026 07:47 pm
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Попалась на глаза вакансия. Администратор PostgreSQL в крупный <..>. Задачи традиционные — поддержка, настройка производительности, мониторинг. Требования тоже не сверхъестественные — Ansible/shell/Jira/Confluence (последние два к администрированию БД не относятся, но по ним неплохая документация и куча форумов, я освоил в качестве разминки для начинающего питониста). Полная удалёнка.

За всё это предлагают 350К на руки и соцпакет по мелочи. Как по мне, очень даже можно жить. Буду пенсионером — смогу подрабатывать, если всех админов к тому времени не заменит чат-гпт.

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Mazda, the automaker that for years defended its scroll-wheel infotainment system as a safer alternative to touchscreens, is abandoning the approach entirely in the 2026 CX-5 in favor of a 15.6-inch touchscreen and zero physical buttons. The current lineup -- the CX-50 Hybrid, CX-70 and CX-90 -- still relies on a console-mounted scroll wheel and dedicated action buttons to navigate a tablet-like screen perched atop the dashboard. Upper-trim CX-70 and CX-90 models do have 12.3-inch touchscreens, but touch input only works when parked and only inside CarPlay; it disables automatically once the car is in drive. The new CX-5 goes the other direction entirely, eliminating all hard buttons including the volume knob and physical climate controls that current models still offer. Mazda says the touchscreen is safe because core functions like climate are pinned to a persistent bottom bar -- an approach Ford, Rivian, and most of the industry adopted years ago.

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Что такое перевёртыш:
В загаданных стихотворных отрывках слова или обороты речи заменяются либо на противоположные по значению, либо на слова того же смыслового ряда. Порядок слов может не сохраняться. Обязательное условие: сохраняется размер оригинала.


И для начала он споет...
Привет, дружить пообещай нам,
Пришёл в себя, как от себя
В нижайшей стадии сознанья.



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The software industry's decades-old habit of charging companies a flat fee for every employee who uses a product is running into a fundamental problem: AI agents don't sit in chairs, and they don't need licences. As autonomous agents take on tasks that human workers once handled, the per-seat pricing model that made SaaS revenue so predictable is giving way to consumption-based and hybrid alternatives. Snowflake and Databricks (valued at $134 billion) already charge based on usage. Salesforce initially priced its Agentforce customer relations bot at $2 per conversation but faced customer pushback and now offers action-based pricing, upfront credits and fixed fees. ServiceNow's finance chief Amit Zavery said last month that some customers aren't ready for purely consumption-based models. Goldman Sachs estimates US software spending will nearly triple to $2.8 trillion by 2037 as automated tasks blur the boundary between IT and wage budgets, but that money will no longer arrive in the neat recurring instalments that investors and private equity firms have come to expect.

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Valve has updated the Steam Deck website to say that the Steam Deck OLED may be out of stock "intermittently in some regions due to memory and storage shortages." From a report: The PC gaming handheld has been out of stock in the US and other parts of the world for a few days, and thanks to this update, we now know why. The update comes shortly after Valve delayed the Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller from a planned shipping window of early 2026 because of the memory and storage crunch. "We have work to do to land on concrete pricing and launch dates that we can confidently announce, being mindful of how quickly the circumstances around both of those things can change," Valve said in a post about that announcement from earlier this month. Its goal is to launch that new hardware sometime in the first half of 2026, and the company is working to finalize its plans "as soon as possible."

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