Paul 🐧 @Paul_Aguayo@qoto.org

2024 first year to pass 1.5C global warming limit https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7575x8yq5o #science

Winter Storm Grounds More Than 2,000 US Flights, Halts Trains
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-10/winter-storm-grounds-more-than-2-000-us-flights-halts-trains?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Planes and Aviation @planes-and-aviation-bloomberg

The Verge Awards at CES 2025 - Image: Samar Haddad for The Verge

Fluffy robots, ... - https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/10/24340153/ces-2025-best-new-tech-tv-car-wearable

Pressure from employees at tech and social media companies has been one of the few things that has been effective in getting these companies to change their policies. What you do, what you say, and what you agree to build in these times matters a lot.

https://www.404media.co/its-total-chaos-internally-at-meta-right-now-employees-protest-zuckerbergs-anti-lgbtq-changes/

Our article on SteamOS for more devices was updated, to note a small tweak Valve did to the announcement text: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/valve-confirms-a-public-beta-of-steamos-is-coming-as-steamos-expands-beyond-steam-deck/

#SteamOS #Linux #LinuxGaming

Trump Loses NY Appeal to Stop Jan. 10 Hush Money Sentencing
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-07/trump-loses-ny-appeal-to-stop-jan-10-hush-money-sentencing?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Profiles @profiles-bloomberg

Science paper piracy site Sci-Hub shares lots of retracted papers
85 percent of invalid papers continue to be shared after they've been retracted.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/01/science-paper-piracy-site-sci-hub-shares-lots-of-retracted-papers/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Trump threatens "very high" tariffs on Denmark over Greenland
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzn48jwz2o?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World @world-BBCNews

GeForce RTX 50 GPUs run from $1,999 to $549, lean heavily on AI-generated frames
Nvidia leans heavily on DLSS 4 and AI-generated frames for speed comparisons.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/geforce-rtx-50-gpus-run-from-1999-to-549-lean-heavily-on-ai-generated-frames/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Carbon dioxide has been regulating Earth's climate for hundreds of millions of years—new study https://phys.org/news/2025-01-carbon-dioxide-earth-climate-hundreds.html #science

Valve will officially let you install SteamOS on other handhelds as soon as this April - Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge

SteamOS was al... - https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/24338405/valve-steamos-beta-other-handhelds-beyond-steam-deck

People Are Playing a New DOOM-Themed CAPTCHA - An anonymous reader writes: Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, a frontend-as-a-servic... - https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/01/01/238238/people-are-playing-a-new-doom-themed-captcha?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #it

Bluesky Adds Trending Topics https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/12/27/2026230/bluesky-adds-trending-topics?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Bluesky Adds Trending Topics - On Christmas Day, the social media app Bluesky added a list of Trending topics to ... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/12/27/2026230/bluesky-adds-trending-topics?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #social

Huawei’s 1TB SSD shows up in South Korea for just $32 – QLC-based eKitStore Xtreme 200E promises high-end PCIe 4.0 performance - The first consumer-grade SSDs from Huawei are finally on st... - https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/huaweis-1tb-ssd-shows-up-in-south-korea-for-just-usd32-qlc-based-ekitstore-xtreme-200e-promises-high-end-pcie-4-0-performance #pccomponents #storage #ssds

Nixon’s speech planned in case the Apollo 11 Moon landing had failed.
🇫🇷Le discours de Nixon prévu en cas d’échec de l’atterrissage d’Apollo 11 sur la Lune.
#MoonLanding

Lost city found by accident and rhino IVF breakthrough: 2024's scientific wins https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2v1rl32j8o #science

The new background removal tool is ready for testing! One of the many nifty features planned for 2025.

Give it a spin and let us know what you think.

https://kdenlive.org/en/2024/12/kdenlive-new-year-preview/

@kde

#Kdenlive #videoediting #floss

Could a Sponge Made from Squid Bones Help Remove Microplastics? https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/12/28/2124223/could-a-sponge-made-from-squid-bones-help-remove-microplastics?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

After 60 years of spaceflight patches, here are some of our favorites
It turns out the US spy satellite agency is the best of the best at patch design.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/after-60-years-of-spaceflight-patches-here-are-some-of-our-favorites/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social