CXMT is getting ready for its initial public offering.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/chinese-memory-maker-reportedly-preparing-for-usd42-billion-ipo-cxmt-plans-to-go-public-in-early-2026

Super sharp imagery reveals the structure of this milestone CPU from Intel.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/cpu-collector-stitches-216-micrographs-to-create-high-resolution-die-shot-of-the-legendary-i8008-intels-54-year-old-milestone-8-bit-cpu-seen-like-never-before

Lunar landing reality distortion field slips for Musk's rocketeers

SpaceX is behind schedule, so NASA will open Artemis III contract to competition

: Lunar landing reality distortion field slips for Musk's rocketeers

^{Richard Speed (The Register)}

Le Iene tornano domenica 19 ottobre 2025 in prima serata su Italia 1 con Veronica Gentili e Max Angioni: ecco le anticipazioni. Ospiti in studio Emma e Lorenzo Zurzolo; in scaletta un servizio sul presunto “falso cieco”, nuovi elementi sul caso Garlasco e un approfondimento sulla strage di Castel d’Azzano.

LEGGI LE ANTICIPAZIONI: Le Iene, anticipazioni del 19 ottobre 2025: focus su #Garlasco e Castel d’Azzano. Ospiti Emma e Lorenzo Zurzolo

Le Iene, anticipazioni 19 ottobre 2025: ospiti Emma e Lorenzo Zurzolo

Le Iene, anticipazioni 19 ottobre 2025: ospiti Emma e Lorenzo Zurzolo. Il “falso cieco”, aggiornamenti sul caso Garlasco e la strage di Castel d’Azzano.

^{Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)}

Two years after revamping its developer programs and pricing, X is expanding the closed beta of a pay-per-use plan for its API to more developers.

X is testing a pay-per-use pricing model for its API | TechCrunch

^{Ivan Mehta (TechCrunch)}

Domenica 19 ottobre, dalle 14:00 alle 17:10 su Rai 1, torna Domenica In con Mara Venier affiancata da Tommaso Cerno, Enzo Miccio e Teo Mammucari: tutte le anticipazioni.

La quinta puntata promette interviste, approfondimenti e momenti di spettacolo, tra musica dal vivo, cinema e attualità.

LE ANTICIPAZIONI: Domenica In, anticipazioni del 19 ottobre: in studio Marcella Bella con Chiquito ed Edoardo Leo

Domenica In anticipazioni 19 ottobre 2025: Marcella Bella ed Edoardo Leo

Domenica In anticipazioni 19 ottobre 2025: ospiti Marcella Bella con Chiquito, Edoardo Leo, Enzo Iacchetti, Mario Calabresi e Carmine Recano.

^{Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)}

Could help cut costs and improve the efficiency of the latest AI models.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/new-deepseek-model-drastically-reduces-resource-usage-by-converting-text-and-documents-into-images-vision-text-compression-uses-up-to-20-times-fewer-tokens

La settimana scorsa, giovedì (mannaggia al giorno della settimana che devo rimanere lì per 8 ore e passa di fila…), all’università ho visto una di quelle cose tecniche spaccate che, come pure i muri dell’ateneo e degli autobus ormai sanno, mi interessano fin troppo particolarmente per motivi non umanamente giustificabili… E, stavolta, ciò che trovo […]

octospacc.altervista.org/2025/…

minioctt

2025-10-21 20:49:42

eroganza senza spam con l’acqua universitaria che sa di rotto (erogatore acqua con display trovato sprogrammato o qualcosa del genere)

La settimana scorsa, giovedì (mannaggia al giorno della settimana che devo rimanere lì per 8 ore e passa di fila…), all’università ho visto una di quelle cose tecniche spaccate che, come pure i muri dell’ateneo e degli autobus ormai sanno, mi interessano fin troppo particolarmente per motivi non umanamente giustificabili… E, stavolta, ciò che trovo non funzionare a dovere è uno (1) degli erogatori di acqua in giro che, al posto del solito video autopromozionale maledetto dell’università — i cui suoni sono normalmente soliti rimbombare nel silenzio del particolare atrio in cui questa precisa unità sta, creando un’ambiance che non so mai ben spiegare — mostra un menu… 😲

C’è un’interfaccia che decisamente non ho mai visto prima nel mondo intero, con uno sfondo di un certo blu brutto che dà immediatamente a vedere la puzzolenza di questo LCD chiaramente del decennio scorso (se non di due…), una griglia 4×3 di file più un tasto Indietro, e lì si vede quello che presumo sia appunto il video famigerato… “bitrate_1080.mp4” (e che nome strano, fa sembrare che l’abbiano copiato su questa macchinetta dritto per dritto appena uscito dal programma di montaggio). Ovviamente, quello schermo non è touch, quindi provare a cliccare non serve assolutamente a niente… e così, questo oggetto si fa immediatamente più oscuro del solito ai miei occhi… Finché non ho trovato niente di meno che la scheda di questo preciso prodotto, il BCC Vision, dal sito del produttore, Blupura, dove, tra le tante robe, c’è scritto che questo coso ha un telecomando in dotazione… non è chiaro se a infrarossi, o che. (Appare invece evidente che il firmware è uno di quelli strani proprietari da media player, e sembra che le uniche sue funzioni siano riprodurre video ed immagini JPEG in particolare… PNG e altre no, scusate?) ⛲

La cosa veramente interessante (oddio, si fa per dire) in tutto questo, però, è probabilmente il fatto che oggi è martedì, e… questo distributore era ancora esattamente in questo stato; e io lo sapevo fottutamente, perciò ho aspettato per parlarne. Questa è per me la prova provata che questo posto d(‘)istruzione è amministrato da fantasmi, e non da persone che possono interagire con gli oggetti rotti per sistemarli… porca miseria, magari il telecomando di questo affare lo avete perso o non sapete che esiste (entrambe ipotesi molto italiane), ma almeno provare a staccarlo dalla corrente e riattaccarlo no? Assumendo non si sia sminchiata la memoria — e non penso sia il caso, altrimenti manco il menu col file si vedrebbe a questo punto — fare ciò dovrebbe sistemarlo, perché ricordo che, quando qui salta la corrente, questi cosi si riaccendono normalmente… E ok, non è collegato ad una presa accessibile, bensì il cavo va dentro il muro retrostante, ma sono abbastanza sicura che il quadro elettrico del piano stia nella guardiola giusto lì affianco. 😐

Rimane un mistero come mai il video, che tanto piaceva a tutti, si sia chiuso e questo affare sia tornato al menu — le mie sole ipotesi sono o un raggio cosmico, o qualcuno che magari si è divertito con un blaster IR (sempre assumendo usi quello il telecomando, perché io il ricevitore non lo vedo) e ha avuto culo. Per fortuna — e qui davvero c’è da ringraziare il cielo, perché questo periodo dell’anno è proprio quello in cui, misteriosamente e inspiegabilmente, visto che fino al giorno X – 1 non presentano problemi, questi affari smettono di funzionare in giro per l’intero campus, e finiscono in “manutenzione”, che è una scusa per sabotare gli studenti credibile e sensata quanto la famosa “Giornata della Manutenzione di Internet” in Cina — l’erogazione dell’acqua funziona ancora perfettamente, quindi non mi lamenterò… per stavolta solo risate, e parole superflue come al solito. 👍

#acqua #BCCVision #Blupura #dispenser #erogatore #università

Scheda_BCC_ITA_2019.pdf

^{Google Docs}

The partial records are from the third batch of documents produced by Epstein's estate. Democrats on the House Oversight Committee say they include phone message logs, copies of flight logs and manifests for aircraft, copies of financial ledgers and Epstein's daily schedule.

In addition to Musk and Prince Andrew, the files released publicly also contain the names of other prominent figures including internet entrepreneur Peter Thiel and Steve Bannon, a former adviser to US President Donald Trump.

The files turned over to the House Oversight Committee by the Jeffrey Epstein Estate appear to show that Musk had been invited to the financier's island in December 2014.

Acosta Transcript: drive.google.com/file/d/1CtE3p…

Elon Musk and Prince Andrew named in new Epstein files

The documents by the estate of convicted paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein were released by Congressional Democrats.

^{Jaroslav Lukiv (BBC News)}

Kyle Kunkler fought for a restricted weed killer that can harm plants and wildlife when it drifts to nearby land. He’s now at the E.P.A., which wants to allow its use.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/climate/from-industry-to-epa-lobbyist-now-oversees-pesticide-rules.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE8.LZ1u.IGz_8DWKAovv

An awesome app I just discovered for browsing reddit links. Like the rest of you I've abandoned reddit but a lot of research on the web takes you to reddit. It's unsafe to browse the main site. This app is fully incognito and doesn't require an account. It's also gorgeous. It could potentially go inactive soon due to an API change. Last update was also in June but they fixed a crash this morning so someone's still working on it.

Download this and set it to handle reddit links by default. Stay safe, stay ready Comrades!

Stealth | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Stealth is an account-free, privacy-oriented, and feature-rich Reddit client.

^f-droid.org

One day after the broadcast of the Al Jazeera documentary, which revealed the identities of 'Israeli' commanders and soldiers responsible for the killing of six-year-old Hind Rajab, the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) submitted a 120-page Article 15 communication to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.

The filing names 24 'Israeli' soldiers and commanders allegedly responsible for the deaths of Hind Rajab, six members of her family, and two Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics, Yusuf al-Zeino and Ahmed al-Madhoun, who were deliberately targeted while attempting to rescue the girl on 29 January 2024 in Gaza City.

Hind Rajab Foundation files ICC complaint against 24 'Israeli' soldiers over Rajab family murder

^{Roya News}

My kernel version is ‘6.8.0-87-generic’ and hers is ‘6.14.00-33-generic’. My brother, who uses CachyOS, has kernel version '6.17.1-2-cachyos'. So it makes a little sense that the kernel is different. Even though I always thought that there was just one kernel that all Linux versions use.

But why is there a different kernel for the same distro?

While this is nominally an account of past events, I can't in good conscience place a book-tour piece in U.S. News.

When CJ Cregg exits the White House for the last time, a passing tourist asks her if she works there. “No,” she replies in the final episode of The West Wing, “No, I’m sorry I don’t.” The former press secretary casts a wistful glance back at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, knowing life will never be the same.

The evanescence of power is now familiar to Karine Jean-Pierre, who in real life served as White House press secretary for two and a half years under the presidency of Joe Biden. She was the first Black person, first openly gay person and – born in the Caribbean to Haitian parents – first immigrant to hold the title.

But the old saying that all political lives end in failure applies to their spokespeople too. Jean-Pierre spent her final months in the West Wing parrying questions about Biden’s mental acuity, an exercise that increasingly came to be seen as defending the indefensible. She watched as her boss’s legacy was undone, his numerous accomplishments eclipsed by his failure to prevent the return of Donald Trump.

That the whole experience ended on a sour note is made clear by the publication of Jean-Pierre’s memoir Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines. Its front cover offers an image of the White House, seen not through Cregg’s rose-tinted gaze but rather a cracked lens.

Biden’s ex-press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: ‘Why are Democrats not fighting back?’

Jean-Pierre explains in her new memoir Independent why she decided to leave the Democratic party after two decades

^{David Smith (The Guardian)}

Lawyers for small businesses and states challenging President Donald Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs on almost all goods imported into the United States urged the Supreme Court on Monday to leave in place rulings by lower courts that struck down most of the tariffs. One group of small businesses told the justices that the tariffs “have equated to the largest peacetime tax increase in American history,” while another contends that the tariffs “upend[] a century of trade law.”

Trump’s executive orders relied on a federal law, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, that gives the president the power to take action to “deal with any unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States” if he declares a national emergency “with respect to such threat.” When there is a national emergency, the president under IEEPA can “regulate . . . importation” of “property in which any foreign country or national thereof has any interest.”

In Washington, D.C., a pair of small businesses that make educational toys and products went to federal court to challenge the tariffs. The companies, Learning Resources and hand2mind, contend that the tariffs will cost them $100 million this year – nearly 45 times as much as they paid during 2024

Small businesses and states ask court to uphold orders striking down Trump’s tariffs

Lawyers for small businesses and states challenging President Donald Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs on almost all goods imported into the United States urged the Supreme Court on Monday […]

^{Amy Howe (SCOTUSblog)}

The CBO initially projected that the provision, known as the ORPHAN Cures Act, would cost around $5 billion over the next decade. But the office said Monday that its earlier assessment did not take into account several major, high-priced drugs that will be exempted from Medicare price negotiations as a result of the Trump-GOP law.

Among the drugs included in the new CBO analysis is Keytruda, a cancer medication sold by Merck that carries a list price of $24,062 every six weeks. The Trump GOP-budget law delays Keytruda’s eligibility for Medicare price negotiations by at least a year, postponing significant potential savings for taxpayers and patients.

Merith Basey, executive director of Patients for Affordable Drugs Now, said in response to the updated CBO analysis that “the ORPHAN Cures Act is a wildly expensive handout to Big Pharma that will harm patients, drain taxpayer dollars, and weaken the government’s ability to rein in high drug prices.”

Trump-GOP Giveaway to Big Pharma Will Hit Taxpayers With $9 Billion in Higher Drug Costs

"Donald Trump and Republicans are selling out America's seniors," said one advocate.

^{jake-johnson (Common Dreams)}

The US president has said that he personally will pay for significant portions of its construction, and suggested that some still anonymous donors would be willing to spend more than $20m to complete the project.

The funding model has sparked concern among some legal experts, who say it may amount to paying for access to the administration.

"I view this enormous ballroom as an ethics nightmare," Richard Painter, a former chief ethics lawyer in the Bush White House between 2005 and 2007, told the BBC.

"It's using access to the White House to raise money. I don't like it," he added. "These corporations all want something from the government."

A dinner for potential donors held at the White House on 15 October included senior executives from prominent American companies including Blackstone, OpenAI, Microsoft, Coinbase, Palantir, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Amazon and Google.

Who is paying for Donald Trump's new White House ballroom?

A former White House chief ethics lawyer described the ballroom donations as an ethical 'nightmare'.

^{Bernd Debusmann Jr (BBC News)}

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/millionaire-tax-that-inspired-mamdani-fuels-5-7-billion-haul-in-massachusetts?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MTA2MzczNCwiZXhwIjoxNzYxNjY4NTM0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNDhKTFVHT1lNVEQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBRDMyMDhGQkMxODU0RkQ5Qjk4MzczQUQzNzlGNTY5RCJ9.MBJp2_qVP0S_teHJsDZt_Z98uOoNjZksMMl7EmThkTA

Huawei è una importante azienda cinese che opera anche sul mercato del fotovoltaico controllando la produzione di gran parte degli inverter che vengono installati negli impianti fotovoltaici, rendendo quindi la produzione di energia solare dipendente dai prodotti di questa azienda. Pare sia stata coinvolta in una inchiesta per corruzione nei confronti di alcuni deputati del parlamento europeo.

In questo articolo del 11 ottobre 2025 di Giulio Cavalli, dal titolo: "Il caso Huawei e la contraddizione dell’Ue sull’indipendenza energetica" su Lettera43 se ne parla, mettendo in evidenza la dipendenza industriale dell'Europa, soprattutto dai produttori cinesi.

lettera43.it/caso-huawei-contr…

Il caso Huawei e la contraddizione dell'Ue sull'indipendenza energetica - Lettera43

Dopo l'inchiesta per corruzione, il parlamento europeo aveva tagliato i rapporti con Huawei. Che però è rientrato dalla finestra...

^{Giulio Cavalli (Lettera43)}