0.3.1c Hotfix

• Fixed an issue where items could not be placed in Merchant's Tabs when first entering a Hideout instance.

Early Access Patch Notes - 0.3.1c Hotfix - Forum - Path of Exile

Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.

^{Path of Exile}

We're excited to bring you the announcements from GGG Live, where we'll be revealing our new Path of Exile expansion, Keepers of the Flame! In this news post we've put together links to everything that is being announced during the livestream. We'll be updating this news post for your reference as the livestream progresses.

0.3.1c Patch Notes

• Added support for the new Supporter Packs.
• Fixed an issue where some players could not enter their hideout after logging in on a different platform.

Early Access Patch Notes - 0.3.1c Patch Notes - Forum - Path of Exile

Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.

^{Path of Exile}

3.26.0j Patch Notes

• Added support for the upcoming announcement and new Supporter Packs.

Thanks for your support!

Patch Notes - 3.26.0j Patch Notes - Forum - Path of Exile

Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.

^{Path of Exile}

Elkhorn and staghorn coral are now functionally extinct around the state, researchers say, meaning they no longer play any significant role in their ecosystem.

The paper is here

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/climate/coral-bleaching-florida-staghorn-elkorn.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vk8.e9nX.L0_0H3265ANL

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37846820

Europe is moving decisively away from U.S. tech giants toward open-source alternatives, driven by concerns over digital sovereignty and reliability of American companies[^1]. At the 2025 OpenInfra Summit Europe, industry leaders emphasized that this shift isn't about isolation but resilience.

"What we're really looking for is resilience. What we want for our countries, for our companies, for ourselves, is resilience in the face of unforeseen events in a fast-changing world. Open source allows us to be sovereign without being isolated," said OpenInfra Foundation general manager Thierry Carrez[^1].

This transition is already happening. The German state Schleswig-Holstein has replaced Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with open-source email solutions. Similar moves have been made by the Austrian military, Danish government organizations, and the French city of Lyon[^1].

European companies are stepping up to fill the gap with open-source alternatives, including:
- Deutsche Telekom's Open Telekom Cloud
- OVHcloud's sovereign cloud services
- STACKIT and VanillaCore's European-based offerings[^1]

The movement gained additional momentum when the European Commission appointed its first executive vice president for tech sovereignty, security, and democracy in 2024[^1].

[^1]: ZDNet - Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam

Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam

One topic dominated the recent 2025 OpenInfra Summit Europe, and it wasn't AI.

^{Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)}

The Interior Department also said it would allow a contentious road to be built through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Alaska.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/climate/trump-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge-oil-drilling.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vk8._wbJ.4-HVlqkk1bnx

In this statement piece, the artist is exploring the significance of objects as they relate to everyday life in the bleak mundanity of current century.

Pffft. No I don't. I just made that up.

Instead, I walked around and took a series of pictures of stereotypical street subjects favored by the types of people who go around spouting that only black and white images are inherently true art, and whose beanies are probably a bit too tight.

An incredible amount of information is lost if you shackle yourself to monochrome. If you insist on doing so for artsy-fartsy purposes, I advise you to think hard about why first rather than just because it's the done thing to do, as if it automatically adds profundity to a fossilized slice of light.

Luckily I didn't take these in black and white at all. I simply smashed them into greyscale using my editing software. The full color renditions are:

• Locks
• Glass (This may just at the outside be a piece of genuine 19th century glass, but then again it probably isn't.)
• Type B Barricade Light (Now you know what those are actually called.)
• Detour
• Lost Kite

If zis were an American film I would have a gun, and perhaps do a little car chase. But it is French. Merde.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-23/trump-re-opens-alaska-s-arctic-coastal-plain-to-oil-drilling?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MTI0ODYwNSwiZXhwIjoxNzYxODUzNDA1LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNExKSU9HUDlWRDAwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDMkYxNDM5NTYzRjg0QTBFOEIxNzA5MzY0RjMyQ0JFOCJ9.SVLeDRlrxPrPjOneU_yTzq4wAVS6ok_Y-rBsJ9BI_QQ

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5569935-east-wing-white-house-trump-demolition-photos/

Authors:

• Dr. Andrea Wagner | Associate Professor, Political Science, MacEwan University
• Anna Brigevich | Associate Professor of European Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Excerpt:

The rise of populist leaders has drawn significant attention over the past two decades. Around the world, they have reshaped politics, from Donald Trump in the United States to Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Marine Le Pen in France, Giorgia Meloni in Italy, Santiago Abascal in Spain and Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil.

These leaders often rise to power by promising to speak for “the people” against the established “corrupt elites.” But our recent research shows that not all populist voters want the same things.

Our study examined public opinion data from nine countries to better understand what drives support for “strongman” populist leaders. The findings reveal that there are two very different kinds of populist attitudes, and the authoritarian variety most strongly predicts whether people will support a leader who is willing to bend the rules.

The article is short, and worth a read if you are curious about the results of the study or which country fell into which category. I started copying in more excerpts into this post and ended up copying 90% of the article.

Why some populist supporters want a strong-arm leader and others just want change

Defending democracy requires more than just countering populism in general. It requires recognizing and addressing the authoritarian currents that run through some forms of populist politics.

^{The Conversation}

The software is labelled Beta, but is being pushed out to existing PCs anyway because.. well.. why not beta something in prod, it’s 2025 after all.

It appears in Game Bar, which is accessible from Windows Key + G. You may not have it yet as they are staging deployment. I’m not in Windows Insiders, but I have it installed — so it looks like the roll out is becoming wide. Note that I had uninstalled Copilot from my PC… but Gaming Copilot silently installed anyway.

It is similar to Recall, except not all the processing is done locally — it relies on the cloud. It screenshots gameplay, and then extracts elements of the screen (such as symbols and text) to work out what the player is doing. The idea is it can help you game, e.g. you can ask questions about what you’re doing in the game at a given moment.

Today, a spokesperson for Oversight Democrats released the following statement on their investigation into the Department of Homeland Security after reports that at least 170 U.S. citizens have been unlawfully detained by the agency.

“Oversight Democrats have launched an investigation into the unlawful detention of American citizens by ICE and the Department of Homeland Security.

We’re establishing a misconduct tracker to systematically document abuse and civil rights violations by this administration — including cases where ICE has detained U.S. citizens and violated federal law. The tracker documents unconstitutional actions after they occur — it is not a live location tool. Creating this kind of investigatory record is routine and essential in any oversight inquiry.

We’re not tracking officers’ locations or putting anyone at risk. We’re publishing records to expose patterns of misconduct and to build a transparent public record for the American people. Our work will always protect the public, law enforcement, and the Constitution,” said Sara Guerrero, spokesperson for Oversight Democrats

Oversight Democrats’ Statement on New Tool to Document ICE Misconduct Across the Country as 170 American Citizens Illegally Detained by DHS

^{The Committee on Oversight and Accountability Democrats}

Two federal judges admitted in response to an inquiry by U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley that members of their staff used artificial intelligence to help prepare recent court orders that Grassley called "error-ridden."

In letters released by Grassley's office on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate in Mississippi and U.S. District Judge Julien Xavier Neals in New Jersey said the decisions in the unrelated cases did not go through their chambers' typical review processes before they were issued.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/two-federal-judges-say-use-ai-led-errors-us-court-rulings-2025-10-23/

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/108429/microsofts-gaming-copilot-watches-you-game-and-captures-that-data-for-model-training/index.html

In a two-sentence order on Wednesday, the Atlanta-based Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals granted a motion by federal government lawyers requesting that the appellate court pause proceedings in a case that halted a lower court decision shuttering operations at the controversial facility.

The federal lawyers in their motion stated that the shutdown prevented them from working. “The motion to stay the appeal is GRANTED. The movant is DIRECTED to promptly file a notice with the Court when the purpose for the stay is obviated,” the appellate court decision stated without any further explanation.

While most video screens such as those on our phones, TVs, and stadium jumbotrons seem to improve in resolution on a monthly basis, there has been an issue in improving the resolution of the tiny screens required in virtual reality apps. The problem is that as the screen moves closer to the human eye, the pixels that comprise it need to get smaller and smaller. Yet, if pixels get too small, their function starts to degrade and the image suffers. On a micro-LED screen, for example, pixels can't get much smaller than one micrometer wide before losing their ability to render a clear, crisp image.

So instead of relying on pixels, researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, the University of Gothenburg and Uppsala University in Sweden turned to a different technique. They created what they've termed "metapixels" out of tungsten oxide, a material that can switch from being an insulator to a metal based on its electrical state. The metapixels reflect light differently based on their size and how they're arranged, and can be manipulated by an electrical current. In a way, they function much like the pigments in bird's feathers, which can take on different colors based on how the light is hitting them.

The fact that metapixels don't need a light source eliminates the problems that video pixels take on when they get too small such as color bleeding and issues with uniformity.

!remindme 30 years

It's cool tech, but if it could actually replace displays, get ready for the patents to be bought up and buried so we can keep selling glowing rectangles with tons of e-waste, as god intended.

Retina e-paper promises screens 'visually indistinguishable from reality'

In what could be an industry shifting breakthrough, researchers have created a screen about the size of a human pupil with a resolution that breaks through the limits of pixels.

^{Michael Franco (New Atlas)}

U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz, a McAllen Republican bracing for a tough reelection battle next year, has signed onto a letter with 12 others in her party that pushes House Speaker Mike Johnson to deal with looming cost increases for people insured through the Affordable Care Act.

​“Allowing these tax credits to lapse without a clear path forward would risk real harm to those we represent,” the members wrote in the letter. “Nevertheless, we must chart a conservative path that protects working families in our districts across the country who rely on these credits.”

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas-take/article/texas-republican-extend-obamacare-subsidies-21114636.php

“The story about US attorney Lindsey Halligan’s use of Signal is deeply troubling. That she used the app apparently to discuss government business with a reporter, and configured her messages to disappear after eight hours, raises serious concerns that she is actively violating the Federal Records Act and the justice department’s own records-retention rules,” said Chioma Chukwu, executive director of American Oversight, a non-profit that frequently files lawsuits under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain federal records. The group submitted a public records request for Halligan’s Signal messages on Thursday.

“Even if portions of the conversation might contain information not typically subject to immediate public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, federal law still requires that such records be preserved for specified periods. Setting such communications to automatically delete is not only inconsistent with those obligations but patently unlawful,” she said. “If Halligan failed to ensure these Signal messages were preserved, her actions may have violated federal law and warrant investigation or corrective action by Attorney General Pam Bondi and Acting Archivist Marco Rubio.”

Top US prosecutor’s use of text message auto-delete could be illegal, watchdog groups warn

Lindsey Halligan, who’s brought cases against James Comey and Letitia James, allegedly violated records-retention laws

^{Sam Levine (The Guardian)}

Instead of sharing the names of the medications coming from the errant foreign factories, the FDA routinely blacked them out, keeping the information secret from the public. That decision prevented doctors, pharmacists and patients from knowing whether the drugs they counted on were tainted by manufacturing failures — and potentially ineffective or unsafe.

“Is there some quality issue? Is there a greater difference in potency than expected? Is there a contaminant? I don’t know,” said Dr. Donna Kirchoff, a pediatrician in Oregon who has spent hours trying to find out where certain drugs were made for patients reporting unexplained reactions.

The FDA Is Hiding the Names of Drugs Made in Contaminated Factories

The agency’s decision to conceal drug names on inspection reports has prevented doctors, pharmacists and patients from knowing whether medications made overseas are tainted by manufacturing failures that could make them ineffective or unsafe.

^ProPublica

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-22/china-s-deepseek-pushes-into-africa-making-ai-accessible-to-millions