Never made a pinhole camera? 12 August is the perfect excuse 📦 It's one of the safer ways to observe a solar eclipse & you can build one with things you have at home. Page 32 has all the details 👉 https://cesar.esa.int/download.php?Id=4144&N=77047198 (PDF) 🔭 🧪 ☀️ #EuropeanSolarEclipse
GStreamer 1.28.6 is out with security and playback fixes, H.266 support in Rust MP4 muxers, WebRTC improvements, and FFmpeg 9.0 compatibility. linuxiac.com/gstreamer-1-... #OpenSource #Multimedia
GStreamer 1.28.6 Adds H.266 MP4 Muxing and FFmpeg 9.0 Support
GStreamer 1.28.6 is out with security and playback fixes, H.266 support in Rust MP4 muxers, WebRTC improvements, and FFmpeg 9.0 compatibility.
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How do wildfires affect animals and their habitats? National Geographic looks at the consequences of the fires in France, with input from PIK scientist @rahmstorf.bsky.social on how global warming increases fire risk. www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
French wildfires are turning animals’ homes into ‘a desert of ashes’
The catastrophic fires have potential to do long-term damage to many wild animal populations, but a toad species could be the most affected.
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Austria has set a new all time temperature record of 41.0°C today. 9 separate weather stations recorded >40°C as heatwaves & record temperatures continue to impact the Northern Hemisphere.
Bottles 65 improves Windows app and game management on Linux with Steam integration, backups, file associations, and numerous fixes. linuxiac.com/bottles-65-r... #OpenSource
Bottles 65 Released with Over 100 Changes for Windows Apps on Linux
Bottles 65 improves Windows app and game management on Linux with Steam integration, backups, file associations, and numerous fixes.
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Climate scientists explain the underlying factors contributing to fire conditions in France and Spain in this new piece from @news.abc.net.au, with comments from @rahmstorf.bsky.social. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Europe pays the price in a summer where heat went off the charts
Stefan Rahmstorf was holidaying in southern France when he came face to face with the climate future he has tried to fight.
abc.net.au
Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency
David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
vox.com
Who's seen all three types of solar eclipses? 🌑 Total ⭕ Annular 🌙 Partial On 12 august you've got a chance to see a total solar eclipse or a partial one, depending on where you are. 1/3 🔭 🧪 #EuropeanSolarEclipse
Main Topic: First Update on CAT3 #HeatwaveKoch via @washingtonpost.com On The Extreme Temperature Diary SUN 7/26/2026 At: guyonclimate.com + #climate #weather + rec. temp reports @michaelemann.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @matthewcappucci.bsky.social @bhensonweather.bsky.social @zacklabe.com
It's not my usual beat, but I wrote a pure-Python ML-DSA verifier. pip install mldsa It's 350 lines, CC0/0BSD, single-file, no dependencies, and thoroughly tested. Signature verification handles no secrets, so it doesn't need to be constant-time.
Production ML-DSA Verification in 350 Lines of Python
I am publishing a production, pure-Python ML-DSA verifier. It's just 350 lines, and pretty readable and robust.
words.filippo.io
#Quantum computing will eventually break today's encryption. This #oSC26 talk reviews where post-quantum #cryptography standardization stands and what's already landing in #openSUSE Leap and Tumbleweed. youtu.be/lYyQCSk1LYU?...
openSUSE Conference 2026 - A post quantum cryptography update
YouTube video by openSUSE
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The Holocene (the past 12,000 years) has been a uniquely stable period for the climate, with global average temperatures at 14 degrees celsius, varying by only 0.5 degrees. Johan Rockström explains how today, human activity is the dominant force for change on Earth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rphp...
#Y2K38 isn't a distant problem; #openSUSE developers have been finding real breakages by #testing with #2038 clocks. #GCC now has -Wtime_t-conversion warnings, and #Leap 16 ships 2038-safe by default. The #community is tackling this head-on. news.opensuse.org/2026/01/20/o...
Open-Source Community Tackling Y2K38 Epoch
Just 12 years remain before a fundamental limit in timekeeping threatens to disrupt unprepared computer systems; Y2K38 is the new Y2K, and open-source contri...
news.opensuse.org
Heads up, #openSUSE Leap Micro users! If you're seeing #repository signature errors, the #signingkey has been updated. A quick zypper ref -f inside a #transactional-update shell fixes it. #Linux news.opensuse.org/2026/07/21/u...
Updating the Signing Key on Leap Micro
openSUSE Leap Micro was the last to the party to receive the extended openSUSE signing key following its recent expiration. We’re deeply sorry for the inconv...
news.opensuse.org
#AI agents need isolation, #security, and efficient resource management on #Linux. This #oSC26 talk shows how #Btrfs subvolumes and dedicated service accounts create secure environments for autonomous AI #workloads on #openSUSE. youtu.be/WhKvT2McDxU?...
openSUSE Conference 2026 - Agentic Workloads on Linux: Btrfs + Service Accounts Architecture
YouTube video by openSUSE
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What they don't teach you about heatwaves: It's not just heat. It's: • Your crops dying • Your river drying (Rhine is low again, disrupting shipping) • Your lungs burning from wildfire smoke • Your power grid collapsing It's everything at once.
Our planet is resilient but it has limits. The Planetary Boundary Framework helps understand the conditions that keep Earth stable and humanity thriving. Watch the full film with Johan Rockström on our YouTube channel. #PlanetaryBoundaries #PlanetEarth #ClimateChange #ClimateScience #JohanRockström
Recent observations in climate modelling have increased concern about a potential AMOC tipping: PIKs @rahmstorf.bsky.social & other scientists on why the risk of crossing such a tipping point is now considered more serious & the possible consequences. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trend...
How a hidden shift in the Atlantic could rewire the seasons
As per a recent BBC report, in the deep waters of the Greenland, a bright yellow, human-sized probe is drifting silently analyzing the condition beneath the waves. Packed with sensors but completely…
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
OPNsense 26.7 open-source firewall and routing platform brings FreeBSD 15.1, a reworked interface framework, Source NAT migration, and more. linuxiac.com/opnsense-26-... #FreeBSD #OpenSource #Firewall
OPNsense 26.7 Open-Source Firewall Released, Powered by FreeBSD 15.1
OPNsense 26.7 open-source firewall and routing platform brings FreeBSD 15.1, a reworked interface framework, Source NAT migration, and more.
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The Commission publishes its ETS and electrification proposals tomorrow. Best read as one file, not two: efficiency, electrification and a coherent ETS1+ETS2 price are one system. It's already delivered a 29% cut in EU energy use since 2000. www.janrosenow.com/uploads/4/7/...
#OPNsense 26.7 is here: more MVC/API, FreeBSD 15.1 and the whole Kea experience ;) forum.opnsense.org/index.php?to...
Electrify the energy system with clean power and total energy demand roughly halves. That was the core of my Eurelectric Power Summit keynote, now on YouTube (and picked up by The Rest Is Politics). www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqoJ...
Can Electrification Save Europe’s Economy and Climate Goals? w/ Jan Rosenow, Oxford Professor
YouTube video by Eurelectric
youtube.com
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” -- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Destructive Windows backdoor stuffs multiple wipers and ransomware code into a single package
Destructive Windows backdoor stuffs multiple wipers and ransomware code into a single package
Microsoft says GigaWiper combines at least 3 malware families into one modular tool
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PMC COVlD Update, Week of Jul 13, 2026 (US) ▪️1 in 250 Americans estimated actively infectious ▪️8 hot spots ▪️Texas and Guam outbreaks persist ▪️Florida outbreak worsens ▪️California Bay Area now with high levels See Alt text for more detail. pmc19.com THREAD 🧵1/3
I’ve become an unlikely hero of the anti-net-zero crowd for saying Britain should think about cooling including air conditioning. Small print: an AC unit is effectively a heat pump, and running it cheaply requires solar and a modern grid. More in Bright Spots 👇 open.substack.com/pub/janrosen...
The heat pump sceptics just endorsed air conditioning
Same technology, same physics, running in reverse. Notes on becoming an unlikely hero of the anti-net-zero crowd.
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M 4.2 earthquake 2 km ESE of Frazier Park, CA Did you feel it? Report it! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
