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Kinesiska forskare har tagit fram en ny och lovande typ av flashminne.

Forskare vid Fudan-universitetet i Shanghai har utvecklat en potentiellt banbrytande typ av flashminne, rapporterar Tom's Hardware. Flashminneskretsar och andra icke-flyktiga minnestyper är normalt många gånger lång­sammare än flyktiga minnestyper som DRAM och SRAM, men genom att överge kisel och istället använda kol lyckades forskarna ta fram kretsar som skriver data ännu snabbare.

Kolet i fråga har formen av grafen, en skiva av kolatomer arrangerade i ett hexagonalt rutnät som har visat sig ha flera häpnadsväckande egenskaper – något som bland annat uppmärk­sammades med ett Nobelpris 2010.

Tekniken har fått namnet Phase-change Oxide eller Pox, och en skrivcykel tar så lite som 400 pikosekunder – upp till 25 gånger snabbare än vanligt arbetsminne, som ligger på 1–10 nano­sekunder. Jämfört med traditionellt flashminne, vars skrivhastighet för enstaka ettor och nollor ligger på minst en mikrosekund, handlar det om tusentals gånger högre hastighet.

I en storskalig lagringskrets finns det så klart många andra parametrar som avgör både bandbredden och hastigheten på små slump­mässiga läs- och skrivoperationer, och det är en bra bit kvar till färdiga produkter. Forskarna har hittills visat att tekniken är gångbar i enskilda minnesceller och håller nu på att försöka skala upp den till större strukturer.

#flashminne #forskning #nanoteknik

It's important to learn the moves that take you into the vortex, but it's best not to study vortex itself too closely. Even grandmasters who have built up a tolerance lose the ability to play for a few hours after studying it.

https://explainxkcd.com/3082/

FYI: As it's getting somewhat tedious to post new xkcd comics here manually (and get comments into my inbox), I am, after saving here, going to ask the operators of rss.ponder.cat to set up a bot to post these comics to a dedicated community. If that is set up, I will stop posting manually here. I suggest people then subscribe there.

Wenn mal so gar nichts klappt, und man es bei der Anreise schon merkt. So'n Spiel war das, für die FC St. Pauli Frauen bei Hannover 96.

Hey ! I bought a game on steam, but I cannot install it on lutris as it's not even listed... It's a windows only game. Is there a way to play it? Am I doing something wrong?

The game is Wednesdays : https://store.steampowered.com/app/2747770/Wednesdays/

Thanks!

Explaining that such items constituted a veritable uniform for the notorious criminal organization, FBI director Kash Patel claimed Monday that gavels and black gowns were sufficient evidence to tie an individual to the MS-13 gang. “For decades, MS-13 thugs have identified themselves by wearing black gowns and carrying around wooden hammers with which they could enact their sick sense of gangland justice,” said Patel, who urged U.S. citizens to remain vigilant and immediately report such suspects to authorities so they could be detained and deported.

Beim torlosen Remis zwischen Werder Bremen und St. Pauli passiert auf dem Rasen recht wenig. Im Stadion geht es dafür sehr politisch zu.

From https://programming.dev/comment/16597631

Saved this comment from somewhere, probably Reddit:

I've actually been using the cars analogy for a couple months now and I think it's very fitting. Imagine if you were a mechanic who owned an auto shop and your average customer call went something like this:

Customer: My car isn't working and I need you to fix it immediately, this is an emergency
Mechanic: Alright sir what seems to be the problem?
Customer: I don't know, I tried to use my car on friday and it didn't work, now it's monday and I need to get to work and I can't and this needs to be fixed right now.
Mechanic: Can you start the car? Can you even get into your car? Does it make any sounds when you try to start it? Are all 4 tires there?
Customer: I don't know, I don't know what any of that stuff means, I tried to get to work and it wouldn't let me and you need to fix it now because you changed my oil 6 months ago.
Mechanic: Alright well what kind of car are you driving?
Customer: I don't know, a green one, why does that matter?
Mechanic: Please take a look at the back of your car and see if there are any letters or numbers that would indicate a vehicle model or manufacturer
Customer: Ok, my car is a SV2 87K.
Mechanic: No sir that's your license plate. My records indicate that you drive a Nissan Altima, can you confirm that the key you're using to try and get into this car says Nissan on it?
Customer: My key says Lexus but I don't see how that makes a difference, I've been using this key on this car for years and it's always worked, what did you do to my car?

A Sky News viewer has left a giant hole in his computer screen because he doesn’t like being welcomed to his own computer.

59 year old Paul Smith, an Australian patriot, has today lost his cool and punched his screen while booting up the home computer and seeing the home screen say “welcome”.

“I bought this computer brand new from Harvey Norman in 2009, this is my computer and I don’t need someone welcoming me to it!” said a frustrated Paul.

Deepfakes im Jahr 2025 explodieren! Finde heraus, wie du KI-Fälschungen erkennen, Deepfakes aufdecken und dich effektiv schützen kannst. Der Artikel Deepfake-Vorfälle 2025: Wie man KI-Fälschungen erkennt und sich schützt erschien zuerst auf TARNKAPPE.INFO

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/2599999

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New Zealand will continue its military assistance to Ukraine until at least December 2026, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced this week, with up to 100 NZDF personnel remaining deployed across Europe to support training, intelligence, logistics, and liaison operations.

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Framed as a show of “unwavering support” for Ukraine, the announcement signals a long-term commitment to a conflict that remains fluid, with ceasefire negotiations reportedly under way.

Of the $152 million committed, $102.3 million has been spent on military training, logistics, and equipment. Only $31.9 million has gone toward humanitarian support, and a further $5.2 million to legal and human rights monitoring

While over 53,000 Ukrainian troops have reportedly been trained through allied efforts, New Zealand’s marginal impact must be weighed against the opportunity cost.

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Additionally, the United Kingdom government has announced a deal worth £30 million (NZ$66.8 million) for drones produced by New Zealand company SYOS Aerospace.

New Zealand is also expected to announce increased support for the joint Operation Interflex training Ukrainian forces in the UK, extending it until the end of the year. More than 54,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been trained there to date.

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Robotics business SYOS manufactures drones at its factory in Hampshire, southeast of London, and they have been deployed to combat zones.

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Royal New Zealand Navy frigate HMNZS Te Kaha will also join a UK carrier strike group leaving Portsmouth for the Indian Ocean.

"As the world becomes an increasingly dangerous place, I am proud how much we are doing together to support our national and economic security - stepping up our defence spending, deploying our navies together in the Indo-Pacific and continuing our work to put Ukraine in the strongest possible position to deter an increasingly aggressive Russia," [UK PM] Keir Starmer said.

Deepfakes im Jahr 2025 explodieren! Finde heraus, wie du KI-Fälschungen erkennen, Deepfakes aufdecken und dich effektiv schützen kannst. Der Artikel Deepfake-Vorfälle 2025: Wie man KI-Fälschungen erkennt und sich schützt erschien zuerst auf TARNKAPPE.INFO

Indie Symphony, the video game-inspired music concert, is returning to Melbourne, Australia in July 2025. Here's what to know.

Archived

New Zealand will continue its military assistance to Ukraine until at least December 2026, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced this week, with up to 100 NZDF personnel remaining deployed across Europe to support training, intelligence, logistics, and liaison operations.

...

Framed as a show of “unwavering support” for Ukraine, the announcement signals a long-term commitment to a conflict that remains fluid, with ceasefire negotiations reportedly under way.

Of the $152 million committed, $102.3 million has been spent on military training, logistics, and equipment. Only $31.9 million has gone toward humanitarian support, and a further $5.2 million to legal and human rights monitoring

While over 53,000 Ukrainian troops have reportedly been trained through allied efforts, New Zealand’s marginal impact must be weighed against the opportunity cost.

...

Additionally, the United Kingdom government has announced a deal worth £30 million (NZ$66.8 million) for drones produced by New Zealand company SYOS Aerospace.

New Zealand is also expected to announce increased support for the joint Operation Interflex training Ukrainian forces in the UK, extending it until the end of the year. More than 54,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been trained there to date.

...

Robotics business SYOS manufactures drones at its factory in Hampshire, southeast of London, and they have been deployed to combat zones.

...

Royal New Zealand Navy frigate HMNZS Te Kaha will also join a UK carrier strike group leaving Portsmouth for the Indian Ocean.

"As the world becomes an increasingly dangerous place, I am proud how much we are doing together to support our national and economic security - stepping up our defence spending, deploying our navies together in the Indo-Pacific and continuing our work to put Ukraine in the strongest possible position to deter an increasingly aggressive Russia," [UK PM] Keir Starmer said.

I’m running funkwhale in docker. This consists of a half dozen docker containers one of which is postgres.

To run a backup, funkwhale suggests shutting down all of the containers and then docker compose running pg_dump on the postgres container. Presumably this is to copy the database when nobody is accessing it.

For some reason when I do this, I get an error like:

pg_dump: error: connection to server on socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: No such file or directory
	Is the server running locally and accepting connections on that socket?

It would seem that postgres isn’t running. I see the same error with other commands such as psql.

If I fully boot the container and then try exec-ing the command, it works fine.

So it would seem that the run command isn’t fully booting the instance before running the command? What’s going on here?

The container is built from postgres:15-alpine

An Irish woman who has lived legally in the US for four decades has been detained by immigration officials for the last week because of a criminal record dating back almost 20 years.

Cliona Ward, 54, was detained at San Francisco airport on 21 April after returning from Ireland to visit her sick father and is being held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facility in Tacoma, Washington.

Ward holds a green card but has convictions for drug possession from 2007 and 2008, which she believed had been expunged, her family said.