BrianFagioli writes: The Linux Foundation has announced Akrites, a new initiative to coordinate vulnerability disclosure and remediation for critical open source software as AI dramatically speeds up vulnerability discovery. Founding members include AWS, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Red Hat, NVIDIA, IBM, Cisco, JPMorganChase, and others. Akrites will provide a shared Security Incident Response Team (SIRT), a standardized coordinated vulnerability disclosure process, and act as a "maintainer of last resort" for abandoned but widely used packages.

The goal is to reduce duplicate reports, avoid conflicting patches, and help upstream maintainers address vulnerabilities before they can be exploited. As AI makes it easier to find security flaws, can a coordinated industry effort help protect open source, or does it risk giving large corporations too much influence over the ecosystem? "Akrites is the largest coordinated effort in history to create systems and deploy tooling that leverages the collective power of the community to make everyone safer," the Linux Foundation said in an open letter. "Akrites participants will contribute engineering resources; work to build and ship fixes; or fund the engineers who do. Some companies have contributed mightily already. The reality is, collectively, we need to contribute more."

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Company says it cannot shield customers from memory and storage chip costs – and iPhone hikes could be next

Apple raised iPad and MacBook prices on Thursday, saying it could no longer shield customers from soaring memory and storage chip costs driven by the AI industry’s datacenter buildout.

The move does not affect Apple’s cash cow, the iPhone. But it would take starting price of the ⁠Neo, its lowest priced laptop, from $599 to $699 mere months after launch.

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Blaze on Tintwistle Moor, Glossop, has burned more than 500 square metres, forcing road closures and smoke warning

A major wildfire close to Greater Manchester has torn through large areas of moorland for more than 24 hours, forcing road closures and smoke warnings as fire crews battle to bring it under control.

The blaze, on Tintwistle Moor, near Glossop, has burned an area of more than 500 square metres of moorland and woodland, with thick plumes of smoke directly affecting the villages of Tintwistle, Hollingworth and Woolley Bridge.

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The Illusion of Culinary Perfection Is an essay regarding recipes and precision and the liberation of discovering that a recipe is just an armature supporting improvisation in the kitchen.

Full disclosure, I found a pointer to this over on Hacker News. I wish I'd read it at the same time I read La Technique, which I think was in 1982. But I slowly blundered my way there over the next twenty years and am much happier for it. Now I want to learn to make challah.

banzainetsurfer has added a photo to the pool:

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AI-POCALYPSE Several leading US AI companies joined with former US government officials on Thursday to form a bipartisan coalition focused on helping to prepare workers for the AI tsunami, even as many companies seem to be in a race to see who can replace human workers the fastest. Founded by former US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and former Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb, RAISE US aims to "design and pilot new corporate incentives to retrain and redeploy workers, new approaches to support people through job transitions, and new training models tied to changing employer demand." The announcement talks up employer incentives but makes no mention of worker rights. It does, however, tease the possibility of wage insurance and career navigation "so changing jobs no longer means financial ruin." Winning political support for such benefits seems unlikely in a country where the federal minimum wage, frozen at $7.25 since 2009, "is at its lowest real value in 77 years," and healthcare costs could erase the solvency protection promised by wage insurance. Amazon, Anthropic, Microsoft, and the OpenAI Foundation – vendors of the AI models inspiring recent layoffs – are anchor partners in RAISE US initiative. But its corporate backing is broader still, with financial sponsorship from Bank of America and the support of more than two dozen major companies and foundations. Amazon, having sacrificed 14,000 jobs on the altar of AI transformation last fall, said, "For Amazon, joining RAISE US is a natural extension of what we have been doing for years: investing in people, partnering with governments, and building programs that help workers and communities succeed." Microsoft, which ousted about 9,000 employees last July and recently dangled buyouts before a similar number of staff, offered a similar endorsement from VP and president Brad Smith. RAISE US intends to focus on: state workforce policy and programs; employer-driven worker transition plans; worker education and re-training programs; and policy recommendations. "America has a technology strategy for leading the global AI competition," said Raimondo, who will serve as CEO of RAISE US, in a statement. "It does not yet have a people strategy – and we cannot lead without one. If we build the best AI systems in the world and leave millions of Americans behind, we won’t have won anything; we’ll have automated our own decline." We haven't yet automated away software developer roles, but there are signs that's happening for designers and marketers. A recent employment report from venture capital firm SignalFire notes that tech hiring is at 25 percent less than what it was before the 2019 COVID pandemic, on a 12-month trailing basis. But some jobs have fared better than others. Engineering hiring is down only 11 percent during this period at major tech companies and is up seven percent at startups. Designers have fared worse, with hiring down 48 percent at large tech companies and down 22 percent at startups. Marketing roles have declined 36 percent at large organizations and are down 18 percent at startups. And among product managers, hiring is down 39 percent at tech giants but up two percent at startups. Amid this overall retrenchment, software engineers are proportionally more in demand, accounting for 55 percent of tech hiring, compared to 46 percent seven years ago. The AI job apocalypse is most evident among new hires with less than a year of experience, and college graduates. SignalFire's data shows that in 2016, about 22 percent of new hires at major tech companies had a year or less of experience. Today, that figure is about eight percent. Among startups, where about 15 percent of new hires were inexperienced a decade ago, today that number is just three percent. "The critical systemic risk arises when an entire industry stops investing in early-career talent," SignalFire says in its report. "By eliminating its new grad pipeline to optimize current balance sheets, the tech industry could face a severe leadership vacuum over the next decade." RAISE US certainly has its work cut out for it as its members keep cutting jobs. ®

Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 26-06-2026 01:16 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 26.2°C · Bewolkt ☁️ | Min 23.5°C / Max 34.1°C

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 23.5°C, Max 34.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1015.4 hPa ↘️ -1.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 18.7 km/u (5.2 m/s), richting: ↙ 60°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 25.7°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌕, 🧭 1016.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 17.3 km/u (4.8 m/s), richting: ← 94°
• 03:00: 25.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1016.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.8 km/u (4.4 m/s), richting: ← 95°
• 04:00: 24.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1015.8 hPa ↘️ -0.7 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.4 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: ← 97°
• 05:00: 24.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1015.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.6 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ← 96°
• 06:00: 23.7°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, 🧭 1015.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ← 95°
• 07:00: 24.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1015.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.6 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ← 103°
• 08:00: 25.8°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, 🧭 1015.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ← 109°
• 09:00: 28.1°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1015.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: ← 107°
• 10:00: 30.6°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1015.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ← 108°
• 11:00: 33.4°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1015.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↖ 119°
• 12:00: 35.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1015.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↖ 156°
• 13:00: 36.9°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, 🧭 1014.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ↑ 169°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• zaterdag 27 juni: Min 23.7°C, Max 39.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1015.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 23.4 km/u (6.5 m/s), richting: ↖ 149°
• zondag 28 juni: Min 22.1°C, Max 35.6°C (Zware regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 9.9 mm, Kans op neerslag 8%, 🧭 1016.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 43.9 km/u (12.2 m/s), richting: ↑ 164°
• maandag 29 juni: Min 19.6°C, Max 25.2°C (Lichte onweersbui) ⛈️, Neerslag 2.9 mm, Kans op neerslag 24%, 🧭 1024.0 hPa ↗️ +7.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 28.1 km/u (7.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 237°
• dinsdag 30 juni: Min 17.7°C, Max 23.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 9%, 🧭 1023.0 hPa ↘️ -1.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.5 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ↘ 308°
• woensdag 01 juli: Min 17.1°C, Max 24.3°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 7%, 🧭 1021.2 hPa ↘️ -1.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 8.5 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: ↙ 30°
• donderdag 02 juli: Min 17.2°C, Max 24.3°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 11%, 🧭 1019.7 hPa ↘️ -1.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 7.9 km/u (2.2 m/s), richting: ↘ 331°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 26.2°C (Bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 25.2°C (-1.0°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 18.0 km/u (5.0 m/s), richting: ← 85°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 34.2 km/h (9.5 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 55%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1016.8 hPa ↘️ -1.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 28.1 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 05:23 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 22:05

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 86 🟡 (Matig)
• PM2.5: 7.7 μg/m³
• PM10: 11.3 μg/m³

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KINSHASA (ANP) - Het aantal bevestigde ebolagevallen in de Democratische Republiek Congo (DRC) is gestegen tot 1155, waaronder 304 sterfgevallen. Dat blijkt uit gegevens van de Congolese regering.

Eerder maakten de VS en de EU al ruim 1,5 miljard euro vrij voor de bestrijding van de uitbraak sinds mei in de DRC en Oeganda. Naast middelen voor bestrijding en humanitaire hulp wordt ook geld vrijgemaakt voor onder meer een quarantainefaciliteit in Kenia.

Mogelijk ligt het werkelijke aantal ebolagevallen hoger dan de autoriteiten melden. Het gaat om de zogenoemde bundibugyovariant, die moeilijk te behandelen is. Ook is er nog geen speciaal vaccin beschikbaar. Oeganda telt ongeveer twintig besmettingen, waaronder twee bevestigde sterfgevallen.

Onlangs werd ook een ziektegeval op Franse bodem vastgesteld bij een arts die was teruggekeerd uit de DRC.