why-air-canada-is-killing-its-longest-route-less-than-3-years-after-launch

Air Canada has announced the termination of its non-stop service between Vancouver International Airport(YVR) and Singapore Changi Airport(SIN), bringing an unexpected end to the carrier’s longest flight by distance. Launched in early 2024, the ultra-long-haul connection was intended to boost the airline’s transpacific expansion and establish Vancouver as an importantContinue Reading

Two years after Hurricane Helene, survivors are taking lessons for the future

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and BPR , a public radio station serving western North Carolina.  ​ In the days and weeks after Hurricane Helene, people throughout western North Carolina and beyond found themselves thrust into new situations, forced to learn new skills to help themselves and their neighbors.  CommunityContinue Reading

foss-weekly-#26.41:-open-source-trouble,-more-rust-in-ubuntu,-adobe-photoshop’s-linux-clone,-rich-cli-tool-and-more

Long-standing open source projects won’t receive new DigitalOcean infrastructure credits after the company quietly ended its support program in a disruptive move that has affected many open source projects. Though they did have enough money to fund Omarchy. 🤷 I cannot confirm, but it could be related. Gentoo Linux isContinue Reading

gentoo-needs-your-help!-several-sponsors-have-pulled-out

Plenty of open source projects keep going on goodwill alone, with contributors putting in the hours and expecting nothing back. While others lean on outside support like cash, donated hardware, or someone else covering the hosting bill. This kind of support rarely gets much attention, but these needs are someContinue Reading

Popular Joint Supplement Tied to Faster Decline in Alzheimer’s Patients

Glucosamine, a widely used over-the-counter supplement for joint pain, may worsen outcomes in people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, according to new research by neuroscientists from the University of Florida. The post Popular Joint Supplement Tied to Faster Decline in Alzheimer’s Patients appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News…ReadContinue Reading

ubuntu-websites-offline-due-to-‘sustained’-ddos-attack

Ubuntu’s websites are currently experiencing a “sustained distributed denial of service attack”. Canonical says some of its online sites will be ‘intermittently unavailable’ as its teams work to resolve the incident. There’s no ETA on them coming back online, but that’s understand since ‘automated volumetric onslaught’ rarely keeps to aContinue Reading

microsoft-will-let-copilot-act-on-local-files-on-windows-pcs

Microsoft is giving Copilot greater control over Windows PCs, allowing the AI assistant to organize and make changes to local files, and run certain tasks using on-device AI models. The changes were announced at Microsoft’s Hybrid Intelligence event, where it outlined plans to combine local and cloud AI processing toContinue Reading

fast-ai,-slow-rollback:-the-risk-facing-apple-it-teams

There’s a big disconnect between the rate at which IT is deploying various kinds of AI-generated output and the speed with which it can roll those changes back when things go wrong, warns a new report from Fleet Device Management. It’s almost as if the rush to embrace AI has eclipsedContinue Reading