It sounds like you've misunderstood. Nvidia released the open source kernel module two years ago, while still supporting their propriety kernel module. What's new in this announcement is that they are dropping support for the propriety kernel module on hardware that is supported by the open source kernel module. There's nothing new that will be open sourced.

Aso, he once claimed he had a PhD, but later admitted he did not.

Stanford Says Cringely Never Completed Doctorate

Microsoft already has an arm64 server offering in Azure using Ampere Altra CPUs. I don't think their market share is enough at this stage to justify developing their own silicon.

This article is based on job descriptions for System on Chip (SoC) development. That terminology generally referrers to the chips used in portable devices.

It's on purpose. CENTOS follows Red Hat's kernel tree because it was for people who wanted a distro as close as possible to RHEL without paying for it.

Red Hat have a published policy of backporting bugfixes without changing the release number in a major release. The 'E' in CENTOS and RHEL stands for Enterprise and the presumption is that enterprise customers want this to be stable for the whole 10 year lifecycle.

Some phone manufacturers already make different versions of a device for different markets. If you look at Samsung phones, they will often use the same model name, while having a different CPU in different markets. Apple now produces iPhones at a factory in India for the Indian market in order to avoid tariffs.

Also worth noting in the article cheaper "feature phones" still outsell smart phones in India. The Indian government still hasn't decided whether to make USB-C mandatory for them.

If you use a physical switch that has an open circuit there will be no leakage.

However the USB sockets that we have today, in common with plug packs, use transistors to do the switching and they leak a small amount of current.

The big issue with glass is the amount of energy needed to process it. Glass is processed at around 1550ÂC. Today those temperatures are achieved by burning a lot of fossil fuels. The amount of fuel required when recycling is about the same as new glass.

If glass bottles and jars were reusable that would lower the energy cost per use.

Most e-bikes on the market today do not recharge on on downhill sections.

Regenerative braking has been used in experimental setups - in practical riding the amount of regeneration is around 5-10%. The consensus among designers seems to be that it's not worth the additional cost, complexity and weight.

Yes. This is normally the case under defamation law in Australia. Three's a lot of established case law. With defamation it's standard practice to sue the publisher as well as the author because the publisher generally has deeper pockets. In this case the court decided that providing indexed hyperlink does not meet the legal definition of publication.

I think the distinction here is that automatic indexing does not meet the legal definition of publication because it's not intentional. Receiving payment would establish an intention to publish, but that does not preclude that a company could be liable for defamation if they intentionally published defamatory material without receiving payment.
 

I don't think a defamation victim will have a case in an Australian court if the defamation occurs in other countries. However previous case law has established that under Australian law a publisher can be liable for presenting defamatory material to readers in Australia even if the material is hosted on servers in other countries.

Nvidia is only open sourcing their kernel modules, not the userspace driver. That's a tiny change in the big picture.

From a practical perspective it should mean less breakage due to kernel upgrades if the Nvidia kernel modules are incorporated into the mainline kernel.

Red Hat makes good money selling support for legacy systems. RHEL 8 is supported until at least 2029.

The RHEL 9 beta was forked from Fedora 34 and the release notes imply that legacy BIOS is supported. It RHEL 9 is released this year it will probably be supported until at least 2032.

There are occasions technologies transition from a professional level technology to consumer technology. It's usually associated with a decrease in price, decrease in technical proficiency required to use and ready availability. I think Air Tags represent such a transition. I do think many potential criminal abusers of tracking devices are lazy, or at least disorganised and an inexpensive simple to use device will appeal to them

I would expect that the number of abuse cases to increase as the number of legitimate users increases. Many new technologies cause a level of societal disruption. While I think this story is newsworthy, I don't think it's a cause for alarm. The first estimate I found is that 25 million Air Tags have been sold. If that's the case the numbers of abuse cases are small in comparison.

Lots of people use those codecs. Millions of Spotify users listen to music encoded with Vorbis although most neither know nor care. In the last few years, pretty much every YouTube video where I've checked the video codec on using "stats for nerds" has been using Opus as the audio codec and I presume that's the case for most people since audio decoding in software isn't going to strain any modern CPU.

Last years Samsung S21 and this year's S22 sold in many non-US markets uses an Samsung Exynos CPU that already has hardware decoding. The Exynos 1280
  CPU that will power this years Samsung midrange phones is also rumoured to have AV1 hardware decoding. Cheaper Chinese phones from brands like Oppo, Xiaomi and Realmi are using Mediatek CPUs which already have hardware decoding.

You are right that the hardware acceleration is needed in the midrange phones as well, but you are wrong if you think that streaming services will push AV1 video to phones that don't have hardware decoding just because the CPU can handle it. They more eyes on screens for longer and that means they will use the most power efficient codec.

The larger the conspiracy, the greater chance of it being revealed. If Satoshi is a group, it's probably a small group.

I find it interesting that a stylometric analysis of Satoshi's writing suggests that the bitcoin paper and the Satoshi emails are written by different authors: Stylometric Analysis: Satoshi Nakamoto