TikTok Editorial Analysis

Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/01/tiktok-editorial-analysis.html

TikTok seems to be skewing things in the interests of the Chinese Communist Party. (This is a serious analysis, and the methodology looks sound.)

Conclusion: Substantial Differences in Hashtag Ratios Raise
Concerns about TikTok’s Impartiality

Given the research above, we assess a strong possibility that content on TikTok is either amplified or suppressed based on its alignment with the interests of the Chinese Government. Future research should aim towards a more comprehensive analysis to determine the potential influence of TikTok on popular public narratives. This research should determine if and how TikTok might be utilized for furthering national/regional or international objectives of the Chinese Government.

[$] The trouble with MAX_ORDER

Post Syndicated from corbet original https://lwn.net/Articles/956321/

One might not think that much could be said about a simple macro defining a
constant integer value. But the kernel is special, it seems. A change to
the definition of MAX_ORDER has had a number of follow-on effects,
and the task of cleaning up after this change is not done yet. So perhaps
a look at MAX_ORDER is in order.

Scribus 1.6.0 released

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/956522/

Version 1.6.0 of the Scribus
desktop-publishing application has been released. The
list of new features is rather long and includes a user interface overhaul,
improvements for HiDPI screens, new scripting commands, lots of
typographical improvements and features, a new picture browser for
graphical asset management, support for more gradient types, and much more.

Scribus 1.6.0 is the long awaited release in the next stable series,
replacing 1.4.8 and development versions in the 1.5.x series. This version
has been in development for some years and contains thousands of
enhancements and fixes across all areas of the program. It has more
features, is faster, and is more stable.

Security updates for Monday

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/956521/

Security updates have been issued by Debian (ansible, asterisk, cjson, firefox-esr, kernel, libde265, libreoffice, libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl, php-guzzlehttp-psr7, thunderbird, tinyxml, and xerces-c), Fedora (podman-tui, proftpd, python-asyncssh, squid, and xerces-c), Mageia (libssh and proftpd), and SUSE (deepin-compressor, gnutls, gstreamer, libreoffice, opera, proftpd, and python-pip).

Kernel prepatch 6.7-rc8

Post Syndicated from corbet original https://lwn.net/Articles/956467/

Linus has released 6.7-rc8 for testing.

So as expected, pretty much nothing happened over the holiday week.
We’ve got literally just 45 files changed, and almost a third of
those files aren’t even kernel code (ie things like selftests,
scripting, Kconfig and maintainer file updates). And some of the
rest is prep-work and cleanups for future (real) changes.

But we do have a couple of real fixes in there, and I suspect we’ll
get a few more next week as people come back from their
food-induced torpor.

Julia 1.10 released

Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/956456/

The Julia programming language project has released Julia v1.10. It is mainly a performance release, with only two new language features mentioned in the release notes: “JuliaSyntax.jl is now used as the default parser, providing better diagnostics and faster parsing.” and the addition of two Unicode symbols for use as binary operators: “⥺ (U+297A, \leftarrowsubset) and ⥷ (U+2977, \leftarrowless)“. Package-loading time has been improved further and the mark phase of garbage collection has been parallelized, among other improvements.

Gnuplot 6.0 released

Post Syndicated from corbet original https://lwn.net/Articles/956454/

Version 6.0 of the Gnuplot plotting system
has been released.

Gnuplot has been supported and under active development since 1986.
This is the first new major version of gnuplot since the release of
version 5 in January 2015. It introduces extensions to the gnuplot
command language, an expanded collection of special and
complex-valued functions, additional 2D and 3D plotting styles, and
support for new output protocols.

See the
release notes for details.

Равносметката Вижте ключовите разследвания на “Биволъ” през 2023 г.

Post Syndicated from Николай Марченко original https://bivol.bg/ravnosmetkata-2023.html

неделя 31 декември 2023


Корупционните скандали около експремиера Бойко Борисов като БарселонаГейт и ЧекмеджеГейт, около и.д. главния прокурор Борислав Сарафов и магистратите със сметки и имоти в Швейцария. Също така масовата незаконна сеч, довела…

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