Nel voto parlamentare svoltosi il 29 ottobre nei Paesi Bassi, la formazione centrista D66 è stata confermata vincitrice e guidata dal 38enne Rob Jetten acquisisce la leadership della trattativa per il governo. Il partito ha conquistato circa il 18% dei consensi e, pur non avendo la maggioranza in proprio, parte ora in pole position per […] The post Olanda: vittoria del centrista D66, Jetten verso la guida del governo appeared first on L'INDIPENDENTE.| L'INDIPENDENTE
Dal 12 novembre entra in vigore la nuova regolamentazione dell’Agcom che impone a tutti i siti pornografici di verificare la maggiore età degli utenti. Per accedere ai contenuti per adulti sarà necessario un controllo tramite un soggetto indipendente che certifichi l’età, tramite il meccanismo del “doppio anonimato”, senza utilizzare documenti personali come lo Spid né […] The post Stop all’accesso libero ai siti porno: servirà la verifica dell’età appeared first on L'INDI...| L'INDIPENDENTE
Un autobus scolastico con nove studenti a bordo è uscito di strada nel territorio di Valfurva (Sondrio) ed è precipitato nel torrente Frodolfo. Quattro minori hanno riportato ferite lievi e sono stati portati all’ospedale di Sondalo; condizioni più serie per l’autista, un 39enne, che però non è in pericolo di vita. L’incidente sarebbe stato causato […] The post Valfurva (Sondrio): scuolabus esce di strada e precipita in un torrente appeared first on L'INDIPENDENTE.| L'INDIPENDENTE
La Guardia di finanza e la Polizia postale hanno smascherato una maxi truffa da 80 milioni di euro legata a falsi investimenti nel fotovoltaico, che ha coinvolto almeno seimila persone in tutta Italia. Il sito www.voltaiko.com, fulcro della frode, è stato sequestrato insieme a 95 conti correnti, beni di lusso, lingotti d’oro e criptovalute. Dieci […] The post Scoperta truffa da 80 milioni di euro nel fotovoltaico appeared first on L'INDIPENDENTE.| L'INDIPENDENTE
Janja Garnbret hat in Arco die Route »Puro Dreaming« (8c+/9a) im ersten Versuch geklettert. Der Grad der Route ist derzeit umstritten – Garnbrets Begehung ist vermutlich der schwerste Flash einer Kletterin aller Zeiten.| Lacrux Klettermagazin
In a darkened corner of the library, their eyes met over shared paragraphs and whispered secrets. He was a boy with a heart full of poetry, and she was a girl with dreams woven into her smile. They found solace in the pages of books and comfort in each other’s presence. Love blossomed like a […]| Thru Violet's Lentz
For the past several weeks, on Thursdays, I have been reposting pieces originally written for a now defunct writing prompt called 50 Word Thursdays. The prompt required that we submit our response in 50 word increments- not to exceed 250 words- and that they contained the literary quote provided. I decided to challenge anyone that […]| Thru Violet's Lentz
Theo awoke in darkness, the faint sound of water lapping against stone echoing in the quiet Venetian morning. He turned, expecting to see Ziva, his wife, nestled beside him. Instead, the bed was cold and empty. Panic gripped his chest. Ziva was a sleepwalker. At home, he kept their doors locked, alarms set. Here, in […]| Thru Violet's Lentz
The champagne was still fizzing when the headlines hit- “Regulators Probe Sudden Crypto Surge.” They sat in the glass-walled penthouse, city lights glittering like the money they’d conjured from code and whispers, laughing too loud, too long. Their phones buzzed with congratulatory texts and encrypted warnings, but every ping sounded like a countdown. They told […]| Thru Violet's Lentz
Photo Courtesy of Crispina Kemp Eli crouched beside the web, notebook balanced on his knees, whispering to himself.He sketched furiously, oblivious to the autumn chill. Then- fwump. A moth, large a…| Thru Violet's Lentz
Rubrik delivery partner Assured Data Protection (ADP) is itself partnering US headquartered technology services distributor (TSD) Telarus. As a result Telarus will offer Assured’s Rubrik-based data backup and disaster recovery (DR) as a managed service, providing end customers with cyber resiliency capability. The partnership will create new growth opportunities for both companies and help satisfy […]| Blocks and Files
Orbiting datacenters look a lot more feasible with figures from Starcloud showing that power and cooling up in orbit is effectively free once deployed. Startup Starcloud wants to build datacenters in low Earth orbit. It was founded in January 2024 as Lumen Orbit by CEO Philip Johnston, CTO Ezra Feilden, and chief engineer Adi Oltean. […]| Blocks and Files
The Dell AI Data Platform is getting an Elastic-powered Data Search Engine and a Data Analytics Engine built with Starburst, along with a Data Analytics Engine Agentic Layer and MCP Server, plus Nvidia cuVS integration. The AI Data Platform is a group of components in Dell’s AI Factory, providing the infrastructure part. It has four […]| Blocks and Files
The latest, v6.0, major release of IBM’s Storage Scale has a Data Acceleration Tier (DAT), a high-performance NVMeoF-based storage layer designed to deliver extreme IOPS and ultra-low latency for real-time AI inferencing workloads. Storage Scale, originally called GPFS, is IBM’s parallel file system software and is popular in supercomputing and high-performance computing circles as well […]| Blocks and Files
The first part of this interview looked at Quantum CEO Hugues Meyrath’s career and how it came about that he joined Quantum as its CEO. This next part looks at his views on the products and their prospects, quantum’s debt and the difference he can make. B&F: You’ve got the product lines, you’re in place, […]| Blocks and Files
AI-powered data trust company Ataccama announced a native integration with Atlan, bringing Ataccama’s automated data quality intelligence directly into experiences powered by Atlan’s metadata lakehouse, including search, lineage, and glossary. Stewards define the rules in Ataccama, and data consumers see trust signals instantly in Atlan, reducing risk, accelerating decision-making, and building confidence in AI. … The […]| Blocks and Files
Seagate and ZeroPoint Technologies demonstrated hardware-accelerated compression within a CXL memory tier at the OCP Global Summit in San Jose, CA. How could disk drive supplier Seagate utilise ZeroPoint’s HW-accelerated memory compression technology within Compute Express Link (CXL) memory tiers? Is it envisaging a JBOD chassis, full of Exos disk drives, with a CXL memory […]| Blocks and Files
My father dug his own grave. But he didn’t use it right away. For years, the grave lay unfilled and inviting. All he would do was visit it once in a while, stand by its empty feet, and sigh. I don’t know if it was a sigh of relief or impatience. He made us promise to leave the grave unmarked once everything was in its place. Everything has its place. I slept in the grave once. But not on purpose. It’s ill-advised to read meaning into sleepwalking so I won’t try. All I know is that I w...| X-R-A-Y
With just enough water in the tub to sluice through its gills as it thumps its caudal fin and arches its spine the carp could stay there for far longer than it will take to prepare the vegetables for the stock which the carp’s head and bones and skin and any parts not reserved will be joining the next morning. Its jelly eye fixes on the water stained ceiling which it doesn’t see as anything but part of what is above because the carp has never seen water stain or been even wet before the t...| X-R-A-Y
Driving through the Detroit suburbs, cutting through traffic, honking and cursing at other drivers, the brothers make their way to the crematorium. It is difficult to keep up with the long hearse. Traffic seems to move automatically for it just as it blocks the brothers’ car. “I know,” the older says to the younger. “Yeah?” the younger asks. They are still navigating the void which now defines their relationship—the change from middle-and-youngest to older-and-younger. “I was ju...| X-R-A-Y
1 Your wife was overjoyed when your uncle drowned in three inches of water at the bottom of a cave. It meant your family would inherit his house. Although you both wished it wasn’t in such tragic circumstances. That’s what you kept saying to people. Not that you had any strong feelings about him or his death. You barely knew him. Was spelunking in Chile a normal pastime of his? Nobody knew him well enough to tell you. Not at the funeral, not during the will reading, nor when you took his ...| X-R-A-Y
The super accelerator for WordPress already has a name and it's called Flash Cache, also it is now available in the official WordPress repositories. In its new totally FREE version, you can find many powerful features that will help you to improve the performance and speed of your entire WordPress site.| etruel.com
Within the multiple news that have been happening in Etruel Developments we have a very important news in particular. The launch of FLASH CACHE. Flash Cache is a powerful WordPress plugin that optimizes the speed of websites thanks to processes and technologies that reduce the overload of the websites where it is installed, improving the speed up to 10x compared to other caching plugins.| etruel.com
Photo Courtesy of Dale Rogerson Detective Raymond almost tossed the crumpled coffee receipt, but the blue ink bleeding through from the backside stopped him. Flipping it over, he found a note scraw…| Thru Violet's Lentz
GPU frenzy feeding components market too, Hynix preps HBM4, gets ZUF, MinIO preps pods, and OWC stages motion picture RAID| Blocks and Files
Althea Downs spends all summer break in her bedroom. Through the pivot roof window, the sun deep fries her no matter where she sits. She drinks berry-kale smoothies and listens to macabre podcasts that give her strange dreams about swimming pools full of blood. She showers at midnight and sweats through the entire night, wakes up cocooned in sheets so soaked you’d think the scale would finally plunge below 100. It does not. She thinks about killing herself, but only casually. This is her te...| X-R-A-Y
You’re all so thin and beautiful. I only wanted to be like you. To want for nothing. To live in a gorgeous Tribeca loft. To wear Brunello Cucinelli and Loro Piana like it was nothing. To show up to morning drop-off at P.S. 234 with an expensive blowout and a full Alo set, en route to pilates. You lived the life I thought I deserved. One day. For now, I was supposed to be your yoga teacher. Your guide. I wanted my body to look like all of yours, but I was the reason yours looked the way th...| X-R-A-Y
Trendforce says AI rollouts, manufacturing concerns, and rise of Chinese player mean supply mismatches and market uncertainty| Blocks and Files
Josie uses her key to let herself and her sister Amy into Cora’s apartment. She walks in first, then turns to see Amy standing in the doorway, hand braced against the doorframe. Josie says, impatiently, “Come on.” Finally, Amy enters this apartment their mother lived in for three years, moving here after she injured her knee and at last accepted that it made no sense for an older woman to be living in a house with two sets of stairs. But Amy has never seen it, because she’s so stubb...| X-R-A-Y
On the Fourth of July the grandmother took Vase to the top of the warehouse where a rickety carriage of iron stairs led to the roof. The sky was as orange as a snake’s belly and smelled of powder and dust and oil. They sat without speaking watching the brilliant detonations which Vase had never seen before just as she had never seen the full horizon of sky over Los Angeles and when the grandmother felt tired Vase was sorry to have to leave the sight so soon. Vase had only been with the gr...| X-R-A-Y
From Illustrator in 1987, Mac-only until 1989, through Photoshop in 1990, Mac-only until 1992, to InDesign, Dreamweaver and the dreaded Flash.| The Eclectic Light Company
The US is reversing its stance on export exemptions, which effectively cripples Samsung and SK hynix's DRAM and 3D NAND production in China.| Blocks and Files
Pure Storage knocked its revenue ball out of the quarterly results park, beating its guidance and upping its full year expectation. Revenues in its second fy2026 quarter, ended August 3, increased 13 percent year-on-year to $861 million with GAAP net income of $47 million, up 31 percent Y/Y. Product sales amounted to $446.3 million, up […]| Blocks and Files
The epoch of tiramisu in bed on a Saturday morning. Of sharing soap, of rituals, what it means to live a thousand lifetimes within a year, knowing your mother will never love me and pretending it won’t matter someday. The epoch of organizing socks. Of grocery lists, of intricacy. The epoch of lavender sheets, of you coming home to me, the way everything else feels so small. Of sleep talking, post-it notes in a lunch bag, back porch thunderstorms, letting in the rain. The epoch of choosing t...| Memoir Magazine
My mother used to save her used tea bags in a small glass cup. I don’t think that she ever used one twice. Having grown up during the Great Depression, the thought of throwing the bag away after only one use was probably disturbing to her—much too extravagant. I watched the saved tea bags dry, shrink, curl, turn brown, and stick to the bottom of the cup—a monument to good intentions. The full Tea Bags by David Margolin can be found at Memoir Magazine.| Memoir Magazine
NetApp eked out one percent growth in its first fy2026 quarter but it won the number one all-flash array market share position for calendar Q1 2025. Revenues in the quarter ended on July 25, 2025 were $1.56 billion, with a GAAP profit of $233 million, down 6 percent Y/Y. The revenue was above the mid-point […]| Blocks and Files
New Zealand startup Novodisq demonstrated ultra high-capacity SSD storage at the FMS 2025 summit, showing an 11.5 PB 2RU blade server.| Blocks and Files
SK hynix says it’s going to produce ultra-high-capacity, high-performance SSDs for AI servers by using its 321-layer 3D NAND in QLC format. SK hynix is beginning mass production of a 321-layer, QLC 2 Tb die, the world’s first implementation of more than 300 layers using QLC technology, with product shipping in the first half of […]| Blocks and Files
The soccer field was a miracle, an oval of fenced-in grass behind a middle school, where she could train her new small dog, play with it until it trusted her, understood their togetherness. She hop…| Okay Donkey
Distributed, NoSQL database supplier Aerospike introduced new expression indexes to speed up machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI workloads while reducing memory use and operational costs. It says most NoSQL databases scan every record for a query, even if most are irrelevant. Aerospike’s approach pushes conditional logic into the index itself, so only relevant […]| Blocks and Files
GNOME 3.32 will very soon be released, so I thought I'd go back on a few of the things that happened with some of our content applications.| /bɑs ˈtjɛ̃ no ˈse ʁɑ/ (hadess) | News
Authors : Joanne Harris, Archita Mittra, Kat Day and A. L. Munson Narrators : Joanne Harris, Tatiana Grey, Kat Day and Samantha Loney Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Talented Beetle” was first published on the social media platform Bluesky, on 13th April 2025 “My Heart in a Snow Globe” is […]| PseudoPod
Authors : David Marino, Lindz McLeod, Laura Blackwell and Cyrus Amelia Fisher Narrators : Ben Phillips, Kat Day, Eve Upton and The Word Whore Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Shallow Fangs” is a PseudoPod Original “Glean” previously appeared in a Bag of Bones micro horror anthology “The First Mrs. Edward Rochester […]| PseudoPod
Authors : Lyndsey Croal, Hannah Greer and S.L. Harris Narrators : Lindz McLeod, Kitty Sarkozy and Elie Hirschman Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 936: Flash on the Borderlands LXXI: A Gibbet of Flesh is a PseudoPod original. “Every Part of You”: CW terminal illness, body horror, insects “Every Part of […]| PseudoPod
Authors : Kat Day, Sam Lesek, Marjorie Bowen and Harriet Beecher Stowe Narrators : Kat Day, Kara Grace, Lisa Blackwell-Dickinson and Dave Liloia Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 916: Flash on the Borderlands LXX: Through a Glass Darkly is a PseudoPod original. “Three Awakenings: Hello, World” is a PseudoPod original […]| PseudoPod
Authors : Orrin Grey , Jacob Steven Mohr and Joule K. Zelman Narrators : Robert C. Eccles, Halloween Bloodfrost and Leanna Renee Hieber Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Masks” originally appeared in Forbidden Futures and was reprinted in the 2022 collection How to See Ghosts & Other Figments “The Machete at the […]| PseudoPod
VAST Data is integrating Nvidia’s AI-Q AI agent building and connecting blueprints into its storage to help its customers enter the AI agent-building rat race. AI-Q is a blueprint or reference design plan for integrating Nvidia GPUs, partner storage platforms, and software and Agent Intelligence Toolkit when developing AI agents. It includes Nvidia’s Llama Nemotron […]| Blocks and Files
Flash laid the conceptual groundwork for much of what we now do with native web technologies.| Los Angeles WordPress & web developer - Webinista, Inc.
The wild gyrations in tariffs on computer goods, including storage, make it impossible for businesses that rely on them to calculate costs.| Blocks and Files
This topic of population by latitude has always interested me, and it's something I've written about here before. But I'm also very interested in population by altitude, so that's what this short post is about - population by altitude across Great Britain. This is one of a few pieces I've had sitting on my computer, unfinished, for a while so I'm posting what I have now because I think people might find it interesting.| Stats, Maps n Pix
SK hynix has started mass producing its 321-layer 3D NAND, winning the flash layer count race, which Western Digital has claimed to be over.| Blocks and Files
The new Camp Snap 1.03B camera tweaks the older model and remains arguably the best bang for bucks lo-fi digital you can buy.| Canny Cameras
NIGEL SIMON’S MEMORY LANE Shooting Script: “Accidental Tourist”/Asturia (Episode 1) GVS: THE FARMHOUSE, SHOTS OF NIGEL EXITING VAN, WALKING UP DRIVEWAY, GREETING OWNERS IN YARD, VIEWS FROM TERRACE NIGEL (VO) It’s been twenty years since I stumbled upon this beautiful spot in the Asturian countryside. Indeed, ‘stumbled upon’ is the right phrase; it was a […]| Nefny Writes
VAST Data has named its first ever chief financial officer in what could be a sign that it is edging closer to an IPO. Putting aside the fact it seems strange that VAST has never had a CFO before, despite already raising hundreds of millions of dollars in funding, it has now selected and hired […]| Blocks and Files
SPONSORED FEATURE: Pure Storage’s Evergreen subscription services, aimed at making on-premises storage service consumption as much like the public cloud as feasible has been proven across eight hardware generations and over 30,000 controller upgrades for customers. There is a fair amount of flattering me-too imitation occurring in the storage industry but the Evergreen services portfolio […]| Blocks and Files
From Here to Eternity by Diane Gottlieb So, I’m going to live forever. Living forever was never my plan but it must be God’s because I’m 98 and while I’ve lost a few teeth and my bladder control (keep that…| FlashBack Fiction
The Wife of Michael Cleary by Marie Gethins Are you a witch, or are you a fairy / Or are you the wife of Michael Cleary? We watched and waited and brought rough woollens to her for mending. Other days…| FlashBack Fiction
The Myth of an Unknown Girl by Heain Joung It was summer. We were going to go on a day trip to the sea. “There is no need to bring food,” my father said. “We will pick up seashells when…| FlashBack Fiction
I Am Held in the Hands of God Who Is Named Walter Potter; or, from the Case of ‘The Death and Burial of Cock Robin’ by Elou Carroll I am born again with eyes of glass. The hand of God…| FlashBack Fiction
by Sebnem Sanders Ivy fascinated Ivan. English, with prominent white or yellow-green veins. Boston, with a reddish bronze colour in the spring, and bright, deep green during summer, turning to shad…| Spelk
by Chris Milam You can learn a lot about a man by what he spreads across his wholegrain English muffin. If he uses butter, he is delusional and uninformed. The good trumps the bad in the mind of a …| Spelk
by Janice Leagra Maybe you knew it when I was three and still wearing diapers and you were convinced that I was either doing it out of spite or because I loved walking around in my own piss. Or may…| Spelk
by Rich Giptar It was sunny enough to burn so we took the bus/Renault/Land Rover down to Skegness/Bournemouth/Sandbanks beach. I loved the beach though I’d never learned how to swim/how to snorkel/…| Spelk
by Alexa Hailey He thundered into town on the heels of a storm. That night the rain fell heavy, pounding the pavement outside the bar. The wind screamed a warning, but inside the yellow light was w…| Spelk
“A little warm for a fire, don’t you think?” “It’s for inspiration, not warmth.” “Well, it’ll burn better if you stop poking it.” “I’m tickling it. To amuse it. You know, Shakespeare? Oh, to amuse …| Love, Blood & Rhetoric
Harold had expected the last dragon would be … larger. “Disappointing, I know.” The dragon, barely three feet long, spoken in a voice like a bamboo flute—high, thin and melancholy. “Hardly a …| Love, Blood & Rhetoric
“So, how does this work, exactly?” “First step is intake. That’s what we’re doing now. We’ll determine your goals and map out a strategy for how to achieve them. You’ll train in our bubble—the enti…| Love, Blood & Rhetoric
“Do you see anything you like?” “Yes. Could you tell me about the Donzheur?” “Ah. It’s pronounced Danger, just like it’s spelled. But I’d love to recommend something else. Do you know what you’ll b…| Love, Blood & Rhetoric
“Did you know, Mr. Peterson, that a human being can drown in just two inches of water?” Stephen Peterson did not know that. Nor did he care. He did recognize the false charm of the obsequious fuck …| Love, Blood & Rhetoric
A gray bus under a gray sky makes its way along a lonely rode to who knows where. The passengers, in identical gray uniforms, don’t speak to each other, even those sharing a bench seat. Perhaps the…| Love, Blood & Rhetoric
Jacob tugged his older brother’s hand. “Can we go in? I don’t like it.” “It’s a nice night,” Carter said. “Get a bug bite?” “C’mon, we can watch something.” “Cable’s still out. Less you want to wat…| Love, Blood & Rhetoric
by Howie Good I like naps. As it wasn’t too late, I wanted to enjoy a nap under a tree. I started for the door, but a short stocky man with an uncanny resemblance to Stalin, the dictator who put th…| Spelk
by Katy Ward Dress for the job you want, not the job you have. Sue had heard this for the first time at a networking conference in Peterborough from her “career cheerleader” Sandy — a woman in her …| Spelk
by Jacqueline Harrett Five o’clock. I’m awake. It’s still dark. I lie listening to Derek’s soft breathing. How can he sleep? I haven’t been able to sleep for days. Exhaustion is slowing me down. I’…| Spelk
by Wilson Koewing In the sky above Rouses Market, anvil-shaped thunderclouds matured. Jane Sprinkle — red hair draped over the hood of a yellow rain jacket — admired the looming storm and went insi…| Spelk
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