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In December 2025, MinIO officially entered “maintenance mode” for its open-source edition, effectively ending active development. Combined with earlier moves like removing the admin UI, discontinuing Docker images, and pushing users toward their $96,000+ AIStor paid product, the writing was on the wall: MinIO’s open-source days were over.

Garage: What I chose. Lightweight, Rust-based, genuinely open source. SeaweedFS: Go-based, active development, designed for large-scale deployments but works at small scale. Ceph RGW: If you’re already running Ceph, the RADOS Gateway provides S3 compatibility.

Object Mount includes its own CSI driver for Kubernetes, allowing you to use AWS S3, Google Cloud, and Azure storage seamlessly within your Kubernetes clusters.

Object Mount was originally developed to deliver high-throughput, POSIX-compatible filesystem access to object storage for high-performance workloads in the genomics industry. It has since evolved into a full Mountpoint alternative that can mount AWS S3, Google Cloud, and Azure Blob Storage as a filesystem in virtually any Linux environment.

the Mountpoint CSI driver presents an Amazon S3 bucket as a storage volume accessible by containers in your Kubernetes cluster

In May 2024, at the height of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet had voted to shut Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel, weeks after the Israeli parliament passed a law allowing the temporary closure of foreign broadcasters considered to be a “threat to national security”.

In September that year, Israeli forces also stormed Al Jazeera’s offices in the occupied West Bank’s Ramallah city, confiscating equipment and documents and closing the network’s office.

In December last year, the Israeli parliament approved an extension of the 2024 law, also called the “Al Jazeera law”, for two more years.

What happened before and at the moment of the shooting? published at 08:14 08:14 As we've posted earlier, our colleagues at BBC Verify have analysed seven videos showing the moments leading up to and around the shooting. The footage shows an agent pushing someone over, with Pretti standing between them and the agent while filming on his phone. The agent pepper sprays Pretti in the face. Pretti raises his hand defensively and turns away, pockets his phone, and starts to help the woman on the floor as the agent continues spraying. Other agents rush over. They drag Pretti away and several agents wrestle him to the floor. Pretti then tries to crawl away - he’s clearly not holding a gun. An agent in a grey jacket is seen reaching for something from Pretti’s waist. Next to him, another agent draws his gun. The agent in the grey jacket turns away from Pretti, holding what appears to be a pistol. Less than a second later, an agent shoots Pretti. Ten shots are heard in total. For context, after the shooting, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem gave the following description of what happened: "An individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun. The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted. Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots."

Republican Congressman Thomas Massie has defended the carrying of a gun as a "constitutional right", following the Department of Homeland and Security's claim that Alex Pretti was armed when he was shot dead by federal agents yesterday. "Carrying a firearm is not a death sentence, it’s a Constitutionally protected God-given right," Massie says, criticising an X post from US attorney Bill Essayli, which alludes to Pretti's death. Essayli, in his own post, says there is a "high likelihood" federal officers will "be legally justified" in shooting an armed person who approaches them. Generally, Republicans celebrate the right to possess firearms as enshrined in the US Constitution.

Clawdbot is, at a high level, two things:

An LLM-powered agent that runs on your computer and can use many of the popular models such as Claude, Gemini, etc. A “gateway” that lets you talk to the agent using the messaging app of your choice, including iMessage, Telegram, WhatsApp and others.

Which brings me to the most important – and powerful – trait of Clawdbot: because the agent is running on your computer, it has access to a shell and your filesystem. Given the right permissions, Clawdbot can execute Terminal commands, write scripts on the fly and execute them, install skills to gain new capabilities, and set up MCP servers to give itself new external integrations.

The tech giant said it receives around 20 requests for BitLocker keys a year and will provide them to governments in response to valid court orders. But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isn’t possible.

The AI Gateway is designed for fast, reliable & secure routing to 1600+ language, vision, audio, and image models. It is a lightweight, open-source, and enterprise-ready solution that allows you to integrate with any language model in under 2 minutes.

Blazing fast (<1ms latency) with a tiny footprint (122kb)
Battle tested, with over 10B tokens processed everyday
Enterprise-ready with enhanced security, scale, and custom deployments

What can you do with the AI Gateway?

Integrate with any LLM in under 2 minutes - Quickstart
Prevent downtimes through automatic retries and fallbacks
Scale AI apps with load balancing and conditional routing
Protect your AI deployments with guardrails
Go beyond text with multi-modal capabilities
Explore agentic workflow integrations
Manage MCP servers with enterprise auth & observability using MCP Gateway

Arize Phoenix: Open-source LLM tracing and evaluation Evaluate, experiment, and optimize AI products in real time.

AI & Agent Engineering Platform. One place for development, observability, and evaluation.

Shortly after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy took office in February, the DOT suspended the $5 billion National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program, which was part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that Biden signed into law in 2021.

The Trump administration has pursued a number of policies to boost the sale of gas-powered vehicles and cut EV incentives for automakers and consumers.

imagine that you can ask Leo Tolstoy a question. Or ask for the opinion of a departed loved one. Or create a digital copy of yourself that will continue to manage your projects after your death. Does it sound like science fiction? For the Russian futurologist Alexei Turchin and a small but enthusiastic community of enthusiasts, this is already the current reality, available here and now. Ultra-large language model technologies (LLM) have paved the way for the creation of digital personality replicas - processes known as sideloading (loading a living person) and offloading (resurrection of the deceased).

A person is 30 trillion cells, each with 500 megabytes of DNA. Supernanotechnology life machine. And in total, it's an alcoholic going for a bottle, or a girl going to study. A typical situation when something simpler is made from supermaterial at the next level. But the material itself can't produce this simple thing. You can't get an alcoholic without 30 trillion cells.

If we talk specifically about the example, there are 100 billion neurons in the brain. If each neuron has 10 thousand inputs, at each input there is a synaptic slit with a changing transmission coefficient of 1 byte, then you can calculate the weights. There will be 1 quadrillion of them. There are no such models now, but it seems that everything is going to this. There are models with several trillion parameters. Another thing, they are superior to any person. A person has an incredible redundancy in the brain. Side-loading is based on the idea that a person is a program that works on top of some "hardware". It consists of information that we can discover. There are no hidden scales important for the model.

There were studies of the volume of human conscious memory. This is about 1-2 gigabytes, which a person can turn to for reading and writing. This includes knowledge of languages, childhood memories, professional knowledge. It's very little. If we could pump out these 2 gigabytes, we could create a very accurate personality model.

Day one actions of his presidency included restoring U.S. participation in the Paris Agreement, revoking the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline and halting funding for the Mexico–United States border wall.[3] On his second day, he issued a series of executive orders to reduce the impact of COVID-19, including invoking the Defense Production Act of 1950, and set an early goal of achieving one hundred million COVID-19 vaccinations in the United States in his first 100 days.[4] The first major legislation signed into law by Biden was the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill that temporarily established expanded unemployment insurance and sent $1,400 stimulus checks to most Americans in response to continued economic pressure from COVID-19.[5] He signed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a ten-year plan brokered by Biden alongside Democrats and Republicans in Congress to invest in American roads, bridges, public transit, ports and broadband access.[6]

Biden appointed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court—the first Black woman to serve on the court. In response to the debt-ceiling crisis of 2023, he negotiated and signed the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, which restrains federal spending for fiscal years 2024 and 2025, implements minor changes to SNAP and TANF, includes energy permitting reform, claws back some IRS funding and unspent money for COVID-19, and suspended the debt ceiling to January 1, 2025.

The foreign policy goal of the Biden administration was to restore the U.S. to a "position of trusted leadership" among global democracies in order to address the challenges posed by Russia and China. Biden signed AUKUS, an international security alliance together with Australia and the United Kingdom. He supported the expansion of NATO with the additions of Finland and Sweden. Biden approved a raid which led to the death of Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, the leader of the Islamic State, and approved a drone strike which killed Ayman Al Zawahiri, leader of Al-Qaeda. He completed the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Afghanistan, declaring an end to nation-building efforts and shifting U.S. foreign policy toward strategic competition with China and, to a lesser extent, Russia.

He responded to the Russian invasion of Ukraine by imposing sanctions on Russia and providing Ukraine with over $100 billion in combined military, economic, and humanitarian aid.[19][20] During the Gaza war, Biden condemned the actions of Hamas and other Palestinian militants as terrorism, and announced American military support for Israel; he also sent humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and brokered a four-day temporary pause and hostage exchange in 2023 followed by a three-phase ceasefire in January 2025.

multi-pane terminal:

tmux is a terminal multiplexer. It lets you switch easily between several programs in one terminal, detach them (they keep running in the background) and reattach them to a different terminal.

Temporal is like a distributed state-saving workflow execution engine. Weirdly useful primitive.

E-bikes are bicycles that are assisted by an electric motor. Some e-bikes only provide electric assistance when the rider is pedaling while others can propel the e-bike using electric power alone. Either way, a legal e-bike will always have pedals and a maximum speed of 20mph (when using electric power) or 28mph (with the rider pedaling). The power output from an e-bike motor will never exceed 750 watts.

Electric motorcycles are electrically powered cycles that often do not have operable pedals (but may have foot pegs/ brackets/supports). If the cycle does not have operational pedals capable of propelling it, or exceeds 750 watts, or is capable of going over 28 mph with motor assistance, it is classified as a motorcycle and specific laws apply.