Frosty Piss writes:https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/19/ubuntu_2510_rust/Efforts are afoot to replace the GNU coreutils with Rust ones in future versions of Ubuntu - which also means changing the software license. Canonical plans to replace the current core utilities - from the GNU project and implemented in C - with the newer uutils suite, which is written in Rust. Rather than technical issues, most concerns raised in the discussion on Ubuntu Discourse are about licensing. As a product of the GNU project, the existing coreutils are licensed under the GPL - specifically, GPL 3. The Rust replacements are licensed under the much more permissive MIT license.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.
North Korea's Bitcoin Reserve Thought to be 3rd Largest in World: Reportupstart writes:North Korea's bitcoin reserve thought to be 3rd largest in world: report:
An Anonymous Coward writes:Published: March 13, 2025 5.53pm CETTobacco's hidden friendly side: how the controversial plant could be used for good of pharmaceutical production on Earth and beyond.
JoeMerchant writes:A new concept of quantum gravity arising from entropy may be useful not only in the ever-present need to explain dark energy and dark matter, but might also edge closer to a grand unified theory of everything that we observe, and infer from our observations.
BenFenner writes:For the third time in recent memory, CloudFlare has blocked large swaths of niche browsers and their users from accessing web sites that CloudFlare gate-keeps. In the past these issues have been resolved quickly (within a week) and apologies issued with promises to do better:
VLM writes:From https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/03/nist-selects-hqc-fifth-algorithm-post-quantum-encryptionNIST has chosen a new algorithm for post-quantum encryption called HQC, which will serve as a backup for ML-KEM, the main algorithm for general encryption.
Quaise Energy reaches back to push geothermal power forwardtaylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/energy/quaise-energy-reaches-back-push-geothermal-power-forward/
canopic jug writes:Author, sysadmin, and Grumpy BSD Guy, Peter N M Hansteen, has written a post about Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and how they relate to all software, both proprietary and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Increasingly maintaining a machine-readable inventory of runtime and build dependencies in the form of an SBOM is becoming the cost of doing business, even for FOSS projects.
upstart writes:Advanced transmission technologies could sidestep permitting challenges and clear the bottleneck holding up hundreds of gigawatts' worth of renewable-energy projects: