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The GNOME Foundation has announced the hiring of Steven Deobald as its new executive director.

Steven has been a GNOME user since 2002 and has been involved in numerous free software initiatives throughout his career. His professional background spans technical leadership, cooperative business development, and nonprofit work. Having worked with projects like XTDB and Endatabas, he brings valuable experience in open source product development. Based in Halifax, Canada, Steven is well-positioned to collaborate with our global community across time zones.

We know some medications work differently in men and women. Why is it taking so long for studies to reflect this?

The first step, they say, is admitting you have a problem, and on that front the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has made some much-needed progress. The agency, which is responsible for approving all clinical trials in the UK, has identified a “notable imbalance” in trials conducted between 2019 and 2023: there were nearly twice as many all-male trials as all-female trials.

SpaceX's plan to turn Starbase into Texas' newest city won the approval of voters—err, employees.

Raspberry Pi Connect is out of beta, and our remote access solution has some data-efficient upgrades. Here's how to update.

The post Raspberry Pi Connect is out of beta: simple remote access, now even better appeared first on Raspberry Pi.

Scientists fear early emerging insects may fall out of sync with pathogens, predators or availability of food

Midsummer butterflies are on the wing in early May after a sunny spring prompted one of the most advanced seasons for Britain’s Lepidoptera on record.

The Lulworth skipper – usually found in June and July – is flying at Lulworth Cove in Dorset, the chequered skipper emerged in April rather than mid-May in Scotland and the first swallowtail, which is most common in mid-June, was spotted in Norfolk on 1 May.

Experts found 60% of the EU’s agricultural soils had been degraded, with about 40% similarly damaged in the UK

More than 60% of the EU’s agricultural soils are degraded due to intensive agriculture, with similar damage to about 40% of British soils, a report has found.

Experts from the Save Soil initiative said nourishing and restoring agricultural soils could reduce the impact of the climate crisis and provide protection against the worsening extremes of weather, as well as the food shortages and price rises likely to accompany them.

And yet science cannot get rid of them. Or can it?

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Researchers say AI could give every developing country a vital early warning system of extreme events

Weather forecasting has gradually been getting more and more sophisticated. It has also got far more important as the climate gets more unpredictable and extreme events threaten to cause massive economic damage and loss of life. So an early warning system is vital.

Ever larger computer systems making millions of calculations over many hours are now part of the daily forecasting in most developed countries. Sadly large parts of the world, many very vulnerable to dangerous climate events, do not have the money, personnel or computing power to develop the 10-day forecasting system they need.

This post is about my experience running a Linux desktop virtual machine on a Linux host. I used the VM interactively, often in fullscreen mode, to develop software and run web apps (mostly Slack and Google Docs). My experience wasn't great, as I ran into many challenges.

My previous post on running VMs discussed running bare-bones Linux VMs and getting SSH access to them. I usually do that for testing, where the VMs are light-weight, shortlived, and disposable. It turns out that long-lived desktop VMs have more challenging requirements and come with a whole new set of issues.