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If you follow the cultivated meat sector, you know that the last couple years have been tough. Some companies have gone under, others have gone into hibernation, and others have shed staff in cash-conserving layoffs. Major publications have published opinion column obituaries for this industry, yet the work goes on. Part of that work is that of Obillion Bio, a B2B cultivated meat company which successfully raised capital in 2024, surely a Herculean feat. Having now brought in $15 million, while the Orbillion technology is complex, the business model is simple: grow high-quality wagyu beef cells and then sell those cells to others who will create finished goods with them. In this conversation, Orbillion CEO Patricia Bubner and I chat about what makes them different from other cultivated meat startups, her work as a plant and fungal biologist prior to her career in mammalian cell culture, what she thinks are the best ways to scale, why she thinks she was successful in fundraising during a funding famine, and more.  Discussed in this episode Patricia is a fan of John Steinbeck's books. Patricia co-founded The Millet Project. Orbillion went through the Y Combinator accelerator program Patricia and Paul both recommend Hannah Ritchie book, Not The End of the World. You can see Paul's review of it here. AgFunder News on Orbillion Bio. More about Patricia Bubner, PhD Patricia Bubner is a PhD scientist and engineer focused on commercializing cultivated beef. She is the co-founder and CEO of Orbillion Bio, Inc. with the mission to make sustainable, nutritious, and flavorful cultivated meat at price parity.  Patricia grew up in Graz, Austria, surrounded by an abundance of local and regional foods. With farmers as grandparents, she learned early where food comes from and the hard work that goes into producing it. Her deep interest in food — and the molecular basis of food — led her to study chemistry. Patricia holds an MSc in Technical Chemistry and a PhD in Biotechnology from Graz University of Technology in Austria, and she conducted her postdoctoral research at the Energy Biosciences Institute at UC Berkeley. During that time, she also pursued her conviction of a more sustainable food system as a co-founder of the agriculture and food systems initiative, The Millet Project.  Prior to Orbillion, Patricia advised several technology companies and led the Analytics and QC teams at biopharma startups. During her time with the Bioprocess Science team at Boehringer Ingelheim (BI), she built and led a team dedicated to scaling bioprocess development for mammalian cells — the very systems required to commercialize cultivated meat. At BI, Patricia met and worked hand-in-hand with Orbillion co-founder, Samet Yildirim, on a novel bioprocessing technology now commercialized by Pfizer. Combining her experience in the biopharma, food, and sustainable materials industries, Patricia co-founded Orbillion Bio, Inc. Orbillion is a B2B cultivated meat technology company that brings commercially viable meat to the ever-growing $211B global ground beef market. Orbillion has developed a game-changing algorithm for the scale-up of cultivated meat that makes commercializing low-cost cultivated beef possible. Orbillion has raised $15M and is backed by The Venture Collective, Y Combinator, At One Ventures, Venture Souq, and Metaplanet among others.

In this episode of InTechnology, Camille delves into side channels alongside episode co-host Anders Fogh; Fellow & Security Researcher at Intel, and guest Daniel Gruss; Associate Professor at Graz University of Technology. They talk about the exploitation of side channels, why side channels are not going away, common challenges and how to manage them, what evolving landscapes such as AI systems and space-based infrastructure mean for side channels, and more. The views and opinions expressed are those of the guests and author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Intel Corporation.

GDP Script/ Top Stories for Nov 29th    Publish Date:  Nov 28th    HENSSLER 15 From the Henssler Financial Studio Welcome to the Gwinnett Daily Post Podcast. Today is Wednesday, November 29th, and Happy heavenly Birthday to the great Vin Scully. ***HANK ARRON 715 CALL*** I'm Bruce Jenkins and here are your top stories presented by Peggy Slappy Properties. Lawrenceville resident trains to be a U.S. Navy logistic specialist Math Teacher Demetrius Nelson Kicks Off Campaign For Gwinnett School Board District 3 Seat Gwinnett Seeking Poll Officials For 2024 Election Cycle Plus, my conversation with Leah McGrath from Ingle Markets on dividing calories. All of this and more is coming up on the Gwinnett Daily Post podcast, and if you are looking for community news, we encourage you to listen daily and subscribe! Break 1: PEGGY SLAPPY   STORY 1: Lawrenceville resident trains to be a U.S. Navy logistic specialist Seaman Nhien Pham, a resident of Lawrenceville, is undergoing training as a logistic specialist at Naval Technical Training Center (NTTC) Meridian. Pham, a 2020 graduate of the University of North Georgia, joined the Navy for educational opportunities and to help her parents acquire U.S. citizenship. Her role involves providing supplies for ship stores and squadrons, playing an essential part in ship and squadron operations. Pham credits her success in the military to values learned in Lawrenceville, emphasizing respect, discipline, and the importance of staying on the right path. NTTC Meridian focuses on developing dedicated and motivated sailors and Marines.   STORY 2: Math Teacher Demetrius Nelson Kicks Off Campaign For Gwinnett School Board District 3 Seat Demetrius Nelson, a veteran math teacher, has officially launched his campaign for the Gwinnett County Board of Education's District 3 seat, currently held by Mary Kay Murphy. Nelson, with 15 years of teaching experience, emphasizes shared principles of sympathy, empathy, trust, fairness, and credibility in his candidacy. He joins at least three other candidates in the nonpartisan school board elections in May 2024. Nelson's campaign focuses on the "Four Cs": courage, communication, community, and character. He aims to improve the balance of respect among students, parents, teachers, school leaders, and community businesses for better school outcomes.     STORY 3: Gwinnett Seeking Poll Officials For 2024 Election Cycle Gwinnett County is organizing two hiring events on Dec. 4 and Dec. 18 to recruit poll officials for the 2024 elections cycle. The events aim to attract residents from diverse backgrounds, including those fluent in multiple languages. Attendees must complete an I-9 form and provide original identification documents for verification. With the 2024 elections cycle, including a presidential election, Gwinnett emphasizes the opportunity for residents to actively participate in the electoral process. Poll officials will receive a $390 stipend, further incentivizing community engagement. The events will take place in Lawrenceville and Dacula, offering residents a chance to contribute to democracy.   We have opportunities for sponsors to get great engagement on these shows. Call 770.874.3200 for more info. We'll be right back Break 2: M.O.G. – TOM WAGES – DTL   STORY 4: Zoom calls and video meetings can lead to extreme fatigue: study A study by Graz University of Technology in Austria has provided neurophysiological evidence that Zoom calls cause "extreme fatigue" in workers and students, a phenomenon known as Zoom fatigue. The research showed that a 50-minute online lecture exhausted participants significantly more than an in-person lecture of the same duration. The findings highlight the impact of video conferencing on well-being, interpersonal relationships, and organizational communication. The study emphasizes the need for a comprehensive understanding of the psychological and physiological mechanisms behind video conference fatigue to develop effective coping strategies.   STORY 5: Exercise can improve brain function even after poor sleep: study A new study suggests that just 20 minutes of exercise can enhance brain function after a poor night's sleep. Mental performance improves with moderate exercise, regardless of sleep quality or oxygen levels. Chronic sleep deprivation affects nearly 40% of the population and is linked to various health issues. The research explored how sleep, oxygen, and exercise impact cognitive performance. Findings indicated that even in low-oxygen conditions or after sleep deprivation, a short cycling session improved cognitive tasks. This improvement might be due to various factors such as changes in brain-regulating hormones and psychophysiological aspects like cerebral blood flow, arousal, and motivation. 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Dayton, Ohio police are warning parents to disable the "Bringing Devices Together" setting in AirDrop for children. And Research from the Graz University of Technology, Austria suggests that Zoom fatigue is real. Plus we go over leaks for Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S24 flagship phone.Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/dtns. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Municipal police departments in Ohio and Michigan are warning parents to disable the “Bringing Devices Together” setting in AirDrop for children. And Research from the Graz University of Technology, Austria suggests that Zoom fatigue is real. Plus we go over leaks for Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S24 flagship phone. Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe. To read the show notes in a separate page click here! Support the show on Patreon by becoming a supporter!

Listen to this interview of Daniel Gruss, Associate Professor in the Secure Systems group at Graz University of Technology, Institute of Applied Information Processing and Communications, Austria. We talk about asking the right questions when writing, for example, asking not "How should I write that?" but asking instead "How would someone else write that?" Daniel Gruss: "Actual methods and results have almost no value if they don't serve a purpose, and the purpose in research is to show that some idea is valuable enough to be shared with the community — basically, that this idea needs to get into the shared knowledge of the community, the state-of-the-art. Because, if you don't have any idea there that you're adding to the state-of-the-art, then what is the value of a result or a method?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Listen to this interview of Daniel Gruss, Associate Professor in the Secure Systems group at Graz University of Technology, Institute of Applied Information Processing and Communications, Austria. We talk about asking the right questions when writing, for example, asking not "How should I write that?" but asking instead "How would someone else write that?" Daniel Gruss: "Actual methods and results have almost no value if they don't serve a purpose, and the purpose in research is to show that some idea is valuable enough to be shared with the community — basically, that this idea needs to get into the shared knowledge of the community, the state-of-the-art. Because, if you don't have any idea there that you're adding to the state-of-the-art, then what is the value of a result or a method?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special episode of the 3D InCites Podcast, we bring you, in its entirety, a panel discussion that took place earlier this year at SEMI ISS Europe. The theme: Closing the Talent Gap and Cultivating the Workforce of Tomorrow. The multigenerational panel offers different perspectives and multiple topics, such as what they look for in a company, the importance of workplace culture, and what the semiconductor industry needs to do to improve its image to recruit more people. We join the panel in progress, as Cassandra Melvin opens the questioning. Some of the questions posed include: ·      How would you describe the image of the semiconductor industry? ·      Is there a specific challenge for the EU to improve the image of the industry?·      How can Internships and apprenticeships can be improved to make the industry more compelling to candidates? ·      How do the generations differ in what makes a good workplace?  Moderator: Cassandra Melvin, Senior Director of Business Development & Operations, SEMI Europe·      Isabella Drolz, VP Product Marketing Comet Yxlon·      Anna McEvoy, Project Team Lead Semiconductor Service, Edwards·      Léo Saint-Martin, DECISION Etudes & Conseil, METIS Project·      Clara Haubenwallner, Student Assistant, Graz University of TechnologySEMI A global association, SEMI represents the entire electronics manufacturing and design supply chain. Like what you hear? Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter Interested in becoming a sponsor of the 3D InCites Podcast? Check out our 2023 Media Kit. Learn more about the 3D InCites Community and how you can become more involved.

 Dr. Veronika Wright is an electrification enthusiast, consultant, and author. She holds a PhD in Technical Physics from the Graz University of Technology in Austria and gained extensive industry experience in batteries and electrification before founding her own social enterprise, Electrified Veronika, in 2021. With a passion for people and technology, she provides education, technical advice, and mentoring in battery lifecycle management for clean transportation and energy. Having grown up in Austria and now living in the US, she lives by the mantra, “it is 100% impossible if you don't try,” and is passionate about sharing this global perspective on the world's “Drive to Electric.” Dr. Veronika's book: The Drive to ElectricDr. Veronika's YouTube ChannelElectrified Veronika PodcastQuotables“We're ten years in and we're still calling [Electric Vehicles] nascent technology.” – Amy Simpkins“[These regulations] will be driving the recycling of materials and will help turn this chaos we have right now into something we can track and hopefully into the circular economy.” -Dr. Veronika Wright“The lack of the feedback loop, the lack of accountability is a really big issue across the industry.” – Amy Simpkins“We need to bring together the transportation sector and the energy sector… it will then enable the circular economy.” – Dr. Veronika WrightResourcesDr. Veronika's book: The Drive to ElectricDr. Veronika's YouTube ChannelElectrified Veronika PodcastIf you enjoyed the conversation, please share the episode with other innovators. Leave us a positive review and subscribe to Power Flow on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Check out our awesome merch! And hey, we're new, so you can even apply to be a sponsor or a guest.You can follow Power Flow Podcast on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Tik Tok. Thank you for listening. See you at the whiteboard!

Show #1157.   If you get any value from this podcast please consider supporting my work on Patreon. Plus all Patreon supporters get their own unique ad-free podcast feed.   Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Tuesday 27thJuly. It's  Martyn Lee here and I go through every EV story so you don't have to.   Thank you to MYEV.com for helping make this show, they've built the first marketplace specifically for Electric Vehicles. It's a totally free marketplace that simplifies the buying and selling process, and help you learn about EVs along the way too.   LUCID GOES PUBLIC   - Shares of luxury electric vehicle start-up Lucid Motors rose nearly 10% on Monday following their Nasdaq debut as the race to populate the world's roads and highways with electric vehicles continues to heat up.   - The startup received about $4.4 billion in cash from the transaction, after expenses, according to reports. Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund has invested more than $1 billion in Lucid. It will own about 60% of the company. The reverse-merger deal, which faced last-minute challenges being approved due to difficulties communicating to retail investors holding the stock to vote, values Lucid at around $24 billion.   - The Lucid Air has a price tag of around $70,000 after tax credits, while the Air Dream Edition will cost $162,000. The EV features an autonomous driving system with 32 sensors including long-distance Lidar   Original Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/lucid-motors-set-to-debut-with-valuation-of-around-24-billion/ar-AAMzfuL   PLUGIN VEHICLES HIT 19% MARKET SHARE IN EUROPE IN JUNE   - The European passenger plugin vehicle market continues in the fast lane, having gotten over 237,000 registrations in June and over a million registrations YTD   - Last month's plugin vehicle share of the overall auto market was 19% (10% full electrics/BEVs), which pulled the 2021 plugin vehicle (PEV) share to 16% (7.6% for BEVs alone).   - #1 Tesla Model 3 — The sports sedan had another peak month, scoring 26,178 deliveries in June, its best performance ever in Europe and the second best performance ever by an EV in this market, only behind the 28,110 units of the ID.3 that Volkswagen registered (or, should I say, pre-registered) last December.   - #2 Renault Zoe — Its 8,244 deliveries in June show that the French hatchback is recovering its good form. This is its best score this year.   - #3 Volkswagen ID.3 — The German hatchback is slowly returning to form as well, getting 7,101 deliveries last month, its best score in 2021.   - #4 Volkswagen ID.4 — Sitting on the vortex of the current hottest trends (plugins and compact crossovers), much is expected from the new Volkswagen, especially considering that its ID.3 sibling is yet to fill the Volkswagen Golf's admittedly big shoes. … In June, the Volkswagen crossover had 6,619 registrations.   - Still outside the top 20, a mention is due for the first full month of two important models, with the Hyundai Ioniq 5 retro-futuristic XXL hatchback scoring 1,102 registrations, while the attractive Audi Q4 e-tron had 1,869 registrations in June   Original Source : https://cleantechnica.com/2021/07/25/plugin-vehicles-hit-19-market-share-in-europe-in-june-tesla-model-3-has-best-month-ever/   NEW MERCEDES EQE SUV CONFIRMED FOR LAUNCH IN 2022   - Mercedes has confirmed that a third pure-electric SUV will arrive in 2022 with the launch of the Tesla Model X-rivalling EQE SUV.   - It won't be the largest Mercedes electric SUV we'll see in the coming years, but it will be positioned towards the top end of the company's EV line-up, sitting above the EQC and the smaller EQA and EQB SUVs when it arrives.   - The EQE badge will be shared across a large saloon and the SUV.   - From the A-pillars back, the SUV takes on more traditional 4x4 proportions. Compared to the EQC, styling changes include a stubbier bonnet, longer wheelbase and a more swept-back cabin.The EQE will sit on the same EVA2 underpinnings as the EQS limo. It also marks a shift away from the conventions set by the EQC, which uses a modified version of the GLC's platform rather than dedicated electric architecture.   - As well as ensuring the EQE is able to accommodate a large battery, Mercedes has also been prioritising ultra-rapid recharging with the new architecture.   Original Source : https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/mercedes/352810/new-mercedes-eqe-suv-confirmed-launch-2022   THE UK'S FIRST EV-ONLY TRACKDAY   - This is an exclusive event for EV owners to drive their vehicles on track. Llandow is perfect for all levels of driver and offers some technically challenging corners even though it's smaller than most other UK tracks.   - The number of cars on track at any one time will be very limited. We've invited Ed Moore and his team of driver coaches from Motorsport Events/Stay Sharp along. They will be on hand all day to give help and advice on and off track. This is the perfect chance to find out how your car performs on track in a relaxed atmosphere with like-minded EV owners. No earplugs required!   - This is also the very first time a trackday has been organised exclusively for Electric Vehicles in the UK, so you'll be making history!   - The nearest Tesla Superchargers are 11 miles from Llandow at Sarn services   - £180.00 Inc VAT   Original Source : https://www.tevo.solutions/events/the-uks-first-ev-only-trackday---18th-august-2021    VW PUSHES AHEAD WITH 'SUPER PLATFORM' FOR SELF-DRIVING ELECTRIC CARS   - Volkswagen Group will produce 40 million vehicles on its new electric "super platform" that will replace combustion-engine and full-electric platforms used by its brands including VW, Skoda, Seat, Audi and Porsche.   - The automaker is accelerating the development of the Scalable Systems Platform (SSP) despite having only recently started the rollouts of its MEB electric platform for volume EVs and its PPE architecture for upscale electric cars.   - VW Group's development chief Markus Duesmann, who is also Audi's CEO, said the design of the SSP platform with its differing 'modules,' battery sizes and body lengths will allow plenty of brand differentiation.   - "We will reduce today's complexity by about 50 percent. And I think you can understand what this means for us in terms of economies of scale," Duesmann said.   - "By the end of this decade, we will have rolled out as SSP across all of our core segments and all brand groups," Duesmann said. By 2030, cars on the SSP platform would "already cover a bigger volume than PPE and MEB put together," he said.   Original Source : https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/vw-pushes-ahead-super-platform-self-driving-electric-cars   GOOD LUCK GETTING A STATE REBATE ON YOUR NEW ELECTRIC CAR   - Sam Dudley of Encino knows that California government has gone all in on zero-emission vehicles. So has he. He's all about cutting back on greenhouse gases.In May, Dudley splurged on a new electric car, a metallic black Chevy Bolt EV LT. He loves it.But now it's July, and the after-school program director, 39, wonders when the state will make good on the EV-incentive rebate money it owes him.He figures he's due $4,500. He might have to wait until next year for a check to arrive, he said a rebate program representative told him by phone. And, he was warned, he and thousands of others might not get back as much money as promised, or might not receive any money at all.   Original Source : https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-07-23/good-luck-getting-a-state-rebate-on-your-new-electric-car   EUROPE TO BOOST BATTERY PRODUCTION AS ELECTRIC-VEHICLE SHIFT ACCELERATES   - If Europe is going to shift to electric cars, it will need lots of batteries. After years of slow progress, there are now plans to invest 40 billion euros (S$64 billion) in 38 European factories that could turn out 1,000 gigawatt hours of batteries per year,   - With average battery capacity of 60 kilowatt hours, that would be enough to power 16.7 million vehicles   - EU Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic recently said the planned factories put the EU "well on track to achieve open strategic autonomy in this critical sector".   - Europe has domestic sources of lithium, notably in the Czech Republic and Germany, but it will also probably have to depend on imports.  Mr Montique said Europe would likely end up "developing supply agreements with markets where there are abundant resources, favourable diplomatic ties, and strong investment frameworks" to reduce the threat of shortages.   Original Source : https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/transport/europe-to-boost-battery-production-as-electric-vehicle-shift-accelerates   POLESTAR TO LAUNCH IN FURTHER NINE MARKETS   - wedish electric performance car brand Polestar said Monday that it will launch in a further nine markets in 2021 and double its retail locations to support the brand's continuing growth.   - The brand currently has city-center retail locations under its Polestar Spaces concept, but is introducing larger, easy-to-access out-of-town locations where the company can also hand over customers' cars, in a new concept called Polestar Destinations   - by the end of 2021 it will be present in 18 countries and have up to 100 retail locations,   Original Source : https://www.marketwatch.com/story/swedish-electric-car-brand-polestar-to-launch-in-further-nine-markets-double-retail-locations-271627299496   A ROBOT THAT CHARGES ELECTRIC CARS BY ITSELF   - The Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) in Austria teamed up with the ARTI Robots start-up and the electric vehicle service ALVERI to develop “ALVERI - CharBo” – a robot capable of charging parked electric cars without human supervision.  The robot can move autonomously between the cars, recognize charging connections, and plug in. Electric vehicles are on the rise, and so is the demand for charging infrastructure. This creates a noticeable disparity, which this robot aims to fix.   - At the moment, the charging lid of the vehicle needs to be kept open, so the robot recognises that it needs to be charged. In the future, the team plans to remove this inconvenience, by establishing some sort of communication between the vehicle and the robot, either through an app or something else.   Original Source : https://www.themayor.eu/en/a/view/graz-university-of-technology-presents-a-robot-that-charges-electric-cars-by-itself-8491   QUESTION OF THE WEEK WITH EMOBILITYNORWAY.COM   With 2877 Superchargers globally and 25000 stalls, what do you think about Tesla's plan to open up the network to everyone?   Email me your thoughts and I'll read them out on Sunday – hello@evnewsdaily.com   It would mean a lot if you could take 2mins to leave a quick review on whichever platform you download the podcast.   And  if you have an Amazon Echo, download our Alexa Skill, search for EV News Daily and add it as a flash briefing.   Come and say hi on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter just search EV News Daily, have a wonderful day, I'll catch you tomorrow and remember…there's no such thing as a self-charging hybrid.   PREMIUM PARTNERS PHIL ROBERTS / ELECTRIC FUTURE BRAD CROSBY PORSCHE OF THE VILLAGE CINCINNATI AUDI CINCINNATI EAST VOLVO CARS CINCINNATI EAST NATIONALCARCHARGING.COM and ALOHACHARGE.COM DEREK REILLY FROM THE EV REVIEW IRELAND YOUTUBE CHANNEL RICHARD AT RSEV.CO.UK – FOR BUYING AND SELLING EVS IN THE UK EMOBILITYNORWAY.COM/

When creating projects and programming concerts, concert organisers should always be aiming at satisfying their audiences' needs or desires. But it is not only the role of programmers: composers and artists alike should also play an important role in the process of audience development.Interview withConstanze Wimmer, musicology professor at Graz University, specialised in audience engagement. François Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres pour le Mercredy Saint (Première Leçon)Le Caravansérail: Rachel Redmond and Maïlys de Villoutreys, sopranos - Bertrand Cuiller, harpsichord, organ and directionRecorded on 23 July 2020 at Festival de SaintesWith Jasmina ČrnčičProduction/ REMA-Agathe Créac'h

Episode sponsored by Tidelift: https://tidelift.com/ (tidelift.com) I bet you already heard of Bayesian nonparametric models, at least on this very podcast. We already talked about Dirichlet Processes with Karin Knudson on episode 4, and then about Gaussian Processes with Elizaveta Semenova on episode 21. Now we’re gonna dive into the mathematical properties of these objects, to understand them better — because, as you may know, Bayesian nonparametrics are quite powerful but also very hard to fit! Along the way, you’ll learn about probabilistic circuits, sum-product networks and — what a delight — you’ll hear from the Julia community! Indeed, my guest for this episode is no other than… Martin Trapp! Martin is a core developer of Turing.jl, an open-source framework for probabilistic programming in Julia, and a post-doc in probabilistic machine learning at Aalto University, Finland. Martin loves working on sum-product networks and Bayesian non-parametrics. And indeed, his research interests focus on probabilistic models that exploit structural properties to allow efficient and exact computations while maintaining the capability to model complex relationships in data. In other words, Martin’s research is focused on tractable probabilistic models. Martin did his MsC in computational intelligence at the Vienna University of Technology and just finished his PhD in machine learning at the Graz University of Technology. He doesn’t only like to study the tractability of probabilistic models — he also is very found of climbing! Our theme music is « Good Bayesian », by Baba Brinkman (feat MC Lars and Mega Ran). Check out his awesome work at https://bababrinkman.com/ (https://bababrinkman.com/) ! Thank you to my Patrons for making this episode possible! Yusuke Saito, Avi Bryant, Ero Carrera, Brian Huey, Giuliano Cruz, Tim Gasser, James Wade, Tradd Salvo, Adam Bartonicek, William Benton, Alan O'Donnell, Mark Ormsby, Demetri Pananos, James Ahloy, Jon Berezowski, Robin Taylor, Thomas Wiecki, Chad Scherrer, Vincent Arel-Bundock, Nathaniel Neitzke, Zwelithini Tunyiswa, Elea McDonnell Feit, Bertrand Wilden, James Thompson, Stephen Oates, Gian Luca Di Tanna, Jack Wells, Matthew Maldonado, Ian Costley, Ally Salim, Larry Gill, Joshua Duncan, Ian Moran, Paul Oreto, Colin Caprani, George Ho, Colin Carroll, Nathaniel Burbank, Michael Osthege, Rémi Louf, Clive Edelsten, Henri Wallen, Jonathan Sedar, Hugo Botha, Vinh Nguyen and Raul Maldonado. Visit https://www.patreon.com/learnbayesstats (https://www.patreon.com/learnbayesstats) to unlock exclusive Bayesian swag ;) Links from the show: Martin's website: https://trappmartin.github.io/ (https://trappmartin.github.io/) Martin on GitHub: https://github.com/trappmartin (https://github.com/trappmartin) Martin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/martin_trapp (https://twitter.com/martin_trapp) Turing, Bayesian inference with Julia: https://turing.ml/dev/ (https://turing.ml/dev/) Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jordan/papers/hdp.pdf (https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jordan/papers/hdp.pdf) The Automatic Statistician: https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mpd37/teaching/2014/ml_tutorials/2014-01-29-slides_zoubin2.pdf (https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mpd37/teaching/2014/ml_tutorials/2014-01-29-slides_zoubin2.pdf) Truncated Random Measures: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.00861 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.00861) Deep Structured Mixtures of Gaussian Processes: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04536 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04536) Probabilistic Circuits -- Representations, Inference, Learning and Theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RAG5-L9R70 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RAG5-L9R70) Applied Stochastic Differential Equations, from Simo Särkkä and Arno Solin: https://users.aalto.fi/~asolin/sde-book/sde-book.pdf (https://users.aalto.fi/~asolin/sde-book/sde-book.pdf) This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn -... Support this podcast

The second Autumn GenComm hosted hydrogen webinar this Tuesday, October 6, will have a distinct gas-related theme. Titled ‘H2 Sustainability H2 DXNET-Hydrogen injection into natural gas distribution networks’ the event includes four key speakers. GenComm hydrogen webinar: Focusing on gas James Burchill, Head of Asset Operations Gas Networks Ireland who is speaking on the day realises the significance of the event saying: “I am really looking forward to exploring and discussing the challenges of injecting hydrogen into the gasgrid.” The Hydrogen Enabled Zero Emission Supply Chains series of Autumn webinars will address the production, sustainability, safety, application, innovation, and entrepreneurship of the Hydrogen value chain. Hydrogen is very much now a European energy opportunity as Paul Mc Cormack, GenComm Programme Manager stated: “As the EU embarks on the economic recovery journey from COVID-19 there is a clear opportunity to set the trajectory towards a truly green recovery. Clean, green hydrogen from renewables – Hydrogenewables will play a pivotal role in realising the EU’s climate objectives. Optimising the gas networks across Europe through H2-DxNET for energy transmission, distribution, storage, and use will be the catalyst to sustainably reduce emissions in the long term, open all P2X options and drive economic growth. “ Gencomm webinar: Key speakers The speakers at next Tuesdays event are all providing their own expertise. Professor Viktor Hacker, from Graz University of Technology in Austria, will speak on: ‘Decentralized Hydrogen Production from green methane-The Reformer Steam Iron Cycle, (RESC)’. Professor Hacker built up and heads the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Research Group at the Institute of Chemical Engineering at Graz University of Technology with more than 25 co-workers. The fuel cell research group focuses on the development of low-temperature fuel cells and hydrogen purification technologies. Professor Hacker has many years of experience in the coordination and implementation of national and international research projects, he also acts as the Austrian representative in the International Energy Agency (IEA) and has been appointed as Extraordinary Professor at the South African Institute of Advanced Materials Chemistry, University of the Western Cape. Prof. Hacker has published more than 100 research papers on hydrogen and fuel cells and received with his research group the State Prize of 2017 of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology for the project H2 Mobility. Mr. James Burchill, Head of Asset Operations, Gas Networks Ireland will speak on the topic of ‘Gas Grid Injection-The Challenges’. James Burchill has 20 years’ experience in all aspects of the Energy Utility Sector, having worked with Gas networks for 17 years. James is currently Head of Operations in Gas Networks with responsibility for delivery of all Construction- Maintenance and Repair activities – Network Operations – Customer Response activities- Emergency Response Activities nationally. Dr. Helmut Lachmund, Manager Research & Development/Steelmaking, Dillinger Huttenwerke AG will speak on the topic of, ‘Prospects and Conditions for Co2 neutral steel production by 2050’. Helmut Lachmund is the manager of the R&D Department Steelmaking of Dillinger since 1999. He completed his diploma degree in metallurgy at the Institute of Ferrous Metallurgy at the University of Clausthal in 1987. Subsequently, he became a scientific assistant at this Institute and received his Ph.D. in 1991. Directly following he joined Dillinger in the R&D Department Steelmaking. In 1994 he received an ATS Award from the French Iron and Steel Institute. In 2002 and 2008 he was recipient of the Charles H. Herty, Jr. Award of the AIST Oxygen Steelmaking Technology Division. In 2007 he was nominated as a member of the RFCS Technical Group “Steelmaking Processes” by the European Commission. P...

Monologue Dr. Joel Wallach begins the show discussing the fact that Hawaii has closed down. After spikes in the number of cases. Citing the U.S. and global numbers of cases of Covid 19 and deaths. Asserting people eat gluten damaging their intestines. Compromising the ability absorb nutrients. Causing damage to the bone marrow and making it difficult for the body to make platelets and white blood cells to fight the virus. Pearls of Wisdom Doug Winfrey and Dr. Wallach discuss a news article regarding a study of organic verses conventional. The study from Graz University of Technology in Austria. Finding eating raw fruits and vegetables is key to maintaining a diverse microbial community. A healthy gut microbiome is essential for a strong immune system. Also finding that organic apples had a more diverse bacterial population. Additionally the organic apples contained beneficial bacteria such as Lactobacillus. Callers Ina has several health challenges including Celiac disease, tinnitis, osteoporosis, anxiety and peripheral neuropathies. Gene's mother has type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation and a cancerous tumor on her kidney. Nick is overweight possibly has rheumatoid arthritis and suffers from chronic heart burn. Sandeep is constipated and has questions about the Ultimate Enzymes and the Flora FX products. Call Dr. Wallach's live radio program weekdays from noon until 1pm pacific time at 831-685-1080 or toll free at 888-379-2552.

In this episode of the Immersive Audio Podcast, Oliver Kadel is joined by the DELTA Soundworks co-founders Daniel Deboy and Ana Monte via Skype from Heidelberg, Germany. DELTA Soundworks is a sound production agency in the Rhein-Neckar delta region of Germany. With vast experience in 3D audio techniques, they create immersive sonic environments that place the listener inside the story, adding value to all kinds of visual media productions. Ana Monte studied “Music Industry and Technology” at the California State University in Chico and “Film sound and Sound design” at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg, bringing her experience as sound designer and film industry contacts into the team. For her work as a sound designer, Ana has received diverse sound awards including “Best Sound Design in a Drama Series” at the LA Webfest and a “Best Sound” nomination from the LA Film Review. Daniel Deboy is a sound engineer graduate of the Graz University of Technology and brings his Know-How and experience in 3D Audio and Music Production into the team. Daniel was honoured for his fundamental research in the field of 3D sound reproduction with the “Student Award” of the German Acoustical Society DEGA. For his music recordings, he received gold, silver and bronze awards by the Audio Engineering Society. In this episode, they discuss a few of their projects such as The Stanford Virtual Heart and mysterious VR game Blautopf, their favourite audio production techniques for immersive media and dome as well as their involvement with the Audio Engineering Society. This episode was produced by Oliver Kadel and Michelle Chan with the help of Emma Rees and included music by Knobs Bergamo. For extended show notes and more information on this episode go to https://1618digital.com/immersive-audio-podcast-episode-35-ana-monte-and-daniel-deboy-delta-soundworks/ We want to hear from you! We value our community and would appreciate it if you would take our very quick survey and help us make the Immersive Audio Podcast even better: surveymonkey.co.uk/r/3Y9B2MJ Thank you! You can follow the podcast on Twitter @IAudioPodcast for regular updates and content. You can also follow us on Facebook and Instagram @1618digital. If you have any comments or questions, get in touch via podcast@1618digital.com

What are the origins of the first hand-held dermatoscope? In today's podcast – the fifth in our '30 years of Dermoscopy' series – we hear from the grandson of inventor Helmut A. Heine, Oliver Heine. Joining him in this episode is the distinguished President of the International Dermoscopy Society, Associate Professor Iris Zalaudek. ----more---- Oliver Heine, President and CEO of Heine Optotechnik, shares the story behind the development of the Heine DELTA 10, which resulted from his grandparents' experiences in 1988. Listen to his riveting account of the genesis of the revolutionary hand-hand dermatoscope, an instrument that has eternally changed the dermatological field and continues to have far-reaching impact.  Leading dermato-oncology researcher, Associate Professor Iris Zalaudek, speaks about her career-long dedication to the field of dermoscopy. She recounts her early experiences with the pioneering technology and her subsequent research into metastatic melanomas at Graz University, which led her to the realisation that dermoscopy and early detection were the optimal methods to address skin cancer lesions.

“Burning Futures: On Ecologies of Existence” A Podcast by HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin) Too little, too late: The current ecological catastrophes are just as real as they are no longer stoppable. How do we deal with being too late to reverse them? What would it mean to think from the end and deal with the catastrophe responsibly? And what exactly is ending: the world, humankind, the biodiversity of species or the belief in the western way of life? The discussion series “Burning Futures: On Ecologies of Existence” looks at the escalating and indeed apocalyptic discourses of the coming end against the background of a growing ecological crisis and asks about opportunities for action. It is initiated and conceived by HAU´s curator for Discourse, Margarita Tsomou, and curated in cooperation with the theorist and dramaturg Maximillian Haas. With the series, we aim to take an intersectional perspective on ecological questions. The first event took place at HAU1 (Berlin) in the evening of the 4th of November 2019 and had the title: “# 1 Facing Extinction“. In a full theatre the two curators introduced the evening before we listened to the contribution of the guests, which were: Franco Berardi Bifo, philosopher, critic of capitalism and theorist of the Italian Postoperaismo, Marcela Vecchione, professor at the Institute for Advanced Amazonian Studies, which is situated in the middle of the Amazon forest in Brazil and Antonia Majaca, feminist theorist working at IZK – Institute for Contemporary Art, Graz University of Technology. For futher information and upcoming dates and episodes please check our website: https://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/en/burning-futures/ or follow the hashtag #burningfutures on twitter. “Burning Futures” is an event series by HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Supported within the framework of the Alliance of International Production Houses by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. With kind support by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. Initiated by Margarita Tsomou (HAU Hebbel am Ufer) and curated by Maximilian Haas. Podcast Production: Fritz Schlüter. Speaker: Orlando de Boeyken. Jingle: Sonja Deffner

IFE Distinguished Visitor Lecture recorded on 28 June 2019. Pichia pastoris, one of the most commonly used eukaryotic expression hosts, was reassigned to the genus Komagataella in 1995 and divided into the three species: Komagataella phaffii, K. pastoris and K. pseudopastoris. Most biotechnological applications for protein expression employ the species K. phaffii. Innovative concepts for the K. phaffii genome and expression cassette engineering enable improved protein expression and extend the fields of application for this non-conventional yeast. In particular, great potential can be seen in synthetic pathway expression and biological manufacturing of chemicals, where the lack of tools for engineering have so far limited the range of possible applications. Recent advances in this field now offer new opportunities for efficient expression of multiple genes by simple molecular engineering and balanced co-expression to optimise product yields and compositions.

IFE Distinguished Visitor Lecture recorded on 28 June 2019. Pichia pastoris, one of the most commonly used eukaryotic expression hosts, was reassigned to the genus Komagataella in 1995 and divided into the three species: Komagataella phaffii, K. pastoris and K. pseudopastoris. Most biotechnological applications for protein expression employ the species K. phaffii. Innovative concepts for the K. phaffii genome and expression cassette engineering enable improved protein expression and extend the fields of application for this non-conventional yeast. In particular, great potential can be seen in synthetic pathway expression and biological manufacturing of chemicals, where the lack of tools for engineering have so far limited the range of possible applications. Recent advances in this field now offer new opportunities for efficient expression of multiple genes by simple molecular engineering and balanced co-expression to optimise product yields and compositions.

After Intel on Tuesday revealed a new class of speculative execution vulnerabilities, which impact all its modern CPUs, the researcher who was part of the team that discovered one of these flaws is sounding off on the disclosure process behind it. The speculative execution flaw, ZombieLoad, is an attack related to CVE-2018-12130, the flaw in the Fill Buffer of Intel CPUs. That's because this attack leaks the most data – attackers are able to siphon data from system applications, operating system and virtual machines.  ZombieLoad was discovered and reported by Michael Schwarz, Moritz Lipp and Daniel Gruss from the Graz University of Technology (known for their previous discoveries of similar attacks, including Meltdown). Gruss talks about how the team first discovered the attack.

We talk about our recent trip to FOSDEM, we discuss the pros and cons of permissive licensing, cover the installation of OpenBSD on a dedibox with full-disk encryption, the new Lumina guide repository, and we explain ZFS vs. OpenZFS. This episode was brought to you by Headlines [FOSDEM Trip report] Your BSDNow hosts were both at FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium over the weekend. On the friday before FOSDEM, we held a FreeBSD devsummit (3rd consecutive year), sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation and organized by Benedict (with the help from Kristof Provost, who did it in previous years but could not make it this year). We had 21 people attend, a good mixture of FreeBSD committers (mostly ports) and guests. After introductions, we collected topics and discussed various topics, including a new plan for a future FreeBSD release roadmap (more frequent releases, so that features from HEAD can be tried out earlier in RELEASES). The devsummit concluded with a nice dinner in a nearby restaurant. On Saturday, first day of FOSDEM, we set up the FreeBSD Foundation table with flyers, stickers, FreeBSD Journal print editions, and a small RPI 3 demo system that Deb Goodkin brought. Our table was located next to the Illumos table like last year. This allowed us to continue the good relationship that we have with the Illumos people and Allan helped a little bit getting bhyve to run on Illumos with UEFI. Meanwhile, our table was visited by a lot of people who would ask questions about FreeBSD, take info material, or talk about their use cases. We were busy refilling the table throughout the day and luckily, we had many helpers at the table. Some items we had ran out in the early afternoon, an indicator of how popular they were. Saturday also featured a BSD devroom (https://twitter.com/fosdembsd), organized by Rodrigo Osorio. You can find the list of talks and the recordings on the BSD Devroom schedule (https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/bsd/). The room was very crowded and popular. Deb Goodkin gave the opening talk with an overview of what the Foundation is doing to change the world. Other speakers from various BSD projects presented their talks after that with a range of topics. Among them, Allan gave his talk about ZFS: Advanced Integration (https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/zfs_advanced_integration/), while Benedict presented his Reflections on Teaching a Unix Class With FreeBSD (https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/reflections_on_reaching_unix_class_with_freebsd/). Sunday was just as busy on the FreeBSD table as Saturday and we finally ran out of stickers and some other goodies. We were happy with the results of the two days. Some very interesting conversations at the table about FreeBSD took place, some of which we're going to follow up afterwards. Check out the FOSDEM schedule as many talk recordings are already available, and especially the ones from the BSD devroom if you could not attend the conference. We would like to thank everyone who attended the FreeBSD devsummit, who helped out at the FreeBSD table and organized the BSD devroom. Also, thanks to all the speakers, organizers, and helping hands making FOSDEM another success this year. *** NetBSD kernel wscons IOCTL vulnerable bug class (http://blog.infosectcbr.com.au/2018/01/netbsd-kernel-wscons-ioctl-vulnerable.html) I discovered this bug class during the InfoSect public code review session we ran looking specifically at the NetBSD kernel. I found a couple of these bugs and then after the session was complete, I went back and realised the same bug was scattered in other drivers. In total, 17 instances of this vulnerability and its variants were discovered. In all fairness, I came across this bug class during my kernel audits in 2002 and most instances were patched. It just seems there are more bugs now in NetBSD while OpenBSD and FreeBSD have practically eliminated them. See slide 41 in http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-03/bh-us-03-cesare.pdf (http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-03/bh-us-03-cesare.pdf) for exactly the same bug (class) 16 years ago. The format of the this blog post is as follows: Introduction Example of the Bug Class How to Fix How to Detect Automatically with Coccinelle More Bugs Conclusion These source files had bugs ./dev/tc/tfb.c ./dev/ic/bt485.c ./dev/pci/radeonfb.c ./dev/ic/sti.c ./dev/sbus/tcx.c ./dev/tc/mfb.c ./dev/tc/sfb.c ./dev/tc/stic.c ./dev/tc/cfb.c ./dev/tc/xcfb.c ./dev/tc/sfbplus.c ./arch/arm/allwinner/awin_debe.c ./arch/arm/iomd/vidcvideo.c ./arch/pmax/ibus/pm.c ./dev/ic/igfsb.c ./dev/ic/bt463.c ./arch/luna68k/dev/lunafb.c Reporting of the bugs was easy. In less than a week from reporting the specific instances of each bug, patches were committed into the mainline kernel. Thanks to Luke Mewburn from NetBSD for coming to the code review session at InfoSect and coordinating with the NetBSD security team. The patches to fix these issues are in NetBSD: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2018/01/24/msg091428.html (https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2018/01/24/msg091428.html) "Permissive licensing is wrong!” – Is it? (https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2017/11/25/permissive-licensing-is-wrong-is-it-1-2/) A few weeks ago I've been attacked by some GNU zealots on a German tech site after speaking in favor of permissive licenses. Unfortunately a discussion was not possible there because that would require the will to actually communicate instead of simply accusing the other side of vile motives. Since I actually do care about this topic and a reader asked for a post about it in comments a while ago, here we go. This first part tries to sum up the most important things around the topic. I deliberately aim for an objective overview that tries not to be one-sided. The second part will then contain my points in defence of permissive licensing. Why license software at all? Licenses exist for reasons of protection. If you're the author/inventor of some software, a story or whatever product, you get to decide what to do with it. You can keep it for yourself or you can give it away. If you decide for the latter, you have to decide who may use it and in which way(s). In case you intend to give it to a (potentially) large group of people, you may not want to be asked for permission to xyz by everybody. That's when you decide to write a license which states what you are allowing and explicitly disallowing. Most of the well-known commercial licenses focus on what you're not allowed to do (usually things like copying, disassembling, etc.). Open source licenses on the other hand are meant to grant the user rights (e.g. the right to distribute) while reserving some rights or only giving permission under certain conditions – and they usually make you claim responsibility for using the software. For these reasons licenses can actually be a good thing! If you got an unlicensed piece of code, you're not legally allowed to do anything with it without getting the author's permission first. And even if you got that permission, your project would be risky, since the author can withdraw it later. A proper license protects both parties. The author doesn't get his mail account full of email asking for permission, he's save from legal trouble if his code breaks anything for you and at the same time you have legal certainty when you decide to put the code to long-term use. Permissive vs. Copyleft (in a nutshell) In short terms, permissive licensing usually goes like this: “Here you are, have fun. Oh, and don't sue me if it does something else than what you expect!” Yes, it's that easy and there's little to dispute over. Copyleft on the other side sounds like this (if you ask somebody in favor of Copyleft): “Sure, you can use it, it's free. Just keep it free, ok?”. Also quite simple. And not too bad, eh? Other people however read the same thing like this: “Yes, you're free to use it. Just read these ten pages of legalese and be dead certain that you comply. If you got something wrong, we will absolutely make you regret it.” The GNU Public license (GPL) The most popular copyleft license in use is the GPL (in various versions) (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html). It got more and more complex with each version – and to be fair, it had to, because it was necessary to react to new threats and loop holes that were found later. The GNU project states that they are committed to protect what they call the four freedoms of free software: the freedom to use the software for any purpose the freedom to change the software to suit your needs the freedom to share the software with your friends and neighbors the freedom to share the changes you make These are freedoms that every supporter of open source software should be able to agree with. So what's the deal with all the hostility and fighting between the two camps? Let's take a look at a permissive license, too. The BSD license Unlike the GPL, the BSD family of licenses begun with a rather simple license that span four rules (“original BSD license”). It was later revised and reduced to three (“modified BSD license”). And the modern BSD license that e.g. FreeBSD uses is even just two (“simplified BSD license”). Did you read the GPLv3 that I linked to above? If you are using GPL'd code you really should. In case you don't feel like reading all of it, at least take a look and grasp how long that text is. Now compare it to the complete modern BSD license (https://opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php). What's the problem? There are essentially two problems that cause all the trouble. The first one is the question of what should be subject to the freedom that we're talking about. And closely related, the second one is where that freedom needs to end. Ironically both camps claim that freedom is the one important thing and it must not be restricted. The GPL is meant to protect the freedom of the software and enforces the availability of the source code, hence limiting the freedom of actual persons. BSD on the other hand is meant to protect the freedom of human beings who should be able to use the software as they see fit – even if that means closing down former open source code! The GNU camp taunts permissive licenses as being “lax” for not providing the protection that they want. The other camp points out that the GPL is a complex monster and that it is virulent in nature: Since it's very strict in a lot of areas, it's incompatible with many other licenses. This makes it complicated to mix GPL and non-GPL code and in the cases where it's legally possible, the GPL's terms will take precedence and necessarily be in effect for the whole combined work. Who's right? That totally depends on what you want to achieve. There are pros and cons to both – and in fact we're only looking at the big picture here. There's also e.g. the Apache license which is often deemed as kind of middle ground. Then you may want to consider the difference between weak (e.g. LGPL) as well as strong copyleft (GPL). Licensing is a potentially huge topic. But let's keep it simple here because the exact details are actually not necessary to understand the essence of our topic. In the next post I'll present my stance on why permissive licensing is a good thing and copyleft is more problematic than many people may think. “Permissive licensing is wrong?” – No it's not! (https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2018/01/25/permissive-licensing-is-wrong-no-its-not-2-2/) The previous post gave a short introduction into the topic of software licenses, focusing on the GPL vs. BSD discussion. This one is basically my response to some typical arguments I've seen from people who seem to loathe permissive licensing. I'll write this in dialog style, hoping that this makes it a little lighter to read. Roundup Install OpenBSD on dedibox with full-disk encryption (https://poolp.org/posts/2018-01-29/install-openbsd-on-dedibox-with-full-disk-encryption/) TL;DR: I run several "dedibox" servers at online.net, all powered by OpenBSD. OpenBSD is not officially supported so you have to work-around. Running full-disk encrypted OpenBSD there is a piece of cake. As a bonus, my first steps within a brand new booted machine ;-) Step #0: choosing your server OpenBSD is not officially supported, I can't guarantee that this will work for you on any kind of server online.net provides, however I've been running https://poolp.org on OpenBSD there since 2008, only switching machines as they were getting a bit old and new offers came up. Currently, I'm running two SC 2016 (SATA) and one XC 2016 (SSD) boxes, all three running OpenBSD reliably ever since I installed them. Recently I've been willing to reinstall the XC one after I did some experiments that turned it into a FrankenBSD, so this was the right occasion to document how I do it for future references. I wrote an article similar to this a few years ago relying on qemu to install to the disk, since then online.net provided access to a virtual serial console accessed within the browser, making it much more convenient to install without the qemu indirection which hid the NIC devices and disks duid and required tricks. The method I currently use is a mix and adaptation from the techniques described in https://www.2f30.org/guides/openbsd-dedibox.html to boot the installer, and the technique described in https://geekyschmidt.com/2011/01/19/configuring-openbsd-softraid-fo-encryption.html to setup the crypto slice. Step #1: boot to rescue mode Step #2: boot to the installer Step #3: prepare softraid Step #4: reboot to encrypted OpenBSD system Bonus: further tightening your system enable doas disable the root account update system with syspatch add my ssh public key to my ~/.ssh/authorized_keys disable password authentication within ssh reboot so you boot on a brand new up-to-date system with latest stable kernel VOILA ! January 2018 Development Projects Update (https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/january-2018-development-projects-update/) Spectre and Meltdown in FreeBSD Issues affecting most CPUs used in servers, desktops, laptops, and mobile devices are in the news. These hardware vulnerabilities, known by the code-names “Meltdown” and “Spectre”, allow malicious programs to read data to which they should not have access. This potentially includes credentials, cryptographic material, or other secrets. They were originally identified by a researcher from Google's Project Zero, and were also independently discovered by researchers and academics from Cyberus Technology, Graz University of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Maryland, Rambus, the University of Adelaide and Data61. These vulnerabilities affect many CPU architectures supported by FreeBSD, but the 64-bit x86 family of processors from Intel and AMD are the most widely used, and are a high priority for software changes to mitigate the effects of Meltdown and Spectre. In particular, the Meltdown issue affects Intel CPUs and may be used to extract secret data from the running kernel, and therefore, is the most important issue to address. The FreeBSD Foundation collaborates with Intel, and under this relationship participated in a briefing to understand the details of these issues and plan the mitigations to be applied to the x86 architectures supported by FreeBSD. We also made arrangements to have FreeBSD's security officer join me in the briefing. It is through the generous support of the Foundation's donors that we are able to dedicate resources to focus on these issues on demand as they arise. Foundation staff member Konstantin (Kostik) Belousov is an expert on FreeBSD's Virtual Memory (VM) system as well as low-level x86 details, and is developing the x86 kernel mitigations for FreeBSD. The mitigation for Meltdown is known as Page Table Isolation (PTI). Kostik created a PTI implementation which was initially committed in mid-January and is available in the FreeBSD-CURRENT development repository. This is the same approach used by the Linux kernel to mitigate Meltdown. One of the drawbacks of the PTI mitigation is that it incurs a performance regression. Kostik recently reworked FreeBSD's use of Process-Context Identifiers (PCID) in order to regain some of the performance loss incurred by PTI. This change is also now available in FreeBSD-CURRENT. The issue known as Spectre comes in two variants, and variant 2 is the more troubling and pressing one. It may be mitigated in one of two ways: by using a technique called “retpoline” in the compiler, or by making use of a CPU feature introduced in a processor microcode update. Both options are under active development. Kostik's change to implement the CPU-based mitigation is currently in review. Unfortunately, it introduces a significant performance penalty and alternatives are preferred, if available. For most cases, the compiler-based retpoline mitigation is likely to be the chosen mitigation. Having switched to the Clang compiler for the base system and most of the ports collection some years ago, FreeBSD is well-positioned to deploy Clang-based mitigations. FreeBSD developer Dimitry Andric is spearheading the update of Clang/LLVM in FreeBSD to version 6.0 in anticipation of its official release; FreeBSD-CURRENT now includes an interim snapshot. I have been assisting with the import, particularly with respect to LLVM's lld linker, and will support the integration of retpoline. This support is expected to be merged into FreeBSD in the coming weeks. The Foundation's co-op students have also participated in the response to these vulnerabilities. Mitchell Horne developed the patch to control the PTI mitigation default setting, while Arshan Khanifar benchmarked the performance impact of the in-progress mitigation patches. In addition, Arshan and Mitchell each developed changes to FreeBSD's tool chain to support the full set of mitigations that will be applied. These mitigations will continue be tested, benchmarked, and refined in FreeBSD-CURRENT before being merged into stable branches and then being made available as updates to FreeBSD releases. Details on the timing of these merges and releases will be shared as they become available. I would like to acknowledge all of those in the FreeBSD community who have participated in FreeBSD's response to Meltdown and Spectre, for testing, reviewing, and coordinating x86 mitigations, for developing mitigations for other processor architectures and for the Bhyve hypervisor, and for working on the toolchain-based mitigations. Guides: Getting Started & Lumina Theme Submissions (https://lumina-desktop.org/guides-getting-started-lumina-themes/) I am pleased to announce the beginning of a new sub-series of blog posts for the Lumina project: Guides! The TrueOS/Lumina projects want to support our users as they use Lumina or experiment with TrueOS. To that end, we've recently set up a central repository for our users to share instructions or other “how-to” guides with each other! Project developers and contributors will also submit guides to the repository on occasion, but the overall goal is to provide a simple hub for instructions written by any Lumina or TrueOS user. This will make it easier for users to not only find a “how-to” for some procedure, but also a very easy way to “give back” to the community by writing simple instructions or more detailed guides. Guides Repository Our first guide to get the whole thing started was created by the TrueOS Linebacker (https://discourse.trueos.org/t/introducing-the-trueos-linebacker/991) (with technical assistance from our own q5sys). In this guide, Terry Tate will walk you through the steps necessary to submit new wallpaper images to the Lumina Themes collection. This procedure is fully documented with screenshots every step of the way, walking you through a simple procedure that only requires a web browser and a Github account! Guide: Lumina Themes Submissions (https://github.com/trueos/guides/blob/master/lumina-themes-submissions/readme.md) The end result of this guide was that Terry Tate was able to submit this cool new “Lunar-4K” wallpaper to the “lumina-nature” collection. TrueOS Community Guides (https://github.com/trueos/guides/tree/master) ZFS vs. OpenZFS (by Michael Dexter) (https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/zfs-vs-openzfs/) You've probably heard us say a mix of “ZFS” and “OpenZFS” and an explanation is long-overdue. Our Senior Analyst clears up what ZFS and OpenZFS refer to and how they differ. I admit that we geeks tend to get caught up in the nuts and bolts of enterprise storage and overlook the more obvious questions that users might have. You've probably noticed that this blog and the FreeNAS blog refer to “ZFS” and “OpenZFS” seemingly at random when talking about the amazing file system at the heart of FreeNAS and every storage product that iXsystems sells. I will do my best to clarify what exactly these two terms refer to. From its inception, “ZFS” has referred to the “Zettabyte File System” developed at Sun Microsystems and published under the CDDL Open Source license in 2005 as part of the OpenSolaris operating system. ZFS was revolutionary for completely decoupling the file system from specialized storage hardware and even a specific computer platform. The portable nature and advanced features of ZFS led FreeBSD, Linux, and even Apple developers to start porting ZFS to their operating systems and by 2008, FreeBSD shipped with ZFS in the 7.0 release. For the first time, ZFS empowered users of any budget with enterprise-class scalability and data integrity and management features like checksumming, compression and snapshotting, and those features remain unrivaled at any price to this day. On any ZFS platform, administrators use the zpool and zfs utilities to configure and manage their storage devices and file systems respectively. Both commands employ a user-friendly syntax such as‘zfs create mypool/mydataset' and I welcome you to watch the appropriately-titled webinar “Why we love ZFS & you should too” or try a completely-graphical ZFS experience with FreeNAS. Yes, ZFS is really as good as people say it is. After enjoying nearly a decade of refinement by a growing group of developers around the world, ZFS became the property of database vendor Oracle, which ceased public development of both ZFS and OpenSolaris in 2010. Disappointed but undeterred, a group of OpenSolaris users and developers forked the last public release of OpenSolaris as the Illumos project. To this day, Illumos represents the official upstream home of the Open Source OpenSolaris technologies, including ZFS. The Illumos project enjoys healthy vendor and user participation but the portable nature and compelling features of ZFS soon produced far more ZFS users than Illumos users around the world. While most if not all users of Illumos and its derivatives are ZFS users, the majority of ZFS users are not Illumos users, thanks significantly in part to FreeNAS which uses the FreeBSD operating system. This imbalance plus several successful ZFS Day events led ZFS co-founder Matt Ahrens and a group of ZFS developers to announce the OpenZFS project, which would remain a part of the Illumos code base but would be free to coordinate development efforts and events around their favorite file system. ZFS Day has grown into the two-day OpenZFS Developer Summit and is stronger than ever, a testament to the passion and dedication of the OpenZFS community. Oracle has steadily continued to develop its own proprietary branch of ZFS and Matt Ahrens points out that over 50% of the original OpenSolaris ZFS code has been replaced in OpenZFS with community contributions. This means that there are, sadly, two politically and technologically-incompatible branches of “ZFS” but fortunately, OpenZFS is orders of magnitude more popular thanks to its open nature. The two projects should be referred to as “Oracle ZFS” and “OpenZFS” to distinguish them as development efforts, but the user still types the ‘zfs' command, which on FreeBSD relies on the ‘zfs.ko' kernel module. My impression is that the terms of the CDDL license under which the OpenZFS branch of ZFS is published protects its users from any patent and trademark risks. Hopefully, this all helps you distinguish the OpenZFS project from the ZFS technology. Beastie Bits Explaining Shell (https://explainshell.com/) OPNsense® 18.1 Released (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-18-1-released/) “SSH Mastery 2/e” copyedits back (https://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/3104) Sponsoring a Scam (https://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/3106) Thursday, February 8, 2018 - Come to Netflix to talk about FreeBSD (https://www.meetup.com/BAFUG-Bay-Area-FreeBSD-User-Group/events/246623825/) BSD User Group meeting in Stockholm: March 22, 17:30 - 21:00 (https://www.meetup.com/BSD-Users-Stockholm/events/247552279/) FreeBSD Flavoured talks from Linux.conf.au: You can't unit test C, right? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-uWt5wVVkU) and A Brief History of I/O (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAhZEI_6lbc) EuroBSDcon 2018 website is up (https://2018.eurobsdcon.org/) Full day bhyvecon Tokyo, Japan, March 9, 2018 (http://bhyvecon.org/) *** Feedback/Questions Thomas - freebsd installer improvements (http://dpaste.com/3G2F7RC#wrap) Mohammad - FreeBSD 11 installation from a read only rescue disk (http://dpaste.com/0HGK3FQ#wrap) Stan - Follow up on guide you covered (http://dpaste.com/2S169SH#wrap) Jalal - couple questions (http://dpaste.com/35N8QXP#wrap)

Detroit’s hottest dubstep DJs Spectre and Meltdown live at the Music Institute Thursday, January 4th 2018. Get your tickets today at ticketmeister.org. Spectre and Meltdown are actually two serious security vulnerabilities discovered in nearly every computer processor made since 1995. So what does it mean? Is this the end of computing? Should we throw our computers on the campfire and live among mother nature? I wanted to find out, so I talked to security expert Wu-chang Feng at Portland State University. The verdict? You might just want to break out the abacus, because we’re all in big trouble. Spectre takes advantage of something called speculative execution. Processors make educated guesses about what’s going to happen next, then run through those steps to save time. It makes modern processors much faster, but it turns out that malicious code can sneak in during this speculation and reveal whatever’s floating around in memory—usernames and passwords, for instance. Meltdown breaks the barrier between applications and system memory, again letting malware take a peek at system memory. The vulnerabilities were found by university researchers and the security team Google Project Zero. As far as anyone knows, no hackers have taken advantage of either vulnerability, but Microsoft, Apple, and Linux distributors have released patches for meltdown and are working on ways to counteract Spectre. For more information on Spectre and Meltdown, I recommend http://meltdownattack.com by Graz University of Technology in Austria. The site has a breakdown of both vulnerabilities for laypersons and technical documents for computer scientists.

Petina Gappah grew up in Zimbabwe during segregation, when black girls were not thought worthy of education. Despite this, she became a lawyer and was awarded law degrees from the University of Zimbabwe and then Cambridge, and Graz University in Austria. Moving to Geneva, she fought high-profile international cases. But all the time she had a secret life: she woke at 4am every morning to write. Petina Gappah's first short story was published online when she was 37 - and now, only 8 years later, there are two short-story collections, a novel, "The Book of Memory", several translations, with another novel in the pipeline. From the start there has been a sense of a new voice arriving - Gappah's first book won the Guardian First Book Award. Her stories are set in Zimbabwe, and they're about crime and punishment, love and family, in a deeply corrupt and divided society. In Private Passions, Petina Gappah talks to Michael Berkeley about her childhood and the experiences which gave her such determination and drive. She discusses her determination to translate George Orwell into her first language, Shona, and what "Animal Farm" says to readers in Zimbabwe. She explores too her ambiguous relationship with her homeland, and what she feels about being called "the voice of Zimbabwe". Music choices include Verdi, Bob Dylan, Mahler's Piano Quartet in A Minor, and the Bhundu Boys. Produced by Elizabeth Burke A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3.

Naomi Alderman is the author of four novels. In 2006 she won the Orange Award for New Writers, and in 2007 she was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, as well as being selected as one of Waterstones' 25 Writers for the Future. All of her novels have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime. In 2013 she was selected for the prestigious Granta Best of Young British Writers. Naomi's latest novel is The Power. Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University and the University of Zimbabwe. Her debut story collection, An Elegy for Easterly, won the Guardian First Book Prize in 2009. She is the author of a novel, The Book of Memory, and now a second short story collection Rotten Row. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University and the University of Zimbabwe. Her debut story collection, An Elegy for Easterly, won the Guardian First Book Prize in 2009. Her debut novel is The Book of Memory.

Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University and the University of Zimbabwe. Her debut story collection, An Elegy for Easterly, won the Guardian First Book Prize in 2009. Her debut novel is The Book of Memory. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Gabriele Berg , Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Graz - AUSTRIA speaks on "Microbial networks on plants and beyond". This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB Trieste