Who needs a graphical desktop manager anyway? This week the Slackware Linux project is celebrating its 30th anniversary. It is the oldest Linux distribution that is still in active maintenance and development.…
Lees meerRishi Sunak fails to secure place in €95.5B program before Parliament packs up for holiday After taking years to get to the point where it could rejoin the EU's €95.5 billion Horizon science program, the UK now seems to want more time to think about…
Lees meerI know, because I let it all flood in. And it was damaging to my mental health Column In 2008, I formed a hypothesis that everyone has something to teach you, so the more connected you are, the more you should be able to learn.…
Lees meerPlus: Spanish cops arrest Ukrainian scareware dev after ten-year hunt Ukrainian cops have disrupted a massive bot farm with more than 100 operators allegedly spreading fake news about the Russian invasion, leaking personal information belonging to U…
Lees meerBehavior of OpenAI models about as consistent as Office 365's uptime GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 – the models at the heart of OpenAI's ChatGPT – appear to have got worse at generating some code and performing other tasks between March and June this year. That…
Lees meer16 qubit system capable of modeling simple molecules, Kremlin says Scientists at Russia's International Center for Quantum Optics and Quantum Technologies recently presented a new quantum computer to the nation's President Vladimir Putin, proclaimin…
Lees meerToo bad GPU slingers keep shrinking the memory bus Keeping graphics processors fed, whether for large language models or the latest AAA games, takes a lot of memory bandwidth. That's exactly what Samsung's GDDR7 memory module, unveiled Wednesday, cl…
Lees meerResults were anticipated to be dim, so where does this put outsourcer now? IT outsourcer Infosys has signed a five-year $2 billion AI and automation deal with an unnamed existing client just three days before it releases its Q1 2024 earnings, a repo…
Lees meerTells us fewer than 2% of workstations will be cut off in 'experiment' In a bid to shrink the attack surface of its army of employees, and thus boost security, Google is taking an experimental approach: cutting their workstations off from the intern…
Lees meerTells us fewer than 2% of workstations will be cut off in 'experiment' In a bid to shrink the attack surface of its army of employees, and thus boost security, Google is taking an experimental approach: cutting their workstations off from the intern…
Lees meerOutages are declining, but when one does hit, it's expensive While datacenter operators are under pressure to reduce energy consumption, reliability is gradually increasing and there have been fewer reported disruptive outages. Meanwhile, trust in A…
Lees meerThe approach is the same, but never mind the crypto or gift cards Cybercriminals are taking their business offline in a new approach to familiar technical support scams recently identified by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.…
Lees meerTemasek's head of ML is optimistic about 'overhyped' technology In order to make generative AI accurate, new layers must be inserted into its stack, according to the head of AI at state-owned Singapore investment company Temasek.…
Lees meerTemasek's head of AI is optimistic about 'overhyped' technology In order to make generative AI accurate, new layers must be inserted into its stack, according to the head of AI at state-owned Singapore investment company Temasek.…
Lees meerAppears to have given up the idea of catching the component midair with a helicopter Rocket Lab has successfully launched seven satellites into space and recovered the booster for its Electron rocket from the Pacific Ocean.…
Lees meerOnly obstacle left is the FTC, which is still licking its wounds from other recent antitrust defeats Broadcom was today given a provisional OK from the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to close its $61 billion bid to acquire VMware, leavin…
Lees meerRegional trade group applies to partake in Germany's probe of Redmond's cloud software policies A trade association of mostly European cloud providers and Amazon Web Services has filed an application to "actively participate" in a probe by Germany's…
Lees meerThough chip giant is only referring to deal as a 'proposed agreement' for now Asus looks set to take on the NUC brand from Intel, saying it aims to form its own NUC business unit to manufacture, sell, and support the line of mini PCs.…
Lees meerNifty new features mostly go to Cinnamon users, though The latest update to Linux Mint is here, with expanded video file format support and a tweaked Cinnamon desktop. It's as cool and refreshing as ever.…
Lees meerSoftware expected to top $1 trillion next year, according to analysts In the face of continuing economic uncertainty and geopolitical conflict, spending on computer software continues at a staggering pace, forecast to grow 13.5 percent in 2023.…
Lees meerWill people really hop on a plane to gaze at their phone? Singapore attracts millions of tourists every year, but lags well behind competing Asian destinations like Malaysia, Indonesia or Japan. Part of the problem is limited space available to buil…
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