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Lees meerGelsinger believes his chip won't make quite a hash of the climate Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger just a few days ago raged against Bitcoin, calling it a "climate crisis."…
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Lees meerHere's how to catch up with those poisoning machine-learning systems The increasingly wide use of deep neural networks (DNNs) for such computer vision tasks as facial recognition, medical imaging, object detection, and autonomous driving is going to…
Lees meerWhile Moscow tells its operators: Treat any infrastructure outage as a 'computer attack' As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, the latter's government is reportedly seeking cybersecurity volunteers to help defend itself. Meanwhile, Russia's …
Lees meerComes ahead of Jammy Jellyfish, another bug-squish for current LTS version Ubuntu has put out the latest point release of its stable version, or the fourth bugfix of 20.04.…
Lees meerLock, stock and one smoking kernel: YMMV on performance boost, but either way, it's a bit of fun Friday FOSS Fest Looking for a little more desktop responsiveness? Liquorix provides current, easy-to-install desktop-performance-optimised kernels for…
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Lees meerModern networks need programmable hardware, open software - a dip in the Ice Lake Intel has lifted the lid on new technologies for the edge and AI ahead of the Mobile World Congress conference including new Xeon D chips with integrated acceleration …
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