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Thursday February 20, 2025. 02:57 AM
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Systemd; AI scraperbots; Time-slice extension; FUSE regression; Multi-size THPs; Memcached; Meshtastic. Briefs: Asahi leadership; Debian images; RISC-V Fedora; OpenSUSE; Mesa 25.0.0; Pi-hole v6; Quotes;... Announcements: ...
Microsoft is moving closer to quantum computing supremacy with the arrival of its new Majorana 1 chip, a development which could potentially have a far-reaching impact on cybersecurity. While the Windows-maker touts this as progress, the reality is far more concerning. The...
TL;DR: You can get this user-friendly photo-editing software for Windows or Mac with tons of presets for $119.99 (reg. $752) — that's our unbeatable offer. Posting photos to Instagram and Facebook used to be simple — snap, share, done. Now, everyone's posting perfectly...
We’ve recognized that Mozilla faces major headwinds in terms of both financial growth and mission impact. While Firefox remains the core of what we do, we also need to take steps to diversify: investing in privacy-respecting advertising to grow new revenue in the near...
Kioxia, in partnership with Sandisk, has introduced a super-cool 3D flash memory solution that boosts NAND interface speeds to an insane 4.8 gigabits per second! This has the potential to transform AI-powered tasks and data centers. This advancement integrates...
The goal of this project is to emulate an Intel 8086 processor and supporting PC hardware well enough to run the Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset (ELKS), including a shell and utilities. It should be possible to run other x86 software as long as it doesn’t require more than a...
Wednesday February 19, 2025. 11:23 PM
Microsoft announced updates to its C# Dev Kit for Visual Studio Code extension, including enhancements to Razor/Blazor Hot Reload and for debugging and testing Blazor web pages. In a February 11 blog post, Wendy Breiding, Microsoft senior manager for product management, said ...
TL;DR: Rest easy with a pair of SleepEEZ Mini Noise-Blocking Wireless Earbuds for sleeping on sale for $25.99 (reg. $34). Who doesn't love that feeling when you finally get to close your eyes after a long day? The worries of the world begin to melt away as you start to...
Mark Surman, president of the Mozilla Corporation, has announced leadership updates for Mozilla. This includes a Mozilla Leadership Council made up of executives from each Mozilla organization, and new board chairs for the not-for-profit Mozilla Foundation, the Mozilla...
EastByMike fermented french fries for a week in a jar of salt brine and cabbage leaves. Video below. 'The result: french fries that tasted like salt and vinegar chips,' he says, enticingly. From his recipe: When you're ready to cook, discard the cabbage leaves and drain the ...
Elon Musk announced the release of Grok 3, the latest family of chatbots from his xAI company, earlier this week during an X livestream. The billionaire called Grok 3 the “smartest AI on Earth,” but it enters a crowded field of competitors with a headstart. Here’s what...
Another day, another plane crash, this one a mid-air collision that killed two people in Arizona this morning, according to KGUN. The two small planes — a Cessna 172S and Lancair 360 MK II — crashed at 8:28 a.m. local time near the Marana Regional Airport, 15 miles...
Apple has officially announced the iPhone 16e, a more affordable entry into the iPhone ecosystem, launching at $599 on Feb. 28. Designed to bring Apple Intelligence — its generative AI suite — to a wider audience, the iPhone 16e offers a budget-friendly alternative to...
Steven Rostedt recently posted a patch set that could help improve the performance of certain user-space applications by giving the scheduler more context about when they are safe to interrupt. The patch set lets programs request a small grace window before they can be...
This freaky black spot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean was spotted on Google Earth. Located in the South Pacific about 4,000 miles from Australia, it's just.1 square miles in size. What is it though? Armchair anomaly investigators suggest everything from a spacetime...
Apple's cheapest iPhone is now a 16th-generation model. The iPhone 16e is $599, looks like other contemporary models, and comes in black or white. Gone is the home button, present is the notch, Face ID, an A18 chip and all the AI stuff. — Read the rest The post Apple's...
Apple’s new iPhone 16e combines three innovations in one $599 package: an A18 chip, Apple’s fast smartphone processor; Apple Intelligence, the company’s private-by-design take on artificial intelligence; and the C1, Apple’s first-ever 5G radio. The announcement...
Amazon has some good news for fans of its eero routers. The retail giant has just added two new models to its Wi-Fi 7 lineup -- the eero 7 and eero pro 7. These new devices promise fast multi-gigabit speeds at prices that won’t empty your wallet. The eero 7 is a dual-band...
The Chengdu Snow Village in Sichuan, China is sorry that their snow is fake. And not the artificial snow used at ski resorts to enhance nature's own dumps. Rather, Chengdu Snow Village's snow is cotton and soapy water. 'It did not achieve the result we had anticipated, but...
ElevenLabs is a company that provides text-to-voice services that essentially you to 'clone' your own voice using generative AI. This is a potentially positive use of this kind of technology, offering an assistive aide for people who've lost the ability to speak. — Read the...
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