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Thursday May 29, 2025. 01:30 PM
French startup Mistral AI on Wednesday unveiled Codestral Embed, its first code-specific embedding model, claiming it outperforms rival offerings from OpenAI, Cohere, and Voyage. The company said the model supports configurable embedding outputs with varying dimensions and...
French startup Mistral AI on Wednesday unveiled Codestral Embed, its first code-specific embedding model, claiming it outperforms rival offerings from OpenAI, Cohere, and Voyage. The company said the model supports configurable embedding outputs with varying dimensions and...
Apple — and almost everybody else — has gotten a slight reprieve as a US court yesterday set aside the Trump tariff tax. But conflict and confusion continue to batter global trade, and while the news will provide a glimmer of relief, it will probably be short-lived....
At Cybercultural, Richard McManus looks at the early heydey of web design and 'three musketeers' pioneering the discipline long before it was lost to frameworks, adtech and social media: Jacob Nielsen, Jeffrey Zeldman and David Siegel. Back then there were other hazards,...
Accessibility is increasingly recognized as an important part of how organizations deliver value across a number of industries, and rightly so. It goes beyond meeting legal requirements to improve user experience, promote inclusion, and build better services for all. Yet,...
Tech layoffs have continued in 2025. Much of that is being blamed on a combination of a slower economy and the adoption of automation via artificial intelligence. Nearly four in 10 Americans, for instance, believe generative AI (genAI) could diminish the number of available...
Microsoft has released a preview version of the KB5058499 update for Windows 11, adding a host of new features to the operating system -- many of them, predictably, AI-oriented. The biggest additions are updates to Click To Do, as well as the rollout of the new Windows Share ...
The end of support for Windows 10 is fast approaching, as Microsoft is only too eager to keep reminding us. This is important for all users of Windows 10, but particularly for organizations that need to ensure security. Microsoft has just launched Windows Backup for...
New research from EasyDMARC reveals that just 7.7 percent of the world's top 1.8 million email domains are fully protected against phishing and spoofing, having implemented the most stringent DMARC policy. While this configuration, known as 'p=reject', actively blocks...
Microsoft has launched a preview version of the Windows Update orchestration platform. This is an update to Windows Update itself which opens it up for use by third-party developers. This means that Windows Update could soon be able to update not only Windows, but also...
Digital twins are an important part of modern control systems. They let you create a model of a physical system that serves as a tool for simulation and prediction. It models the inputs and outputs of a system, using real-time data to keep it at the same state as the “real ...
The rapid advancements in generative AI technologies have made it essential to create tools that can effectively manage different document formats. While large language models (LLMs) excel at understanding and generating text, they struggle with parsing complex documents...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Glibc security; How we lost the Internet; Encrypted DNS; 6.15 Development statistics; Filesystem stress-testing; BPF verifier; Network access from BPF; OSPM 2025. Briefs: AlmaLinux 10.0; FESCo decision overturned; NixOS...
Deno creator Ryan Dahl has responded to reports of Deno’s demise, saying they have been “greatly exaggerated.” In a May 20 blog post, Dahl, also co-founder of Deno steward Deno Land, addressed criticisms of the Deno Deploy edge hosting service, the Deno KV key-value...
Other nations can learn much from Canada when it comes to artificial intelligence advances. For one thing, “the focus and nurturing of AI needs ongoing attention and investments; otherwise, that leadership in AI can be lost,” an industry analyst said Wednesday. Bill...
Which word has the most definitions in the English language? Here's a hint: the word is only three letters long, can be a noun or a verb, and has more than 600 senses (or meanings), according to the Oxford English Dictionary via Mental Floss. — Read the rest The post Which...
Microsoft is giving its Windows Update software stack more power, and the tool will soon be able to update other software and drivers within Windows systems. The company is establishing the capability for system administrators to wrangle all software updates into a one-click ...
X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter, just yanked one of its most important privacy features. In a quiet and deeply troubling move, the company announced it is pausing end-to-end encrypted direct messages. Worst of all, there is no clear timeline or meaningful...
Wednesday May 28, 2025. 11:38 PM
The next Apple operating systems will be identified by year, rather than with a version number, according to people with knowledge of the matter. That means the current iOS 18 will give way to “iOS 26,” said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plan is...
If you use Unix today, you can enjoy relatively long file names on more or less any filesystem that you care to name. But it wasn’t always this way. Research V7 had 14-byte filenames, and the System III/System V lineage continued this restriction until it merged with BSD...
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