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Thursday December 5, 2024. 03:43 PM
Kevin Boone writes about the Yamaha DX7, which changed everything when it turned up in the mid-1980s: 'the 'Electric Piano 1' preset alone appeared in over 60% of album releases of 1986.' It was serious professional performance equipment, a 'huge, uncompromising lump of...
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It's hard to believe it's been thirty years since the PlayStation 1 hit the market. That unassuming gray box ended up giving us some of the best games ever made, many of which still hold up today – Metal Gear Solid, anyone? — Read the rest The post Sony celebrates 30 years...
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Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.12.2, 6.11.11, and 4.19.325 stable kernels. Note that both 6.11.11 and 4.19.325 are the last kernels in those series, 'please move off to a newer kernel version'. In the 4.19.325 release notice, he has a rather longer-than-usual message, ...
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Vizio makes smart TVs which go easy on the wallet and hard on the ads. Perfect for a retailer like Walmart, which has bought the company for $3.2bn. 'VIZIO offers great products at great prices that customers love. They've always put customers at the center of their business ...
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A new survey of 1,000 front line IT workers from Nexthink finds that 31 percent of organizations have daily virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) problems requiring specialist intervention. A further 40 percent are having issues on a weekly basis, as level one and two support ...
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Security updates have been issued by Fedora (thunderbird, tuned, and webkitgtk), Mageia (python-aiohttp and qemu), Oracle (container-tools:ol8, firefox, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, kernel, kernel:4.18.0, krb5, pam, postgresql:16, python-tornado, python3:3.6.8,...
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For a while there, you couldn't be blamed for thinking this movie would never come out. Snow White, the latest in Disney's bizarre initiative to remake as many of its classic movies as soulless 'live-action' CGI-fests, has been mired in controversy from the jump. — Read the...
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American private equity firm Growth Catalyst Partners (GCP) has acquired U.K.-based InspiredMinds!, a global technology and science strategy group concentrated on the fast-growing AI and AI healthcare markets. Founded as a female-owned business in 2017, InspiredMinds! touts...
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With Windows 10 end of support on the horizon, Microsoft said its Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 requirement for PCs is a “non-negotiable standard” for upgrading to Windows 11. TPM 2.0 was introduced as a requirement with the launch of Windows 11 three years ago and...
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How Machine Learning is Innovating Today's World provides a comprehensive understanding of the latest advancements and practical applications of machine learning techniques. Machine learning (ML), a branch of artificial intelligence, has gained tremendous momentum in recent...
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Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) has evolved quickly during the past two years from prompt engineering and instruction fine-tuning to the integration of external knowledge sources aimed at improving the accuracy of chatbot answers. GenAI’s latest big step forward ...
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ESPN is exploring new ways to integrate artificial intelligence into its sports broadcasting with FACTS, an AI-generated avatar set to debut on the college football show SEC Nation. The goal of the effort is “promoting education and fun around sports analytics” by...
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With official support for Windows 10 coming to an end next year, those who are still using the operating system are faced with a difficult choice. They can stick with using Windows 10 as an unsupported OS, perhaps turning to a third-party patching service to plug security...
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Modern AI is about a lot more than chatbots, as shown by Microsoft’s Ignite 2024 pivot to using its stable of large and small language models to power autonomous agents. Much of its focus was on using productivity tools and software-generated events to trigger...
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South Korea’s sudden political upheaval has raised fresh concerns for its economy and global supply chains, with analysts warning of potential disruptions to its critical technology exports. As a major producer of memory chips, displays, and other critical tech components, ...
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A Pennsylvania woman and her 5-year-old granddaughter were out looking for their cat when the woman suddenly disappeared — right where a fresh sinkhole 'the size of a manhole' opened up. Now, still missing after an extensive, two-day search, police fear the 64-year-old...
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TL;DR: Build your dream app with Microsoft Visual Studio Pro, now $29.97 through December 8 (reg. $499). So, you've joined Bluesky, shared a few posts, and now you're wondering, 'Can I make something this cool?' Whether it's another social platform or an app that helps curb...
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The LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 5, 2024 is available.
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Want to be that person who gives cool and unexpected books this season? Or maybe you're looking to treat yourself? Here are six titles that range from political satire to surreal manga to gentle philosophical comics: It's the Great Storm, Tom the Dancing Bug! — Read the rest...
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Wednesday December 4, 2024. 11:50 PM
A kitty in Amsterdam takes a daily walk along the rain gutter of two connected houses to visit his next-door neighbor — a ginger cat. But his walk turned into an acrobatic stunt when his pathway filled up with snow. 'This is how my cat Simpson makes sure his paws don't get ...
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