Creating a public counterpoint for AI
Mozilla is releasing a vision for Public AI, a robust ecosystem of initiatives that promote public goods, public orientation and public use throughout every step of AI development and deployment. Read the paper here. Look around. There’s a bus drivin...
6 ways to apply automation in devsecops
The goal of devsecops is to integrate security throughout the software development life cycle. To do this, the security team can’t focus on just the most obvious software development vulnerabilities or just the processes that are the easiest to secu...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: September 29th, 2024
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for September 29th, 2024, brings news about Linux 6.12 RC, COSMIC Alpha 2, LXQt 2.1, VirtualBox 7.1.2, KaOS Linux 2024.09, MPV 0.39.0, fwupd 1.9.25, DXVK 2.4.1, LibreOffice 24.8.2, new CachyOS release, as well as all the la...
Introduction to BLAS
Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms or BLAS is a specification created in the 70s/80s by members of academia from US public institutions. The aim was the standardization and speed improvement for low-level linear algebra operations. This initially involve...
Microsoft gives enterprises new reasons to adopt Fabric
Microsoft is working to make its cloud-based Fabric combined offering of data warehousing, data science, data engineering, and data analytics services more attractive, previewing a host of new features at its first annual European Microsoft Fabric Com...
COSMIC alpha 2 released
System76, the premiere Linux computer manufacturer and creator of the COSMIC desktop environment, has updated COSMIC’s Alpha release to Alpha 2. The latest release includes more Settings pages, the bulk of functionality for COSMIC Files, highly reque...
Tcl/Tk 9.0 released
Tcl 9.0 and Tk 9.0 – usually lumped together as Tcl/Tk – have been released. Tcl 9.0 brings 64bit compatibility so it can address data values larger than 2 GB, better Unicode support, support for mounting ZIP files as file systems, and much...
VirtualBox 7.1.2 Adds Support for 3D Acceleration in ARM VMs
Oracle has release a new maintenance update for VirtualBox, its open-source virtualisation software. VirtualBox 7.1.2 is the first such point release since the VirtualBox 7.1 series debuted earlier this month. Naturally, it builds on that major release...
