TSMC Arizona chip plant still has 50% Taiwanese workers in the run-up to production
A full half of the jobs created by the first TSMC Arizona chip plant have been filled by workers from Taiwan, despite the company receiving up to $11.6B worth of grants intended in large part to generate US jobs. The original headline news of Apple chi...
2024-12-30 13:46
All-in-one machine recycles plastic bottles into 3D printer filament — PETFusion 2.0 launches on Kickstarter
PETFusion 2.0, a PET Bottle Recycler that converts them into 3D printing filament, has launched onto Kickstarter and quickly met its funding goal.
2024-12-30 13:28
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DRAM prices expected to decline in early 2025 impacting PC, server, and GPU VRAM markets
PC RAM prices are expected to go down by 8-10% while memory used for GPUs will also see a price cut of about 5-10%
2024-12-30 13:16
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Go to line anywhere with Code Search for Visual Studio 2022
Finding the exact line of code where an issue is occurring can be like searching for a needle in a haystack. Whether you are debugging an error on line 43 of a file or diving into a specific section of code, you can efficiently jump to the right places...
2024-12-30 13:00
EDATec Passive Coolers for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4 Review: Keeping Cool
Passive cooling your Raspberry Pi provides a silent means to keep your Pi ticking, and EDATec has options for the Raspberry Pi 5 and the older 4.
2024-12-30 13:00
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Enhanced Visual Search shares your photos with Apple by default, to identify landmarks
A developer has noted that Apple’s Photos app shares your iPhone photos with Apple by default, for an iOS 18 feature known as Enhanced Visual Search. This is an expansion of the older Visual Look Up feature, which can recognize objects within your ph...
2024-12-30 12:59
Intel's Linux Performance Optimizations Continue Paying Off For AMD EPYC
As part of my end-of-year benchmarking and various historical comparisons, over the holidays I was curious to take a look at how the mature AMD EPYC 9004 "Genoa" performance has evolved over the past two years under Linux. Going off benchmarks I ran ba...
2024-12-30 12:30
Entire iPhone 17 line-up getting ProMotion displays, say supply-chain reports
Display analyst Ross Young said back in September that the entire iPhone 17 line-up would be getting ProMotion displays, a feature currently exclusive to the two Pro models. This is now backed by a new supply-chain report over the weekend. The latest r...
2024-12-30 12:09
Cloudflare Makes Open-Source h3i For HTTP/3 Testing & Debugging
Cloudflare is ending 2024 by announcing a new open-source project: h3i for low-level HTTP/3 testing and debugging...
2024-12-30 11:27
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 29th, 2024
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for December 29th, 2024, brings news about postmarketOS 24.12, Mixxx 2.5, siduction 2024.1.0, 4MLinux 47.0, Amarok 3.2, Serpent OS Alpha, as well as all the latest distro and software updates. The post 9to5Linux Weekly Roun...
2024-12-30 11:11
LG gives a sneak peek at bendable OLED UltraGear GX9 monitor before CES 2025
LG has given us a sneak peek at its upcoming UltraGear GX9 Series monitors. While we have some details, we'll learn more at CES 2025 in January. Read more...
2024-12-30 09:10
Mesa's Terrific Year With Better Vulkan Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Same-Day Vulkan 1.4
The open-source Mesa 3D graphics driver had a rather great year with a number of performance optimizations landing, on-time support for Intel Lunar Lake and Battlemage Xe2 graphics, early AMD RDNA4 support, multiple drivers having same-day Vulkan 1.4 s...
2024-12-30 09:00
10 hot programming trends — and 10 going cold
Tides ebb and flow. Pendulums swing. Ideas come and go, especially in programming, where the technologies and techniques for creating software continuously evolve. Some programming languages, libraries, platforms, and tools become hot and irresistible...
2024-12-30 09:00
Multitenant data management with TiDB
In a previous article, we explored various approaches to managing data for multitenant applications. We examined the benefits, compromises and limitations of different deployment models, including share-nothing, share-everything, and hybrid. We discus...
2024-12-30 09:00
The future of open source will be messy
Open Source Initiative (OSI) chief Stefano Maffulli says Meta is “bullying” the industry on the concept of open source. The Economist more colorfully characterizes the dispute as “bare-it-all purists … confronting Meta, the social-media giant ...
2024-12-30 09:00
New Logitech G PRO 2 Lightspeed ambidextrous wireless gaming mouse gets first discount
Logitech's recently released G PRO 2 Lightspeed wireless ambidextrous gaming mouse has received its first discount. Read more...
2024-12-30 08:54
Mexico to launch app to help those affected by President-elect Trump's "mass deportation"
Mexico is set to launch an emergency notification app for its migrants in the US to get help and alert family if they're detained for deportation. Read more...
2024-12-30 08:38
System insights with command-line tools: lslogins and lsmod
Continuing our exploration of commands that provide insights into the inner workings of your Fedora Linux system, we turn our focus to more simple ones like lslogins and lsmod. These tools offer information about user accounts and kernel modules, respe...
2024-12-30 08:00
Get the Panasonic W95A 85-inch 4K 144Hz Amazon Fire TV now for under $1,799
The 85-inch Panasonic W95A Fire TV is now at its lowest-ever price of just under $1,799. This is a huge $1,000 lower than just a few months ago and it has an excellent customer rating. Read more...
2024-12-30 06:50
RadeonSI Driver Now Uses ACO By Default For Pre-RDNA GPUs
As a very interesting end-of-year change for Mesa 25.0, AMD is now using the ACO compiler by default for pre-GFX10 (before RDNA / Navi) GPUs with the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...
2024-12-30 06:50