Nvidia releases a hotfix driver to patch stutters in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
If you suffer from micro stutters when playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on your PC, get this hotfix from Nvidia now. Read more...
2024-12-23 12:32
App Store has hundreds of ‘risky’ apps rated as appropriate for kids, says report
Even a brief review of the App Store revealed more than 200 “risky or inappropriate” apps rated as ok for children, according to a new report. They had collectively notched up more than 550 million downloads. Two child safety groups say that more t...
2024-12-23 12:15
App Store has hundreds of ‘risky’ apps rated as appropriate for kids [U: Apple responds]
Even a brief review of the App Store revealed more than 200 “risky or inappropriate” apps rated as ok for children, according to a new report. They had collectively notched up more than 550 million downloads. Two child safety groups say that more t...
2024-12-23 12:15
Italy Fines OpenAI €15 Million for ChatGPT GDPR Data Privacy Violations
Italy's data protection authority has fined ChatGPT maker OpenAI a fine of €15 million ($15.66 million) over how the generative artificial intelligence application handles personal data. The fine comes nearly a year after the Garante found that ChatG...
2024-12-23 12:12
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Xbox, here are 5 things I want from you for Christmas
I love my Xbox, but like everything else, it ain't perfect. What if Santa could bring you something special for Xbox this year?
2024-12-23 11:47
Raspberry Pi 500 Delivers Great Performance, Convenient Upgrade To The Raspberry Pi 400
Four years ago already the Raspberry Pi 400 was announced as a Raspberry Pi keyboard computer built around the Raspberry Pi 4, passively-cooled, and all packaged up nicely in a keyboard form factor. Announced earlier this month was the Raspberry Pi 500...
2024-12-23 11:16
Former Google lead says we should "seriously think" about pulling the plug on AI once it starts self-improving: "It’s going to be very difficult to maintain that balance"
Google CEO Eric Schmidt says we should pull the plug on self-improving AI because it will be difficult to maintain balance.
2024-12-23 10:13
Microsoft releases Office 365 apps like Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel deactivation fix
Microsoft has deployed a fix for Office 365 apps like Word, Outlook, Teams, and more, showing deactivation messages. Read more...
2024-12-23 10:10
X massively increases its Premium+ subscription prices globally
X has announced that it will be hiking its Premium+ subscription prices globally, with some markets harder. Read more...
2024-12-23 09:54
Linux 6.14 Looks To Land Rust PCI / Platform Device Driver Support
The patch series in the works for a while to provide the necessary kernel abstractions for the Rust programming language to actually implement real device drivers looks like it will finally premiere in the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle...
2024-12-23 09:30
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 22nd, 2024
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for December 22nd, 2024, brings news about Fedora Asahi Remix 41, Kali Linux 2024.4, Darktable 5.0, Grml 2024.12, PorteuX 1.8, LibreOffice 24.8.4, IPFire 2.29 Core Update 190, DXVK 2.5.2, as well as all the latest distro an...
2024-12-23 09:21
Overcoming modern observability challenges
Observability, at its core, is about collecting and analyzing data generated from applications, cloud computing resources, and edge devices to ensure software and services are run smoothly, user experiences are optimized, and resources are managed cos...
2024-12-23 09:00
How generative AI could aid Kubernetes operations
Enterprises often encounter friction using Kubernetes (K8s for short) at scale to orchestrate large swaths of containers, not to mention an escalating number of clusters. And due to its complexity, diagnosing issues within Kubernetes isn’t all that ...
2024-12-23 09:00
The exciting new world of Redis
If you’re a developer who wants the most feature-rich, high-performance version of Redis, your choice is clear: Redis and not a fork. If you have time and inclination to dabble in ideological debates about open source licensing, well, you might make...
2024-12-23 09:00
Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Linux Distribution Goes Into Alpha
It's been a few months since hearing anything new out of Serpent OS, the original Linux distribution led by Ikey Doherty, who started Solus Linux and also was involved with Intel's Clear Linux. As a Christmas surprise, Serpent OS has now reached the al...
2024-12-23 07:13
Faster AES-GCM & AES-XTS Crypto For AMD CPUs With Linux 6.14
Eric Biggers of Google who has pursued countless CPU optimizations within the Linux kernel's crypto subsystem over the years has some noteworthy optimizations coming for AMD processors with the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle...
2024-12-23 06:46
Intel Engineers Adding GNU Debugger "GDB" Support For Intel GPUs
Intel engineers are working on contributing upstream support to the GNU Debugger (GDB) for debugging software running on Intel GPUs...
2024-12-23 06:25
EVBUG Driver Being Dropped From Linux 6.14 - Useless For Years & Known Security Threat
Linux 6.13 cleared out more than 100k lines of old and unmaintained code while that end of year code cleaning isn't stopping... With Linxu 6.14 at least another old and seemingly useless driver is being gutted from the input subsystem: evbug...
2024-12-23 06:19
AMDVLK 2024.Q4.3 Brings Vulkan 1.4 Support, More Game Tuning
AMD has squeezed in one more open-source Vulkan driver update for the year to benefit Linux gamers and others wanting to use this official AMD Vulkan Linux driver option...
2024-12-23 05:58
OpenShot Video Editor Puts Out an Effortless, Seamless, Etc Update
A new version of OpenShot video editor is out (a video editor which doesn’t have the best reputation for stability hence the nickname OpenShut). OpenShot—more accurately, ChatGPT or similar—says “OpenShot 3.3 is here to transform your editing e...
2024-12-22 23:31