Microsoft launches Mixed Reality Link for Windows 11 — connect your PC to your Meta Quest headset!
The Mixed Reality Link for Windows 11 is now available in preview, and lets you connect up to three virtual monitors with your Meta Quest headset.
2024-12-10 11:01
These are the top trending Google searches of 2024
Google has published its Year in Search roundup for 2024, highlighting the most searched people and top trending searches across news, movies, TV shows, music, and other categories. Read more...
2024-12-10 11:00
New Linux Patch Establishes "CONFIG_X86_64_NATIVE" For -march=native Kernel Builds
Last week I wrote about Linux patches cleaning up x86 32-bit kernel builds for x86_64 CPUs. The new iteration of those patches were sent out today, including the addition of a patch adding the CONFIG_X86_64_NATIVE Kconfig tunable for enabling "-march=n...
2024-12-10 11:00
Apple @ Work Podcast: When you trade in your fleet of iPhones, where do they go?
Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & pro...
2024-12-10 11:00
Google claims that Chrome AI makes web safer on Windows 11, but how (seriously)?
Previously, Google said that using Chrome is the safest option on Windows to get users to switch from Microsoft Edge. Now, Google claims that AI makes the web safer, but how does it do that? The post Google claims that Chrome AI makes web safer on Wind...
2024-12-10 10:55
Reddit's new AI search tool will emancipate the social networking platform from an overdependency on Google for traffic: "People know that Reddit has answers."
Reddit recently launched Reddit Answers. The AI-powered tool is designed to make it easier for users to find information on the social networking platform.
2024-12-10 10:42
Perf Support For 2,048 CPU Cores Is Becoming Not Enough - Patches Bump Kernel Limit
Currently the Linux kernel's "perf" performance monitoring subsystem has a limit on 2,048 CPU cores for its CPU map that is set by the MAX_NR_CPUS value. But that's becoming not enough in today's high core count era that patches are looking to raise it...
2024-12-10 10:41
An emoji button may be coming to the Taskbar on Windows 11
A hidden option in the latest Windows 11 preview build suggests an emoji button will be landing on your Taskbar soon.
2024-12-10 10:35
Spark or Hadoop: the best choice for big data teams?
I always find the Olympics to be an unusual experience. I’m hardly an athletics fanatic, yet I can’t help but get swept up in the spirit of the competition. When the Olympics took place in Paris last summer, I suddenly began rooting for my country ...
2024-12-10 10:26
Databricks unveils synthetic data generation API to help evaluate agents faster
As enterprise demand for building multi-agent systems continues to grow, data infrastructure services providing firm, Databricks, is updating its Mosaic AI Agent Evaluation module with a new synthetic data generation API that will help enterprises eva...
2024-12-10 10:15
Google CEO throws a lethal jab at Microsoft's AI efforts: "I would love to do a side-by-side comparison of our models. They're using someone else's models."
Google CEO Sundar Pichai admits AI progression and development will slow down in 2025. He says top AI labs will need to make significant breakthroughs in reasoning to continue scaling.
2024-12-10 10:05
Updated Dasharo Firmware Pulls In Raptor Lake Instability Fix, Other Enhancements
For those wanting to run Coreboot or Coreboot-derived firmware on a modern desktop motherboard with good performance and features, the main contender currently is 3mdeb's Dasharo downstream that can be flashed on the MSI PRO Z790-P/Z790-P motherboards ...
2024-12-10 10:00
"This is unacceptable at this point": Activision faces backlash over AI-generated images in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Call of Duty has come under fire from its community for handing out in-game event rewards that may have been AI-generated.
2024-12-10 09:46
1TB 2TB Corsair MP700 PRO Gen5, Crucial P310 Gen4 NVMe SSDs hit lowest prices
Corsair and Crucial are offering 2TB and 1TB SSDs at lowest prices. While Corair MP700 PRO are PCIe Gen5, the Crucial P310 is Gen4. Read more...
2024-12-10 09:16
How to build better AI chatbots
At Campfire, we launched a consumer AI chat product called Cozy Friends on Steam and mobile on October 12. Imagine Animal Crossing or The Sims with AI agents. In the first 30 days, users exchanged more than 1.7M messages with our AI agents. This beat...
2024-12-10 09:00
5G never delivered for cloud computing
I recall this as if it was yesterday. I entered the conference room to talk about cloud computing and 5G. I gave this type of presentation often a few years ago. The executives were excited about 5G’s potential. I took a deep breath, knowing I had t...
2024-12-10 09:00
IBM delivers speed of light AI training with optics breakthrough
IBM has developed a new optics technology that could speed up data transfers within data centers. It said this could reduce energy use and seriously speed up AI training. Read more...
2024-12-10 08:36
Baseline 2024: more tools to help web developers
web-features dataset, Web Platform Status dashboard, Baseline status widget and more! Take a look back on Baseline in 2024.
2024-12-10 08:00
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Optimizing Linux MD Bitmap Code Yields 89% Throughput Boost For Quad SSDs
A promising patch for the Linux kernel is optimizing the locking contention and scattered address space for the MD bitmap code to improve both the storage throughput and latency...
2024-12-10 06:39