Perplexity could be about to drop a big reasoning update for its new assistant
Perplexity's assistant is soon to get support for reasoning, its founder has announced. What's unclear is whether users will get unlimited reasoning if they replace Gemini. Read more...
2025-01-30 10:42
Yandex Open-Sources Perforator: Find Code Inefficiencies & "Save Billions of Dollars"
Internet tech company Yandex announced the open-source release today of Perforator as a tool to help identify and evaluate code inefficiencies at scale. They say Perforator can lead to businesses saving "billions of dollars a year on server infrastruct...
2025-01-30 10:29
Here's when you can play Marvel's Spider-Man 2 on PC
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is finally swinging its way onto the PC, so here's when you can play.
2025-01-30 10:28
Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down
Days after a DRM driver developer orphaned his drivers due to health reasons in stepping down, the sole maintainer at large of the Linux wireless (WiFi) drivers is stepping down and without any immediate replacement...
2025-01-30 10:16
OpenAI improves STEM answers in updated GPT-4o model and increases emoji use
GPT-4o has just received an update that moves its cut-off date from November 2023 to June 2024. It can also do image analysis better than before, use more emojis, and give better STEM answers. Read more...
2025-01-30 10:16
DeepSeek sees partial restoration of services after massive DDoS attack
DeepSeek, the powerful Chinese ChatGPT rival, has partially restored its services after a massive DDoS attack in recent days. Just the ability to do web searches remains offline. Read more...
2025-01-30 10:00
Microsoft’s new DocumentDB builds on PostgreSQL
Microsoft’s recent launch of a standalone version of the MongoDB compatibility layer for its global-scale Azure Cosmos DB brought back an old name. Back in 2018, when the company unveiled a public version of the Project Florence database engine that...
2025-01-30 09:00
Microsoft’s new DocumentDB rethinks NoSQL on PostgreSQL
Microsoft’s recent launch of a standalone version of the MongoDB compatibility layer for its global-scale Azure Cosmos DB brought back an old name. Back in 2018, when the company unveiled a public version of the Project Florence database engine that...
2025-01-30 09:00
DocumentDB: A standalone NoSQL database built on PostgreSQL
Microsoft’s recent launch of a standalone version of the MongoDB compatibility layer for its global-scale Azure Cosmos DB brought back an old name. Back in 2018, when the company unveiled a public version of the Project Florence database engine that...
2025-01-30 09:00
Browser Use: An open-source AI agent to automate web-based tasks
Author’s note: The generative AI revolution has sparked an explosion of open-source tools that fundamentally transform how developers build and deploy AI-powered applications. Each month here, I will introduce an innovative new project from the open...
2025-01-30 09:00
Sourcegraph unveils AI coding agents
Looking to challenge well-established GitHub Copilot in AI-powered coding assistance, Sourcegraph has announced coding agents for code review, code migration, testing, documentation, and notification, along with an API for building custom agents. Sour...
2025-01-30 09:00
NVIDIA 570.86.16 Beta Linux Driver Published With GeForce RTX 5080 / RTX 5090 Support
The NVIDIA 570.86.16 beta Linux driver was just published in time for the GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 graphics cards hitting store shelves this morning...
2025-01-30 08:58
January 2025 Baseline monthly digest
In its first edition, this Baseline monthly digest covers happenings in Baseline at both Google and the web developer community in January 2025.
2025-01-30 08:00
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Empowering Cloud Autonomy and Interoperability: Introducing Eclipse Cloud
Empowering Cloud Autonomy and Interoperability: Introducing Eclipse Cloud The Eclipse Foundation is excited to announce the formation of the Eclipse Cloud Interest Group, aimed at empowering cloud providers, users, and industry vendors to independently...
2025-01-30 08:00
AMD AE4DMA Driver Merged For Linux 6.14
In addition to the AMDXDNA driver being merged for Linux 6.14 for enabling the Ryzen AI NPUs, this next kernel version is introducing another new AMD kernel driver that hasn't been previously covered on Phoronix: AMD AE4DMA...
2025-01-30 07:00
Intel Linux Graphics Driver Merges "Major Improvement" For Xe3 With VRT Support
The open-source Intel Linux Mesa graphics driver code has merged support for a "major improvement" found with next-gen Xe3 graphics... Variable Register Thread (VRT) as one of the nifty features that will help with Intel integrated and discrete graphic...
2025-01-30 06:38
The latest Google Maps update for Android brings support for One UI 7 Now Bar
One UI 7 Now Bar now gets support for one more app as the new Google Maps update now lets you view live activities on the lock screen. Read more...
2025-01-30 06:38
SoundWire Multi-Lane Support Submitted For Linux 6.14
All of the MIPI SoundWire related updates have been submitted for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel. SoundWire as a reminder is the standard interface for modern, small audio peripherals...
2025-01-30 06:20
Threads added 20 million monthly active users in December 2024, reaching 320 million
Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta's microblogging site now has 320 million monthly active users, up from 300 million last month. Read more...
2025-01-30 06:20