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Google Lens video search feature has started rolling out
Google demoed a new visual search feature earlier this year at the I/O developer conference. Now rolling out to some users, it lets you search for nearby things by recording a short video clip. Read more...
2024-09-30 12:00
Epic Games files lawsuit against Samsung and Google for colluding to block third-party apps
Epic Games has filed a lawsuit against Samsung and Google for allegedly colluding with each other to stop users of Samsung devices from downloading third-party apps. Read more...
2024-09-30 12:00
Two (or three?) iPhone 16 models make best smartphone battery life rankings
Two of the four iPhone 16 models have made it into the best smartphone battery life rankings compiled by Tom’s Guide. The status of a third model is unclear. Earning a place on the list requires a smartphone to last for more than 14 hours of wireless...
2024-09-30 12:00
Second judge implies Apple lied in Epic lawsuit; denies request
A second judge in the Apple versus Epic Games lawsuit has implied that the Cupertino company has lied to the court. It comes after the original judge strongly implied that Apple had not told the truth about the reasons for its new App Store policy. A s...
2024-09-30 12:00
Build your private 5G network with Charmed Aether SD-Core
You might recall that we recently announced the beta release of Charmed Aether SD-Core, bringing automation to the Linux Foundation’s open source 5G software-defined core (SD-Core) networking software. SD-Core is distributed by the Aether project and...
2024-09-30 12:00
What the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) means for IoT manufacturers
The EU Cyber Resilience Act has considerable repercussions for the IoT device manufacturers. In this blog, we explore these new regulatory requirements and give our blueprint for compliant, market-ready devices.
2024-09-30 12:00
Cpufreq_ext Being Worked On For BPF-Based CPU Frequency Scaling
The newly-merged sched_ext allows for the Linux kernel scheduler to be made more extensible by allowing BPF programs to be loaded to affect the kernel's scheduling behavior. There's now a similar take on CPU frequency scaling: cpufreq_ext. There's a "r...
2024-09-30 12:00
A Hacker's Era: Why Microsoft 365 Protection Reigns Supreme
Imagine a sophisticated cyberattack cripples your organization’s most critical productivity and collaboration tool — the platform you rely on for daily operations. In the blink of an eye, hackers encrypt your emails, files, and crucial business dat...
2024-09-30 12:00
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Effortless Instrumentation profiling with Persistent Target Selection
Ever wished to assess your code’s performance without repeatedly choosing the target process or executable for each instrumentation profiling session? If so, you’re among many developers who find this task cumbersome and prone to errors, es...
2024-09-30 11:00
AMD unveils its first small language model, AMD-135M — AI performance enhanced by speculative decoding
Software-specific optimizations help AMD's MI250 to win in some cases.
2024-09-30 11:00
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"I see you're exploring the galaxy." A Starfield player made this insane Clippy space ship, taking the old school Microsoft assistant interstellar.
Using Starfield's robust space ship designer, a player on reddit recreated everyone's favorite retro Windows companion for interstellar travel.
2024-09-30 11:00
FFmpeg 7.1 “Péter” Released with Full Native VVC Decoder, Vulkan Hardware Encoding
FFmpeg 7.1 open-source multimedia framework is now available for download with a full native VVC decoder, a new MV-HEVC decoder, a new LC-EVC decoder, a new xHE-AAC decoder, Vulkan hardware encoding, and more. Here's what's new! The post FFmpeg 7.1 &#8...
2024-09-30 11:00
AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Excited Linux Users The Most In Q3
With the third quarter drawing to a close, here's a look back at the most popular Linux/open-source related content for the quarter. This quarter there's been more than 730 news articles and 50 Linux hardware reviews / featured benchmark articles all w...
2024-09-30 11:00
FFmpeg 7.1 Released With VVC Decoder Promoted To Stable, Vulkan H.264/H.265 Encode
FFmpeg 7.1 is out today as the newest update to this widely-used open-source multimedia library. With FFmpeg 7.1 the VVC video decoder has been promoted to stable, there are a number of Vulkan Video improvements, and an assortment of other exciting enh...
2024-09-30 11:00
Sway 1.10-rc1 Adds GPU Reset Recovery, New Wayland Protocols
Open-source developer Simon Ser has released Sway 1.10-rc1 as the newest feature release to this i3-inspired Wayland compositor. With Sway 1.10 there are many new features coming...
2024-09-30 11:00
AMDVLK 2024.Q3.3 Brings New Performance Optimizations & Pipeline Binaries
AMD today released AMDVLK 2024.Q3.3 as their latest open-source Vulkan API driver for Linux systems prior to ending the quarter...
2024-09-30 11:00
Explained: How Salesforce Agentforce’s Atlas reasoning engine works to power AI agents
Salesforce’s recently launched Agentforce suite of low-code tools is betting on a human-like reasoning engine called Atlas that could be a game-changer in building AI agents. What that essentially means is that this engine makes the AI agents create...
2024-09-30 11:00
FFmpeg 7.1 “Péter” Released with Full Native VVC Decoder, MV-HEVC Decoder, and More
FFmpeg 7.1 open-source multimedia framework is now available for download with a full native VVC decoder, a new MV-HEVC decoder, a new LC-EVC decoder, a new xHE-AAC decoder, and more. Here's what's new! The post FFmpeg 7.1 “Péter” Released...
2024-09-30 10:00
How to succeed with Kubernetes
Kubernetes, the open source orchestration platform for automating the deployment and management of containerized workloads and services, continues to gain popularity. Maintained by a worldwide community of contributors, the platform’s potential bene...
2024-09-30 10:00
Crescendo makes AI boring—and profitable
There’s money in AI, but not where you think. Sure, Nvidia and the clouds are cleaning up, but they’re primarily selling to enterprises that are mostly kicking tires, not running mission-critical AI applications. Others, like the Financial Times, ...
2024-09-30 10:00