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VIDEO: The New Account Hub
In this month’s Community Office Hours, we’re chatting with Vineet Deo, a Software Engineer on the Desktop team, who walks us through the new Account Hub on the Desktop app. If you want a sneak peak at this new streamlined experience, you can find ...
2025-04-11 12:18
Elon Musk’s xAI allegedly uses illegal generators to power Colossus supercomputer facility
xAI has reportedly built a 420 MW power facility to power the Colossus supercomputer that is set to expand to 200,000 GPUs and beyond.
2025-04-11 12:14
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Elon Musk’s xAI allegedly uses 'illegal' generators to power Colossus supercomputer facility
xAI has reportedly built a 420 MW power facility to power the Colossus supercomputer that is set to expand to 200,000 GPUs and beyond.
2025-04-11 12:14
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Researchers make breakthrough in cleaning up the 'forever chemicals' used in chip manufacturing
Monash University has developed a water filter to catch PFAS used in chip manufacturing and other industries. The chip industry has been lobbying for years against any progress on legislating PFAS-use.
2025-04-11 12:00
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Apple Maps on the web leaves beta, now works on mobile devices
Apple last year introduced a beta version of Apple Maps on the web, which allowed users of other platforms to access the company’s mapping service for the first time. However, Apple Maps on the web was labeled as “beta” — until now. And as the ...
2025-04-11 11:42
Writing Tools needs one feature to make it an essential part of Apple Intelligence
The most recent instance of benefiting from Apple Intelligence with about 70% satisfaction just occurred. I’m writing another piece using an and Magic Keyboard. I selected the opening paragraph, invoked Writing Tools, and selected Proofread. This is ...
2025-04-11 11:00
Cooling chips with lasers: Innovative cooling method removes heat precisely from hot spots, recycles heat into energy
A startup is developing a laser-based cooling system using ultrapure gallium arsenide plates to target chip hotspots, but at high costs.
2025-04-11 10:59
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Tariffs and gaming handhelds: Should I buy a Steam Deck, ROG Ally, or even a Nintendo Switch right now?
Learn all you need to know about how tariffs will affect the cost of gaming handhelds. I'm also keeping tack of current handheld prices so you can know when to buy.
2025-04-11 10:38
OttoKit WordPress Plugin Admin Creation Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation
A newly disclosed high-severity security flaw impacting OttoKit (formerly SureTriggers) has come under active exploitation within a few hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-3102 (CVSS score: 8.1), is an authorization bypas...
2025-04-11 10:28
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GPUs and tariffs — Why I recommend buying a new graphics card now before the prices climb even higher
The GPU market is already a mess, and the currently inflated prices aren't going to get any better as more tariffs fall into place. Here's what you need to know.
2025-04-11 10:25
OpenAI's need for more paid ChatGPT users is subtly mentioned in code — Will it use the viral Ghibli memes to cash in?
Code in ChatGPT suggests OpenAI may start watermarking images generated by free users, forcing them to upgrade to paid plans for an unrestricted user experience.
2025-04-11 10:09
Microsoft deprecates Windows UWP Map control and Maps Platform APIs
The list of deprecated features in Windows 10 and 11 has received a new entry about maps API in UWP applications. Read more...
2025-04-11 10:02
More and faster: New proposals changing Python from within
Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorld Making Python faster won’t be easy, but it’ll be worth itPython’s malleability and dynamism make it powerful, but also very hard to speed up. Here’s a look at some of the ways developers are working to...
2025-04-11 09:00
A multicloud experiment in agentic AI: Lessons learned
Recently I undertook a project to design and validate agentic AI architectures capable of operating autonomously across various public cloud providers. It served as a dry run to ensure I could create these architectures for my clients, test their viab...
2025-04-11 09:00
Grok 3 gets an API — but will enterprises trust it?
Once just a chatbot, xAI’s Grok 3 large language model family is now available in a beta version via an API, enabling developers to integrate Grok 3 into custom applications. The company is offering two new LLMS, one with deep domain knowledge in fi...
2025-04-11 08:51
DebConf25 Registration and Call for Proposals are open
The 26th edition of the Debian annual conference will be held in Brest, France, from July 14th to July 20th, 2025. The main conference will be preceded by DebCamp, from July 7th to July 13th. We invite everyone interested to register for the event to a...
2025-04-11 08:00
Introduction to Wireplumber
Wireplumber is the session and policy manager for Pipewire. It has its own systemd user service. It is a separate project, with separate concerns. Current version is 0.5.8 on Fedora Workstation 41. Session managers save the current state of open audio ...
2025-04-11 08:00
KB5002623: Microsoft fixes Office, Outlook, Word, Excel KB5002700 hangs and freezes
Microsoft's busy week of bug fixing on Office and M365 continues as it resolves a major KB5002700 update bug where Office apps would hang or freeze. Read more...
2025-04-11 06:48
Microsoft broke Classic Outlook download as it relentlessly pushes New Outlook for Windows
Microsoft broke Classic Outlook downloads as it tries harder and harder for people to adopt its New Outlook for Windows app. Read more...
2025-04-11 05:18
Apple celebrates iPhone 16 release day in one more country
Apple has finally and officially released the iPhone 16 for customers in Indonesia. Not just the recently introduced iPhone 16e, but the whole lineup that was announced last fall. New iPhones typically don’t take more than 200 days to reach other mar...
2025-04-11 04:08