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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
Raspberry Pi launches AI Camera for $70 with integrated neural network
The new Raspberry Pi AI Camera priced at $70 is built around the Sony IMX500 sensor and integrated AI accelerator, making it a versatile tool for various applications. Read more...
2024-09-30 09:00
TikTok parent ByteDance is training a new AI model on Huawei's chips amid U.S. restrictions
ByteDance is training its new AI model on Huawei's chips, which are inferior to the ones made by Nvidia, amid ongoing U.S. trade restrictions on exports to China. Read more...
2024-09-30 09:00
"I see you're exploring the galaxy." Someone in 'Starfield' made this insane Clippy space ship, taking the old school 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 09:00
qBittorrent 5.0 BitTorrent Client Adds Support for Systemd Power Management
qBittorrent 5.0 open-source BitTorrent client is now available for download with numerous new features and improvements. Here's what's new! The post qBittorrent 5.0 BitTorrent Client Adds Support for Systemd Power Management appeared first on 9to5Linux...
2024-09-30 09:00
Creating a public counterpoint for AI
Mozilla is releasing a vision for Public AI, a robust ecosystem of initiatives that promote public goods, public orientation and public use throughout every step of AI development and deployment. Read the paper here. Look around. There’s a bus drivin...
2024-09-30 09:00