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Uncached Buffered IO Is Performing Great, Working Now On Btrfs / EXT4 / XFS

As covered last week Linux I/O expert Jens Axboe has been taking a fresh pursuit of uncached buffered I/O for Linux. This "RWF_UNCACHED" work was originally started back in 2019 while a renewed effort around it is showing ~65% faster read/write perform...

2024-11-13 06:38

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Google resumes rolling out Wear OS 5 update for Pixel Watch 1 and 2

After halting the update for a month, Google is now bundling the Wear OS 5 OS with a November update for Pixel Watch 1 and 2. Read more...

2024-11-13 06:34

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Meta's chatbot is straight up telling mushroom hunters to cook up poison

Meta's latest AI experiment caused chaos in a mushroom foraging group by advising users to cook up a toxic mushroom. Read more...

2024-11-13 06:22

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AMD Continues Backing AlmaLinux For Community Enterprise Linux OS

The AlmaLinux operating system project that was started from the fallout of the RHEL/CentOS development shift several years ago has once again courted AMD as a sponsorship of this community enterprise Linux operating system...

2024-11-13 06:15

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xcompmgr 1.1.10 Released For Classic "Eye Candy" Compositor On X.Org

Xcompmgr 1.1.10 was released yesterday as the newest update to this basic X11 compositor providing "eye candy" effects for classic X.Org usage...

2024-11-13 05:28

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Apple Vision Pro proves best home theater as 2024 top grossing films arrive in 3D

For many, Apple’s new ultrawide Mac Virtual Display feature in visionOS 2.2 beta is the killer app on Apple Vision Pro. But you don’t need to be a Mac user to appreciate Apple Vision Pro and its role as an incredible mobile movie theater. I’ve be...

2024-11-13 02:27

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Apple’s head of accessibility highlights the importance of AI in helping people with disabilities

As reported last week, Apple’s global head of accessibility Sarah Herrlinger spoke this Tuesday at the Web Summit Lisbon 2024. At the event, Herrlinger talked about everything Apple has been doing to make its devices easy to use for anyone and also h...

2024-11-13 02:09

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BLUETTI is launching an all-new 2 kWh portable power station for outdoor life

BLUETTI has long been committed to clean and sustainable energy, and is a market leader in green energy storage, both for indoor and outdoors. Today, BLUETTI is launching a new 2 kWh portable power station, breaking through traditional portable energy ...

2024-11-13 01:58

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JEP targeted to JDK 24: 487: Scoped Values (4th Preview)

2024-11-13 00:00

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Xbox's Towerborne adds fresh missions, a party finder, and more in major early access update

Towerborne Early Access players on Steam can now find a brand-new, content-packed, update waiting for them. This has a handy party finder, a level cap upgrade, and much more. Read more...

2024-11-12 23:52

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2's updated system requirements reveal it needs a lot of RAM and SSD space

GSC Game World has published the final system requirements for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, revealing how it expects the game will run across a wide range of PC hardware. Read more...

2024-11-12 23:24

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November Patches for Azure DevOps Server

Today we are releasing patches that impact our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly encourage and recommend that all customers use the latest, most secure release of Azure DevOps Server. You can download the latest version of the produ...

2024-11-12 23:19

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Siemens Healthineers manages C++ libraries with vcpkg in an offline build environment

vcpkg is a free and open-source C/C++ package manager maintained by Microsoft and the C++ community that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Over the years we have heard from companies using vcpkg to manage dependencies at enterprise-scale. For this blo...

2024-11-12 23:10

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Apple begins selling new Gold Link Bracelet for Apple Watch

When was announced in September, the company also unveiled a new Gold Link Bracelet made of stainless steel. However, while the Natural and Slate versions were available from day one, the gold version was unavailable – but that has just changed. more…

2024-11-12 22:58

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Does STALKER 2 have co-op multiplayer and cross-play?

At long last, STALKER 2 is finally almost here. But can you play it co-op, and with people on other platforms?

2024-11-12 22:29

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Microsoft’s .NET 9 arrives, emphasizing performance, cloud, and AI

Microsoft has announced the general availability of .NET 9, a major upgrade of its open source software development platform that features scads of performance enhancements and new capabilities for building cloud-native and generative AI-enabled appli...

2024-11-12 22:09

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Microsoft’s .NET 9 arrives, with performance, cloud, and AI boosts

Microsoft has announced the general availability of .NET 9, a major upgrade of its open source software development platform that features scads of performance enhancements and new capabilities for building cloud-native and generative AI-enabled appli...

2024-11-12 22:09

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Improving Steam Client stability on Linux: setenv and multithreaded environments

Speaking of Steam, the Linux version of Valve’s gaming platform has just received a pretty substantial set of fixes for crashes, and Timothee “TTimo” Besset, who works for Valve on Linux support, has published a blog post with more details about ...

2024-11-12 22:09

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Valve ends Steam’s support for Windows 7 and 8

Steam has finally stopped working on several older Windows operating systems, following a warning from Valve that it planned to drop support earlier this year. With little fanfare, Windows 7 and Windows 8 gaming on Steam is no longer possible followin...

2024-11-12 21:54

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4TB, 2TB WD SN850X (heatsink), Samsung 990 Evo plus NVMe SSDs fall to lowest prices

2TB and 4TB WD and Samsung NVMe SSDs, the SN850X and 990 Evo Plus are on sale for their lowest prices today. Read more...

2024-11-12 21:38

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