Intel board kicks out CEO, launches new budget desktop GPUs
This is a bit of an odd few days for Intel. Mere days after the board ousted its CEO Pat Gelsinger, once heralded as the chip giant’s messiah, they’re today launching two brand new desktop graphics cards. They’re aimed at the more budget-oriented...
Documentation, development and design for technical authors
Typically, a technical writer takes the product created by a development team, and writes the documentation that expresses the product to its users. At Canonical we take a different approach. Documentation is part of the product. It’s the responsibi...
Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest – November 2024
Hello Thunderbird Community! Another adventurous month is behind us, and the team has emerged victorious from a number of battles with code, quirks, bugs and performance issues. Here’s a quick summary of what’s been happening across the front and b...
openSUSE Empowers Creative Professionals
Creative professionals exploring alternatives that allow them to continue working without investing in costly new hardware and software upgrades can look at Linux as the end of Windows 10 approaches. Distributions and flavors like openSUSE’s Tumblewe...
Understanding unstructured data in the context of AI
The volume of data being created today is truly staggering. IDC projects that global data will reach 400 zettabytes (400 billion terabytes) by 2028, with 90% of that data classified as unstructured data. The proliferation of so much data, and so much ...
How AI agents will transform the future of work
At first, robotic process automation coupled with low-code platforms and orchestration tools propelled many organizations to increase productivity and scale business operations. Virtual agents and chatbots then took automation one step further by enab...
Open-washing and the illusion of AI openness
A peculiar trend has taken hold within the AI gold rush: Major players in the space—from OpenAI to Google and Microsoft—have started to heavily market their AI models as “open.” These companies are using terms like “open AI” to align with ...
FreeBSD 14.2 released
FreeBSD 14.2 has been released, and as the version number suggests, this isn’t a major release with huge changes. Still, it does bring support for downloading and installing necessary firmware packages after installation, the latest versions of OpenZ...
Rustls Multi-Threaded Performance Is Battering OpenSSL
The Rustls project as a modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language and an alternative to the likes of the widely-used OpenSSL and Cloudflare's BoringSSL has published some new performance figures. When looking at the multi-threaded ser...
