JDK 23: The new features in Java 23
Java Development Kit (JDK) 23, the latest update of standard Java, is now generally available. Major features and changes range from previews of module import declarations, stream gatherers, structured concurrency, scoped values, and a class-file API ...
Announcing Fedora Linux 41 Beta
Today, the Fedora Project is pleased to announce the availability of Fedora Linux 41 Beta. While we’ll have more to share with the general availability of Fedora Linux 41 in about a month, there is plenty in the beta to get excited about now. Get the...
Initial AMD Zen 5 "Znver5" Support Merged For LLVM/Clang
Last week the a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-5-LLVM-Enablement">initial AMD Zen 5 "znver5" enablement for LLVM/Clang was posted by an AMD compiler engineer. That code has since undergone review and merged for LLVM 20 Git and yesterday th...
Thunderbird and Spam
Dealing with spam in our daily email routines can be frustrating, but Thunderbird has some tools to make unwanted messages less of a headache. It takes time, training, and patience, but eventually you can emerge victorious over that junk mail. In this ...
Overcoming AI hallucinations with RAG and knowledge graphs
Generative AI depends on data to build responses to user queries. Training large language models (LLMs) uses huge volumes of data—for example, OpenAI’s GPT-3 used the CommonCrawl data set, which stood at 570 gigabytes and 400 billion tokens. But t...
Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.8 Released Ahead Of Lunar Lake
Ahead of the Intel Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" laptops beginning to ship starting next week, the Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.8 is now available as the latest software update for embracing the Intel NPU for AI offloading...
