Making the business case for generative AI
There has been a lot of speculation about what generative AI can do for businesses. The possibilities are endless — streamlined creative processes, automated business operations, self-service for customers, and more. Indeed the productivity implicat...
Cloud providers make bank with genAI while projects fail
The public cloud market is seeing exploding growth, and it’s easy to understand why. The interest in generative AI has sent enterprises running to their public cloud console to allocate even more resources, including data storage and compute, which ...
Linux 6.13 To Drop Fieldbus Just Five Years After Being Merged
Merged back in 2019 was the Fieldbus subsystem as a set of network protocols for real-time distributed control of automated industrial systems. But now five years later, Fieldbus is being removed from the mainline Linux kernel since the code hasn't bee...
Redox runs on RISC-V, boots to GUI login on Raspberry Pi 4
Another month lies behind us, so another monthly update from Redox is upon us. The biggest piece of news this time is undoubtedly that Redox now runs on RISC-V – a major achievement. Andrey Turkin has done extensive work on RISC-V support in the kern...
Visual Studio Code previews AI-powered code editing
Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code is previewing Copilot Edits, a feature powered by GitHub Copilot that suggests changes across multiple files in a workspace based on the developer’s prompts. Copilot Edits and other new Copilot-powered capabilities ...
Help us improve our alt text generation model
Image generated by DALL-E in response to a request for a photorealistic image of a fox standing in a grassy landscape. Firefox 130 introduces automatic alt text for PDF images and an improved alt text flow. In addition to protecting users’ privacy wi...
Intel Panther Lake Display Support Squeezing Into Linux 6.13
Queued up over the past month into DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle has been initial support for Xe3 graphics to be found with Panther Lake processors. The initial Xe3 graphics driver support patches have been trickling in while the final ...
Join us for Microsoft Ignite
The Canonical team is gearing up for the next big gathering at Microsoft Ignite 2024, which will take place from November 18 – 22, 2024. Get ready to dive deep into the latest conversations that will shape the future of cloud and open-source innovati...
Raspberry Pi Gives its Tiny Touch Display a Big Upgrade
Raspberry Pi has announced a new version of its 7-inch ‘Touch Display’ accessory. And given that the previous model was announced 9 years ago, some kind of update was arguably due for this device. The Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 runs at a higher-r...
Windows Server 2025 released
Microsoft has confirmed the general availability of Windows Server 2025, which, as a long-term servicing channel (LTSC) release, will be supported for almost ten years. This article describes some of the newest developments in Windows Server 2025, whic...
Moving a game project from C to the Odin language
Some months ago, I got really fed up with C. Like, I don’t hate C. Hating programming languages is silly. But it was way too much effort to do simple things like lists/hashmaps and other simple data structures and such. I decided to try this langua...
From Proxmox to FreeBSD: story of a migration
It’s the start of the work week, so for the IT administrators among us, I have another great article by friend of the website, Stefano Marinelli. This article covers migrating a Proxmox-based setup to FreeBSD with bhyve. The load is not particularly ...
TOUPUWAN 30-Slot Laptop/Tablet Storage Cart
To clear up the ever-growing stack of laptops, I recently bought a TOUPUWAN 30-Slot Laptop/Tablet Storage Cart. This laptop/tablet storage cart can accommodate 32 devices in total while slots for up to 30 laptops/tablets 16.3-inches in size. It does ha...
