Development start of Leap 16.0
Hello everyone! I’d like to announce the start of development and the public availability of what we currently refer to as Leap 16.0 pre-Alpha. Since this is a pre-Alpha version, significant changes may occur, and the final product may look very diff...
KDE Plasma 6.2 Released, This is What’s New
A new major update to the KDE Plasma desktop has been released, and it’s jam-packed with new features, enhancements, and performance-focused improvements. Serving as the third release in the new 6.x series, KDE Plasma 6.2 builds on the foundations in...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 6th, 2024
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for October 6th, 2024, brings news about Firefox 131, Linux Mint 22.1 release date, FFmpeg 7.1, fwupd 2.0, Audacious 4.4.1, qBittorrent 5.0, Ardour 8.8, NetworkManager 1.50, Firefox 132 beta, as well as all the latest distr...
5 ways data scientists can prepare now for genAI transformation
Until recently, data scientists and analysts’ primary deliverables were data visualizations, machine learning models, dashboards, reports, and analytical insights used for storytelling. Now, with genAI capabilities, data scientists are called to exp...
Open source isn’t going to save AI
“You don’t want AI only in the hands of a few companies.” Thus spake Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue, suggesting that open source will come to the rescue of AI. It’s a nice thought, but one that has exactly zero historical precedent. Yes, open ...
macOS 15.0 now UNIX 03-certified
You have to wonder how meaningful this news is in 2024, but macOS 15.0 Sequoia running on either Apple Silicon or Intel processors is now UNIX 03-certified. The UNIX 03 Product Standard is the mark for systems conforming to Version 3 of the Single UNIX...
5 ways companies can use time series forecasting
Time series forecasting is a powerful machine learning method that leverages historical time-stamped data to predict future events and help reduce uncertainty from business conditions — for example, to accurately predict sales, inventory levels, and...
“Lost” 1983 programming language bought on eBay
A YouTube channel has resurrected a programming language that hadn’t been seen since the 1980s — in a testament to both the enduring power of our technology, and of the communities that care about it. But best of all, Simpson uploaded the langua...
NVGRACE-GPU VFIO Driver Preparing For NVIDIA Grace Blackwell
The NVGRACE-GPU VFIO driver was introduced for handling Virtual Function I/O support with the NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip so that the GPU device could be assigned to guests using KVM/QEMU and similar for virtualization. The NVGRACE-GPU driver is now ...
ChatGPT o1-preview excels at code generation
“Ho, hum,” I thought in response to the release of the OpenAI o1 models. “Yet another stochastic parrot.” I was wrong. In fact, I tried the o1-preview model on one of my standard programming tasks, and found it to be surprisingly good. The rec...
