Large language models: The foundations of generative AI
Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT, Bard, and Llama have caught the public’s imagination and garnered a wide variety of reactions. They are also expected to grow dramatically in the coming years. According to Dimension Market Research, The Glo...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 16th, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for February 16th, 2025, brings news about KDE Plasma 6.3, GNOME 48 Beta, EndeavourOS Mercury, GNOME 47.4, KDE Frameworks 6.11, openSUSE Tumbleweed adopting SELinux, Calibre 7.26, HandBrake 1.9.1, darktable 5.0.1, fwupd 2.0...
3 key features of Postman’s AI Agent Builder
The software landscape is shifting from passive business processes to dynamic, AI-driven workflows. AI agents—systems that interact with APIs, make decisions, and execute complex tasks—are at the forefront of this transformation. While large langu...
How to keep AI hallucinations out of your code
It turns out androids do dream, and their dreams are often strange. In the early days of generative AI, we got human hands with eight fingers and recipes for making pizza sauce from glue. Now, developers working with AI-assisted coding tools are also ...
What if generative AI can’t get it right?
Large language models (LLMs) keep getting faster and more capable. That doesn’t mean they’re correct. This is arguably the biggest shortcoming of generative AI: It can be incredibly fast while simultaneously being incredibly wrong. This may not be...
RADV Lands Initial DCC Support For AMD GFX12 / RDNA4 GPUs
Last month when the state of the open-source RADV Vulkan driver for RDNA4 GPUs was outlined, it was noted that cooperative matrix support was missing along with DCC support and Vulkan Video for these upcoming Radeon RX 90x0 GPUs. Vulkan cooperative mat...
Intel PyTorch Extnesion 2.6 Brings More Xeon 6 Optimizations
Intel software engineers overnight released the newest version of the Intel Extension for PyTorch. The v2.6 release brings new optimizations for current-generation Xeon 6 processors as well as new large language model (LLM) performance optimizations...
Intel PyTorch Extension 2.6 Brings More Xeon 6 Optimizations
Intel software engineers overnight released the newest version of the Intel Extension for PyTorch. The v2.6 release brings new optimizations for current-generation Xeon 6 processors as well as new large language model (LLM) performance optimizations...
7 considerations when building your ML architecture
As the number of organizations moving their ML projects to production is growing, the need to build reliable, scalable architecture has become a more pressing concern. According to BCG (Boston Consulting Group), only 6% of organizations are investing i...
KVM-Powered MatterV 0.7 Can Run Unmodified VMware VMs
MatterV 0.7 is out today as the newest feature release to this open-source virtual machine management platform built atop KVM. MatterV aims to make it easy to manage VMs across different environments while with today's v0.7 release adds the ability to ...
Limine 9.0 Bootloader Drops EXT4 File-System Support
Limine 9.0 is out today as the newest major release for this open-source modern multi-protocol bootloader and boot manager. Limine also boasts its own Limine Boot Protocol in addition to the native Linux support and chainloading/multiboot capabilities...
How to Disable (or Change) Login Sound in Ubuntu 24.10
When you log in to Ubuntu 24.10 an audio clip plays to greet you — a lengthy audio clip that slowly builds to a plinky-plonky crescendo that you—or those around you—may tire of having to sit through! But you can turn Ubuntu’s startup sound off,...
