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Not seeing ROI from your AI? Observability may be the missing link
From chatbots, to coding copilots, to AI agents, generative AI-powered apps are seeing increased traction among enterprises. As they go mainstream, however, their shortcomings are becoming more clear and problematic. Incomplete, offensive, or wildly i...
2025-02-04 09:00
What you need to know about developing AI agents
Imagine developing an API for the generative AI era. This API would support natural language input, leverage intelligence from large language models, automate decisions by integrating with SaaS and enterprise systems, and enable business process orche...
2025-02-04 09:00
Public cloud providers are missing the mark with AI
Microsoft’s recent earnings call painted a sobering picture. Despite the company’s aggressive push into artificial intelligence and substantial investments in infrastructure, growth numbers fell short of expectations. As CEO Satya Nadella attempte...
2025-02-04 09:00
Ubuntu Infrastructure Woe Continues Making It A Hassle To Run The Latest Upstream Kernel
The Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA for years has been a great feature for Ubuntu users to be able to easily fetch and run the newest upstream kernel whether it's the latest stable kernel version, one of the weekly release candidates, or even the very leadi...
2025-02-04 08:42
Linux 6.15 Looks Like It May Try Again With EXECMEM_ROX Support
Initially merged back for the Linux 6.13 kernel was EXECMEM_ROX support for module text on x86_64 systems. With this caching of large ROX pages it can help with lowering TLB instruction pressure and enhancing performance. But this EXECMEM_ROX support t...
2025-02-04 06:43
Debian 13 Will Aim To Include GNOME 48, Debian/Ubuntu Begin Packaging GNOME Papers
For those wondering whether Debian 13 would see the upcoming GNOME 48 desktop packages given the upcoming Debian 13 "Trixie" development freezes, it looks like this updated GNOME release will be squeezed in...
2025-02-04 06:31
Igalia's Optimizations Juicing More Graphics Performance Out Of The Raspberry Pi
Igalia engineers José María Casanova Crespo and Maíra Canal presented at FOSDEM this past weekend in Brussels around the efforts by this open-source consulting firm to further enhance the 3D performance out of the Raspberry Pi single board computers...
2025-02-04 06:12
Linux Foundation warns of US OFAC sanctions
Developers must be cautious about who they interact with and where contributions come from, warns a Linux Foundation blog post intended to help open-source developers navigate US OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) sanctions. Published January 29 ...
2025-02-03 23:03
Serpent OS Development Slowing Down Amid Lack Of Funding
Serpent OS is the original Linux distribution started by Ikey Doherty of Solus Linux fame and has been pursuing its own package management system and new innovations in the Linux distribution landscape. While there has been recent success and new devel...
2025-02-03 20:40
Ardour 8.11 Open-Source DAW Is Out to Fix a Critical Workflow-Blocking Bug on Linux
Ardour 8.11 open-source digital audio workstation is now available for download with various bug fixes. Here’s what’s changed in this release! The post Ardour 8.11 Open-Source DAW Is Out to Fix a Critical Workflow-Blocking Bug on Linux appeared fir...
2025-02-03 17:42
FreeBSD On Laptops Effort Gets Proof-Of-Concept Intel 802.11 a/b/g WiFi Working
In addition to the FreeBSD Foundation funding work on s0ix sleep state support as part of their initiative to improve FreeBSD's support for modern laptops, they have also been funding work on a number of other objectives, including better WiFi driver c...
2025-02-03 17:02
GEICO Insurance Company Developing TuxTape - A New Linux Kernel Livepatching Solution
Red Hat's Kpatch, Oracle's Ksplice, and SUSE's kGraft are the most well known solutions currently for Linux kernel live-patching primarily for applying security patches to running Linux servers. It wasn't on my bingo card for insurance giant GEICO work...
2025-02-03 16:06
EU supports AI challenge to Silicon Valley and China
The European Union is backing a major AI initiative, OpenEuroLLM, in a bid to counter the dominance of Silicon Valley and China in artificial intelligence. The initiative is being led by Jan Hajič, a computational linguist at Charles University in Cz...
2025-02-03 15:49
Download the Agentic AI Enterprise Spotlight
Download the February 2025 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World.
2025-02-03 15:00
Download the Agentic AI Enterprise Spotlight
Download the February 2025 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World.
2025-02-03 15:00
Slackware-Based PorteuX 1.9 Released with Linux Kernel 6.13, Docker Support
PorteuX 1.9 is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.13, Docker support, and other changes. Here’s what's new! The post Slackware-Based PorteuX 1.9 Released with Linux Kernel 6.13, Docker Support appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not reproduc...
2025-02-03 14:50
Cloud Hypervisor 44 Released With New Performance Improvements
Cloud Hypervisor 44 is now available as the newest version of this security and cloud minded Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) that operates atop Linux's KVM and the Microsoft MSHV Hypervisor...
2025-02-03 14:43
Mozilla Firefox 135 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
Mozilla Firefox 135 open-source web browser is now available for download with XZ packaging on Linux and other Linux changes. Here's what's new! The post Mozilla Firefox 135 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New appeared first on 9to5Lin...
2025-02-03 13:44
Fwupd 2.0.5 Firmware Updater Adds Support for More ELAN Fingerprint Readers
Fwupd 2.0.5 open-source Linux firmware updater utility is now available for download with support for more ELAN Fingerprint readers and other changes. Here’s what’s new! The post Fwupd 2.0.5 Firmware Updater Adds Support for More ELAN Fingerprint R...
2025-02-03 13:39