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Enhanced Visual Search shares your photos with Apple by default, to identify landmarks

A developer has noted that Apple’s Photos app shares your iPhone photos with Apple by default, for an iOS 18 feature known as Enhanced Visual Search. This is an expansion of the older Visual Look Up feature, which can recognize objects within your ph...

2024-12-30 12:59

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Intel's Linux Performance Optimizations Continue Paying Off For AMD EPYC

As part of my end-of-year benchmarking and various historical comparisons, over the holidays I was curious to take a look at how the mature AMD EPYC 9004 "Genoa" performance has evolved over the past two years under Linux. Going off benchmarks I ran ba...

2024-12-30 12:30

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Entire iPhone 17 line-up getting ProMotion displays, say supply-chain reports

Display analyst Ross Young said back in September that the entire iPhone 17 line-up would be getting ProMotion displays, a feature currently exclusive to the two Pro models. This is now backed by a new supply-chain report over the weekend. The latest r...

2024-12-30 12:09

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Cloudflare Makes Open-Source h3i For HTTP/3 Testing & Debugging

Cloudflare is ending 2024 by announcing a new open-source project: h3i for low-level HTTP/3 testing and debugging...

2024-12-30 11:27

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 29th, 2024

The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for December 29th, 2024, brings news about postmarketOS 24.12, Mixxx 2.5, siduction 2024.1.0, 4MLinux 47.0, Amarok 3.2, Serpent OS Alpha, as well as all the latest distro and software updates. The post 9to5Linux Weekly Roun...

2024-12-30 11:11

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LG gives a sneak peek at bendable OLED UltraGear GX9 monitor before CES 2025

LG has given us a sneak peek at its upcoming UltraGear GX9 Series monitors. While we have some details, we'll learn more at CES 2025 in January. Read more...

2024-12-30 09:10

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Mesa's Terrific Year With Better Vulkan Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Same-Day Vulkan 1.4

The open-source Mesa 3D graphics driver had a rather great year with a number of performance optimizations landing, on-time support for Intel Lunar Lake and Battlemage Xe2 graphics, early AMD RDNA4 support, multiple drivers having same-day Vulkan 1.4 s...

2024-12-30 09:00

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New Logitech G PRO 2 Lightspeed ambidextrous wireless gaming mouse gets first discount

Logitech's recently released G PRO 2 Lightspeed wireless ambidextrous gaming mouse has received its first discount. Read more...

2024-12-30 08:54

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Mexico to launch app to help those affected by President-elect Trump's "mass deportation"

Mexico is set to launch an emergency notification app for its migrants in the US to get help and alert family if they're detained for deportation. Read more...

2024-12-30 08:38

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System insights with command-line tools: lslogins and lsmod

Continuing our exploration of commands that provide insights into the inner workings of your Fedora Linux system, we turn our focus to more simple ones like lslogins and lsmod. These tools offer information about user accounts and kernel modules, respe...

2024-12-30 08:00

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Get the Panasonic W95A 85-inch 4K 144Hz Amazon Fire TV now for under $1,799

The 85-inch Panasonic W95A Fire TV is now at its lowest-ever price of just under $1,799. This is a huge $1,000 lower than just a few months ago and it has an excellent customer rating. Read more...

2024-12-30 06:50

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RadeonSI Driver Now Uses ACO By Default For Pre-RDNA GPUs

As a very interesting end-of-year change for Mesa 25.0, AMD is now using the ACO compiler by default for pre-GFX10 (before RDNA / Navi) GPUs with the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

2024-12-30 06:50

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Updated Serpent OS Alpha Brings Few Fixes To This Original Linux Distribution

Last week Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Linux distribution debuted in alpha form while kicking off the new week is updated install media to provide a few fixes for this original from-scratch Linux distribution...

2024-12-30 06:38

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AMD's GPUOpen Vulkan Memory Allocator Now Supports Vulkan 1.4

AMD's GPUOpen team managed to squeeze in a new Vulkan Memory Allocator release into 2024. As a reminder this is a easy to use/integrate Vulkan memory allocation library for both Windows and Linux systems with hopes of making memory allocation and resou...

2024-12-30 06:26

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Meta AI bots could soon get Facebook profiles and interact with users

Meta could soon give AI bots Facebook profiles. They could end up generating their own content and start interacting with users. Read more...

2024-12-30 06:20

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xxHash 0.8.3 Brings Runtime Vector Extension Handling For x86/x86_64

Meta's Yann Collet of Zstd fame is rounding out 2024 by releasing xxHash 0.8.3 as the newest update to this extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm. The xxHash fast hash algorithm pushes for RAM speed limits and with the v0.8.3 update brings mo...

2024-12-30 06:17

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Porn videos show up in search results for some artists on Spotify

Some Spotify users have spotted a troubling issue of porn videos showing up on search results for some popular artists on the platform. Read more...

2024-12-30 06:04

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Apple might finally stop embarrassing iPhone owners by boosting iPhone 17 refresh rate

A Chinese tipster claimed Apple wants to boost the iPhone 17 screen refresh rate to further sweeten the pot for customers. Read more...

2024-12-30 04:26

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GNOME’s New Image Viewer Adds Image Editing Features

Loupe (aka Image Viewer) is GNOME’s modern successor to the venerable Eye of GNOME has picked up its first batch of image editing features. The features in question were only recently merged upstream, aren’t finished, and not yet included in a stab...

2024-12-30 01:44

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Windows 11 is showing more Xbox Game Pass PC ads notifications. Turn them off

You're not alone, but there's indeed a new surge in PC Game Pass ads on Windows 11. Whether you call these pop-up ads, recommendations or even notifications, Microsoft is not planning to give up on the nagging. The post Windows 11 is showing more Xbox ...

2024-12-29 22:33

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