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Om Malik provides an inside view of the iPhone 16 launch event
If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to attend an iPhone launch event in the Steve Jobs Theater, Om Malik has shared a series of photos intended to give an inside view of Glowtime, together with his thoughts on what it’s like to be there. The w...
2024-10-01 11:23
Kernel Recipes 2024 Slides & Videos Posted
Taking place last week in Paris was the annual Kernel Recipes conference devoted to a variety of Linux topics and sponsored by Meta, Dell, Arm, AMD, and other organizations. The slides and videos from the different Linux/open-source talks are now onlin...
2024-10-01 11:20
Doom port runs entirely on your GPU — no rip-and-tear wear on your CPU
Doom can now run almost entirely on the GPU, now, thanks to the LLVM C library for GPUs.
2024-10-01 11:17
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Hurricane Helene takes out 370 cell towers; 103 on backup power
Apple’s Messages via satellite service is likely to be in demand for some time, to help people check in on friends and family in the wake of Hurricane Helene. Some 370 cell towers in North Carolina are completely out of action, with a further 103 ope...
2024-10-01 11:02
Grounded on Steam no longer needs a Microsoft account for multiplayer
Obsidian Entertainment has quietly removed the Microsoft account requirement for Steam multiplayer from its survival game Grounded. Cross-play and shared worlds still needs the account though. Read more...
2024-10-01 10:48
Supermicro ARS-211M-NR AmpereOne Server With R13SPD Motherboard
One of the interesting highlights of September was finally having our hands on an AmpereOne server! After years of being eager to test Ampere Computing's next-generation AArch64 server processors, Ampere sent over their 192-core flagship server process...
2024-10-01 10:34
Hurricane Helene devastates quartz mines critical for worldwide semiconductor manufacturing
Global quartz supply could be disrupted by Hurricane Helene.
2024-10-01 10:20
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Celebrating 5 Years at Eclipse Foundation
Celebrating 5 Years at Eclipse Foundation I joined the Eclipse Foundation five years ago as the Jakarta EE Developer Advocate. Time flies when you’re having a good time, and I certainly enjoy what I do. Being able to serve the communit...
2024-10-01 10:00
Apple @ Work Podcast: Hacker Rangers
Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage &...
2024-10-01 10:00
Busd Taking Shape As A D-Bus Broker Written In Rust
Open-source developer Zeeshan Ali Khan presented at last week's systemd "All Systems Go" developer conference on busd as a new D-Bus broker written in the Rust programming language...
2024-10-01 10:00
Non-K Core Ultra 9 285 spotted in Geekbench — Matches 14900K in single-core, underwhelms in multi-core
Intel's Core Ultra 9 285 was spotted in the Geekbench browser with strong single-core performance, but weak multi-core results, unable to beat even the 13th Gen Core i7-13700.
2024-10-01 10:00
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AMD Announces EPYC Embedded 8004 Series
Building off last year's release of the EPYC 8004 "Siena" processors featuring up to sixty-four Zen 4C cores, AMD today announced the EPYC Embedded 8004 series...
2024-10-01 09:52
Firefox 131 Released With Tab Preview & CHIPS Support
Firefox 131 is out today with a few improvements worth mentioning for Mozilla's web browser...
2024-10-01 09:44
Windows 11 is "finally definitely" fast with 24H2 on PC that's not officially supported
A user has claimed that Windows 11 in its latest form, version 24H2, is finally "definitely" fast even on an old CPU that is not officially supported. Read more...
2024-10-01 09:00
Meta to start manufacturing Quest 3s headsets in Vietnam starting 2025
Meta's latest VR headsets, the Quest 3s, will be manufactured in Vietnam starting next year according to an announcement made earlier today. Read more...
2024-10-01 09:00
The battle cry of 2025: Do cloud local!
Microclouds can have many names and offer many features. They can be hosted by a regional cloud provider or specialize in a specific use case, such as the rise of GPU cloud providers focusing on the exploding AI space. They could even be clouds that d...
2024-10-01 09:00
The worst programmer I know
If all code is legacy code, then we are all maintainers. I carry an image in my head of a vast sea of silent, diligent, dedicated coders who silently maintain much of the code that makes the world go round. I carry this image because I am one of tho...
2024-10-01 09:00
Breaking through AI data bottlenecks
As AI models become increasingly commoditized, the data required to train and fine-tune them has never been more critical. While procuring high-quality data is expensive and raises privacy concerns, there is a powerful alternative that companies like ...
2024-10-01 09:00
JRuby 10 due to arrive in early-2025
JRuby, which dates back to 2001 as a Ruby language implementation for the JVM, is set to arrive at version 10 shortly after the new year. JRuby 10 promises to be fully compatible with Ruby 3.4.0, a planned update to Ruby that brings changes for froze...
2024-10-01 09:00