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Nvidia and Broadcom continue trialing Intel 18A test chips: Report
A new report suggests that Broadcom and Intel are continuing to test the Intel 18A manufacturing process, amid reports of setbacks for contract manufacturing customers.
2025-03-03 13:28
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Experiment Tracking with MLFlow in Canonical’s Data Science Stack
Welcome back, data scientists! In my previous post, we explored how easy it is to set up a machine learning environment with Canonical’s Data Science Stack (DSS) and run your first model using Hugging Face’s Smol Course. Today, let’s take it a st...
2025-03-03 13:21
Nvidia's poor RTX 50 compute test results due to missing 32-bit OpenCL support, says PassMark
PassMark reports that Nvidia has dropped 32-bit OpenCL support, rendering legacy code unusable on Blackwell (RTX 50) hardware.
2025-03-03 13:19
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Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 Released with VoLTE Support for Volla Phone Users
Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 is now rolling out to all supported devices with various improvements and fixes. Here’s what’s new! The post Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 Released with VoLTE Support for Volla Phone Users appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not reproduce this...
2025-03-03 12:32
Godot 4.4 Open-Source Game Engine Released With Many Improvements
Godot 4.4 is out as stable today for serving as the newest feature release to this leading open-source, cross-platform 2D/3D game engine...
2025-03-03 12:18
GNOME Mutter 48.rc Released With Wayland Color Management, Dynamic Triple Buffering
Ahead of the GNOME 48 stable release due out later this month, tagged now is the Mutter "48.rc" release candidate milestone. While the feature freeze passed last month, there has been a lot of last minute improvements merged for Mutter to squeeze into ...
2025-03-03 12:07
Major investigation launched into child protection measures on TikTok, Reddit, and Imgur
The UK’s privacy watchdog has announced a “major investigation” into the child protection measures of three popular apps: TikTok, Reddit, and Imgur. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said that it has previously succeeded in bringing a...
2025-03-03 12:02
Anthropic CEO predicts AI will surpass human smarts by 2027, echoing Bill Gates' claim it will replace humans for most things — but Sam Altman said AGI would whoosh by with "surprisingly little" societal impact
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicts AI will become smarter than humans by 2027, echoing Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates' previous comment about the technology replacing humans for most things in the future.
2025-03-03 11:59
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 2nd, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for March 2nd, 2025, brings news about NVIDIA 570, NetworkManager 1.52, Framework Desktop and Framework Laptop 12, Armbian 25.2, KDE Plasma 6.3.2, LibreOffice 25.2.1, as well as all the latest distro and software updates. T...
2025-03-03 11:55
Firefox 136 Available With AMD GPU Linux Video Acceleration, AArch64 Linux Binaries
Mozilla Firefox 136.0 release binaries are now available online ahead of tomorrow's official release announcement. Particularly on the Linux side, Firefox 136 is one of the more exciting updates in recent times...
2025-03-03 11:46
Steam concurrent numbers reach 40 million online users, setting new record
The PC gaming boom seen on Valve's Steam platform is not slowing down. It's latest concurrent record is 40 million online users, which arrives as players flock to Monster Hunter Wilds on the platform. Read more...
2025-03-03 11:38
How The Ubuntu Linux Performance Has Evolved For SiFive RISC-V Over The Last Four Years
SiFive recently sent over their new HiFive Premier P550 developer board and as part of that fresh RISC-V CPU testing I've also been re-testing the prior SiFive HiFive Unmatched developer board from 2020~2021 for reference. Out of curiosity, I've carrie...
2025-03-03 11:12
Vo1d Botnet's Peak Surpasses 1.59M Infected Android TVs, Spanning 226 Countries
Brazil, South Africa, Indonesia, Argentina, and Thailand have become the targets of a campaign that has infected Android TV devices with a botnet malware dubbed Vo1d. The improved variant of Vo1d has been found to encompass 800,000 daily active IP addr...
2025-03-03 10:47
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Where Software Meets Hardware: Join Eclipse SDV at Embedded World 2025!
Where Software Meets Hardware: Join Eclipse SDV at Embedded World 2025! Are you attending Embedded World Exhibition & Conference from March 11-13, 2025, to explore the latest trends in complex system design and connect with key players in the embedded ...
2025-03-03 10:44
Windows Central Podcast: Panos left Microsoft for THIS?
Daniel and Zac discuss Amazon's new Alexa+ service, Windows 365 Link, Framework's 12-inch laptop, free Office, and more.
2025-03-03 10:41
Happy Monday! Microsoft services, including Xbox, appear to be down in some locations to start the week
What a way to start the week, with multiple Microsoft services, notably Xbox, experiencing an outage in the UK.
2025-03-03 10:22
AMD Broadcast TLB Invalidation "INVLPGB" Support Appears Ready For The Linux Kernel
Back in December Linux kernel patches were posted by a Meta engineer for making use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction found with Zen 3 and newer processors. The Linux kernel would use INVLPGB for invalidating TLB entries for a range of pages with broadcas...
2025-03-03 10:00
The most relevant new features in JDK 24
Since 2018, we’ve had a new release of the Java platform every six months. With Swiss watch-like regularity, the latest version of Java, JDK 24, is upon us. In an almost poetic way, JDK 24 contains 24 JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEPs), the largest nu...
2025-03-03 09:00
How eBPF is changing container networking
“No man is an island,” wrote John Donne. But containers certainly are. They are created as islands in and of themselves, packaged with all they need to operate independently—code, dependencies, and runtime. This autonomy is great for security bu...
2025-03-03 09:00
Who needs Google technology? Probably not you
Clearly Google is doing something right. Although Google Cloud’s revenue still lags AWS and Microsoft Azure, it’s growing much faster (albeit on a smaller base). But that’s not the real story of its growth. The story is that it’s growing at al...
2025-03-03 09:00