IBM works to address the developer skills gap with AI
When IBM announced in May 2023 that its generative artificial intelligence tools were in use by its AI assistant, watsonx, to help enterprises modernize their mainframe applications by translating COBOL code into Java, it was just the beginning of its...
Maximize Your Day: Focus Your Inbox with ‘Grouped by Sort’
For me, staying on top of my inbox has always seemed like an unattainable goal. I’m not an organized person by nature. Periodic and severe email anxiety (thanks, grad school!) often meant my inbox was in the quadruple digits (!). Lately, something’...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 20th, 2024
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for October 20th, 2024, brings news about Solus 4.6, Clonezilla Live 3.2, KDE Plasma 6.2.1, fwupd 2.0.1, Ardour 8.10, Calibre 7.20, PorteuX 1.7, VirtualBox 7.1.4 adding initial Linux 6.12 support, as well as all the latest ...
11 open source AI projects that developers will love
The most creative and impactful ideas in software often appear as open source. Sharing code invites a global community of contributors to work together to drive a project forward. Artificial intelligence is no exception. While AI’s need for computat...
How Kubecost shines a light on GPU efficiency
Many enterprise engineering teams—perhaps most at this point—have dived headlong into GPUs to build out proofs-of-concept and operationalize new products. While competitive pressures dictated the direction, GPU cost concerns have begun moving from...
Stopping the rot in AI spending
They say that half the money spent on advertising is wasted, but the problem is figuring out which half. If that’s true, the problem is arguably worse for AI. Talk to people deep in the AI weeds and they’ll tell you upwards of 90% of money spent o...
Ada Lovelace Day 2024 - Interview with some Women in Debian
Ada Lovelace Day was celebrated on October 8 in 2024, and on this occasion, to celebrate and raise awareness of the contributions of women to the STEM fields we interviewed some of the women in Debian. Here we share their thoughts, comments, and conce...
Intel’s NPU Driver for Linux is Now Available on the Snap Store
Canonical has put the official Linux Intel NPU driver on the Snap Store. The new Intel NPU Driver snap “bundles many components […] including device firmware, a user space driver and compiler, and an application to validate the user mode driver and...
Intel NPU Driver for Linux is Now Available on the Snap Store
Canonical has put the official Linux Intel NPU driver on the Snap Store. The new Intel NPU Driver snap “bundles many components […] including device firmware, a user space driver and compiler, and an application to validate the user mode driver and...