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How to Set Up a VPN on Linux
Learn how to install a VPN on Linux using your VPN provider’s downloadable app, the command line, Linux network manager or a browser plugin. One of my favorite Canadian television shows, Murdoch Mysteries, recently returned for its 17th season. To watch it, I pulled out my Kubuntu Focus Linux gaming laptop, connected it to my…
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Open-source LLaVA challenges GPT-4
A team of researchers from Stanford, UW-Madison, and Columbia have rolled out LLaVA, a fresh, open-source AI platform that poses a challenge to GPT-4, especially when it comes to visual and linguistic capabilities. The best part? It’s free for anyone to use. So, what’s the scoop on LLaVA? Well, it merges CLIP, which is an…
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Higher Quality AV1 Video Encoding For Radeon Graphics On Linux
For those making use of GPU-accelerated AV1 video encoding with the latest AMD Radeon graphics hardware on Linux, the upcoming Mesa 23.3 release will support the high-quality AV1 preset for offering higher quality encodes. Merged this week to Mesa 23.3 are the RadeonSI Video Core Next (VCN) changes for supporting the high quality AV1 encoding…
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Linux vulnerability affects nearly all distributions
As security holes go, CVE-2023-4911, aka “Looney Tunables,” isn’t horrid. It has a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score of 7.8, which is ranked as important, not critical. On the other hand, this GNU C Library’s (glibc) dynamic loader vulnerability is a buffer overflow, which is always big trouble, and it’s in pretty much all…
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Open source AI with retrieval beats ChatGPT: Nvidia paper claims
A recent research paper found that an open-source AI system using retrieval augmentation can outperform proprietary chatbot models like OpenAI’s GPT-3.5. The paper published on Oct. 4 by Nvidia researchers compares different techniques for handling long context in large language models (LLMs) — the key algorithms behind today’s conversational AI. One method is simply extending the context…
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Python 3.12 with New Features
Python 3.12 receives new syntax, grammar, data model, and security updates. The open source Python programming language is continuing to add new capabilities as its popularity grows. Python 3.12 was officially released by the Python Software Foundation on Oct. 2, as part of the programming language’s normal annual release cycle. The new release is packed with a…
