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Linux Foundation Creates Ultra Ethernet Consortium with Cisco, Microsoft, AMD and More
Earlier today (July 19, 2023), the Linux Foundation shared a new press release detailing plans for the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC). This effort involves several prominent industry leaders, including AMD, Arista, Broadcom, Cisco, Eviden, HPE, Intel, Meta, and Microsoft. The consortium intends to optimize Ethernet standards for high-performance networking. As more advancements are made in… Read more
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Install a Cloud Service at Home in an Hour or Less
This instructional, written by Jack Wallen, contributing writer for ZDNet, shows how Linux belongs on your home network, and setting up an on-premises cloud is simpler than you’d think. If you’re worried your documents might at some point be used by the likes of Google, Apple, or Microsoft to train their artificial intelligence (AI) models,… Read more
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A Month on Chimera Linux
Chimera Linux is a unique from-scratch Linux distribution created in 2021 by Czech Republic Software Engineer q66 that combines the Linux kernel, musl libc, FreeBSD userland, apk package manager, and dinit binary init system. The whole system is built with the LLVM toolchain. The homepage says: “… It aims to be clean and usable while… Read more
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New Turing Test Would See If AI Can Make $1 Million
Mustafa Suleyman is the co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI and a venture partner at Greylock, a venture capital firm. Before that, he co-founded DeepMind, one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies. AI systems are increasingly everywhere and are becoming more powerful almost by the day. But how can we know if a machine… Read more
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3 Open Source NLP Tools For Data Extraction
Unstructured text and data are like gold for business applications and the company bottom line, but where to start? Here are three tools worth a look. Developers and data scientists use generative AI and large language models (LLMs) to query volumes of documents and unstructured data. Open source LLMs, including Dolly 2.0, EleutherAI Pythia, Meta… Read more
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Linux Hits All-Time High of 3% on desktop PCs
While Linux has several advantages over Apple’s Mac and Microsoft’s Windows, it has never really gained any traction in PCs. After 30 years on the market, the open-source operating system has achieved 3% of desktop PC OS market share, reports Linuxiac citing StatCounter, marking an all-time high. Currently, Windows commands 68.15% of the PC market… Read more
