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Latest Linux Desktop Tools
Linux is having a moment in the mainstream right now, thanks to the popularity of the Steam Deck and SteamOS. The thing is, while Linux is the overarching name for the operating systems bearing its name, there are as many Linux distributions as stars in the sky (okay, maybe not quite, but it’s not far…
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Alt version to ‘DeepResearch’
In a testament to the rapid advancements in the AI market, a team at Hugging Face has successfully replicated OpenAI’s Deep Research agent, which was released earlier this week. The new open-source initiative, named Open DeepResearch, has already matched the performance benchmarks of OpenAI’s product at a significantly lower cost. What is Deep Research? Deep…
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Linux kernel flaw added to CISA’s list
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Feb. 5 added a high-severity Linux kernel vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) list, ordering federal agencies to apply a patch within three weeks. CISA’s order follows Google issuing a patch for the bug — CVE-2024-53104 — mainly because the flaw could let attackers escalate privileges…
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Could Linux Lower Energy Use?
Two computer scientists at the University of Waterloo in Canada believe changing 30 lines of code in Linux “could cut energy use at some data centers by up to 30 percent,” according to the site Data Centre Dynamics. “… It’s the code that processes packets of network traffic, and Linux “is the most widely used…
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Facebook Lifts Linux Ban
Facebook admits that the Linux topic crackdown was ‘in error’ and has been fixed. ‘Discussions of Linux are allowed on our services,’ insists the social media giant. Facebook’s heavy-handed censorship of Linux groups and topics was “in error,” the social media juggernaut has admitted. Responding to reports earlier this week, sparked by the curious censorship…
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StackOverflow Traffic Slows
Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant?Fresh data shows that the number of questions asked on StackOverflow are as low as they were back in 2009 – which was when StackOverflow was one years old. The volume of questions asked on StackOverflow started to fall quickly after ChatGPT was released in November 2022, and the drop continues…
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