Vancouver Linux Users Group
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Five things to consider when switching to Linux Mint
Linux was once the standard but only partially helpful answer when asked what to do with an old computer. For many, it was an academic exercise: something you tinkered with when you’d moved to a new machine and could afford to corrupt your old workhorse. There was no guarantee that a Linux machine would play…
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Tune Linux kernel with AI -ByteDance
Linux works well for most jobs, but to get it to work great requires kernel tuning, and that’s never easy. ByteDance has a proposal to make this easier. At the Linux Plumbers Conference, the invite-only meeting for the top Linux kernel developers, ByteDance Linux Kernel Engineer Cong Wang, proposed that we use artificial intelligence (AI)…
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Crypto Keys Stolen: New Attack
An error as small as a single flipped memory bit is all it takes to expose a private key. For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that a large portion of cryptographic keys used to protect data in computer-to-server SSH traffic are vulnerable to complete compromise when naturally occurring computational errors occur while the connection…
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OpenAI’s Chief Scientist’s Worries
Rogue superintelligence and merging with machines: Inside the mind of OpenAI’s chief scientist.An exclusive conversation with Ilya Sutskever on his fears for the future of AI and why they’ve made him change the focus of his life’s work. Ilya Sutskever, head bowed, is deep in thought. His arms are spread wide and his fingers are…
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Linux Foundation Launches DAOS
The newly launched DAOS Foundation is an initiative aimed at advancing the governance and development of the Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage (DAOS) project. Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage (DAOS) is an open source storage system technology that aims to redefine performance for a wide spectrum of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence AI workloads. DAOS is…
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Deploy Kali as a Docker Container
How do you know if your systems are secure? Penetration testing is one way to find out. Here is how to set up Kali Linux, which has a full suite of security testing tools. Penetration testing is a requirement for so many businesses. After all, you’re going to need to know if your systems have…
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