The era of agentic chaos and how data will save us
AI agents are moving beyond coding assistants and customer service chatbots into the operational core of the enterprise. The ROI is promising, but autonomy without alignment...
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Window Shadows Finally Arrive on COSMIC Desktop
System76 has updated the COSMIC Desktop with window shadows and consistent corner sizing across all applications, a change available on Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS right now and...
Read morePatches Ready For Linux 7.0 To Enable Intel GPU Firmware Updates On Non-x86 Systems
Patches are now positioned to go into the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle for supporting Intel discrete GPU firmware updating on non-x86 systems…
Read moreSecurity updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gpsd-minimal, jmc, kernel, kernel-rt, and net-snmp), Debian (apache-log4j2 and dcmtk), Fedora (exim, gpsd, mysql8.0, mysql8.4, python-biopython, and rust-lru), Mageia...
Read moreThe Quest to Build a Radio Telescope That Can Hear the Cosmic Dark Ages
Isolation dictates where we go to see into the far reaches of the universe. The Atacama Desert of Chile, the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii,...
Read moreuv vs pip: Python Packaging and Dependency Management
When it comes to Python package managers, the choice often comes down to uv vs pip. You may choose pip for out-of-the-box availability, broad compatibility, and...
Read moreHow To Use AI for the Ancient Art of Close Reading
Close reading is a technique for careful analysis of a piece of writing, paying close attention to the exact language, structure, and content of the text....
Read moreMIT’s Recursive Language Models Improve Performance on Long-Context Tasks
Researchers at MIT’s CSAIL published a design for Recursive Language Models (RLM), a technique for improving LLM performance on long-context tasks. RLMs use a programming environment...
Read moreHow BYD beat Tesla
The Model S. The Mach-E. The Ioniq. The… Dolphin Surf? That’s right, friends: There’s a new biggest name in EVs, and it means you might soon...
Read moreThe UK government is backing AI that can run its own lab experiments
A number of startups and universities that are building “AI scientists” to design and run experiments in the lab, including robot biologists and chemists, have just...
Read moreThe Download: digitizing India, and scoring embryos
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The man who made...
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