Isoken Ibizugbe: Mid-Point Project Progress
Halfway There Hurray! I have officially reached the 6-week mark, the halfway point of my Outreachy internship. The time has flown by incredibly fast, yet it...
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New Patches From Valve Bring AMDGPU Power Management Improvements For Old GCN 1.0 GPUs
Last year Valve contractor Timur Kristóf managed to improve the AMDGPU driver enough for old GCN 1.0 Southern Islands and GCN 1.1 Sea Islands GPUs that...
Read moreThe first new Marathon game in decades will launch on March 5
It has been nearly three years now since Destiny maker (and Sony subsidiary) Bungie formally announced a revival of the storied Marathon FPS franchise. And it...
Read moreAgent psychosis: are we going insane?
Armin Ronacher thinks AI agent psychosis might be driving us insane, Dan Abramov explains how AT Protocol is a social filesystem, RepoBar keeps your GitHub work...
Read moreSigns point to a sooner-rather-than-later M5 MacBook Pro refresh
Mac power users waiting on new high-end MacBook Pro models may have been disappointed last fall when Apple released an M5 upgrade for the low-end 14-inch...
Read moreOPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE To Provide A Security & Performance Win For Dealing With Containers
A new feature expected to be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel cycle is adding an OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE flag for the open_tree() system call. This OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE...
Read moreElon Musk accused of making up math to squeeze $134B from OpenAI, Microsoft
Elon Musk is going for some substantial damages in his lawsuit accusing OpenAI of abandoning its nonprofit mission and “making a fool out of him” as...
Read moreAsus confirms its smartphone business is on indefinite hiatus
An unconfirmed report early this month suggested Asus was pulling back on its smartphone plans, but the company declined to comment at the time. Asus chairman...
Read moreUniform API server access using clientcmd
If you’ve ever wanted to develop a command line client for a Kubernetes API, especially if you’ve considered making your client usable as a kubectl plugin,...
Read moreReports of ad-supported Xbox game streams show Microsoft’s lack of imagination
Currently, Microsoft’s long-running Cloud Gaming service is limited to players who have a Microsoft’s Game Pass subscription. Now, new reporting suggests Microsoft is planning to offer...
Read moreAs Europe’s large ground telescope project advances, how is its US competitor faring?
I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that time was “running out”...
Read moreGoogle and Retail Leaders Launch Universal Commerce Protocol to Power Next‑Generation AI Shopping
Google launched the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard enabling AI-driven shopping agents to complete tasks end-to-end from product discovery to checkout and post-purchase management....
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