GNU Octave 11.1.0 released
Version 11.1.0 of the GNU Octave scientific programming language has been released. This major release contains many new and improved functions. Among other things, it brings...
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Pentagon buyer: We’re happy with our launch industry, but payloads are lagging
DALLAS—The Space Force officer tasked with overseeing more than $24 billion in research and development spending says the Pentagon is more interested in supporting startups building...
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Following yesterday’s Linux 7.0-rc1 release, Linus Torvalds authored and merged a patch to get rid of the Linux kernel’s WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM Kconfig option. While that option was...
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Read moreBillions of dollars later and still nobody knows what an Xbox is
The last few years of Xbox have been expensive. Under Phil Spencer’s leadership, Microsoft has spent billions of dollars in an attempt to build an ambitious...
Read moreAnthropic accuses DeepSeek and other Chinese firms of using Claude to train their AI
Anthropic claims DeepSeek and two other Chinese AI companies misused its Claude AI model in an attempt to improve their own products. In an announcement on...
Read moreQualcomm Posts Patches For New DSP Accelerator Linux Driver
The newest driver proposed for the Linux kernel’s accelerator “accel” subsystem is named QDA and is a Qualcomm DSP Accelerator driver…
Read moreAWS creates a sandbox for its agent experiments
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching a dedicated GitHub organization for its most experimental agentic AI work. On Monday, the company launched Strands Labs, where teams...
Read more[$] The second half of the 7.0 merge window
The 7.0 merge window closed on February 22 with 11,588 non-merge commits total, 3,893 of which came in after the article covering the first half of...
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