Ubuntu’s websites are currently experiencing a “sustained distributed denial of service attack”. Canonical says some of its online sites will be ‘intermittently unavailable’ as its teams work to resolve the incident. There’s no ETA on them coming back online, but that’s understand since ‘automated volumetric onslaught’ rarely keeps to aContinue Reading
Microsoft is giving Copilot greater control over Windows PCs, allowing the AI assistant to organize and make changes to local files, and run certain tasks using on-device AI models. The changes were announced at Microsoft’s Hybrid Intelligence event, where it outlined plans to combine local and cloud AI processing toContinue Reading
There’s a big disconnect between the rate at which IT is deploying various kinds of AI-generated output and the speed with which it can roll those changes back when things go wrong, warns a new report from Fleet Device Management. It’s almost as if the rush to embrace AI has eclipsedContinue Reading
H-1B visas are meant for high-skilled jobs that are difficult to find American workers to fill., H-1B visas are meant for high-skilled jobs that are difficult to find American workers to fill., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Researchers discovered multiple “high-severity” findings., Researchers discovered multiple “high-severity” findings., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
The Fedora Design Team discovered that using open source tools to run a virtual conference can be quite effective by hosting the first Creative Freedom Summit in January 2023. In this article, I’ll share some background on the conference, why using open source tools to run it was important toContinue Reading
Ideally, designers have a good relationship with their product team and users. However, the relationship between designers and developers is more difficult to build and maintain. The lack of a close relationship makes it difficult to solve problems or improve. In my experience, the open source Open Decision Framework can overcomeContinue Reading
As the federal government completes its eradication of every law or program encouraging transport electrification (including decades-old emissions regulations), California has stepped into the gap with a spate of pro-EV policies. Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed a package of legislation that aims to accelerate California’s EV transition on several fronts.Continue Reading
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It’s becoming very apparent that we failed to learn a key lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic: infectious diseases aren’t partisan; they will come for us all. While Traitor 47 and RFK Jr. play their little partisan games over the measles outbreak, the disease is spreading. Spinning conspiracy theories, falsely claimingContinue Reading
Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Ultra is powered by a Mediatek CPU and Nvidia’s powerful RTX Spark SoC, which is mainly designed to run local AI models on the user’s lap. Five competing laptops—from Dell, HP, MSI and more—will offer additional options. Here’s the thinking. Microsoft is banking on near-future AI developers and enthusiasts running localContinue Reading
No matter what type of Android phone you carry or how you usually use it, one thing is a near-universal constant: You’re gonna spend a ton of time messing with messages. The messages may be from clients, colleagues, or your cousin Crissy from Cleveland (damn it, Crissy!). But regardless ofContinue Reading
Looking for possible ways to enable AO3 dark mode? Many readers want to read fanfiction in dark mode on Archive of Our Own (AO3), especially during long reading sessions or at night to reduce eye strain. A fan of reading entertainment news but still doesn’t know what is AO3, akaContinue Reading