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Plenty of open source projects keep going on goodwill alone, with contributors putting in the hours and expecting nothing back. While others lean on outside support like cash, donated hardware, or someone else covering the hosting bill. This kind of support rarely gets much attention, but these needs are someContinue Reading

Popular Joint Supplement Tied to Faster Decline in Alzheimer’s Patients

Glucosamine, a widely used over-the-counter supplement for joint pain, may worsen outcomes in people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, according to new research by neuroscientists from the University of Florida. The post Popular Joint Supplement Tied to Faster Decline in Alzheimer’s Patients appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News…ReadContinue Reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

5-open-ways-to-help-ux-designers-and-developers-collaborate-better

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

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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

The Surface Laptop Ultra is an AI monster with a laptop problem

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