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This week: Rethinking return-to-office mandates and a ridiculous, ancient Windows bug. (more…)
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Google’s Shiny New AI Dev Environment — the ‘Experimental’ Project IDX
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This week: Google’s full-stack, browser based development environment in the cloud. It’s not just a Copilot clone, but aims to help you “get an app from zero to production.” (more…)
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2024—Year of the Linux Desktop? ChromeOS Reflects its Inner Penguin ¦ GNOME Rethink
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This week: Can the Linux desktop installed base ever break the mythical 10% barrier? Google has been refactoring ChromeOS, and GNOME is working on new window manager ideas. (more…)
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Overture Maps’ Challenge to Google ¦ Frontier Model Forum’s AI Safety Shtick
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This week: A big-tech consortium goes toe-to-toe with Google Maps, and a big-tech consortium tries to fool AI regulators. (more…)
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AI ‘is Getting Worse’ ¦ AI ‘Will Lose India Jobs’ (Probably Isn’t ¦ Probably Won’t)
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This week, a conundrum: On the one hand, researchers say ChatGPT is losing the plot; and on the other, we hear outsourced coding jobs in India will be replaced by AI. (more…)
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Forking RHEL! Oracle and SUSE Join the Fight ¦ Silverman Sues AI Firms
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This week: SUSE announces a Red Hat Enterprise Linux fork after Oracle said a similar thing, and Sarah Silverman says OpenAI and Meta have stolen her words. (more…)
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Threads: Twitter Killer or Ad-Infested Hellscape?
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This week: Meta launches its much-leaked Threads microblogging app. A spinoff from Instagram, it’s already reached 30 million signups at the time of writing—even before it’s available in the EU. But how is Meta’s DevOps team making it scale? (more…)
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IBM/Red Hat Sparks Anger at GPL ‘breach’ as RHEL Source Locked Up
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This week: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) goes closed source. Well—no, not really; but IBM’s lawyers are accused of skating so close to the edge of legality that they risk violating the GNU Public License. (more…)
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Google Calls Microsoft Azure Anti-Competitive ¦ Gen-Z Can’t Email
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This week: Google complains to the FTC about Microsoft market abuses, and new graduates don’t know how to office. (more…)
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92% of Devs Use AI, Survey Says ¦ Intel One Mono Font
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This week: GitHub touts unbelievable AI stats, and Intel’s beautiful open source typeface. (more…)