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OpenSUSE Leap 16.0 reaches RC status
A release candidate of openSUSE Leap 16.0 is here. It boldly strips out more established legacy tech than almost any other Linux we've seen.…
The plan to make all networks optical is about to take two big steps forward
In December 2024, Japanese tech giant NTT revealed two impressive feats of high-speed networking.…
Microsoft eventually realized the world isn't just the Northern Hemisphere
Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has explained why the megacorp ditched its increasingly twee naming conventions for Windows 10 releases in favor of the blander H1 and H2.…
GitHub CEO: Future devs will not code, they will manage AI
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has stated in a personal blog that the most advanced developers have "moved from writing code to architecting and verifying the implementation work that is carried out by AI agents."…
Amnesty slams Elon Musk's X for 'central role' in fueling 2024 UK riots
Amnesty International claims Elon Musk's X platform "played a central role" in pushing the misinformation that stoked racially charged violence following last year's Southport murders.…
Real estate agents use the power of AI to command plumbing, layout to disappear
Feature "Deceptively spacious." "Prime location." "Up-and-coming area." "Some original features," which occasionally turn out to be asbestos. Estate agents are known for sometimes stretching the truth in pursuit of a sale, but the generative AI boom appears to have thrown things into overdrive – providing an easy way to present images of properties which simply don't reflect reality.…
Faced with £40B budget hole, UK public sector commits £9B to Microsoft
The UK public sector expects to spend around £9 billion on Microsoft products and services over five years under its current contract.…
How to run OpenAI's new gpt-oss-20b LLM on your computer
Hands On Earlier this week, OpenAI released two popular open-weight models, both named gpt-oss. Because you can download them, you can run them locally.…