The Windows Subsystem for Linux is an invaluable tool, but anyone wanting to run it on a Windows 9x system would find themselves out of luck until now. A self-described computer tinkerer and hacker calling herself Hailey presented what she called “one of my greatest hacks of all time” in a Mastodon post on Wednesday:…
Workday, Rippling, and Salesforce-owned Slack rank among the worst performers for enterprise data movement, according to a new industry benchmark tracking the speeds needed to power analytics, machine learning, and AI agents. As AI agents join SaaS, AWS tells users to expect more pricing puzzles READ MORE Fivetran, an enterprise data movement and integration vendor,…
Only the night before, he had posted on Truth Social about the imminent executions of these women, quoting a screenshot that included a collage of eight glamorously backlit, soft-focus portraits. The photos of the women were immediately accused of being AI-generated. “Trump is begging Iranian leaders to not execute 8 AI-generated women. This is the…
Kubernetes issued a new release called “Haru” on Wednesday, and the release notes and logo might be more interesting than the software. Here’s the logo. Kubernetes 1.36 Logo – Click to enlarge According to the launch announcement from the Kubernetes 1.36 Release Team, the new version “arrives as the season turns and the light shifts…
Datacenter growth in the US is helping keep aging fossil-fuel plants online longer, slowing the shift to a cleaner grid and worsening air pollution, according to new research from a group of environmental nonprofits. The reports, published to coincide with Earth Day, point to a sharp slowdown in coal-plant retirements and detail the toxic pollutants…
The prospect of OS-level age checks applying to open source systems is a serious concern for FOSS advocates. Campaigners appear to have secured proposed exemptions for open source operating systems, code repositories, and containers in one US state, but stricter federal legislation has already been introduced in Congress. Carl Richell, founder of Linux PC vendor…
Those who cannot remember Microsoft Recall are condemned to repeat it. Today, that applies to OpenAI, which has quietly introduced an opt-in research preview called Chronicle. It’s designed to capture the user’s screen and feed those images to OpenAI’s Codex agent so it has access to more contextual information. “Chronicle augments Codex memories with context…
SK Hynix has reportedly broken ground on a new advanced memory packaging facility in West Lafayette, Indiana, that should boost the supply of US-made high-bandwidth memory (HBM), a key component in high-end AI accelerators from the likes of Nvidia and AMD. Unlike the system memory used in notebooks, smartphones, and general purpose servers, HBM requires…
Yet another npm supply-chain attack is worming its way through compromised packages, stealing secrets and sensitive data as it moves through developers’ environments, and it shares significant overlap with the open source infections attributed to TeamPCP last month. Application security vendors Socket and StepSecurity say a self-propagating CanisterWorm-style malware strain hit multiple npm packages tied…
For customers that have bought FSD, what we’re offering is essentially a discounted trade-in for cars that have AI4 hardware. We’ll also be offering the ability to upgrade the car to replace the computer. And you also need to replace the cameras, unfortunately, to go to Hardware 4. To do this efficiently, we’re going to…