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While not talked about as much as the Intel CPU security mitigations, Intel graphics security mitigations have added up over time that if disabling Intel graphics security mitigations for their GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero can yield a 20% performance boost. Ubuntu maker Canonical in cooperation with Intel is preparing to disable these security mitigations in the Ubuntu packages in order to recoup this lost performance...

Previously, Easy has Audacious music player

XLibre Xserver, a fresh fork of Xorg to revive X11

Darktable 5.2 has been released today as a new stable update to this powerful, open-source, free, and cross-platform photography workflow application and raw developer software.

Google Drive for Android gets a video player upgrade and better upload tools

A very long awaited milestone has been reached

V manj razvitih državah bolj zaupajo umetni inteligenci

• Matej Huš :: včeraj ob 14:02
• Znanost in tehnologija

Slo-Tech - Raziskave, ki so jo izvedli za Združene narode, razkriva zanimivo ločnico med bogatejšimi in revnejšimi državami v odnosu do umetne inteligence. Ljudje v revnejših državah v povprečju bolj zaupajo umetni inteligenci in verjamejo, da bo služila dobrobiti družbe. V razvitih državah so bili udeleženci precej bolj zadržani do pozitivnih vplivov umetne inteligence. V raziskavi je sodelovalo več kot 21.000 udeležencev iz 21 držav. Potekala je med novembrom 2024 in januarjem 2025. Več na Slo-Techu.

Evropska komisija želi zamenjati Azure

• Matej Huš :: včeraj ob 14:02
• Ostale najave

Slo-Tech - Evropska komisija želi več suverenosti in neodvisnosti pri uporabi tehnologij za storitve v oblaku, zato razmišlja o prestopu z Microsoftovega Azura na francoski OVHcloud. Uradnih informacij iz Komisije še ni, neuradno pa naj bi pogajanja s Francozi potekala že več tednov. OVHcloud je potrdil, da se pogovarjajo tako s Komisijo kot več zasebnimi organizacijami, ki razmišljajo o prehodu v njihov oblak. Komisija pa pravi, da nenehno spremljajo trg in da so v preteklosti že uspešno izpeljali prvo pogodbo z OVHcloudom. Več na Slo-Techu.

BBC pripravlja tožbo zoper Perplexity AI

• Matej Huš :: včeraj ob 14:02
• Tožbe

BBC - BBC se pripravlja na vložitev tožbe zoper Perplexity AI. Izvršnega direktorja podjetja iz San Francisa so obvestili, da se jezikovni model Perplexity učil na avtorsko zaščitenih vsebinah BBC. Če tega ne bodo prenehali početi in ne bodo takoj izbrisali vseh vsebin, bo BBC tožil. Druga možnost je sklenitev odplačnega dogovor o uporabi BBC-jevih vsebin. Več na Slo-Techu.

Rocky Linux delivers stability

If you're looking for an outstanding mix of familiarity, reliability, ease of management and customization, SolydXK should not be overlooked

North Korea is an interesting country to look at from a technology perspective

I love the idea that my computer is free from spyware

The 3mdeb firmware consulting firm recently hosted another one of their virtual events about open-source firmware and beer. There they talked about AMD's ongoing work around OpenSIL for open-source CPU silicon initialization. In addition, they shared work on an experimental port of OpenSIL back to Zen 1 processors...

The world of Linux is constantly evolving, with new distributions emerging and existing ones refining their approach