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Ingo Molnar began sending out the pull requests today for the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window of code areas he oversees for the Linux kernel. Among those early pulls are of the x86/build updates, which includes removing some seemingly useless CRC-32 checksum code from the kernel...

Ahead of the imminent Linux 6.15 merge window expected to begin next week, a batch of AMDGPU/AMDKFD Radeon kernel driver updates were sent out on Friday for this next kernel cycle. It's mostly about bug fixes but does contain cleaner shader support for AMD RDNA 3.5 graphics...

There is some new Wayland protocol support activity this week worth mentioning for both the KDE Plasma and GNOME desktops...

Wine 10.4 is out now as the latest development release of the Windows compatibility layer

Kako uporaba ChatGPT vpliva na druženje in počutje?

• Matej Huš :: včeraj ob 12:09
• Znanost in tehnologija

Slo-Tech - Raziskava, ki so jo na bostonskem MIT-u izvedli v sodelovanju z OpenAI, je pokazala na vplive neprimerne uporabe pomočnikov, kot je ChatGPT. Ta se prvenstveno oglašuje kot orodje za izboljšanje storilnosti, denimo za pisanje kode, urejanje besedil, analizo podatkov, iskanje informacij in podobno, čemur je tudi namenjen. ChatGPT ni orodje, kot sta Replika ali Character.AI, ki sta robotska sogovornika (chatbot) za druženje in pogovor. A kljub temu ga nekateri uporabniki uporabljajo tudi tako, kar ni priporočljivo. Več na Slo-Techu.

Ahead of the Linux v6.14 kernel expected for release tomorrow and in turn the Linux 6.15 merge window, Linux engineer Christian Brauner at Microsoft began sending out his pull requests today of new code he's hoping to see merged for this next cycle. One of those interesting pulls is the work for block devices to allow for block sizes to be greater than the page size...

Haiku OS developer X512 has managed a rather impressive feat: porting NVIDIA's open-source kernel modules to Haiku. Not only did he get NVIDIA's official Linux kernel modules running on Haiku but he also ported the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver to be able to run atop the NVIDIA kernel driver interface...

KDE developers continue pushing ahead with new feature development on the Plasma 6.4 desktop to further refine Plasma 6...

A new version of Miracle-WM, the Mir-based tiling window manager developed by Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek is out, the first update to be released this year

Blender, the popular free open-source 3D computer graphics software, announced new 4.4 release few days ago

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