A brief history of APFS in honour of its fifth birthday
Tue 7:53am By Thom HolwerdaThis article is a year old, but I came across it and want to highlight it anyway. On 27 March 2017, Apple made one of its biggest corporate gambles. When it rolled out iOS 10.3 that day, the installer silently converted the storage in each iPhone and iPad to…Understanding immutable Linux OS: benefits, architecture, and challenges
Tue 7:50am By Thom HolwerdaFor years, the traditional Linux operating system has been a top pick for its flexibility and ability to be customized. But as great as it is, there are use cases in which stricter security rules and higher reliability standards are needed. That’s where…Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news
Mon 7:52am By Thom HolwerdaDid you know that pigs eat humans “far more often than people expect?” If not, surely you must have heard the important, breaking news that a priest “died” in 2016, went to Hell briefly and returned to inform the rest of us that demons like to play…Fallout 4 mod uses voice AI to add sensible reactions, more RPG-like choices
Sun 3:02pm By Thom HolwerdaModders can change many things inside their favorite games, but dialogue from professionally voiced characters hasn’t been one of those things—at least until recently. AI voice generation could open up new modding avenues for some games, as it has already…Introducing Butler virtual operating system
Sat 6:06pm By Thom HolwerdaButler’s goal is to implement a virtual operating system with a strong focus on concurrency. Butler is not a computer hardware operating system. Instead, Butler is an application environment that runs on top of an existing system. Not exactly an operating…The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library
Sat 5:39pm By Thom HolwerdaA federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in Hachette v. Internet Archive, a lawsuit brought against it by four book publishers, deciding that the website does not have the right to scan books and lend them out like a library. Judge John G. Koeltl…Framework unveils major upgrades to their 13″ laptop, and new 16″ model
Sat 5:36pm By Thom HolwerdaToday, we’re introducing a major set of upgrades to the Framework Laptop spanning two new models – the Framework Laptop 13 (13th Gen Intel® Core™) and the Framework Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen™ 7040 Series). We’ve not only scaled up performance and enabled…Google’s answer to ChatGPT, Google Bard, is out
Mar 22, 2023, 8:02 pm By Thom HolwerdaGoogle Bard is out—sort of. Google says you can now join the waitlist to try the company’s generative AI chatbot at the newly launched bard.google.com site. The company is going with “Bard” and not the “Google Assistant” chatbot branding it was…GNOME 44 released
Mar 22, 2023, 7:55 pm By Thom HolwerdaThis release brings a grid view in the file chooser, improved settings panels forDevice Security, Accessibility, etc, and refined quick settings in the shell. The Softwareand Files apps have seen improvements, and a whole slew of new apps has joinedthe GNOME…Hyundai commits to real buttons and dials for safety reasons
Mar 22, 2023, 9:58 am By Thom HolwerdaCar companies have been increasingly using digital screens and soft-touch buttons in modern cars to save costs while looking ‘hi-tech’ – but Hyundai has committed to fight this trend for as long as possible. Speaking at the launch of the new-generation…A wunderBAR story
Mar 20, 2023, 3:42 pm By Thom HolwerdaIn fact, the broken bar barely even exists anymore. In the days of DOS, the character used for the pipe symbol (on the DOS command line) or for logical OR (in C/C++, for example) used ASCII code 7Ch (124 decimal), which was rendered as a broken vertical bar by…Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams
Mar 15, 2023, 9:46 am By Thom HolwerdaMicrosoft laid off its entire ethics and society team within the artificial intelligence organization as part of recent layoffs that affected 10,000 employees across the company, Platformer has learned. The move leaves Microsoft without a dedicated team to…OpenAI announces GPT-4
Mar 15, 2023, 9:41 am By Thom HolwerdaWe’ve created GPT-4, the latest milestone in OpenAI’s effort in scaling up deep learning. GPT-4 is a large multimodal model (accepting image and text inputs, emitting text outputs) that, while less capable than humans in many real-world scenarios, exhibits…Docker is deleting open source organisations – what you need to know
Mar 15, 2023, 9:39 am By Thom HolwerdaComing up with a title that explains the full story here was difficult, so I’m going to try to explain quickly. Yesterday, Docker sent an email to all Docker Hub users explaining that anyone who has created an “organisation” will have their account…Apple, Foxconn convince Indian state to loosen labor laws
Mar 10, 2023, 8:19 pm By Thom HolwerdaApple and its manufacturing partner Foxconn were among the companies behind a landmark liberalization of labor laws in the Indian state of Karnataka last month, according to three people familiar with the matter. Their successful lobbying for new legislation…Disambiguating Arm, Arm ARM, Armv9, ARM9, ARM64, Aarch64, A64, A78, etc.
Mar 10, 2023, 8:16 pm By Thom HolwerdaIf you’re new to the Arm ecosystem, consider this a quick primer on terms you likely have seen before but might have questions about. Well, exactly what it says.
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