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Internet, Wireless & Cloud

Graal Cloud Native adds Google Cloud Platform support

February 20, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Oracle has introduced Graal Cloud Native 4.2.1, a curated, Oracle-supported build of the open source Micronaut framework, which provides a full-stack JVM platform for developing modular microservices and serverless applications. Graal Cloud Native 4.2.1 was unveiled January 30. Offering out-of-the-box […]


Computing, Hardware

AMD Zen 5 processor rumor sets stage for epic end-of-year battle with Intel

February 20, 2024

Via: Techradar

AMD’s hotly-anticipated Zen 5 CPUs could launch at the end of this year, lining up closely with Intel’s Arrow Lake release – which could spell trouble for Team Blue and edge AMD further towards hard-earned desktop supremacy in the best […]


Apps & OS, Mobile

The majority of traffic from Elon Musk’s X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests

February 16, 2024

Via: Mashable

This week, Super Bowl 2024 shattered records, with the NFL championship broadcast on CBS becoming the most-watched televised event in U.S. history. Also riding high from the big game? Elon Musk’s X. The company formerly known as Twitter published its […]


Computing, Software & Applications

OpenAI’s new Sora text-to-video model can make shockingly realistic content

February 16, 2024

Via: TechRadar

OpenAI breaks new ground as the AI giant has revealed its first text-to-video model called Sora, capable of creating shockingly realistic content. We’ve been wondering when the company was finally going to release its own video engine as so many […]


Computing, Operating Systems

Windows 11’s Moment 5 update is imminent, but only a lucky few will get the best features

February 16, 2024

Via: TechRadar

Windows 11’s next feature update, known as Moment 5, does indeed appear to be coming imminently – as was recently rumored – as a test build of the upgrade has just arrived in the Release Preview channel. As you may […]


Computing, Software & Applications

Gemini 1.5 is Google’s next-gen AI model — and it’s already almost ready

February 15, 2024

Via: The Verge

Barely two months after launching Gemini, the large language model Google hopes will bring it to the top of the AI industry, the company is already announcing its successor. Google is launching Gemini 1.5 today and making it available to […]


Computing, Software & Applications

Visual Studio adds AI-generated Git commits, previews AI chat

February 15, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Microsoft has made Visual Studio 2022 17.9 generally available, and introduced a preview of Visual Studio 2022 17.10. Visual Studio 17.9 adds AI-generated Git commits and enhances extensibility, while Visual Studio 17.10 brings AI-powered chat into the IDE. Announced February […]


Computing, Data Management

Oracle Autonomous Database adds AI conversation support

February 15, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Oracle has updated its Autonomous Database offering in an effort to maintain its lead over competing cloud-based database services from rivals such as AWS, Google Cloud, IBM, and Snowflake. Oracle Autonomous Database is an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) service. Oracle […]


Computing, Software & Applications

Intel discloses 34 security holes in firmware and software — Thunderbolt, XTU, chipset drivers, and more

February 14, 2024

Via: Tom's Hardware

Intel has disclosed a whopping 34 security vulnerabilities, contained within 32 pieces of software and two kinds of firmware. The 32 software security bugs broadly impact drivers for chipsets, Wi-Fi, and other components, and also include applications such as XTU, […]


Computing, Software & Applications

Chromium developers are working on a browser API for micropayments

February 14, 2024

Via: TechSpot

Software engineer Alexander Surkov recently proposed a new addition to the Chromium source code, the layout engine on which many modern browsers are based. The programmer aims to implement the Web Monetization specifications, providing Chrome and many other free browsers […]


Internet, Wireless & Cloud

3 killer apps for cloud-based generative AI

February 13, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

I’ve been working with artificial intelligence systems since the 1980s. Back then, AI was considered a revolution in leveraging computer systems to achieve unheard-of capabilities. Things are much the same today with generative AI (genAI). But to avoid the mistakes […]


Computing, Software & Applications

Nvidia launches a chatbot that can run on your PC’s GeForce RTX GPU

February 13, 2024

Via: TechSpot

You can also feed it videos from the web, including clips from YouTube. Simply plug in the URL of the source video, then ask the chatbot any question related to the content in the video. As the name suggests, retrieval-augmented […]


Hacking, Security

Alert: CISA Warns of Active ‘Roundcube’ Email Attacks – Patch Now

February 13, 2024

Via: The Hacker News

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a medium-severity security flaw impacting Roundcube email software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-43770 (CVSS score: 6.1), […]


Computing, Software & Applications

10 ways generative AI will transform software development

February 12, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Coding in the ’90s usually meant selecting an editor, checking code into CVS or SVN code repositories, and then compiling code into executables. Integrated development environments (IDEs) like Eclipse and Visual Studio improved productivity by including coding, development, documentation, building, […]


Computing, Software & Applications

Choosing between public and private LLMs

February 12, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Large language models (LLMs) continue to command a blazing bright spotlight, as the debut of ChatGPT captured the world’s imagination and made generative AI the most widely discussed technology in recent memory (apologies, metaverse). ChatGPT catapulted public LLMs onto the […]


Computing, Software & Applications

Go language hits top 10 in the Tiobe index

February 12, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Google’s Go language, or golang, has reached its highest position ever in the Tiobe language popularity index. The language, now in the eighth ranked position for language popularity, has been on the rise for several years. Go, which is probably […]


Gadgets, Mobile

Xiaomi Watch 2 on the horizon: AMOLED display and a Snapdragon chipset from 2022 (and some renders)

February 12, 2024

Via: PhoneArena

At the end of September 2023, the Xiaomi Watch 2 Pro came to life and it caught our attention by offering Wear OS (and Google Wallet, Google Maps, and Google Assistant) out of the box – something that was exclusive […]


Privacy, Security

Internet quality doesn’t mean security, especially for children—experts say

February 9, 2024

Via: Techradar

When it comes to the internet, you might be inclined to think that countries boasting a more reliable infrastructure are also benefiting from better online security. Well, that’s proven to be a mere conjecture. Researchers at VPN service provider Surfshark […]


Internet, Wireless & Cloud

Why companies are leaving the cloud

February 9, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Don’t look now, but 25% of organizations surveyed in the United Kingdom have already moved half or more of their cloud-based workloads back to on-premises infrastructures. This is according to a recent study by Citrix, a Cloud Software Group business […]


Computing, Data Management

What is Microsoft Fabric? A big tech stack for big data

February 9, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end, software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for data analytics. It is built around a data lake called OneLake, and brings together new and existing components from Microsoft Power BI, Azure Synapse, and Azure Data Factory into a single […]