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ChatGPT Tells Fibs About Me. And claims not to know things that it ...  Medium

Servers for Computer Science Classes Shut Down; Students Unable ...  The Chicago Maroon

First Look at blendOS: A Blend of Arch Linux, Fedora Linux, and Ubuntu  9to5Linux

While Mesa 23.0 will hopefully be out next week, Mesa 22.3.4 was released today as the newest bi-weekly stable bug-fix release for the open-source Mesa 3D drivers...

What is Firefox Nightly and should you be using it?  ZDNet

McFly Is the Best Way to Repeat Linux Commands From Your Bash History  MUO - MakeUseOf

The overlooked gorgeous pixel-art Lila's Sky Ark is now on GOG  GamingOnLinux

Linux 6.3 EDAC Prepares For Intel Granite Rapids With Up To 12 ...  Phoronix

Intel open-source engineers continue to be quite busy in bringing up the Linux support for Emerald Rapids as the successor to Sapphire Rapids and then as well for Granite Rapids as the Xeon Scalable processors following that. With the i10nm EDAC changes queued up ahead of Linux 6.3, there is support through Granite Rapids as well as confirming Granite Rapids supporting up to 12 channel DDR5 system memory...

How to enable zRAM on Rocky Linux and other RHEL-based distributions  TechRepublic

Trackmania heads to Steam and the devs say it's playable on Steam ...  GamingOnLinux

Canonical security subscriptions for Ubuntu Linux now available  InfoWorld

Ubuntu Pro security subscriptions for Linux now available  InfoWorld

Canonical announced this morning that their Ubuntu Pro subscription service has been promoted from beta to general availability (GA)...

BSD-Powered helloSystem 0.8 Performance Against Linux On AMD ...  Phoronix

With many Phoronix readers having been excited by the recent helloSystem v0.8 release as a FreeBSD-powered OS taking major design inspiration from Apple's macOS, I decided to run some benchmarks to see how this FreeBSD 13.1 based operating system was competing with a few different Linux distributions from an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (Zen 4) desktop.

4A Games release a full Metro Exodus SDK for modders  GamingOnLinux

Canonical Announces General Availability of Ubuntu Pro, Free for Up to 5 PCs  9to5Linux

Developer of point and click adventure Splittown looking at Linux ...  GamingOnLinux

Following the month-long Christmas break, the Vulkan API working group is back to carrying out weekly(-ish) updates to the Vulkan specification. Out this morning is Vulkan 1.3.240 that brings one new extension in addition to a number of clarifications and corrections to the document...