Open-source News

Ubuntu 19.10: A look into Ubuntu's enterprise future  ZDNet

Updated AMD Family 17h (Zen / Zen 2) CPU microcode has quietly landed within the linux-firmware Git tree...

Updated AMD Zen CPU Microcode Lands In Linux-Firmware Tree  Phoronix

Integrating Password and Privilege Management for Unix and Linux Systems  TechRepublic

Firefox 70.0 officially hit the web this morning as the newest version of Mozilla's web browser...

Disney's Streaming Service is Having Troubles with Linux  It's FOSS

AMD has been off their weekly release regiment for their open-source AMDVLK Vulkan driver but this morning they issued their first new release in just about one month...

Intel adds 10nm Ice Lake desktop and server CPUs to Linux kernel  PCGamesN

The team maintaining the LLVM-based Intel Graphics Compiler as part of their "NEO" OpenCL/Compute Stack have rolled out v1.0.2714 that includes initial support for Jasper Lake among other improvements...

Disney+ won't work on Linux at launch as the DRM is set too high  The INQUIRER

Ubuntu release could stir the Linux pot with delighted users  Tech Xplore

On recent kernels when using a laptop with hybrid graphics but not running with the discrete GPU graphics enabled, a regression meant the dGPU never got powered off... Fortunately, for Linux 5.5 -- and potentially to be back-ported after that -- is a change to restore that power-savings...

Linux 5.5 To Restore Power-Savings For Hybrid Laptops When Not Using The dGPU  Phoronix

Intel's open-source developers kicked off a new week by sending in their latest vetted changes to DRM-Next ahead of next month's Linux 5.5 kernel cycle...

Intel Lands More Graphics Code For Linux 5.5 - Jasper, More Intel Xe Multi-GPU Prepping  Phoronix

Bash is a powerful programming language, one perfectly designed for use on the command line and in shell scripts. This three-part series (which is based on my three-volume Linux self-study course) explores using Bash as a programming language on the command-line interface (CLI).

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Bash is a powerful programming language, one perfectly designed for use on the command line and in shell scripts. This three-part series (which is based on my three-volume Linux self-study course) explores using Bash as a programming language on the command-line interface (CLI).

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People who have experience programming in languages like C or FORTRAN are familiar with the concept of arrays. They’re basically a contiguous block of memory where each location is a certain type: integers, floating-point numbers, or what-have-you.

The situation in Java is similar, but with a few extra wrinkles.

An example array

Let’s make an array of 10 integers in Java:

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Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search is used in deep learning to make a best guess at the point in a given set that is most similar to another point. This article explains the differences between ANN search and traditional search methods and introduces NGT, a top-performing open source ANN library developed by Yahoo! Japan Research.

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Activists really don't like feeling stuck.

We thrive on forward momentum and the energy it creates. When that movement grinds to a halt, even for a moment, our ability to catalyze passion in others stalls too.

And my colleagues and I at Greenpeace International were feeling stuck.

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