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10 High-Paying Jobs That AI Won’t Replace in 2025

Tecmint - Tue, 12/31/2024 - 13:42
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing industries, automating repetitive tasks, and reshaping the global workforce. Despite its remarkable advancements, certain professions

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Xfce 4.20, COSMIC Alpha & LXQt 2 Led Alternative Open-Source Desktops In 2024

Phoronix - Tue, 12/31/2024 - 09:25
In addition to all the GNOME advancements and KDE excitement with shipping Plasma 6 this year, other alternative open-source desktop environments enjoyed much success too this year... System76's Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment for their Pop!_OS Linux distribution reached alpha form, Xfce 4.20 released earlier this month, LXQt 2.0 and 2.1 debuted, and other improvements too...

Deadline Scheduling Policy Being Experimented With For Linux Graphics Drivers

Phoronix - Tue, 12/31/2024 - 04:04
Tvrtko Ursulin with Igalia sent out a "request for comments" patch series today working on a deadline scheduling policy for the DRM scheduler that is used across different Direct Rendering Manager kernel graphics drivers...

Intel's Linux Performance Optimizations Continue Paying Off For AMD EPYC

Phoronix - Tue, 12/31/2024 - 01:30
As part of my end-of-year benchmarking and various historical comparisons, over the holidays I was curious to take a look at how the mature AMD EPYC 9004 "Genoa" performance has evolved over the past two years under Linux. Going off benchmarks I ran back at the end of 2022 on the same AMD Titanite EPYC reference server platform for two EPYC 9654 Genoa processors, I repeated the same tests using the newest releases of Intel Clear Linux and Ubuntu Linux for seeing how the performance has evolved.

Cloudflare Makes Open-Source h3i For HTTP/3 Testing & Debugging

Phoronix - Tue, 12/31/2024 - 00:27
Cloudflare is ending 2024 by announcing a new open-source project: h3i for low-level HTTP/3 testing and debugging...

Mesa's Terrific Year With Better Vulkan Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Same-Day Vulkan 1.4

Phoronix - Mon, 12/30/2024 - 22:00
The open-source Mesa 3D graphics driver had a rather great year with a number of performance optimizations landing, on-time support for Intel Lunar Lake and Battlemage Xe2 graphics, early AMD RDNA4 support, multiple drivers having same-day Vulkan 1.4 support, the continued progress of the open-source NVIDIA NVK Vulkan driver, and much more thanks to the contributions of Intel, AMD, Valve, and other organizations -- even Microsoft's continued merge requests!..

RadeonSI Driver Now Uses ACO By Default For Pre-RDNA GPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 12/30/2024 - 19:50
As a very interesting end-of-year change for Mesa 25.0, AMD is now using the ACO compiler by default for pre-GFX10 (before RDNA / Navi) GPUs with the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Updated Serpent OS Alpha Brings Few Fixes To This Original Linux Distribution

Phoronix - Mon, 12/30/2024 - 19:38
Last week Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Linux distribution debuted in alpha form while kicking off the new week is updated install media to provide a few fixes for this original from-scratch Linux distribution...

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