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systemd is an essential init system in many popular Linux distributions, providing a system service manager. Recent announcements from the creator, Lennart Poettering, include a new tool called "systemdrun" that aims to address the pitfalls of using sudo.

An ongoing attack campaign is targeting cloud-native environments to deploy cryptocurrency mining malware, according to a research report from Aqua Security.

Spanish startup association has filed a complaint alleging anti-competitive practices by Microsoft in the cloud market in Spain. The association claims that Microsoft's dominance in operating systems and productivity software is pushing customers towards Azure, creating artificial barriers to competition.

The complaint also alleges that Microsoft's licensing terms restrict competition and make it difficult for startups to compete equally in the cloud market. The European Cloud Provider Lock-in group has also raised concerns about Microsoft's licensing practices.

If you've ever tried to futureproof a purchase by paying for everything you might eventually need up front, you know it can be a risky game. The problem is, you can't actually see into the future. Today’s laptops are becoming more modular, repairable, and upgradeable. The collaboration between Micron and Lenovo has led to a new upgradeable and replaceable LPDDR memory standard for laptops.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently stated that ChatGPT is the dumbest model ever used and kind of sucks. Despite this, he emphasized the importance of providing users with capable tools to achieve incredible feats. Altman also mentioned that OpenAI spent $10 million on ChatGPT last year and is working on improving its performance and accuracy.

This overview list details open source tools for Kubernetes administrators looking to incorporate AI into their daily operations. Some of the featured tools include ChatGPT Bot, Kubera Kubecopilot, Kubectl Plugins, KubectlAI, and KubectlGPT.

By following the provided tutorial, users can easily set up and run different open-source LLMs on their system. This tool streamlines the process of model configuration, dataset control, and model file management in a single package.

Docker has released a new feature called Docker Compose watch, which allows developers to automatically synchronize local source code with code in a Docker container without using volumes.

Software engineers often need tools to simplify daily tasks and boost productivity. A refined GitHub browser extension can add useful features, such as linking back to PR workflows and matching PR titles to commit titles. Other tools like Maccy, Rectangle, Lunar, and Amphetamine can also enhance workflow efficiency and convenience in various ways.

Speed up your Python code by using unsafe operations in Rust instead of numpy arrays, depending on the specific circumstances. Improve performance by understanding array layouts and strides, as well as adapting to surface layouts for pygame in order to avoid slowdowns.

@deepfates tweeted about the term "slop" becoming a label for unwanted AI-generated content, likening it to how "spam" refers to unwanted emails.

The latest release of Ubuntu LTS comes with various improvements and new features to enhance usability. Users can choose between different sources to install software packages, such as Snap packages from Canonical or Flatpak packages from Flathub. Additionally, installing media codecs and managing software packages can be done easily through the Software Center or the Synaptic Package Manager.

A crucial step in machine learning work is implementing code to fetch the current production model from MLflow. MLflow backend storage and REST API allow for direct methods to fetch the current production model.

There are two sources of truth, one of which is likely incorrect. Omlet is a new component analytics tool for React developers that helps drive component adoption and improves code reusability. Flink and Datadog can be used to enhance data observability within a service by providing two log levels: info and error.

Resize Kubernetes PersistentVolumes based on Kubecost PV recommendations.

Git Query language is a SQL like language to perform queries on .git files with supports of most of SQL features such as grouping, ordering and aggregations functions

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TimesFM (Time Series Foundation Model) is a pretrained time-series foundation model developed by Google Research for time-series forecasting.

A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+