An anonymous reader shared this report from Phoronix: Due to the increasing number of GNOME Shell extensions seeking to appear on extensions.gnome.org that were generated using AI, it is now banned. He new standard in its guidelines Note that AI-generated code will be explicitly rejected: “Extensions should not be generated by AI While it is…
Picture this: You’re a data analyst from day one at a midsize SaaS company. You have the beginnings of a data warehouse: some structured, usable data and a lot of raw data that you’re not yet sure what to do with. But that’s not the real problem. The real problem is that different teams do…
The deactivation of codec hardware by OEMs also comes as associated costs for the international video compression standard will increase in January, as indicated by license manager Access Advance. announced in July. By a breakdown of the administration of the patent pool VIA Licensing AllianceRoyalty rates for HEVC for over 100,001 units are increasing from…
Best Buy has some new deals on Apple’s M4 MacBook Air this week, including an all-time lowest price match on the laptop, plus a free $25 Best Buy gift card with purchase. You can get the 13-inch, 256GB model for $749.00below $999.00, as well as discounts on all other 13-inch models. Note: MacRumors is a…
Enshittification is an unavoidable fact of life. Once great apps and services fail in the constant need to maximize shareholder profits, which comes at the cost of user experience. Very few apps escape the march of enshittification, but there are some that have gotten significantly worse this year. reddit Reddit has had a lot of…
Over the past decade, progress in artificial intelligence has been measured by scale: larger models, larger data sets, and more computing. That approach produced striking advances in large language models (LLM); YoIn just five years, AI has jumped from models like GPT-2, which could hardly imitate coherence, to systems like GPT-5 that can reason and…
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Stardust Solutions believes that it can solve climate change—for a price. The Israel-based geoengineering startup has said it expects nations will soon pay it more than a billion dollars a year to launch specially equipped aircraft into the stratosphere. Once they’ve reached the necessary altitude, those planes will disperse particles engineered to reflect away enough…
Electronic waste has become a global problem. Unfortunately, most discarded used technology, known as e-waste, is landfilled or processed under unsafe conditions. Around 78% of electronic products are not recycled properly and the pile of trash continues to grow. In 2024, the world will produce 1.22 billion smartphones. If we add this to the billions…
Aqara’s extended holiday sales event will allow Apple Home users to revamp their security with up to 48% off smart locks and cameras, including the popular Smart Lock U100 and the affordable Doorbell Camera Hub G410. Aqara holiday deals can make gift-giving easier. Image source: Aqara Get started on your new smart home or upgrade…