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Minisforum MS-R1: 12-Core Linux ARM Workstation for AI and VMs  OMG! Ubuntu

Linux Kernel’s Microsoft Makeover: Embracing C Extensions in 6.19  WebProNews

An anonymous reader shares a report: Spotify is the most popular music streaming service in the world. While its algorithmic recommendations aren't necessarily the reason, its reach has meant that hundreds of millions of people are being fed a steady diet of music curated by a machine. Spotify's goal is to keep you listening no matter what. In her book Mood Machine, journalist Liz Pelly recounts a story told to her by a former Spotify employee in which Daniel Ek said, "our only competitor is silence." According to this employee, Spotify leadership didn't see themselves as a music company, but as a time filler. The employee explained that, "the vast majority of music listeners, they're not really interested in listening to music per se. They just need a soundtrack to a moment in their day." Simply providing a soundtrack to your day might seem innocent enough, but it informs how Spotify's algorithm works. Its goal isn't to help you discover new music, its goal is simply to keep you listening for as long as possible. It serves up the safest songs possible to keep you from pressing stop. The company even went so far as to partner with music library services and production companies under a program called Perfect Fit Content, or PFC. This saw the creation of fake or "ghost" artists that flooded Spotify with songs that were specifically designed to be pleasant and ignorable. It's music as content, not art. [...] Artists, especially new ones trying to break through, actually started changing how they composed to play better in the algorithmically driven streaming era. Songs got shorter, albums got longer, and intros went away. The hook got pushed to the front of the song to try to grab listeners' attention immediately, and things like guitar solos all but disappeared from pop music. The palette of sounds artists pulled from got smaller, arrangements became more simplified, pop music flattened.

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Amazon WorkSpaces for Linux flaw poses token theft risk  SC Media

Linux 6.18-rc5 Drops: Kernel’s Quiet March to December Debut  WebProNews

Veteran and Google Public Sector CEO Karen Dahut shares a look at how Google supports the military community.Veteran and Google Public Sector CEO Karen Dahut shares a look at how Google supports the military community.

Learn more about Gemini for TV and what it can do, rolling out now for Google TV Streamer.

Two of the world's biggest data center developers have projects in Nvidia's hometown that may sit empty for years because the local utility isn't ready to supply electricity. From a report: In Santa Clara, California, where the world's biggest supplier of artificial-intelligence chips is based, Digital Realty Trust applied in 2019 to build a data center. Roughly six years later, the development remains an empty shell awaiting full energization. Stack Infrastructure, which was acquired earlier this year by Blue Owl Capital, has a nearby 48-megawatt project that's also vacant, while the city-owned utility, Silicon Valley Power, struggles to upgrade its capacity. The fate of the two facilities highlights a major challenge for the US tech sector and indeed the wider economy. While demand for data centers has never been greater, driven by the boom in cloud computing and AI, access to electricity is emerging as the biggest constraint. That's largely because of aging power infrastructure, a slow build-out of new transmission lines and a variety of regulatory and permitting hurdles. And the pressure on power systems is only going to increase. Electricity requirements from AI computing will likely more than double in the US alone by 2035, based on BloombergNEF projections. Nvidia's Jensen Huang and OpenAI's Sam Altman are among corporate leaders that have predicted trillions of dollars will pour into building new AI infrastructure.

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Valve engineer who keeps decade-old Radeon GPUs alive on Linux, now pushes for AMDGPU to become the default driver  VideoCardz.com

Valve engineer who keeps decade-old Radeon GPUs alive on Linux, now pushes for AMDGPU to become the default driver  VideoCardz.com

Valve engineer who keeps decade-old Radeon GPUs alive on Linux, now pushes for AMDGPU to become the default driver  VideoCardz.com

Tim Berners-Lee thinks AI will help the web, not destroy it. The inventor of the World Wide Web has spent years warning about platform concentration and social media's corrosive effects, but he views AI differently. AI has accomplished what his Semantic Web project could not. The technology extracts structured data from websites regardless of how the information was formatted. Berners-Lee spent decades trying to convince database owners to make their systems machine-readable voluntarily. AI companies simply took the data anyway. They achieved the machine-readable internet through extraction rather than cooperation, but the result is the same. Berners-Lee also weighed in on the growing browser competition in the market. OpenAI released Atlas a few weeks ago. Perplexity has launched Comet. Google has expanded AI features in Chrome. All these browsers run on Chromium, which Berners-Lee acknowledges is not ideal, but conceded that browser engines are expensive to build. He thinks Apple's decision to restrict iPhones to WebKit prevents web apps from competing with native apps.

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D7VK brings Direct3D 7 to Linux using Vulkan based on DXVK  GamingOnLinux

THRASHER is thoroughly weird and it's out now as the follow up to THUMPER  GamingOnLinux

This Linux distro turned my spare PC into a personal cloud powerhouse - for free  ZDNET

Firefox 145 Binaries Available - Aside From 32-bit Linux Being Removed  Phoronix

Why you should ditch tutorials for real problems  How-To Geek

Newly Submitted Linux Patches To Make AMDGPU The Default Driver For GCN 1.1 GPUs Such As Radeon R9 290/390, HD 7790 And Others  Wccftech

Newly Submitted Linux Patches To Make AMDGPU The Default Driver For GCN 1.1 GPUs Such As Radeon R9 290/390, HD 7790 And Others  Wccftech

Newly Submitted Linux Patches To Make AMDGPU The Default Driver For GCN 1.1 GPUs  Wccftech