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NVIDIA drivers 575.64 and 570.169 released for Linux  GamingOnLinux

Veteran columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols declared that Firefox was "dead" to him in a scathing opinion piece Tuesday that cites Mozilla's strategic missteps and the browser's declining technical performance as evidence of terminal decline. Vaughan-Nichols argues that Mozilla has fundamentally betrayed user trust by removing a longstanding promise never to sell personal data from its privacy policy in February, replacing it with a weaker pledge to "protect your personal information." The veteran technology writer also criticized Mozilla's decision to discontinue Pocket, a popular article-saving service, and Fakespot, which identified fake online reviews, while pursuing what he called a misguided AI strategy. He cited user reports of Firefox running up to 30% slower than Chrome, consuming excessive memory, and failing to properly load major websites. Mozilla has also become financially more vulnerable, he argued, noting CFO Eric Muhlheim's admission that the company depends on Google for 90% of its revenue. According to federal data he cited, Firefox holds just 1.9% of the browser market, leading him to conclude the browser is "done."

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Port your .NET Framework applications to Linux with AWS Transform for .NET  Amazon.com

Port your .NET Framework applications to Linux with AWS Transform for .NET  Amazon.com

Port your .NET Framework applications to Linux with AWS Transform for .NET  Amazon.com

Port your .NET Framework applications to Linux with AWS Transform for .NET  Amazon.com

Port your .NET Framework applications to Linux with AWS Transform for .NET  Amazon.com

Port your .NET Framework applications to Linux with AWS Transform for .NET  Amazon.com

AI use among U.S. workers has nearly doubled over two years, with 40% of employees now using artificial intelligence tools at least a few times annually, up from 21% in 2023, according to new Gallup research. Daily AI usage has doubled in the past year alone, jumping from 4% to 8% of workers. The growth concentrates heavily among white-collar employees, where 27% report frequent AI use compared to just 9% of production and front-line workers.

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A new benchmark assembled by a team of International Olympiad medalists suggests the hype about large language models beating elite human coders is premature. LiveCodeBench Pro, unveiled in a 584-problem study [PDF] drawn from Codeforces, ICPC and IOI contests, shows the best frontier model clears just 53% of medium-difficulty tasks on its first attempt and none of the hard ones, while grandmaster-level humans routinely solve at least some of those highest-tier problems. The researchers measured models and humans on the same Elo scale used by Codeforces and found that OpenAI's o4-mini-high, when stripped of terminal tools and limited to one try per task, lands at an Elo rating of 2,116 -- hundreds of points below the grandmaster cutoff and roughly the 1.5 percentile among human contestants. A granular tag-by-tag autopsy identified implementation-friendly, knowledge-heavy problems -- segment trees, graph templates, classic dynamic programming -- as the models' comfort zone; observation-driven puzzles such as game-theory endgames and trick-greedy constructs remain stubborn roadblocks. Because the dataset is harvested in real time as contests conclude, the authors argue it minimizes training-data leakage and offers a moving target for future systems. The broader takeaway is that impressive leaderboard jumps often reflect tool use, multiple retries or easier benchmarks rather than genuine algorithmic reasoning, leaving a conspicuous gap between today's models and top human problem-solvers.

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Master Linux Math in Seconds: How to Use the expr Command Like a Pro  Network World

A new Grow with Google partnership will help Marylanders learn AI skills, with a focus on supporting military students and veterans.A new Grow with Google partnership will help Marylanders learn AI skills, with a focus on supporting military students and veterans.

I love Linux, so when Windows 10 reaches end of life you might be surprised when I don't tell you to run to it with open arms  Windows Central

Longtime Slashdot reader UnknowingFool writes: A new documentary released last week on Netflix goes into detail about events leading up to the destruction of OceanGate's submersible, Titan that imploded on June 18, 2023 while attempting to visit the wreckage of the RMS Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland. The Titan used a carbon-fiber hull instead of more traditional materials like steel or titanium. "Through exclusive access to whistleblower testimony, pivotal audio recordings, and footage from the company's early days, the film provides an unprecedented look at the technical challenges, moral dilemmas, and shockingly poor decisions that culminated in the catastrophic expedition," explains Netflix in an article. Some highlights: - Titan's original carbon-fiber hull had been replaced with a second carbon-fiber one after the first one developed noticeable cracks. - Three scale models of the second hull failed tests. OceanGate decided to manufacture the second hull regardless of these failures. - Loud pops were heard in many dives; CEO Stockton Rush dismissed these as "seasoning". - Many employees raised numerous safety concerns. They were fired like lead pilot and head of marine operations, David Lochridge. Or they quit. - Some employees like Emily Hammermeister wanted to quit earlier, but external conditions like the COVID pandemic made it difficult. After the scale models failed, she refused to bolt anyone in the future submersible. She was given the two options of being fired or quit; she quit in the middle of the pandemic. - Rush's blindness to inconvenient facts: After the crack was discovered, Rush questioned Director of Engineering, Tony Nissen, about why Nissen did not anticipate the possibility of a crack. Nissen: "I wrote you a report that showed you it was there." Nissen had warned repeatedly that the hull's fibers were breaking (the pops) with each dive. Rush: "Well, one of us has to go." - Poor decisions by Rush extended beyond engineering decisions. After Rush fired Lochridge for raising safety concerns , Rush wanted Bonnie Carl, the company's accountant, to be his replacement pilot. While Carl was an experienced scuba diver, she quit as she was extremely uncomfortable being a pilot. Her explanation: "Are you nuts? I'm an accountant."

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New Variants of Chaos RAT Attacking Windows and Linux Systems to Steal Sensitive Data  CybersecurityNews

New Variants of Chaos RAT Attacking Windows and Linux Systems to Steal Sensitive Data  CybersecurityNews

Want to ditch Windows? This Linux distro makes that transition easy  ZDNet

KDE Plasma 6.4 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

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Intel THC Linux Driver Ready To Support Wake-on-Touch "WoT"  Phoronix