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Money, engineering and sheer geometry may mark an end of the line for building ever larger astronomical telescopes

The exorbitant cost of GPU-accelerated systems for training and inference and latest to rush to find gold in mountains of corporate data are combining to exert tectonic forces on the datacenter landscape and push up a new Himalaya range – with Nvidia as its steepest and highest peak. It is a thing to behold. And

It has finally happened: PipeWire 1.0 has been released as this now very common software to the Linux desktop for managing audio and video streams

This article presents a classroom experiment that compared a strategy developed by a team of MBA students in the traditional way with one developed using a virtual AI assistant, which was an interactive tool that linked a tried-and-tested strategy toolkit as a plug-in to the generative AI underlying Chat GPT. The results of the two independent processes were largely similar, with the AI-assisted strategy being, if anything, more original. The difference? The students took a week and the AI just 60 minutes.

The new firewall for the modern Internet. NextDNS has 18 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

Amazon EKS introduces EKS Pod Identity https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-eks-pod-identity/

Amazon EKS Pod Identity simplifies IAM permissions for applications on Amazon EKS clusters https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-eks-pod-identity-simplifies-iam-permissions-for-applications-on-amazon-eks-clusters/

Staff records swiped, leaked by gang who probably read one too many comics, sorry, graphic novels

Want a desktop Linux built on immutable Fedora with an Ubuntu-style desktop designed expressively for programmers? Then you want Bluefin.

One of Rust's often mentioned pain points is slow compile times. In order to have nice things like the borrow checker, safety guarantees, and zero cost abstractions, we pay in time spent compiling. I was able to decrease that time by 75%.

Community programs retained but CEO waves farewell

New reports illustrate the Indian government's alleged efforts to silence dissidents abroad.

The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

Blog: Spotlight on SIG Testing https://www.kubernetes.dev/blog/2023/11/24/sig-testing-spotlight-2023/

Project Silica, a Microsoft plan to store archival data inside slabs of quartz glass, is getting closer to becoming a product.

Amazon is set to win unconditional EU antitrust approval for its $1.4 billion acquisition of robot vacuum maker iRobot , three people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Week Ending November 19, 2023 http://lwkd.info/2023/20231122

Karpenter is a Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity. - GitHub - kubernetes-sigs/karpenter: Karpenter is a Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, ...

Broadcom and VMware Intend to Close Transaction on November 22, 2023 https://news.vmware.com/releases/broadcom-and-vmware-intend-to-close-transaction-on-november-22-2023

The move capped a chaotic five days at the artificial intelligence company.

Observability promotes a holistic approach to understanding complex systems. Learn how it can help teams ship quickly and with confidence.

New "spoofing" attacks resulting in total navigation failure have been occurring above the Middle East for months, which is "highly significant" for airline safety.

Users are reporting that YouTube has begun adding a five second delay when loading a video on non-Chrome browsers like Firefox. Read on!

While China’s rainmakers have been essential to the country’s great market opening, corruption concerns and a changing geopolitical balance have seen them pushed to the sidelines.

Mr. Nadella moved fast to hire Sam Altman, who was pushed out of OpenAI on Friday, and asserted his company’s role in its partnership with the A.I. start-up.