Proprietary Software News and Noise
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Spotify’s ‘Controversial’ New Look Arrives on Linux [Ed: ‘Controversial’? There are much more serious problems, such as surveillance and DRM, not mere "looks".]
Spotify for Linux user? You'll notice that the desktop app looks a little different next time you open it. The music streaming service, which recently passed 515 million monthly active users, rolled out a redesign of its desktop app on Windows and macOS last week. That revamp is now hitting the official Spotify for Linux client — though it appears to be a server-side change rather than a client update.
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How to Install Visual Studio Code on Arch Linux [Ed: Proprietary Microsoft malware. Why push this to GNU/Linux users?]
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New ChatGPT App for Linux Makes AI More Accessible [Ed: OMG!Let'sUseMicrosoftMalwareThatSpreadsFalsehoods]
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Fake Content Industry, AI Poses Threat to Fact-Based Journalism Worldwide
Along with the threats to journalists' safety that watchdog groups have documented for years, the 2023 World Press Freedom Index on Wednesday warned that the rapidly growing artificial intelligence and fake content industries are endangering the livelihoods of journalists around the world and cutting down on people's ability to access fact-based news.
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Large language models: 6 pitfalls to avoid [Ed: Over the past few months enterprisersproject.com published about 2 dozen 'articles' that merely help Microsoft hype/dial up chatbots. It's doing so again today. This helps Microsoft distract from its demise in most areas.]
There has recently been incredible progress in artificial intelligence (AI), due mainly to the advances in developing large language models (LLMs).
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Open Source Movement Emerging in AI To Counter Greed
The early days of artificial intelligence research had a community feel — to openly share ideas, and work together to
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Why generative AI won't solve your cloud spending woes [Ed: Red Hat as a Microsoft hype drone will simply have no future]
Tools like ChatGPT are famously capable of producing everything from computer code to poetry, with impressive accuracy and sophistication.
But here’s one thing that generative AI is not capable of doing, at least not anytime soon: Helping to solve cloud spending woes. It would be nice if figuring out how to cost-optimize your cloud were as simple as asking an AI engine for tips, but that’s not happening—not because generative AI technologies aren’t impressive (they are) but because AI tools currently lack the ability to understand feedback loops and nuanced business context.
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Shopify to lay off 20% of its workforce, beats quarterly revenue estimates
The company posted revenue of $1.51 billion in the quarter ended March 31, compared with analysts' estimate of $1.43 billion, according to Refinitiv data.