Linux Context Switching Internals: Part 1 - Process State and Memory (blog.codingconfessions.com)
Solidigm pulls out of consumer SSD market with discontinuation of drives (www.tomshardware.com)
Opt Green: Coordinating a Windows 10-to-Linux upcycling campaign across Free Software communities worldwide (Talk from 38C3) (media.ccc.de)
Mexico tests cellphone app allowing migrants to send alert if they are about to be detained in US (apnews.com)
Bench shuts down, leaving thousands of businesses without access to accounting and tax docs | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Roasted Christmas Spam from Muhu.ai (soatok.blog)
The influencer lawsuit that could change the industry (www.theverge.com)
Elon Musk's xAI raises $6B to build more powerful AI supercomputers (www.tomshardware.com)
2024 Was the Year the Bottom Fell Out of the Games Industry (www.wired.com)
The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed (www.honest-broker.com)
Asus bombards Windows 11 with christmas.exe malware-like Christmas wreath banner (www.windowslatest.com)
Fan-less cooling solution for laptops up to 40W launched (www.tomshardware.com)
Device uses movement of ions to generate airflow without any moving parts like in iPads and MacBook Air.
Search for alternative to WordPress surges worldwide amidst rift between WP-Engine and Matt Mullenweg (www.techradar.com)
Data from Google Trends noted search requests around the website builder boomed in October 2024, especially on October 8, where it reached a peak score of 100....
Google Contract Staff Reach Union Deal Banning Keystroke Monitoring (www.bloomberg.com)
Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far (9to5mac.com)
Suchir Balaji: OpenAI whistleblower found dead in apartment (www.bbc.com)
Google laid her off on maternity leave. Now she's suing. (www.sfgate.com)
Effective obfuscation (www.citationneeded.news)
Asus unveils full suite of RTX 5000 series gaming laptops, complete with 100% DCI-P3 screens (www.tomshardware.com)
Before GPS There Was LORAN (hackaday.com)
DisplayPort 2.1b Arriving This Spring With DP80LL Cables (www.phoronix.com)
Ethereum to Accelerate the Cross-chain Interoperability (notes.ethereum.org)
Part of the tech is extended email-like addressing standard where @ will send your funds directly to specified Ethereum compatible blockchain or rollup
Biohybrid's Neural Implant Connects to the Brain With Living Neurons (singularityhub.com)
To get around the problem of damaging 10,000 neurons just to connect with 1,000, Biohybrid is experimenting with an approach that makes donor neurons a part of the implant itself - potentially allowing for dramatically better connection scaling.
Apple to pay $95 million to settle Siri privacy lawsuit (www.reuters.com)
"SPINACH": LLM-based tool to translate "challenging real-world questions" into Wikidata SPARQL queries (en.wikipedia.org)
More generally, this kind of task is called "Knowledge Base Question Answering" (KBQA). The authors observe that many benchmarks have been published for it over the last decade, and that recently, the KBQA community has shifted toward using Wikidata as the underlying knowledge base for KBQA datasets. However, they criticize...