How computers learn languages
Whether through voice assistants, chatbots, or the automatic analysis of documents, rapid developments in AI are helping speech technologies make inroads. But how does AI manage to understand the subtleties of human language? Language is …
Zack discusses mysterious…
Zack discusses mysterious alignments in the kernel; and discovery and invention. Mysterious Alignments in the Kernel Sudip Mukherjee reported a build failure with the mainline kernel source tree. This is fairly unusual. Most patches get …
Fast cloud storage for in-house hosting
Seafile offers file sharing and synchronization like Nextcloud and ownCloud, but its speed leaves the competition far behind. When it comes to file synchronization and collaborative work, the kings of the hill in the open …
Rewriting a photo tagger in Go
In honor of the 25th anniversary of his Programming Snapshot column, Mike Schilli revisits an old problem and solves it with Go instead of Perl. Hurray! This issue marks the 25th anniversary of my “Programming …
Simplifying data backup on Android devices
Linux Android Backup offers an open source solution to backing up the most important content from your Android devices in just a few steps. Backing up data from a Linux installation doesn’t pose a problem …
Linux Kernel 6.0 Officially Released
Over on the Linux Kernel Mail List, Linus Torvalds announced the availability of the latest kernel by saying, “So, as is hopefully clear to everybody, the major version number change is more about me running …
ExTiX 22.9 Released with Support for Installing Android Apps
ExTiX is a KDE Plasma-based Linux distribution that has recently enjoyed a new release, 22.9, which adds something special into the mix…the ability to easily install Android apps. The ExTiX developers have added Anbox into …
System76 is Skipping Pop!_OS 22.10
The next release of Ubuntu is due any time now. That version is 22.10 which highlights the GNOME 43 desktop environment. Since Pop!_OS began, it has followed the Ubuntu release schedule very closely, which makes …
Make It One with Linux
In the old days, the operating system had to be Windows, but the times are changing. TUXEDO Computers is part of a new generation of computer vendors specializing in preinstalled Linux systems. The company is celebrating …