Category: Software

Code.org Presses Washington To Make Computer Science a High School Graduation Requirement – this should be everywhere globally

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In July, Seattle-based and tech-backed nonprofit Code.org announced its 10th policy recommendation for all states “to require all students to take computer science (CS) to earn a high school diploma.” In August, Washington State Senator Lisa Wellman phoned-in her plans to introduce a bill to make computer science a Washington high school graduation requirement to Read more about Code.org Presses Washington To Make Computer Science a High School Graduation Requirement – this should be everywhere globally[…]

radio-browser.info – a huge list of online radio streams + apps that use the list

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What can radio-browser do for you? I want to listen to radio Please have a look at the list of apps that use this service by clicking on “Apps” in the header bar. You can also just use the search field on this webpage to find streams you want to listen to. Maybe you want Read more about radio-browser.info – a huge list of online radio streams + apps that use the list[…]

antiX 23: Ultralightweight minimal Debian 12 desktop

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The latest release of antiX is Linux how it used to be, in the good way. It’s not the friendliest, but it does everything – and, wow, it’s fast. The “proudly antifascist” antiX project has released its latest edition, based on Debian 12. This release is codenamed Arditi del Popolo – “the People’s Daring Ones” Read more about antiX 23: Ultralightweight minimal Debian 12 desktop[…]

WhatsApp may finally let you add multiple accounts to one device

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If you regularly use people who regularly use more than one WhatsApp account this new beta update is going to be of interest to you. The messaging app is reportedly working on multi-account support for its Android app, an update that would allow you to switch between profiles on the same device, WABetaInfo reports. The Read more about WhatsApp may finally let you add multiple accounts to one device[…]

How to Have Windows Remember Their Size and Positions With WinSize2

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We have been through multiple versions of Windows. Yet, Microsoft still refuses to give its OS one much-requested feature: the ability to remember each window’s desktop placement and dimensions. Thankfully, the free WinSize2 utility can help with that. So, let’s see how you can use it to keep your desktop organized by “sticking” windows to Read more about How to Have Windows Remember Their Size and Positions With WinSize2[…]

How AI Bots Code: Comparing Bing, Claude+, Co-Pilot, GPT-4 and Bard

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[…] In this article, we will compare four of the most advanced AI bots: GPT-4, Bing, Claude+, Bard, and GitHub Co-Pilot. We will examine how they work, their strengths and weaknesses, and how they compare to each other. Testing the AI Bots for Coding Before we dive into comparing these four AI bots, it’s essential Read more about How AI Bots Code: Comparing Bing, Claude+, Co-Pilot, GPT-4 and Bard[…]

Why Video Editors are Switching to DaVinci Resolve in Droves

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Video editors are flocking to DaVinci Resolve in droves, marking a major paradigm shift in the editing landscape that we haven’t seen since the dreadful launch of Final Cut Pro X drove users to Adobe Premiere Pro. […] More a conglomeration of tools than a single program, Resolve came through some acquisitions Blackmagic made when Read more about Why Video Editors are Switching to DaVinci Resolve in Droves[…]

Undercutting Microsoft, Amazon Offers Free Access to Its AI Coding Assistant ‘CodeWhisperer’

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Amazon is making its AI-powered coding assistant CodeWhisperer free for individual developers, reports the Verge, “undercutting the $10 per month pricing of its Microsoft-made rival.” Amazon launched CodeWhisperer as a preview last year, which developers can use within various integrated development environments (IDEs), like Visual Studio Code, to generate lines of code based on a Read more about Undercutting Microsoft, Amazon Offers Free Access to Its AI Coding Assistant ‘CodeWhisperer’[…]

Windows 11 KB5025310 changes how the Print Screen key works

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Microsoft has been trying to make changes to almost every feature we use on Windows, from the taskbar to notifications. With Windows 11 KB5025310 available in the Beta channel, Microsoft is changing how the Print Screen key works, i.e. its default behaviour. If your laptop has a dedicated Print Screen key, you can press it Read more about Windows 11 KB5025310 changes how the Print Screen key works[…]

Wolverine Gives Your Python Scripts The Ability To Self-Heal bugs using chatGPT

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combined Python and a hefty dose of of AI for a fascinating proof of concept: self-healing Python scripts. He shows things working in a video, embedded below the break, but we’ll also describe what happens right here. The demo Python script is a simple calculator that works from the command line, and [BioBootloader] introduces a Read more about Wolverine Gives Your Python Scripts The Ability To Self-Heal bugs using chatGPT[…]

Tired Of Web Scraping? Make The AI Do It

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a novel approach to the problem of scraping web content in a structured way without needing to write the kind of page-specific code web scrapers usually have to deal with. How? Just enlist the help of a natural language AI. Scrapeghost relies on OpenAI’s GPT API to parse a web page’s content, pull out and Read more about Tired Of Web Scraping? Make The AI Do It[…]

Integrating OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4: Socket’s story with code vulnerability scanning (it works very well)

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Several months ago, Socket, which makes a freemium security scanner for JavaScript and Python projects, connected OpenAI’s ChatGPT model (and more recently its GPT-4 model) to its internal threat feed. The results, according to CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh, were surprisingly good. “It worked way better than expected,” he told The Register in an email. “Now I’m Read more about Integrating OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4: Socket’s story with code vulnerability scanning (it works very well)[…]

Apple acquired a startup using AI to compress videos

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Apple has quietly acquired a Mountain View-based startup, WaveOne, that was developing AI algorithms for compressing video. Apple wouldn’t confirm the sale when asked for comment. But WaveOne’s website was shut down around January, and several former employees, including one of WaveOne’s co-founders, now work within Apple’s various machine learning groups. WaveOne’s former head of Read more about Apple acquired a startup using AI to compress videos[…]

GitHub Copilot now integrates way better into Visual Studio (?=.* Code)

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[…] Introduced last summer after a year-long technical trial, Copilot offers coding suggestions, though not always good ones, to developers using GitHub with supported text editors and IDEs, like Visual Studio Code. As of last month, according to GitHub, Copilot had a hand in 46 percent of the code being created on Microsoft’s cloud repo Read more about GitHub Copilot now integrates way better into Visual Studio (?=.* Code)[…]

RGB on your PC – OEM bloatware alternatives tested (with an ASUS)

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RGB on your PC is cool, it’s beautiful and can be quite nuts but it’s also quite complex and trying to get it to do what you want it to isn’t always easy. This article is the result of many many reboots and much Googling. I set up a PC with 2×3 Lian Li Unifan Read more about RGB on your PC – OEM bloatware alternatives tested (with an ASUS)[…]

‘Codon’ Compiles Python to Native Machine Code That’s Even Faster Than C

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Codon is a new “high-performance Python compiler that compiles Python code to native machine code without any runtime overhead,” according to its README file on GitHub. Typical speedups over Python are on the order of 10-100x or more, on a single thread. Codon’s performance is typically on par with (and sometimes better than) that of Read more about ‘Codon’ Compiles Python to Native Machine Code That’s Even Faster Than C[…]

Core-js maintainer complains open source is broken

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Denis Pushkarev, maintainer of the core-js library used by millions of websites, says he’s ready to give up open source development because so few people pay for the software upon which they depend. “Free open source software is fundamentally broken,” he wrote in a note on the core-js repository. “I could stop working on this Read more about Core-js maintainer complains open source is broken[…]

Claims Datadog asked developer to kill open source data tool, which he did. And now he’s ressurected it.

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After a delay of over a year, an open source code contribution to enable the export of data from Datadog’s Application Performance Monitoring (APM) platform finally got merged on Tuesday into a collection of OpenTelemetry components. The reason for the delay, according to John Dorman, the software developer who wrote the Datadog APM Receiver code, Read more about Claims Datadog asked developer to kill open source data tool, which he did. And now he’s ressurected it.[…]

ChatGPT Is Now Finding, Fixing Bugs in Code

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AI bot ChatGPT has been put to the test on a number of tasks in recent weeks, and its latest challenge comes courtesy of computer science researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University and University College London, who find(Opens in a new window) that ChatGPT can weed out errors with sample code and fix it better than Read more about ChatGPT Is Now Finding, Fixing Bugs in Code[…]

Microsoft rummages through your PC to look at Office installs

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Microsoft wants to know how many out-of-support copies of Office are installed on Windows PCs, and it intends to find out by pushing a patch through Microsoft Update that it swears is safe, not that you asked. Quietly mentioned in a support post this week, update KB5021751 is targeting versions of Office “including” 2007 and Read more about Microsoft rummages through your PC to look at Office installs[…]

Z-Wave Alliance Announces Z-Wave Source Code Project is Complete, Now Open and Widely Available to Members

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The Z-Wave Alliance, the Standards Development Organization (SDO) dedicated to advancing the smart home and Z-Wave® technology, today announced the completion of the Z-Wave Source Code project, which has been published and made available on GitHub to Alliance members. The Z-Wave Source Code Project opens development of Z-Wave and enables members to contribute code to Read more about Z-Wave Alliance Announces Z-Wave Source Code Project is Complete, Now Open and Widely Available to Members[…]

Crucial Computer Program for Particle Physics at Risk of Obsolescence

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Recently, I watched a fellow particle physicist talk about a calculation he had pushed to a new height of precision. His tool? A 1980s-era computer program called FORM […] Developed by the Dutch particle physicist Jos Vermaseren, FORM is a key part of the infrastructure of particle physics, necessary for the hardest calculations. However, as Read more about Crucial Computer Program for Particle Physics at Risk of Obsolescence[…]

ID.me Lied About Its Facial Recognition Tech

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[…] New evidence shows that ID.me “inaccurately overstated its capacity to conduct identity verification services to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and made baseless claims about the amount of federal funds lost to pandemic fraud in an apparent attempt to increase demand for its identity verification services,” according to a new report from the two Read more about ID.me Lied About Its Facial Recognition Tech[…]

Windows 11’s Task Manager is finally getting a search box to help you find misbehaving apps

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[…] Microsoft has started testing a new search and filtering system for the Task Manager on Windows 11. It will allow Windows users to easily search for a misbehaving app and end its process or quickly create a dump file, enable efficiency mode, and more. “This is the top feature request from our users to Read more about Windows 11’s Task Manager is finally getting a search box to help you find misbehaving apps[…]