Visual Studio Blog·4yVisual Studio 2022 17.4 is now available!
This is our first GA release to support Arm64.NET 7, enterprise support for setup including rollback, and much more detailed below. We welcome your feedback in the threads to this post or through Developer Community. You can use Microsoft Endpoint Manager (formerly known as Intune) to manage all of this.
omg! ubuntu!·4yNVIDIA Unexpectedly Announces Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules
NVIDIA announces the immediate release of open source GPU kernel modules for a crop of its current hardware. The move, it says, is the first step in a broader open source by the company aimed at ‘improving the experience of using NVIDIA GPUs in Linux’ NVIDIA trails its rivals (mainly AMD and Intel, though bonus points if you remember VIA) in support for emerging open source technologies.
The New Stack·4ySay Goodbye to Browsers and Passwords
Authentication is no longer a simple act of providing a username and password. It’s a journey that the user takes to confirm their identity and gain secure access to their resources. The browser is a solid choice as it gives us essential security features. Hypermedia allows users to traverse authentication steps as needed.
Medium·4yDocker: Why use it and How it Works?
Docker is an application software that packages your software code, dependencies, configuration settings, and libraries into neat, packaged, isolated containers. This way, your application can be run on your team's machines the same way as it does on your machine. For applications that require multiple containers, we use Docker Compose.
Community Picks·4yScalability For Junior Engineers
Scalability is an ability to adjust the capacity of the system to cost-efficiently fulfill the demands. Scalability of a system depends on many factors, but if we narrow them down, there are three main measurements to measure the system's capability. The third measurement of scalability is the Rate of interactions between Advantages of Vertical Scaling.
Bits and Pieces·4yA Future Made of JavaScript
JavaScript can be used in our technical lives as well as our personal ones. You can embed and run your JS code into almost any type of open-source hardware. It’s just a matter of time before the AI community sees the real potential of bringing AI everywhere thanks to JS.
Hashnode·4yExplain in 5 Levels of Difficulty: Linux
The Linux kernel was first released to the public in 1991 by Finnish computer science student Linus Torvalds. The kernel is the core of a Linux operating system and provides basic services such as memory management, process management, device drivers, and system call handling.
Syncfusion·4yArm: The Future of Software Development
Arm processors are desirable for light, portable, battery-powered devices, including smartphones, laptops, tablet computers, and other embedded systems. Windows applications can usually be run using Arm processors. The Arm processor can run x86 and x64 in emulation mode. To enjoy the most efficiency, it is always better to build the application in Arm configuration.
freeCodeCamp·4yWindows vs MacOS vs Linux – Operating System Handbook
In this article I'm going to give a brief introduction to operating systems and compare the three main OSs that are out there nowadays. First we're going to review what an OS is and little history about them. Then, we'll review the main features and differences of the most popular operating systems (Windows, Mac, and GNU/Linux)
Pointer·4yiced-rs/iced: A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
The core of the library was implemented during May 2019 in this pull request. The first alpha version was released as a renderer-agnostic ["glow"] The development is sponsored by the Cryptowatch team at Kraken.com. You can open an issue or, if you want to talk, come chat to our Discord server.
freeCodeCamp·4yHow WebAuthn Authenticates Users Without a Password
WebAuthn is an API that enables strong authentication with public-key cryptography. It lets you implement passwordless authentication and/or secure second-factor authentication without SMS texts. WebAuthn works hand in hand with other industry standards such as Credential Management Level 1 and FIDO 2.0 Client.
The Register·4yGoogle Cloud to start accepting cryptocurrencies as payment
Google Cloud to start accepting cryptocurrencies as payment for its online services. This method will be offered first to a chosen few customers in the Web 3.0 space. This announcement was part of Google Cloud Next (GCN), a three-day event in which the web ads titan boasts about its latest as-a-service offerings.
TechCrunch·4yNothing’s Phone (1) is official – TechCrunch
The Nothing Phone (1) is a new smartphone from Chinese startup Nothing. The device has a striking design featuring 900 LEDs that flash and pulsate with an extreme brightness. Nothing has raised around $150 million in equity and $65 million in debt to launch its first handset.
omg! ubuntu!·4yFramework, the Modular Laptop, Gets CPU Upgrade
First-gen Framework laptop comes with 11th generation Intel Core processors, but the latest revision offers motherboards outfitted with a choice of 12th-generation Intel Core. Three CPUs are available: Intel i5-1240P; Intel i7-1260P; and Intel i 7-1280P. Bespoke engineering makes swapping out parts super easy, with no soldering guns or re-setting heatsinks required.
Hacker News·4yAndroid 13 virtualization lets Pixel 6 run Windows 11, Linux distributions
Android & web developer “kdrag0n’ tested several Linux distributions compiled for Aarch64 on the Pixel 6 with Ubuntu 21.10, Arch Linux Arm, Void Linux, and Alpine Linux using “the KVM hypervisor on Pixel 6 + Android 13 DP1” He/she further explains: “As far as I can tell, we can pretty much get full EL2 on production devices now”
DevBlogs·3yTry out Visual Studio 2022 version 17.5 Preview 2
Try out Visual Studio 2022 version 17.5 Preview 2! Your feedback goes directly to the product team working to deliver you the best developer IDE. The new search experience makes it easy for you to quickly find a Visual Studio menu feature files, types, and members in your code all from one place.
Changelog·4yThe end of Moore's law forced YouTube to make its own video chip
The end of Moore's law forced YouTube to make its own video chip. Google's first video chip project was approved after a 10-minute meeting with YouTube chief Susan Wojcicki. Google started deploying its Argos Video Coding Units in 2018, but didn't publicly announce the project until 2021.
DevBlogs·4y.NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04
.NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy) and can be installed with just apt install dotnet6.NET in Chiseled Ubuntu Containers.NET delivers the smallest container footprint while still being the Ubuntu you know and trust.NET is similar to conventional distroless, with a tool that is customized for slicing.deb packages. The images will be offered in our nightly repos.
The Register·4yLinus Torvalds looses Linux 5.19 using Asahi Linux on a Mac
Linus Torvalds has released version 5.19 of the Linux kernel. He hailed the Asahi Linux distribution that runs on it for making Arm-powered computers useful for developers. The emperor penguin hedged a little, admitting he's got his hands on some Apple silicon.
80 LEVEL·4yNVIDIA's AI Confessed That It Will Never Be Ethical
The Megatron Transformer is an AI developed by NVIDIA and based on earlier work by Google. It's trained on real-world data – the entire Wikipedia (in English), 63 million English news articles from 2016-19, Reddit data with an amount of 38 GB. “This house believes that AI will never be ethical” was the topic of the debate.
The New Stack·4ySpotify Developers Boost Productivity with Fresh Apple M1 Macs
Spotify recently upgraded to the Apple M1 gear for its Client Platform team. Internal testing proved the machines are 43% faster than Intel-based Mac systems overall. Spotify conducted quarterly Engineering Satisfaction surveys and one such survey revealed that longer build times reduced developer productivity and satisfaction.
Hacker News·4yQuality on linux
My Chrome on Fedora with set of flags,args on exec, etc., does show "Decode: hardware accelerated" but it that does nothing. No % moving on GWE (I have a 3070) and Chrome showing decode as false.Sadly I suppose you are on Arch, you got some patched packages or w/e that makes Chrome or other browsers support hardware accelerated decode but I'm on Fedora and don't got 'em.