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Mesa 24.3 Removes Support For The Long-Abandoned OpenMAX API

Some long-rotting code in Mesa has been flushed out today... Mesa 24.3 is now 11.6k lines of code lighter after removing support for the OpenMAX (OMX) API that was implemented as a Gallium3D state tracker long ago and hasn't seen any activity in recent years and the upstream OpenMAX standards work halted more than one decade ago.

While The Khronos Group has been behind many successful open industry standards like OpenGL, OpenCL, Vulkan API, and others, OpenMAX
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Oracle Rewrites Libresource For Standardized API Of Linux System Resource Information

Back in 2018 Oracle introduced Libresource as a standardized API for accessing system resource information around memory / network / device statistics and other metrics. Libresource v2 was announced this week as largely a rewrite of the project.

Libresource v2 aims to address some shortcomings of the original Libresource implementation while still being focused on offering a standardized means of tapping various Linux system resource information / statistics.

Libresource v2 is able to parse data faster, faster statistics fetching around sockets, a bulk API for better scalability, and

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Meta Llama下載數一年成長逾10倍

Meta昨(2)日 指出 ,開源大語言模型(LLM)Llama去年夏天首度開放大眾下載以來,下載人數已成長超過10倍。

Meta今年4月 公佈 最新LLM Llama 3,並在8月 釋出 最新版本Llama 3.1。3.1版脈絡長度擴展到128K,支援8種語言,並


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ChatGPT now boasts over 200 million weekly active users

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In brief: OpenAI's ChatGPT continues to be the chatbot to beat. The company revealed this week that its language model now has over 200 million weekly active users globally – doubling its user base in just one year. The tool touched 100 million users back in February 2023, which made it the fastest-growing app ever, before Instagram's Threads

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OpenAI says ChatGPT's weekly users have grown to 200 million - Reuters

OpenAI says ChatGPT's weekly users have grown to 200 million Reuters

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(PR) NVIDIA Blackwell Sets New Standard for Generative AI in MLPerf Inference Benchmark

As enterprises race to adopt generative AI and bring new services to market, the demands on data center infrastructure have never been greater. Training large language models is one challenge, but delivering LLM-powered real-time services is another. In the latest round of MLPerf industry benchmarks, Inference v4.1, NVIDIA platforms delivered leading performance across all data center tests. The first-ever submission of the upcoming NVIDIA Blackwell platform revealed up to 4x more performance than the NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU on

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LLVM's Modern Fortran Compiler "Flang-New" Is Looking Good

The LLVM Fortran " Flang " compiler effort has been a long time coming over the years with this programming language continuing to be popular among some HPC codebases and other applications. The "Flang-New" compiler code has been maturing nicely and is looking like soon it could be possibly be renamed to Flang.

Making use of the flang-new compiler to compile Fortran code has required using "flang-new" as well as the "-flang-experimental-exec option for generating the executable. There's long
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OpenAI supports California AI bill requiring 'watermarking' of synthetic content - Reuters

OpenAI supports California AI bill requiring 'watermarking' of synthetic content Reuters

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Sovereign Tech Fund Announces Significant Investment Into FreeBSD

In addition to the recent news of AMD and FreeBSD Foundation collaborating over improvements , some more good news for this leading BSD open-source project is the Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) now beginning to invest in FreeBSD.

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund has already yielded great results providing funding for GNOME development, Rustls, Coreutils uutils, and other open-source projects. The latest great news is Sovereign Tech Fund announcing today they are providing a €686,400 investment to help modernize the FreeBSD infrastructure
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NILFS2 File-System Seeing More Fixes, Additional Ioctls Wired Up Ahead Of Linux 6.12

While Bcachefs and Btrfs capture much of the Linux file-system spotlight these days when it comes to exciting developments, there is no shortage of alternative open-source file-systems. One that's been around for a long time but not seeing as much adoption or major feature developments but still worthy of a shout-out is the log-structured NILFS2 file-system. With the upcoming Linux 6.12 cycle it looks like it will land a fresh round of fixes and a few new ioctls being
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