Facebook to Open-Source AI Hardware Design

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December 11, 2015

12057171 n copy FAIR is more than tripling its investment in GPU hardware as we focus even more on research and enable other teams across the company to use neural networks in our products and services. As part of our ongoing commitment to open source and open standards, we plan to contribute our innovations in GPU hardware to the Open Compute Project so others can benefit from them…

Big Sur is our newest Open Rack-compatible hardware designed for AI computing at a large scale. In collaboration with partners, we’ve built Big Sur to incorporate eight high-performance GPUs of up to 300 watts each, with the flexibility to configure between multiple PCI-e topologies. Leveraging NVIDIA’s Tesla Accelerated Computing Platform…

Microsoft Releases Windows Live Writer as Open Source

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December 11, 2015

openlivewriter Favourite blogging tool now ready for hacking – but cross platform will not be easy

Microsoft has released Windows Live Writer, a popular blog authoring tool, as an open source project on GitHub, under the MIT licence. The original Live Writer was developed by a company called Onfolio, founded by JJ Allaire when he left Allaire Corporation, the business he founded with his brother Jeremy to create web development tools including ColdFusion and JRun.

This Week in Linux News: Linux Foundation & Microsoft Collaborate, Linux Smartphones Didn’t Thrive in 2015, & More.

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December 11, 2015

microsoft loves linux This week in Linux news, the Linux Foundation and Microsoft work together on the Azure certification, 2015 wasn’t the year for the Linux smartphone, and more. Get up to speed with the latest Linux news with our weekly digest.

1) Linux Foundation and Microsoft are now offering a Linux on Azure certification.

Not a Typo: Microsoft is Offering a Linux Certification– ZDNet

2) A recent announcement from Mozilla makes year look bleak for Linux smartphones

Linux Smartphones Took a Serious Step Back in 2015– NetworkWorld

3) The new Linux Mint ‘Rosa’ focuses on the desktop experience.

Linux Mint 17.3 ‘Rosa’ Offers Linux Mint’s Most Polished Desktop Experience Yet– PCWorld

4) New Linux ‘Trojan’ malware known as Rekoobe is aimed towards Linux users known as Rekoobe.

Researchers Found Another Malware Targeting Linux Users– HackRead

5) The first-ever self-paced OpenStack administration course with labs on demand is now available.

Linux Foundation Self-Paced Course Expands Open Source Cloud Training– The VAR Guy

HPC Myths Need Not Hamper the Technology’s Growth

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December 11, 2015

In this special guest feature, Kristin Hansen, Chief Marketing Officer at Bright Computing writes that HPC doesn’t need to be held back by commonly held misconceptions.

As high performance computing continues to work its way into the enterprise tech mainstream, a variety of myths and misconceptions conspire to slow the technology’s growth.

10 Best Open Source Video Players For Linux in 2015

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December 11, 2015

Best-Linux-Video-Players-2015 Audio and Video are two common sources of information sharing we see in today’s world. May it be publishing any product, or need of sharing any information between a huge community of people, or a way of socializing in the group, or sharing of knowledge (e.g. as we see in online tutorials) audio and video hold a great place in this highly expressive world which wants to share their ideas, prove themselves and do all possible steps which brings them in limelight.

Below is the list of some quality open source video players which are available on Linux.

Cyberbullying: Chubb Offers UK “Troll” Insurance Against Digital Threats

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December 11, 2015

Having a difficult time on Twitter or harassed on Facebook? Chubb may help. US insurance company Chubb is offering UK residents the chance to sign up for a new kind of personal insurance which also protects consumers from cyberbullying.

Cyberbullying has been a long-standing problem in the online community. Wrapped under the guise of anonymity, some individuals will launch hate campaigns against others rather than confront them in the physical realm, whether it be Facebook messaging and posts, tweets, or campaigns…

Linux Users Will Soon Be Able to Update Dell Firmware from Inside the OS

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December 11, 2015

Dell is one of the first big companies out there that are finally taking into consideration allowing Linux users to upgrade the UEFI firmware on their devices.

Upgrading the firmware for motherboards is a real problem for Linux users, and the same can be said about firmware in general. If we take a look at the big names in the industry, we’ll see that they usually recommend using a Windows OS and Windows-specific tools. That’s problematic when you need to upgrade the Bios, for example.

How to Customise Your Linux Desktop: LXDE

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December 11, 2015

Part six(!) in my Linux Desktop series, I’m looking at LXDE on Debian GNU/Linux and Raspbian.

So far in this series I have looked at customizing Xfce, KDE, Gnome 3,Cinnamon and MATE. That covers a lot of territory, and there has been some significant overlap in focus, features and capabilities between those desktops.

This time I’m going to look at LXDE, and I think the difference will be clear – LXDE is focused on being lightweight and low overhead but still easy to use and configure.

SSH Into Your Christmas Tree with Raspberry Pi

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December 11, 2015

lightshowpi composite copy Earlier this year, I wrote an article about how to use the Raspberry Pi to create a music light show using an open source project called LightShowPi. My little Christmas tree light show was popular enough that I was invited to demo it for a group of middle school kids in North Carolina.

Which brings me to this year’s Christmas season. I was flirting with the idea of taking the light show outdoors, but due to the business of life I just ended up not having enough time (or motivation) to make that leap. I did, however, put a bit of time into improving last year’s setup.

Data Breaches Put Spotlight on Growing Threats to Kids’ Data Privacy

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December 11, 2015

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With a major breach at toy maker VTech and privacy advocates criticizing Mattel and Google, 2015 put a spotlight on the growing threats to children’s privacy.

On Nov. 14, digital thieves breached two services at toy maker VTech, compromising the company’s Learning Lodge app store and Kid Connect servers and accessing information on more than 6.3 million kids and their 4.8 million parents.While parents’ accounts included names, email and IP addresses, password retrieval information, mailing addresses, download history and encrypted passwords, most of the children’s data consisted only of their name, gender and birth date.