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• AMD grabs a quarter of x86 market with desktop gains — AMD now accounts for 25 percent of all x86 processor shipments, but only made a slight increase in the past quarter against industry leader Intel in servers – the main gains came from the desktop market.
• Intel exec says Arrow Lake launch ‘just didn’t go as planned' — Intel’s Arrow Lake chips’ “bones are solid,” Hallock said during the interview. Still, the company has identified factors “that can combine to produce some pretty wild unintended effects.” Hallock was also clear that the new Arrow Lake performance issues are strictly Intel’s responsibility, and not the fault of Microsoft or anyone else.
• Announcing .NET 9 — Today, we are excited to announce the launch of .NET 9, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. It’s the result of another year of effort on the part of thousands of developers from around the world.
• Octoverse: AI leads Python to top language as the number of global developers surges - The GitHub Blog — In this year’s Octoverse report, we study how public and open source activity on GitHub shows how AI is expanding as the global developer community surges in size.
• TensorFlow — TensorFlow makes it easy to create ML models that can run in any environment. Learn how to use the intuitive APIs through interactive code samples.
• NumPy - — The fundamental package for scientific computing with Python
• pandas - Python Data Analysis Library — pandas is a fast, powerful, flexible and easy to use open source data analysis and manipulation tool, built on top of the Python programming language.
• PyTorch — A rich ecosystem of tools and libraries extends PyTorch and supports development in computer vision, NLP and more.
• I’m a neurology ICU nurse. The creep of AI in our hospitals terrifies me — We didn’t call it AI at first. The first thing that happened was these new innovations just crept into our electronic medical record system. They were tools that monitored whether specific steps in patient treatment were being followed. If something was missed or hadn’t been done, the AI would send an alert. It was very primitive, and it was there to stop patients falling through the cracks.
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• The Biden administration launches its second big attack on Google - POLITICO — The DOJ is expressly seeking to break up the company, a feat not attempted since its case against Microsoft in the early 2000s, and not successful since the historic dismantling of AT&T in the early 1980s.
• Apple Announces iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max with Larger Displays, New Camera Control, and More — The devices are powered by the new A18 Pro chip, made using 2nd-generation 3nm technology. It offers a 16-core Neural Engine with 17% more memory bandwidth, making Apple Intelligence tasks up to 15% faster compared to the previous generation. The 6-core CPU features two performance cores and four efficiency cores, providing 15% faster performance and 20% more efficiency. Additionally, the 6-core GPU is up to 20% faster than the A17 Pro, with hardware-accelerated ray tracing for more realistic lighting in games. Faster USB-C speeds and twice the data processing for video encoding are also supported.
• AirPods Max Still Lack H2 Chip Following Minor Update With USB-C Port and New Colors — Apple first released the AirPods Max in December 2020, so the headphones are nearly four years old and continue to have the H1 chip from 2019.
• iOS 18.1 with Apple Intelligence launches in October, more languages rolling out over time — Apple did not officially confirm which parts of Apple Intelligence will launch when. Starting in October, we expect the company to debut notification summaries, email summaries, the Reduce Interruptions focus, and Clean Up image editing in Photos. Rumors indicate that the image generation functionality, like Genmoji and Image Playgrounds, will roll out in December.
• Apple’s iPhone 16 AI is useful so far, except when it’s bonkers — Weird like the time it alerted me that Donald Trump had endorsed Tim Walz for president.
• Surfing the WSL Wave - dominickm.com — With Summer coming to a close I decided to take another surf on the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) wave and in short was not disappointed.
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• submissions-pilot4-webR — Development repository for Pilot 4 WebAssembly Shiny App
• Shocking leak suggests your phone really is listening in on your conversations — An apparent pitch deck from one of Facebook's alleged marketing partner appears to detail how the firm eavesdrops on users' conversations to create targeted ads.
• Bombshell leak reveals your phone really might be listening to you – and telling Facebook and Google

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• About 7 years ago I was in a meeting with a former Windows core graphics engineer — Proceeded to explain to me that this was how he, and many other core Windows engineers lined their pockets for years - write complex implementations, do the absolute bare minimum documentation, then take a 6 month sabbatical and publish a reference book that was absolutely required to actually use the API.
• App Store developers must detail why they're using some APIs — As detailed on the Apple Developer website, some APIs are now classified as “Required Reason APIs.” This means that in order to use them in an app, the developer must describe to Apple the purpose of that API in the app.
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