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Anthropic says ‘pacing, not pausing’ with Fable 5.2

Good morning, AI enthusiasts, and welcome to our 5,334 new readers. Anthropic spent the fall telling the AI industry to pace itself. The company’s first look at what that means just arrived, and the result still sits comfortably at the top of the leaderboards. Fable 5.2 is cheaper, faster, and…

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Loading Arbitrary Executables as Kernel Modules

Alexei Starovoitov posted some patches to allow the kernel to load regular ELF binaries (aka plain executables) as kernel modules. These modules would be able to run user-mode helper routines instead of being absolutely confined…

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Oops! Debugging Kernel Panics

A look into what causes kernel panics and some utilities to help gain more information. Figure 1. A Typical Kernel Panic Let's start by looking at a set of utilities known as kexec and kdump. kexec allows you to boot into another…

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SQL for absolute beginners: a map of CRUD

Have you heard of SQL but aren't sure where to start? I felt the same way once. It turns out SQL is easier than most people imagine, especially if you already know your way around Excel. In this post, I'll give you a map of SQL: the four core operations…

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Crafting Digital Media: A Book Review

Crafting Digital Media (Figure 1) is a general overview of the potential of Linux as a multimedia production platform and a guide to specific applications and their use for that purpose. Each chapter presents a relevant topic and…

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