article thumbnail

Daily Crunch: Starting today, Twitter says all advertisers must obtain verified accounts

TechCrunch

Twitter seemingly now requires all advertisers to have a verified checkmark, Paul reports. The Bard has new skills : In response to user demand, Google’s Bard AI chatbot can now help software developers with programming, including the ability to generate and debug code. Kirsten has more. Annie has more.

article thumbnail

Daily Crunch: Major tech firms partner with Linux Foundation to support open map data development

TechCrunch

A gaggle of companies, including Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom, have partnered with the Linux Foundation to form the Overture Maps Foundation to do a few things: develop interoperable open map data and knock Google’s map dominance down a few pegs. The TechCrunch Top 3. Does anyone else miss paper maps? : Paul has more.

Linux 211
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Native Java Debugging on Alpine Linux: GDB, OpenJDK and the Mysterious Unknown Signal

OverOps

Porting a software project to a new operating system is always interesting and fun, and Alpine Linux with its musl libc brings a unique set of challenges. A while ago, I was tasked with porting OverOps’ native agent to Alpine Linux. LLDB on Alpine Linux. Even getting GDB up and running proved to be a major challenge!

Linux 247
article thumbnail

Zilliz raises $43 million as investors rush to China’s open source software

TechCrunch

Investors are going after Zilliz as they increasingly recognize open source as an effective software development strategy, Charles Xie, founder and CEO of Zilliz, told TechCrunch at an open source meetup in Shenzhen where he spoke as the first Chinese board chairperson for Linux Foundation’s AI umbrella, LF AI.

article thumbnail

CodeSOD: Promotional Development

The Daily WTF

Upgrading to a new point release on the Linux kernel isn't the riskiest thing you can do in your infrastructure, but it's not completely without risk. The Architect-turned-Manager had also decided that the development team was suffering with laptops that were, on average, two years old. Advertisement].

article thumbnail

5 Best Free VDI Solutions for Developers

G2 Crowd Software

It typically hosts Linux Guests, but there are drivers for additional operating systems.From four user reviews, Xen has scored an average of 4.4 flexVDI is an open-source solution developed in Zaragoza, Spain. It supports Microsoft Windows operating systems and “all flavors” of Linux distributions. out of five stars.

article thumbnail

Radar Trends to Watch: February 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Merging large language models gets developers the best of many worlds: use different models to solve different kinds of problems. Researchers have developed a method for detecting AI-generated text that is 90% accurate and has a false positive rate of only 0.01%. Julia Evans (@ b0rk@jvns.ca ) has compiled a list of common Git mistakes.