Here are some ICT trends for year 2019 picked from various sources (linked to sources) and edited by me:
General: From AI to Moore’s Law, the entire industry is deep in the throes of massive changes. The future will be characterized by smart devices delivering increasingly insightful digital services everywhere. While CPUs continue to evolve, performance is no longer limited to a single processor type or process geometry.
Business: There seems to be a clear evidence from this research that businesses are adopting and looking to capitalise on the benefits of Big Data, the Internet Of Things and Sensor technology for their mobile workforces.
Open source: 2019 Will Be the Year of Open Source in software and even in hardware. We saw more activity in open source than ever before in 2018. And the momentum isn’t likely to slow down in 2019.
Web is mobile: According to the statistics of FICORA, Ofcom, the PC has lost its place as the first device and platform for web browsing. Almost half of the web browses the web with a smart phone, which places a requirement on all online services from shops to news sites.
Multiple devices: As the number of different IT devices continues to grow, there are more and more devices in use at the same time.
Situations and tasks that utilize and use multiple devices together have become commonplace. We need to think how how user interfaces could better support multi-device sharing.
Artificial intelligence: It seems that AI Market Ramps Everywhere. The AI term creates hope for some, fear for others, and confusion for all. Artificial intelligence (AI) is what the Internet of Things was two years ago – overhyped and not very well understood. The obvious shift is the infusion of AI (and its subcategories, machine learning and deep learning) into different markets. It seems that you don’t need to be artificial intelligence wizard anymore to use some AI – at best, implementation can be picked up by GitHub without really understanding anything. AI Still Has Trust Issues for many. There are also views that now hot artificial intelligence is the bubble that broke out last in the 1990s because at present, artificial intelligence and man form a bad cyborg. You need to separate AI Hype From Reality because it seems to be a miraculous thing where almost nobody knows what it is.
AI chips: While GPUs are well-positioned in machine learning, data type flexibility and power efficiency are making FPGAs increasingly attractive. Today, selling custom chips for artificial intelligence is still a small business. Intel, the largest manufacturer of computer processors, has appraised the current market at $2.5 billion, one half of one percent of the estimated value of the 2018 global semiconductor market. At a press event at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show, Intel announced the Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP-I), an AI chip for inference-based workloads that fits into a GPU-like form factor. Google and NXP advance artificial intelligence with the Edge TPU.
AI-driven development: AI-driven development looks at tools, technologies and best practices for embedding AI into applications and using AI to create AI-powered tools for the development process.
Huge data: It seems that It’s All About The Data. Data creation, management and processing always have been a winning business formula. It takes lots of data to train AI systems and IoT systems generate a lot of data.Data scientists now have increasing amounts of data to prepare, analyze and group — and from which to draw conclusions. The entire tech industry has changed in several fundamental ways over the past year due to the massive growth in data. Many data science tasks will be automated. Hardware and software are no longer the starting points for technology design. It’s now about data processing, flow and throughput.
Digital twins: A digital twin is a digital representation that mirrors a real-life object, process or system. Digital twins can also be linked to create twins of larger systems, such as a power plant or city. The idea of a digital twin is not new but is has become hot when AI and IoT were added to the mix.
Power consumption: Globally, ICT today consumes 8% of all electricity and doubles every year. I think we needs new semiconductor technologies and maybe also more optimized software that does more but consumes less power.
Memories: DRAM market growth stops in 2019. GDDR6 and HBM2 impacts system design. There is disparity between the different types of DRAM, from GDDR to HBM.
Faster storage: Apacer has CFexpress card, which supports PCIe and the new NVMe 1.3 protocol, transfers data at a rate of two gigabytes per second.
Heterogeneous architectures: Need for increased computing power requires new multi-processor architectures (hybrid processors). Heterogeneous design is changing the starting point for chip design so that integration is now more the real challenge rather than the processor core. Many ARM processors already use hybrid architecture. Intel has unveiled a new Foveros architecture that addresses the challenge of Arm processors.
Immersive technologies: Users can interact with the world with immersive technologies such as augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR) and virtual reality (VR). AR brings new possibilities. A smart space is a physical or digital environment in which humans and technology-enabled systems interact in increasingly open, connected, coordinated and intelligent ecosystems.
Open hardware: Can RISC-V – Linux of Microprocessors – Start an Open Hardware Renaissance? RISC-V is an open source processor command set that can be used with the same principles as Linux code. RISCV is now being firmly linked to Linux as the Linux Foundation and the RISC-V Foundation have agreed to work together to promote open code development and RISC-V deployment. For the first time, Arm architecture will be a serious challenger in millions, even billions of embedded devices. Companies like Hi-Five, NVIDIA and WDplan to release product with RISC-V in them. This year RISC-V does not compete with traditional CPUs on PCs. Also MIPS hardware architecture is opening up.
Containers: Is Kubernetes the new application server? If you thought there was a lot of chatter about Kubernetes in 2018, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Software robotics: Software robotics becomes widely available. Robot Framework will be important on this.
Intel processors: Intel Announces Faster Processors Patched for Meltdown and Spectre, New Intel Architectures and Technologies Target Expanded Market Opportunities. Intel Demonstrates 10nm-based PCs, Data Center and Networking Systems, Next-Gen ‘Sunny Cove’ Architecture with AI and Crypto Acceleration, and 3D Logic Chip Packaging Technology. 5 Observations From Intel’s Event article says that mysterious locations, codenames and process delays are on the top of the list. Intel’s Foveros Lakefield technology for making smaller chips.
AMD processors: Ryzen mobile processors would begin showing up in ultrathin and gaming laptops by the end of the first quarter. AMD starts to use 7nm technology: Radeon VII GPU will be available and it is promised to be 27% to 62% faster, third-generation Ryzen desktop processor and second-generation EPYC server processor will be available starting later this year. AMD is challenging Intel in Chromebooks with A-Series CPUs and launching Ryzen Mobile 3000-Series chips with 2nd-generation Ryzen Mobile parts.
ARM processors: Taking aim at Intel, Qualcomm launches chip for business PCs. The Snapdragon 8cx series is Qualcomm’s first chip specifically designed for computers. Qualcomm’s pitch is that laptops using its chips will go days without needing to be plugged in, and will always be connected to the internet via cellular networks. The Snapdragon 8cx is also the world’s first 7-nanometer PC processor platform and promises superior performance for laptop. Intel’s position on laptops is very strong and Qualcomm has a big hill to get up if it really wants to challenge Intel’s PC side. Huawei Rolls 7nm ARM Server CPU Kunpeng 920 that is said to outperform ThunderX2, Ampere by 25%. Rumors are circulating that Apple will obsolete x86-based computers in favor of its own SoC-powered successors.
NVIDIA: RTX 2060 GPU was introduced. GeForce RTX™ graphics cards are powered by the Turing GPU architecture and the all-new RTX platform. This promises to give you up to 6X the performance of previous-generation graphics cards and brings the power of real-time ray tracing and AI to your favorite games. GeForce RTX 20 Series GPUs to gaming laptops.
Microsoft hardware: Microsoft reportedly working on Xbox and Windows webcams for 2019.
Windows security: Microsoft officially announces ‘Windows Sandbox’ for running applications in isolation.Microsoft’s coming ‘Windows Sandbox’ feature is a lightweight virtual machine that allow users to run potentially suspicious software in isolation. It could debut in Windows 10 19H1,
Storage: NVMe Hits a Tipping Point. A show dedicated to NVM Express (NVMe) next month solidifies an industry-wide sentiment that the host controller interface and storage protocol hit a tipping point in the last year. It is expected that we’re going to see the majority of new products coming out with NVMe. There are already relatively young NVM Express Over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) specification and even some hard disk enclosures using NVMe.
Fibre channel: Broadcom Nudges Fibre Channel to 64G using 64G optical modules (just starting to sample) and PCIe Gen 4 connections that are not yet generally available on x86 servers.
Faster PCIe:PCIe 4.0 is ready. The PCISIG organization has completed the new 4.0 version of the PCIe bus, and now the technology is expected to be deployed on the devices. It is possible to to get the full PCIe 4.0 speed with both copper and fiber. It seems that this year PCIe 4.0 comes to wider us for x86 servers.
FPGA: FPGA Graduates To First-Tier Status because FPGAs are better for certain types of computation than CPUs or GPUs.While GPUs are well-positioned in machine learning, data type flexibility and power efficiency are making FPGAs increasingly attractive.
Enterprise software:Legacy enterprise applications and software systems have a reputation for being clunky, expensive, and almost impossible to keep up to date. Rethink your enterprise software systems and consider whether cloud-based options like SaaS may better serve your needs. Office 365 is massively successful. AWS services are running the backend of thousands of major companies now. As internet connections and speeds increase, the cloud becomes more and more viable as it is more cost effective to centralize computer hardware reducing costs for companies and employee overhead.
Windows 10: Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge on Windows 10. Microsoft could be preparing to ditch the EdgeHTML layout engine of its unloved Edge browser in Windows 10 in favour of Chromium. Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is improved. Microsoft new Windows 10 reserves ~7GB of disk space for updates, apps, and more to ensure critical OS functions always have space.
Light Windows: Microsoft is working on Windows Lite, a super lightweight, instant on, always connected OS that runs only PWAs and UWP apps, to challenge Chrome OS. Microsoft’s ‘Centaurus’ device is yet another potential piece of its Chromebook-compete strategy.
Coding for Windows: Microsoft has released a public preview of Visual Studio 2019 for Windows and Mac. Microsoft open sources its most popular Windows UX frameworks and says the first preview of .NET Core 3.0 is now available — Microsoft is open sourcing WPF, Windows Forms and Win UI via GitHub.
Quantum computing: Quantum computing is a type of nonclassical computing that is based on the quantum state of subatomic particles that represent information as elements denoted as quantum bits or “qubits.” Quantum computers are an exponentially scalable and highly parallel computing model. They can work well on some specific tasks suitable for them, but are not suitable for most generic computing tasks we are used to.
Blockchain: Blockchain is a type of distributed ledger, an expanding chronologically ordered list of cryptographically signed, irrevocable transactional records shared by all participants in a network. It can work with untrusted parties without the need for a centralized party (i.e., a bank). Businesses should begin evaluating the technology to see if it fits their business or not. You need to separate Blockchain hype from Reality because it seems to be a potentially miraculous thing where almost nobody knows exactly what it is to what it is good for. Check this related Dilbert comic.
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Microsoft beats expectations with $30.6B in revenue as Azure’s growth continues
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/24/microsoft-beats-expectations-with-30-6b-in-revenue-as-azures-growth-continues/?tpcc=ECFB2019
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Automate user acceptance testing with your DevOps pipeline
https://opensource.com/article/19/4/devops-pipeline-acceptance-testing?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY
Bring your acceptance testing process into your CI/CD pipeline with open source tools.
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Fauxpen source is bad for business
https://opensource.com/article/19/4/fauxpen-source-bad-business?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY
Proprietary software masquerading as open source, termed “fauxpen source,” is toxic on many levels.
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A new era for enterprise IT
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/26/a-new-era-for-enterprise-it/?tpcc=ECFB2019
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The former lead designer of Gmail just fixed Gmail on his own
https://www.fastcompany.com/90338929/the-former-lead-designer-of-gmail-just-fixed-gmail-on-his-own?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
The free Chrome extension Simplify will give you the Gmail you want.
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DESIGN SYSTEMS & VERSION CONTROL – SAVING YOUR PROJECT FROM CHAOS
https://blog.taiste.fi/en/design-systems-and-version-control?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=promotedpost&utm_campaign=website&utm_content=designsystemsandversioncontrol
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Ubuntu 19.04 Makes Linux a Snap
https://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/ubuntu-19.04-makes-linux-a-snap
Canonical announced the release of the open-source Ubuntu 19.04 Linux distribution on April 18, with new versions for cloud, server and desktop users.
The Ubuntu 19.04 update is code-named the “Disco Dingo” and is a standard release, which means Canonical will support it for nine months.
Ubuntu 19.04 is the first major milestone update for Ubuntu in 2019 and follows the 18.10 “Cosmic Cuttlefish” update that was released in October 2018.
Snaps
According to Canonical, more than 2,000 software publishers now distribute applications as snaps, which is a 30% increase over October 2018.
“For me, what’s really exciting about snaps is they are essentially a binary interface to GitHub,” Shuttleworth said.
Shuttleworth said that snaps provide a way to deliver source code that is built on GitHub to users in a binary, executable form, at a speed that can keep up with what GitHub produces.
“With each version of Ubuntu, we are making it easier to build and publish snaps, and they are more deeply integrated into the system, so that more core functionality of the platform can be expressed as a snap,” Shuttleworth said.
On the desktop, the Ubuntu 19.04 release uses the GNOME 3.32 desktop environment
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DDR5-muististandardi on tuplaamassa niin tiedonsiirtonopeuden kuin muistien kaistanleveyden
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Sad News! Scientific Linux is Being Discontinued
https://itsfoss.com/scientific-linux-discontinued/
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GamesIndustry.biz presents… The Year In Numbers 2018
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-12-17-gamesindustry-biz-presents-the-year-in-numbers-2018
The global games market value, most watched YouTube videos, biggest mobile games and more
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Why Serverless Will Eat the World?
18.4.2019 klo 14.10
https://www.nitor.com/fi/uutiset-ja-blogi/why-serverless-will-eat-world
Serverless is an architectural pattern that leverages maximally managed services as components of a system and stitches them together with small bits of business logic code that is also run in a managed service. The most typical type of service to implement the business logic is generally called Function as a Service (FaaS), but there are a multitude of ways to implement this custom compute resource
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10 Best Computer Languages to Learn Hacking
https://www.fossmint.com/programming-languages-to-learn-hacking/
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The Holy Book of x86
https://pentestmag.com/holy-book-x86/
This book/guide/tutorial/wiki is about assembly and x86 architecture. It’s written by a low level security dude for low level security dudes. If you want to learn Assembly and its structure, reversing basics, Segmentation, Paging etc. keep on reading.
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Seven Laws of Sane Personal Computing
http://www.loper-os.org/?p=284#selection-13.43-18.0
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Intel cuts forecast as China data center sales remain weak
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-intel-results/intel-forecasts-weak-second-quarter-cuts-full-year-outlook-idUSKCN1S12KP
Chipmaker Intel Corp on Thursday cut its full-year revenue forecast and missed analysts’ estimates for first-quarter sales for the data center business that has driven growth as PC sales declined in recent years, sending its shares down as much as 7.5%.
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Xilinx Excels as Strategy Shifts to Data Centers
https://www.electronicdesign.com/industrial-automation/xilinx-excels-strategy-shifts-data-centers?NL=ED-005&Issue=ED-005_20190501_ED-005_463&sfvc4enews=42&cl=article_2_b&utm_rid=CPG05000002750211&utm_campaign=25234&utm_medium=email&elq2=2f6494670b8e40d89a4cc27c5bb6ea50
Over the last year, Xilinx has expanded its efforts around artificial intelligence, networking and storage chores in data centers. Under chief executive Victor Peng, who was hired last year, the company claims that its programmable FPGAs are competitive with rival CPUs, GPUs and ASICs. The company has also been trying to lower the bar for programming FPGAs. The plan is starting to pay off.
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Bloomberg:
How Satya Nadella led Microsoft to have more subscribers than Netflix, more cloud computing revenue than Google, and a near-trillion-dollar market cap
The Most Valuable Company (for Now) Is Having a Nadellaissance
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-02/satya-nadella-remade-microsoft-as-world-s-most-valuable-company?cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-tech
Under Satya Nadella, Microsoft has more subscribers than Netflix, more cloud computing revenue than Google, and a near-trillion-dollar market cap.
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Rani Molla / Vox:
Slack and other workplace messaging services undermine their goal of increased productivity by becoming distractions, where users are constantly chatting
The productivity pit: how Slack is ruining work
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/1/18511575/productivity-slack-google-microsoft-facebook
Job software like Teams, Slack, and Workplace were supposed to make us more productive. They haven’t.
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils HoloLens 2 developer edition for $3,500, out later this year, says Unreal Engine 4 support for HoloLens 2 will be available by the end of May — Available later this year — Microsoft is launching a developer edition of the company’s HoloLens 2 headset today.
Microsoft unveils HoloLens 2 developer edition for $3,500
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/2/18526294/microsoft-hololens-2-developer-edition-pricing-release-date
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Matt Perez / Forbes:
Behind the fiasco of Star Citizen, a primarily crowdfunded video game that has raised ~$300M and isn’t close to full launch after seven years of development
Exclusive: The Saga Of ‘Star Citizen,’ A Video Game That Raised $300 Million—But May Never Be Ready To Play
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2019/05/01/exclusive-the-saga-of-star-citizen-a-video-game-that-raised-300-millionbut-may-never-be-ready-to-play/#4d4e11fe5ac9
Most of the people here helped to pay for the game’s development—on average, $200 each, although some backers have given thousands. An epic sci-fi fantasy, Star Citizen was supposed to be finished in 2014. But after seven years of work, no one—least of all Roberts—has a clue as to when it will be done. But despite the disappointments and delays, this crowd is cheering for Roberts.
This is not fraud—Roberts really is working on a game—but it is incompetence and mismanagement on a galactic scale.
Free of Microsoft, Roberts went fully Hollywood, making a string of forgettable movies, like “The Big White” (2005) and “Outlander” (2008).
“The game they promised us can’t even barely run. The performance is terrible. . . . I want out. They lied to us.”
“Star Citizen is a playable game,” Roberts insists. “It has more functionality and content than a lot of finished games.” He adds that 40,000 people played the game together online over a recent week and that criticism of Cloud Imperium’s development work is fueled by online trolls. There are many believers. “I have complete faith,” says Dan Paulsen, a backer of Star Citizen since 2016. “If there’s a delay, it’s for a good reason. It’s because they want it to be a better project.”
Last year Cloud Imperium released financials that showed its biggest expense was annual salaries of $30 million. But the documents did not detail how much Roberts and Gardiner have been paid over the years.
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Oracle co-honcho Mark Hurd can’t wait to turn your $1 of IT support spend into $4 of pay-as-you-go cloud revenue
While customers apparently make savings from consolidated services?
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/01/oracle_mark_hurd_cloud/
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VMware now officially supported on Azure. We repeat: VMware now supported on Azure
‘Member when Microsoft tried this in 2017? It didn’t go well…
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/01/vmware_microsoft_azure/
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Netflix Says Python Programming Language is Behind Every Film You Stream
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/19/05/01/1935231/netflix-says-python-programming-language-is-behind-every-film-you-stream?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot%2Fto+%28%28Title%29Slashdot+%28rdf%29%29
According to Python developers at Netflix, the language is used through the “full content lifecycle”, from security tools, to its recommendation algorithms, and its proprietary content distribution network (CDN) Open Connect, which ensures that content is streamed from network devices that are as close as possible to end users.
Netflix: Python programming language is behind every film you stream
https://www.zdnet.com/article/netflix-python-programming-language-is-behind-every-film-you-stream/
If you want a job at Netflix, it’s probably a good idea to learn programming language Python and all its libraries.
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https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/gnu-guix-100-released-season-docs-announces-50-participating-open-source-organizations
GNU Guix 1.0.0 was released today. This big 1.0 release is the result of seven years of development and contributions by more than 260 people. If you’re not familiar with GNU Guix, “GNU Guix is a transactional package manager and an advanced distribution of the GNU system that respects user freedom. Guix can be used on top of any system running the kernel Linux, or it can be used as a standalone operating system distribution for i686, x86_64, ARMv7, and AArch64 machines.” This version brings many new features, including a new VM image, a new “first-class, uniform mechanism to configure keyboard layout” and more than 1,100 packages added.
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2019/gnu-guix-1.0.0-released/
The journey to 1.0
We took our time to get there, which is quite unusual in an era where free software moves so fast. Why did we take this much time? First, it takes time to build a community around a GNU/Linux distribution, and a distribution wouldn’t really exist without it. Second, we feel like we’re contributing an important piece to the GNU operating system, and that is surely intimidating and humbling.
What GNU Guix can do for you
Presumably some of the readers are discovering Guix today, so let’s recap what Guix can do for you as a user. Guix is a complete toolbox for software deployment in general, which makes it different from most of the tools you may be familiar with.
This may sound a little abstract so let’s look at concrete use cases:
As a user, Guix allows you to install applications and to keep them up-to-date: search for software with guix search, install it with guix install, and maintain it up-to-date by regularly running guix pull and guix upgrade. Guix follows a so-called “rolling release” model, so you can run guix pull at any time to get the latest and greatest bits of free software.
As a developer, we hope you’ll enjoy guix environment, which allows you to spawn one-off software environments. Suppose you’re a GIMP developer: running guix environment gimp spawns a shell with everything you need to hack on GIMP—much quicker than manually installing its many dependencies.
About GNU Guix
GNU Guix is a transactional package manager and an advanced distribution of the GNU system that respects user freedom. Guix can be used on top of any system running the kernel Linux, or it can be used as a standalone operating system distribution for i686, x86_64, ARMv7, and AArch64 machines.
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USB 4: Oh LAWD it Comin’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxRv4L7p5Us
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[RANT] The DUMBEST Thing About USB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gShRBsahzXg
What’s the deal with USB naming schemes?
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
An overview of the debate over breaking up big tech and why antitrust might not be the best concept to address most issues people have with big tech companies
The push to break up Big Tech, explained
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/3/18520703/big-tech-break-up-explained
There’s a pervasive feeling that the tech giants are too powerful … but they’re also really good for consumers.
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New red hat, same Red Hat
https://www.redhat.com/en/about/brand/new-brand?intcmp=701f20000012hnbAAA
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Synopsys debuted VIP for NVDIMM-P for DDR5/4. Aimed at storage-class memory for enterprise applications, NVDIMM-P is a two-in-one hybrid memory technology with non-volatility and persistence of Flash, and speed, performance, and endurance of DRAM. The VIP uses a native SystemVerilog UVM architecture and includes built-in coverage and verification plans.
Synopsys Announces Industry’s First DDR5 NVDIMM-P Verification IP for Next-generation Storage-class Memory Designs
https://news.synopsys.com/2019-05-01-Synopsys-Announces-Industrys-First-DDR5-NVDIMM-P-Verification-IP-for-Next-generation-Storage-class-Memory-Designs
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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
What to expect from Microsoft Build 2019: a primary focus on Azure and AI, plus announcements related to Windows 10, Microsoft 365, HoloLens, and GitHub — Microsoft’s Build developer conference returns to Seattle, rather than in San Francisco, for the third year in a row next week.
What to expect at Microsoft Build 2019: AI, Azure, and more
https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/02/what-to-expect-at-microsoft-build-2019-ai-azure-and-more/
Microsoft’s Build developer conference returns to Seattle, rather than in San Francisco, for the third year in a row next week. Build 2019 is scheduled from May 6 to May 8, 2019 (full agenda). Build 2019 will be livestreamed, and VentureBeat will be on site covering the news live.
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Windows 10 Will Now Ask Before Installing Massive Feature Updates
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/05/05/1636202/windows-10-will-now-ask-before-installing-massive-feature-updates?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot%2Fto+%28%28Title%29Slashdot+%28rdf%29%29
As Microsoft promised in early April, Windows 10 is gaining a new option that gives users better control over when its twice-yearly major feature updates are installed. That option is called ‘Download and install now’ and should help Windows 10 users avoid unintentionally accepting a feature update after using Windows Update to check for new patches.
End to surprise Windows 10 updates? New ‘download and install now’ option rolls out
https://www.zdnet.com/article/end-to-surprise-windows-10-updates-new-download-and-install-now-option-rolls-out/
Microsoft has started rolling out its new option for controlling feature updates.
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Linux Kernel 5.1 Is Out
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-kernel-51-out-red-hat-announces-winners-2019-women-open-source-awards-gnu-linux-libre
Linux kernel 5.1 is out. Linus Torvalds writes, “The past week has been pretty calm, and the final patch from rc6 is not all that big. The shortlog is appended, but it’s small changes all over. Networking, filesystem code, drivers, tooling, arch updates. Nothing particularly odd stands out. Of course, the shortlog below is just for that final calm week. On the whole, 5.1 looks very normal with just over 13k commits (plus another 1k+ if you count merges).
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1905.0/03532.html?display=anzwix
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Chris Hoffman / How-To Geek:
Microsoft debuts WSL 2, featuring “dramatic” performance increases, support for Docker, and shipping with a Linux kernel, to be updated through Windows Update — Microsoft today announced Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2—that’s WSL 2. It will feature “dramatic file system …
Windows 10 Is Getting a Built-in Linux Kernel
https://www.howtogeek.com/413564/windows-10-is-getting-a-built-in-linux-kernel/
Announcing WSL 2
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/
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Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Microsoft announces Fluid Framework, a new web-based modular platform for document creation, available to developers later this year — Today marks the start of Build, Microsoft’s annual developer conference, and this morning’s keynote address was predictably newsy.
Microsoft unveils Fluid Framework, a web-based modular platform for document creation
https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/06/microsoft-unveils-fluid-framework-a-web-based-modular-platform-for-document-creation/
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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Microsoft unveils .NET 5, which will support Java, Swift, and Objective C interoperability on multiple platforms, and makes ML.NET 1.0 generally available
Microsoft is bringing Visual Studio to the browser, unveils .NET 5, and launches ML.NET 1.0
https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/06/microsoft-visual-studio-online-net-5-ml-net-1-0/
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Microsoft announces a slew of offerings for developers including Windows Terminal, available in preview, XAML Islands, and React Native for Windows
https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/06/microsoft-windows-terminal-wsl-2-coming-june/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
IntelliCode, Microsoft’s tool for AI-assisted coding that was trained on GitHub projects with 100+ stars, is now generally available
Microsoft’s IntelliCode for AI-assisted coding comes out of preview
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/06/microsofts-intellicode-for-ai-assisted-coding-is-now-generally-available/
IntelliCode, Microsoft’s tool for AI-assisted coding, is now generally available. It supports C# and XAML in Visual Studio and Java, JavaScript, TypeScript and Python in Visual Studio Code. By default, it is now also included in Visual Studio 2019, starting with the second preview of version 16.1, which the company also announced that.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Everything Microsoft announced at Build 2019
https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/07/everything-microsoft-announced-at-build-2019/
Tomi Engdahl says:
The Year Of Linux On The Desktop – at last! Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 brings the Linux kernel into Windows
Also: A new Windows Terminal is here and on GitHub
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/06/windows_subsystem_for_linux_terminal/
Tomi Engdahl says:
The OpenStack Foundation would like everyone to just get along and play nice, m’kay?
Joss sticks lit at the Open Infrastructure Summit
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/07/osf_keynote/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Microsoft will ship a full Linux kernel in Windows 10
https://va.news-republic.com/article/i6688061507843916294?app_id=1239&gid=6688061507843916294&impr_id=6688228954148587781&language=en®ion=gb&user_id=6567427488519585801
Tomi Engdahl says:
Windows 10 will get a built-in Linux kernel this summer
2019 really is the year of the Linux desktop… on Windows.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/07/linux-windows-10-terminal/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Microsoft unveils Windows Terminal, a new command line app for Windows
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18527870/microsoft-windows-terminal-command-line-tool
For developers, developers, developers
Tomi Engdahl says:
Ahead Of 2020, Microsoft Unveils Tool To Allow Voters To Track Their Ballots
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/06/720071488/ahead-of-2020-microsoft-unveils-tool-to-allow-voters-to-track-their-ballots
Tomi Engdahl says:
Watch Microsoft’s Build 2019 keynotes right here
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/06/watch-microsofts-build-2019-keynotes-right-here/?tpcc=ECFB2019
Tomi Engdahl says:
Microsoft launches Visual Studio Online, an online code editor
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/06/microsoft-launches-visual-studio-online-an-online-code-editor/?tpcc=ECFB2019
Tomi Engdahl says:
Microsoft launches React Native for Windows
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/06/microsoft-launches-react-native-for-windows/?tpcc=ECFB2019&fbclid=IwAR0qKN4jsizmkoYLo3QMaZRQHEbWOopSsM_bPnAd9CtHDi1cMBYH8It0eXg
Tomi Engdahl says:
[Review] Void Linux, a Linux BSD Hybrid
https://itsfoss.com/void-linux/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/windows-10-will-soon-ship-with-a-full-open-source-gpled-linux-kernel/
Tomi Engdahl says:
AMD Chips to Power Exascale System
Epyc, Radeon drive return to win not seen in a decade
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334665
AMD snagged a design win for next-generation CPUs, GPUs, and interconnects in Frontier, the second of three U.S. exascale-class supercomputers. The total contract, valued at more than $600 million, is the largest deal to date for AMD, system integrator Cray, and the U.S. Department of Energy.
When installed sometime in 2021, Frontier is expected to deliver more than 1.5 exaflops, making it slightly higher in performance than Aurora, the first U.S. exascale system being built by Intel and Cray. A third system, dubbed El Capitan, is expected to be awarded to the team of IBM and Nvidia, who built Summit and Sierra, the current leading supercomputers.