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FSF: Meta's License for Its Llama 3.1 AI Model 'is Not a Free Software License'
July saw the news that Meta had launched a powerful open-source AI model, Llama 3.1.
But the Free Software Foundation evaluated Llama 3.1's license agreement, and announced this week that "this is not a free software license and you should not use it, nor any software released under it."
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Bill Gates Began the Altair BASIC Code in His Head While Hiking as a Teenager
Friday Bill Gates shared an excerpt from his upcoming memoir Source Code: My Beginnings. Published in the Wall Street Journal, the excerpt includes pictures of young Bill Gates when he was 12 (dressed for a hike) and 14 (studying a teletype machine).
Gates remembers forming "a sort of splinter gro...
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Oracle and US Investors (Including Microsoft) Discuss Taking Control of TikTok in the US
A plan to keep TikTok available in the U.S. "involves tapping software company Oracle and a group of outside investors," reports NPR, "to effectively take control of the app's global operations, according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks..."
"[P]otential investors who are engaged i...
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Could New Linux Code Cut Data Center Energy Use By 30%?
Two computer scientists at the University of Waterloo in Canada believe changing 30 lines of code in Linux "could cut energy use at some data centers by up to 30 percent," according to the site Data Centre Dynamics.
It's the code that processes packets of network traffic, and Linux "is the most wi...
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Report of Newly-Discovered Asteroid Turns Out to Be... a Tesla Roadster
Founded in 1947, the Minor Planet Center is the official worldwide authority "for observing and reporting new asteroids, comets and other small bodies in the solar system," reports USA Today.
Unfortunately, "What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered asteroid turned out to b...
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