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My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way  ZDNET

Sonder, a short-term rental company and former Airbnb rival, abruptly went out of business after Marriott ended its licensing deal on Nov. 9 -- leaving guests scrambling as they were told to vacate their rooms immediately. From a report: Paul Strack, 63, visiting Boston from Little Rock, Arkansas, told CBS News he received an email from Marriott on Sunday about his Sonder stay, but he initially mistook it for a scam. The email said that Marriott's agreement with Sonder had ended, and that "we are unable to continue your reservation beyond today." "[W]e are kindly requesting that you check out of the property as soon as you are able," the email read, according to a copy obtained by CBS News. Because he had mistaken it for spam, he ignored it. But on Monday, after exploring Boston and returning to the family's accommodation at the end of the day, Strack found his room's door wide open and his family's belongings packed up and left in a hallway. [...] Sonder on Monday said it would wind down operations immediately, and that it expects to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy to liquidate its U.S. assets. The company describes itself as a global operator of "premium, design-forward apartments and intimate boutique hotels serving the modern traveler" that has faced financial challenges related to its agreement with Marriott, which the hotel chain terminated on Sunday.

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Google Releases Early Patches for Running Mainline Linux on Its Pixel 10 Smartphone Family  Hackster.io

Google Releases Early Patches for Running Mainline Linux on Its Pixel 10 Smartphone Family  Hackster.io

Google Releases Early Patches for Running Mainline Linux on Its Pixel 10 Smartphone Family  Hackster.io

Google Releases Early Patches for Running Mainline Linux on Its Pixel 10 Smartphone Family  Hackster.io

Kaspersky Antivirus is Now Available for Linux. Will You Use it?  It's FOSS

Valve's Open-Source Radeon Linux Driver "Love Song For Gamers With Old GPUs"  Phoronix

Google Releases Early Patches for Running Mainline Linux on Its Pixel 10 Smartphone Family  Hackster.io

An anonymous reader shares a report: Costing tens of thousands of dollars each, Nvidia's pioneering AI chips make up a hefty chunk of the $400 billion that Big Tech plans to invest this year -- a bill expected to hit $3 trillion by 2029. But unlike 19th-century railroads, or the Dotcom boom's fiber-optic cables, the GPUs fueling today's AI mania are short-lived assets with a shelf life of perhaps five years. As with your iPhone, this stuff tends to lose value and may need upgrading soon because Nvidia and its rivals aim to keep launching better models. Customers like OpenAI will have to deploy them to stay competitive. So while it's comforting that the companies spending most wildly have mountains of cash to throw around (OpenAI aside), the brief useful life of the chips and the generous accounting assumptions underpinning all of this investment are less consoling. Michael Burry, who made his name betting against US housing and who's recently turned to the AI boom, waded in this week, warning on X that hyperscalers -- industry jargon for the giant companies building gargantuan data centers -- are underestimating depreciation. Far from being a one-off outlay, there's a danger of AI capex becoming a huge recurring expense. That's great for Nvidia and co., but not necessarily for hyperscalers such as Google and Microsoft. Some face a depreciation tsunami that's forcing them to be extra vigilant about controlling other costs. Amazon has plans to eliminate roughly 14,000 jobs. And while Wall Street is used to financing fast-depreciating assets such as aircraft and autos, it's worrying that private credit funds are increasingly using GPUs as collateral to finance loans. This includes lending to more speculative startups known as neoclouds, who offer GPUs for rent. Microsoft alone has signed more than $60 billion of neocloud deals.

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I got tired of Windows 11, so I converted this Mini PC into a Linux powerhouse - here's how  ZDNET

22 Linux Books for $25: This Humble Bundle Is Absurdly Good Value  It's FOSS

Red Hat's RHEL 10.1 Released With systemd Soft-Reboots, Easier AI Accelerator Drivers  Phoronix

Researchers from four universities have released a study revealing that AI models remain easily detectable in social media conversations despite optimization attempts. The team tested nine language models across Twitter/X, Bluesky and Reddit, developing classifiers that identified AI-generated replies at 70 to 80% accuracy rates. Overly polite emotional tone served as the most persistent indicator. The models consistently produced lower toxicity scores than authentic human posts across all three platforms. Instruction-tuned models performed worse than their base counterparts at mimicking humans, and the 70-billion-parameter Llama 3.1 showed no advantage over smaller 8-billion-parameter versions. The researchers found a fundamental tension: models optimized to avoid detection strayed further from actual human responses semantically.

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Red Hat Linux gets offline management, quantum threat mitigation and new AI features  SiliconANGLE

Red Hat Delivers Evolving Foundation for Modern IT with Latest Version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux  Business Wire

Red Hat Delivers Evolving Foundation for Modern IT with Latest Version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux  Business Wire

Red Hat Delivers Evolving Foundation for Modern IT with Latest Version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux  Business Wire

Red Hat Delivers Evolving Foundation for Modern IT with Latest Version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux  Business Wire

I finally understand Linux multitasking — and these tools changed everything for me  MakeUseOf