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'We have a new major number purely because I'm easily confused and not good with big numbers' says Linus Torvalds about Linux 7.0 rc1 - PC Gamer
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Microsoft Execs Worry AI Will Eat Entry Level Coding Jobs
An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and VP of Developer Community Scott Hanselman have written a paper arguing that senior software engineers must mentor junior developers to prevent AI coding agents from hollowing out the profession's future skills base.
The paper, Redefining the Engineering Profession for AI, is based on several assumptions, the first of which is that agentic coding assistants "give senior engineers an AI boost... while imposing an AI drag on early-in-career (EiC) developers to steer, verify and integrate AI output."
In an earlier podcast on the subject, Russinovich said this basic premise -- that AI is increasing productivity only for senior developers while reducing it for juniors -- is a "hot topic in all our customer engagements... they all say they see it at their companies." [...] The logical outcome is that "if organizations focus only on short-term efficiency -- hiring those who can already direct AI -- they risk hollowing out the next generation of technical leaders," Russinovich and Hanselman state in the paper.
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Google Renews Platinum Membership with the Linux Foundation, Continuing its Ongoing Support for the Open Source Community - PR Newswire
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New Linux Foundation Report Shows Active Open Source Contribution Delivers 2-5x ROI, While Passive Consumption Increases Costly Technical Debt - PR Newswire
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Google Renews Platinum Membership with the Linux Foundation, Continuing its Ongoing Support for the Open Source Community - PR Newswire
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New Linux Foundation Report Shows Active Open Source Contribution Delivers 2-5x ROI, While Passive Consumption Increases Costly Technical Debt - PR Newswire
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Linux Foundation Announces the Election of Panasonic Automotive Systems' Shojiro Nakao and Toshiba Corporation's Yoshitake Kobayashi to the Board of Directors - PR Newswire
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Google Renews Platinum Membership with the Linux Foundation, Continuing its Ongoing Support for the Open Source Community - PR Newswire
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New Linux Foundation Report Shows Active Open Source Contribution Delivers 2-5x ROI, While Passive Consumption Increases Costly Technical Debt - PR Newswire
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Linux Foundation Announces the Election of Panasonic Automotive Systems' Shojiro Nakao and Toshiba Corporation's Yoshitake Kobayashi to the Board of Directors - PR Newswire
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Open source participation beats mere consumption by a factor of five - Techzine Global
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NVIDIA job listings mention Vulkan and Proton performance work on Linux - VideoCardz.com
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GhostBSD to ditch Xorg for XLibre as Red Hat's Wayland crusade leaves X11 fans out in the cold - theregister.com
GhostBSD to ditch Xorg for XLibre as Red Hat's Wayland crusade leaves X11 fans out in the cold theregister.com
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Billions of Dollars Later and Still Nobody Knows What an Xbox Is
Microsoft has spent more than $76 billion acquiring game studios and publishers over the past few years in an attempt to turn Xbox into a Netflix-like subscription platform, and the result is that nobody -- possibly not even Microsoft -- can clearly articulate what Xbox actually is anymore, The Verge writes.
The brand started as a powerful video game console, but Game Pass and cloud gaming pushed it toward a hazier identity: the "This is an Xbox" ad campaign tried to redefine it as any device that could play Xbox games, whether a PC, a smart TV, a phone, or a Windows handheld. Microsoft then went further and started publishing its biggest franchises on PlayStation, making it one of the largest third-party publishers on a rival's platform.
Phil Spencer, who led the division for over a decade and drove the subscription pivot, announced his retirement last week, and incoming CEO Asha Sharma has pledged "the return of Xbox" -- though her memo also talks about expanding across PC, mobile, and cloud, which sounds a lot like the status quo.
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