Antivirus software maker Avast passed personal data to Jumpshot without obtaining users’ consent. By doing so, it violated the General Data Protection Regulation and must now pay a fine of around €13.9 million. The European Data Protection Board states in »Czech SA imposed fine of 13.9 million EUR for infringement of Art. 6 and Art. 13 of GDPR«: ...
I learned something new! Although it’s almost obvious, it wasn’t clear to me. Right now we can’t simply fix faulty large language models when they make mistakes or spread false information. That’s because LLMs are created using neural networks. Neural networks learn on their own and build mathematical probabilities by repeatedly computing certain things with small variations. So if you want to change something in an LLM, you’d have to adjust countless such probabilities. This process is so labor-intensive that it’s easier to create a new LLM. That’s why GPTs are released as larger, major version updates. ...
The command-line text editor nano has been updated to version 8.0. According to Releasenotes, this update includes significant changes to how it’s used. By default ^F is bound to starting a forward search, and ^B to starting a backward search, while M-F and M-B repeat the search in the corresponding direction. (See the documentation if you want the old bindings back.) Command-line option –modernbindings (-/) makes ^Q quit, ^X cut, ^C copy, ^V paste, ^Z undo, ^Y redo, ^O open a file, ^W write a file, ^R replace, ^G find again, ^D find again backwards, ^A set the mark, ^T jump to a line, ^P show the position, and ^E execute. Above modern bindings are activated also when the name of nano’s executable (or a symlink to it) starts with the letter “e”. To open a file at a certain line number, one can now use also nano filename:number, besides nano +number filename. <Alt+Home> and <Alt+End> put the cursor on the first and last row in the viewport, while retaining the horizontal position. When the three digits in an #RGB color code are all the same, the code is mapped to the xterm grey scale, giving access to fourteen levels of grey instead of just four. For easier access, M-" is bound to placing/removing an anchor, and M-’ to jumping to the next anchor. Whenever an error occurs, the keystroke buffer is cleared, thus stopping the execution of a macro or a string bind. The mousewheel scrolls the viewport instead of moving the cursor. ...
The tool neofetch displays system information attractively on the command line. After development of Neofetch had stalled, the developer archived the repository on April 26, 2024, which means the tool is no longer being actively developed. A recommended alternative is hyfetch, a fork of Neofetch that is actively maintained. For more information, see Hyfetch. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...
There were significant changes in RHEL 8.10 and 9.4. Drivers for legacy hardware are being disabled in the kernel. That’s not immediately a problem for you. But Red Hat has implemented a change that prevents them from being re-enabled later. ELRepo writes in »Some elrepo kmod packages will no longer be available for RHEL 8.10 and 9.4« on elrepoproject.blogspot.com ...