Topic: AI/ML

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Firefox 136 Released with Vertical Tabs, New Sidebar + More

The new Mozilla Firefox 136 release delivers a number of notable new features—features Mozilla may be hoping help it re-earn some goodwill from users following last week’s privacy palaver. Last month’s Firefox 135 release rolled out […]

4 March 2025

Try Mozilla’s New AI Detector Add-On for Firefox

Want to find out if the text you’re reading online was written by an real human or spat out by a large language model (LLM) trying to sound like one? Mozilla’s Fakespot Deepfake Detector Firefox […]

1 February 2025

VLC Developers Working on AI-Powered Real-Time Subtitles

Real-time AI subtitling is in the works for VLC, the phenomenally popular open-source media player. VideoLAN, the non-profit in charge of VLC development, demoed automatic subtitle generation in VLC during CES 2025 —where not using […]

12 January 2025

Kdenlive is Adding One of Final Cut Pro’s Best Features

Removing backgrounds from video in Kdenlive, the free, open-source video editor for Linux, macOS and Windows, is about to get a whole lot easier. Developers are adding a “modern background removal tool” that uses machine […]

31 December 2024

Meet Orbit, Mozilla’s AI Assistant Extension for Firefox

Orbit by Mozilla is a new AI-powered assistant for the Firefox web browser that makes summarising web content while you browse as easy as clicking a button. After all, why read an article to understand […]

30 December 2024

Warp, the AI-infused Terminal, Relaxes Its Login Requirement

If you were put off trying the Warp terminal app on Ubuntu (or another Linux distro) due to the account and login requirement, there’s good news. The team behind the Rust-based, AI-infused terminal tool has […]

25 November 2024
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Intel NPU Driver for Linux is Now Available on the Snap Store

Canonical has put the official Linux Intel NPU driver on the Snap Store. The new Intel NPU Driver snap “bundles many components […] including device firmware, a user space driver and compiler, and an application […]

20 October 2024

Raspberry Pi’s New $70 AI Camera Works With All Pi Models

If you’re looking to kick the tyres on AI image processing/recognition projects and own an older Raspberry Pi mode, the company’s new ‘AI Camera’ add-on will be of interest. Where the $70 Raspberry Pi AI […]

30 September 2024

Void Text Editor: Open-Source Alternative to Cursor

VS Code is to modern text editors what Chromium is to browsers: a fork magnet. A slew of niche spins have emerged, each putting their own spin on Microsoft’s massively popular original. The latest to […]

18 September 2024
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3 New AI Features Rolling out to Chrome Users on Linux

Google has announced a clutch of new AI-powered features have begun rolling out to users of Chrome on Windows, macOS, and —for once!— Linux. Chrome’s Vice President Parisa Tabriz unveiled the trio of AI features, […]

1 August 2024
Raspberry Pi AI Kit

Raspberry Pi 5 Gets an Official $70 AI Add-on

With the AI gold-rush in full swing the folks at Raspberry Pi have joined the fray, launching a new budget-friendly machine-learning module for their iconic single-board computer. The $70 Raspberry Pi AI Kit is composed […]

4 June 2024
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Mozilla Reveals New Features Coming to Firefox

Wondering what sort of nifty new features the Firefox web browser will get in future updates? Well, wonder no more as Mozilla has shared a roadmap outlining its near-term priorities on new features, performance, compatibility, […]

22 May 2024