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Gene Munster: Apple Intelligence will ultimately be the catalyst for an iPhone upgrade ‘supercycle’

The rollout of Apple Intelligence features, including upgrades to Siri, AI image generator, and notification summaries, will take time due to language, tech, and regulatory challenges.
Investors were disappointed with Apple's near-term revenue forecast, which did not indicate immediate demand for the newly released iPhone due to the delay in Apple Intelligence features.
Gene Munster from Deepwater Asset Management believes that AI will be the catalyst for an iPhone upgrade 'supercycle', but expects the most significant demand acceleration in the June quarter.
The rollout of meaningful and useful Apple Intelligence features will lead to a multi-year iPhone upgrade supercycle.

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Apple Sales Rise 6 Percent After Early iPhone 16 Demand

Apple reports strong Q4 and FY24 results with a 6 percent rise in sales.
The EU tax ruling against Apple impacts profits.
Apple's net profit for Q4 is $14.7bn with sales totaling $94.9bn.
Apple cuts orders for iPhone 16 amid concerns over continued momentum.

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Apple underwhelms Wall Street with all-time record fourth quarter earnings

Apple reported all-time record revenue of $94.9 billion in its fiscal fourth quarter.
However, the company underwhelmed Wall Street with a lower sales growth projection for the December period.
Apple's revenue in China fell slightly to $15 billion in the fourth quarter, indicating ongoing competition with local brands.
Despite this, iPhone sales grew in every geographic market, suggesting other product lines may have been the issue in China.

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Colin Watson: Free software activity in October 2024

Colin Watson made several contributions to Debian in October 2024, sponsored by Freexian.
He fixed the autopkgtest failures that caused Ansible to fall out of Debian testing.
Colin also worked on resolving issues in OpenSSH, including clarifying the availability of ext-info-s feature and fixing SSH failure in certain cases with GSS-API key exchange.
In addition, he contributed to various Python packages, fixed timezone-related problems in tzdata, and updated multiple packages to new upstream versions.

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Microsoft recalls Windows 11's Recall AI PC feature yet again and it now won't even be released for testing until December

Microsoft has once again delayed the release of the Recall AI PC feature in Windows 11.
The feature, which screenshots everything a user does on their computer, was initially planned for testing in October but has now been postponed until December.
Microsoft is taking additional time to refine the experience and address security concerns, including encrypting the Recall database and making it an opt-in feature.
The company aims to ensure a secure and trusted experience before previewing the feature with Windows Insiders.

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Charmed Kubeflow vs Kubeflow

Kubeflow is an open source MLOps platform designed to enable organizations to scale their ML initiatives and automate their workloads.
Charmed Kubeflow is an official distribution of Kubeflow created by Canonical that goes beyond to provide an enterprise-grade MLOps platform.
Using an official distribution of Kubeflow provides additional functionality to make the platform suitable and easy-to-use at scale and in production.
Charmed Kubeflow provides security maintenance, streamlined operations, tooling integration, hardware validation, hybrid and multi-cloud scenario support, enterprise support, managed services, customer feedback and enhancements and an end-to-end solution for AI infrastructure.
Kubeflow has over 100 container images that come from different sources, which means organizations need to utilize secure tooling to protect their data and artifacts. Charmed Kubeflow provides patching for vulnerabilities from container images.
Kubeflow Pipelines addresses the gap in the market due to the lack of any tooling to automate ML workloads which is introduced by the Kubeflow project.
Charmed Kubeflow benefits from enhancements such as automated profile creation and simpler user management, which are not available yet in the upstream project.
Charmed Kubeflow is amongst one of the few MLOps platforms that are certified for NVIDIA DGX Systems.
Managed services for Charmed Kubeflow, help organizations focus on their ML projects rather than operating the platform.
Canonical’s capabilities go beyond the MLOps platform, providing an end-to-end solution for AI infrastructure.

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How to Disable Automatic Driver Updates in Windows 11

Windows 11 automatically installs driver updates along with Windows Updates.
However, this can lead to issues if drivers have bugs or if you prefer using a specific version.
There are three methods to disable automatic driver updates: System Properties, Local Group Policy, and Registry Editor.
To roll back or uninstall driver updates, navigate to Device Manager and select the desired option.

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Canonical at CES 2025

Canonical is returning to CES 2025 to showcase advancements in AI/ML and hardware-agnostic solutions.
Their booth will feature an AI/ML demo demonstrating training, deployment, and compatibility across different hardware platforms in automotive use cases.
Canonical's AI stack runs seamlessly on various platforms, offering flexibility and over-the-air updates for reliability and security.
They invite industry professionals to visit their booth and explore the future of automotive AI at CES 2025.

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9 Desktop Effects to Add Eye Candy to Linux Mint

Linux Mint is known for customizability, and adding visual effects to your Cinnamon desktop is a great way to take advantage of this.
You can install extensions easily using the Cinnamon System Settings application and there are several options available.
Burn My Windows can animate the movement of windows opening and closing using several predefined options.
Compiz windows effect and Wobbly Windows are great for wobbly window effects when a window is moved by dragging.
Magic Lamp Effect animates application window minimize and maximize with a “light spreading and returning from a torch” like animation.
Opacify Windows customization allows adjusting the opacity of a window while it's being dragged or resized.
You can enable Window effects inbuilt in Cinnamon settings and set the desktop animations and Window effects to Fly (or any other available) for extra eye candy.
Cinnamon offers two options for animated windows switching such as Coverflow (3D) and Timeline (3D).
Flipper animation gives more control over workspace switching effects such as transitions, easing, and other tweaks.
The Desktop Cube extension provides Compiz cube-like animation for desktop switching.
Cinnamon Maximus can help with tiled windows by removing window title bars in tiled mode.

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NixOS Full Disk Encryption with USB/SD-Card/Password Unlock

NixOS documentation is a bit lacking on full-disk encryption with remote storage, but this post has all the steps to demonstrate how to set up full-disk encryption with remote unlocking using a flash drive, SD card, or password.
Before partitioning exit from the GUI and switch to root.
The article provided a set of commands to partition, format, and encrypt the disk
The set of commands to encrypt the disk includes creating a efi boot partition, a linux LVM partition, formatting and encrypting the LVM partition.
A new logical volume is created for the root file system from all remaining free space and a specified swap partition and a FAT32 format created for the boot partition.
After the partition, formatting and encryption, the roots file system is mounted and the configuration is generated with the provided set of commands.
The set of configuration included boot options that enable, efi, grub, and kernelModules.
While initiating the root file system the Luks devices are defined and their settings includw preLVM, allowDiscards, keyFileSize, fallbackToPassword, etc.
The guide also provides a way to unlock the system remotely with a flash drive or SD card.
The guide has provided simple steps to accomplish the NixOS full-disk encryption with remote login with a USB or SD Card.

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More storage for media : organize files using ChatGPT

Open Source and Big Tech are equally important, and of course if you can afford to have the latest Mac - just do it, if you can afford to subscribe for 1TB plan from your cloud provider - just do it.
You can save 10 times more storage by compressing media files from high quality to normal and using Gentoo, an eco-friendly distribution, for specific purposes.
Gentoo offers performance gains of around 20% compared to Ubuntu for video processing tasks, but its worth depends on the specific case.
In case the image compression doesn't work, you can use alternative tools like IrfanView and have a good understanding of fps and bitrate before compressing videos.

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Apple's Q4 2024 Earnings Call Takeaways

Apple announced Q4 2024 earnings with revenue of $94.9 billion, up 6% YoY.
Profit was down due to a one-time payment of $10.2 billion to settle tax issues in the EU.
iPhone 16 sales in September 2024 were stronger than iPhone 15 sales in September 2023.
Services revenue reached a new all-time high, totaling almost $25 billion during the quarter.

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On-premises Identity-related updates and fixes for October 2024

Microsoft continues to provide updates and fixes for on-premises identity-related improvements.
Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server 2022 received updates, but no identity-related improvements were included.
Updates for Windows 10 and Windows 11 also lack identity-related improvements.
Specific issues with PIN reset in Windows 11, version 23H2, and sign-in issues in Windows 11, version 24H2, will be addressed in upcoming updates.

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How to Update ChatGPT on Mac

ChatGPT for Mac can be updated automatically or manually.
By default, ChatGPT will attempt to auto-update and prompt for installation.
To manually update, open ChatGPT, go to the menu and choose 'Check for Updates.'
Installing updates is important to get new features and address bugs or security issues.

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More storage for media : organize files using ChatGPT : part 3, converting MOV to HEVC MPEG-4

To convert MOV files to HEVC MPEG-4, you can use ffmpeg with HEVC support.
The setup involves installing necessary dependencies and building ffmpeg from sources.
After the setup, you can use the ffmpeg command to convert MOV files to HEVC MPEG-4.
For compressing old videos with normal quality and reduced file size, you can use ffmpeg with libx265.

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