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2025 March 22. Attila Fodor

Artificial Intelligence in Network Management and Maintenance

Ericsson recently presented its strategic plans for 2025 at the Mobile World Congress 2025 (MWC25). These ideas are particularly intriguing as they demonstrate how artificial intelligence is being integrated into industrial processes that impact our daily lives—yet remain unnoticed as long as they function smoothly.

2025 March 21. Attila Fodor

GTC 2025: NVIDIA's Blackwell-Based Servers and DGX Station

The GTC (GPU Technology Conference), held annually since 2009, will be hosted by NVIDIA this year from March 17 to 21. The conference is designed to showcase the latest developments and to promote collaboration and further innovation across different industries. It is attended mainly by developers, researchers, and technology leaders. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has been saying for some time that companies will become token factories in the future—meaning that every workflow will be supported by artificial intelligence. Currently, large servers play a major role in this process, but AI integration will increasingly extend to personal computers. In the future, computers and laptops will have hardware capable of running even large language models in the background. This is necessary because programmers, engineers, and almost everyone will work with AI assistance.

2025 March 17. Attila Fodor

Figure AI Prepares for Mass Production of Humanoid Robots

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and robotics has turned the development of humanoid robots into one of the most exciting industries of our time. These robots are designed to complement or even partially replace human work in everyday settings such as production lines, warehouses, and logistics centers. Recently, the company Figure AI unveiled its BotQ – a factory optimized for high-volume production – where production will soon begin in the tens of thousands.

2025 March 14. Attila Fodor

Ten Times Faster After Rewriting the TypeScript Engine in Go

The TypeScript team has tried several times to rewrite the original JavaScript engine in a different programming language, but so far these attempts have not produced the desired results. Recently, however, they announced a breakthrough by rewriting it in Go.

2025 March 13. Attila Fodor

Fedora 42 Beta Available

Fedora 42 beta is now available for testing, with a stable release planned for 15 April. The new version includes several major enhancements designed to improve the user experience, simplify the installation process, and integrate modern desktop environments and technical solutions.

2025 March 10. Attila Fodor

Double the Speed with New PCIe 6.0 SSD Technology

Micron and Astera Labs joined forces at DesignCon 2025 to unveil the world's fastest PCIe 6.0 SSD. Although the product is not yet market-ready, it’s worthwhile to examine the technology’s basics and its future prospects.

2025 March 09. Attila Fodor

App-Free Experience by Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom is following Spain’s Telefónica in introducing a digital assistant—essentially an artificial butler—to its phones. This solution is promised to debut on new handsets by the second half of the year. Older devices will also offer an AI-based service, available under the name Magenta AI.

2025 March 06. Attila Fodor

Video Games in Artificial Intelligence Testing

For decades, video games have served as laboratories for testing the capabilities of various AI algorithms. Whether they are classic platformers or more complex strategy games, these games provide a way for AI systems to learn how to act, adapt to changing environments, and optimize their decisions in order to earn rewards.

2025 March 05. Attila Fodor

Nature & Technology: Google Calls for Proposals to Support Environmental Solutions

In recent decades, the dramatic loss of biodiversity has created new challenges for the global environmental balance and human well-being. In response, Google's latest announcement introduces three new initiatives aimed at protecting and restoring nature and ecosystems in critical areas.

2025 March 04. Attila Fodor

Lenovo 2025 Laptop Concepts

Lenovo first showcased its latest concepts at CES and then at MWC 2025 in Barcelona. The company appears to be focusing on bringing new ideas to the market, especially in laptop monitors.

2025 March 03. Attila Fodor

GitHub Models, running AI models from a Linux terminal

Discover how to run AI models from your Linux terminal using GitHub Models—even on an old ThinkPad T470p.

2025 March 01. Attila Fodor

Diffusion Technology Achieves 10x Faster Text Generation

Inception Labs has introduced the Mercury diffusion language model family, a new approach to speed up text generation. Unlike traditional sequential (autoregressive) language models, Mercury uses diffusion technology, promising significant improvements in speed and efficiency. While currently focused on code generation, this technology could transform the entire field of text generation.

2025 February 28. Attila Fodor

Phi-4 model family expanded with two new models

Microsoft recently announced the new generation of the Phi-4 model family, which now includes two distinct yet complementary models: the Phi-4 multimodal and the Phi-4 mini. These models not only further improve computing performance but also combine different data types in innovative ways to support a wide range of AI applications—all in a compact design with optimized resource usage.

2025 February 27. Attila Fodor

Earn money with Poe Apps—even without programming skills

Quora recently introduced a new feature called Poe Apps, which lets users create and share custom AI-powered applications on the Poe platform. Quora promises to pay up to $100 per subscriber and up to $10,000 for every thousand messages.

2025 February 26. Attila Fodor

Will quantum computers kill Bitcoin?

As we approach the era of industrially usable quantum computers, fears are growing about the future of certain cryptocurrencies—especially Bitcoin. Will they remain secure, or will the encryption protecting them be broken in minutes? In this article, I examine—based on expert analysis—whether these fears are justified.

2025 February 25. Attila Fodor

Go 1.24 new features

The latest version, Go 1.24, is now available, bringing a range of useful new features for Go developers. On one hand, language tools have been further improved, with a more efficient implementation replacing the previous Map implementation. On the other hand, memory management has been enhanced thanks to the introduction of weak references and an improved memory allocator.

2025 February 24. Attila Fodor

Rust 1.85.0 arrives amidst Linux kernel drama

Rust 1.85 is a new update in the 2024 release that further enhances memory safety and concurrency models, aiming to provide a better and more reliable tool for developing performance-critical systems. However, Rust adoption has faced the greatest challenges precisely where it has the most legitimacy: in Linux kernel development.

Majorana 1 paradigm shift in building quantum computers

2025 February 22. Attila Fodor