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25 years ago today, the nVidia GeForce 256 DDR released. The world's first GPU (DDR version).

Up until this point, I was pretty obsessed with the 3Dfx range of cards and then all of a sudden this card came along and changed everything.

The integration of the transform and lighting hardware into the GPU itself set the GeForce 256 apart from older 3D accelerators that instead relied on the CPU.

Here are photos of my own hardware...

🧠 L'#AI nella personalizzazione dell'esperienza: #Meta presenta #Andromeda, un nuovo sistema per migliorare il modo con il quale vengono mostrati gli annunci pubblicitari adatti agli utenti. 

📈 Caratteristiche: reti neurali avanzate, indicizzazione gerarchica, ottimizzazione dell'efficienza.

⚙️ Utilizza il Grace Hopper Superchip di #Nvidia e l'acceleratore MTIA per ottimizzare il processo di selezione degli annunci da milioni di opzioni in pochi millisecondi. 

China has opened a probe into Nvidia over suspicions that the U.S. chipmaker broke anti-monopoly laws around a 2020 deal, taking aim at the artificial intelligence heavyweight as Washington ramps up sanctions. japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/ #worldnews #politics #nvidia #ai #semiconductors #china #us

The Japan Times · Nvidia hit with China probe in global tech war escalationBy Amy Thomson
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Alpine Linux 3.21 released with Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, initial LoongArch64 support, GNOME 47, KDE Plasma 6.2, LXQt 2.1, linux-firmware package compressed with Zstandard (Zstd), discontinued support for /usr directory on separate partition etc.:
9to5linux.com/alpine-linux-3-2

Nitrux 3.8 released with Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, improved NVIDIA support, new devmem2 tool (for memory management), msr-tools (reading and writing MSRs from userspace), policycoreutils (set of core utilities for SELinux), OpenRC improvements etc.:
9to5linux.com/nitrux-3-8-relea

The upcoming Debian 13's artwork named "Ceratopsian" is published, will be used for wallpaper, login screen, installer, GRUB etc.:
9to5linux.com/this-is-the-defa
(Nice artwork. I like the dark(ish) blue color tone.)

Lutris 0.5.18 released with default dark mode, improved GOG and Itch.io integration, automatic downloading of the latest GE-Proton build for Wine users, "Uncategorized" view in sidebar, search tags (e.g. installed:yes or source:gog), restored Flathub and Amazon integration etc.:
alternativeto.net/news/2024/12

NVIDIA driver 565 released with re-enabled GLX_EXT_buffer_age OpenGL extension on Xwayland, support for mmap of exported DMA-BUF objects etc.:
9to5linux.com/nvidia-565-linux

NVK driver reaches Vulkan 1.4 conformance:
9to5linux.com/nvk-open-source-

Resources v1.7 released with NPU support, swap usage indicator in Apps and Processes view, temperature graphics etc.:
phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Resour

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