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The Realities And Myths Of Contrast And Color

from Smashing Magazine

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Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges

from The Verge

Getty Images has banned the upload and sale of illustrations generated using AI art tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion.

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A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip

from Ars Technica

It was 1983, and Acorn Computers was on top of the world. Unfortunately, trouble was just around the corner. The small UK company was famous for winning a contract with the British Broadcasting Corporation to produce a computer for a national television show.

Chainguard releases Wolfi, a Linux 'undistribution'

from ZDNet

There are many Linux distributions designed expressly for containers. Even Microsoft has one, Common Base Linux (CBL)-Mariner. Others include Alpine Linux, Flatcar Container Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS), and RancherOS.

Should you upgrade to Ventura early, then?

from

Over two weeks ago, I considered whether you should upgrade to Ventura early, and drew attention to four major changes that could be good reasons. Over the period since then I have looked in more detail at each of those in turn: