'Longtime Slashdot reader jmv writes:
After more than two years of work, Opus 1.5 is out. It brings many new
features that can improve quality and the general audio experience
through machine learning, while maintaining fully-compatibility with
previous releases. See this release page demonstrating all the new
features, including:
- Significant improvement to packet loss robustness using Deep Redundancy (DRED)
- Improved packet loss concealment through Deep PLC
- Low-bitrate speech quality enhancement down to 6 kb/s wideband
- Improved x86 (AVX2) and Arm (Neon) optimizations
- Support for 4th and 5th order ambisonics'
-- source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/03/04/2126211
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ
Mobile +64 22 190 2375
https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
'"Linux gained from 3% to 4% in 8 months," writes longtime Slashdot
reader bobdevine. Linuxiac reports:
According to the latest data from StatCounter, a leading web traffic
analysis tool, Linux's market share has reached 4.03%. At first
glance, the number might seem modest, but it represents a significant
leap. Let's break it down. It took Linux 30 years to secure a 3% share
of desktop operating systems, a milestone reached last June.
Impressively, the open-source operating system has surged by an
additional 1% in the last eight months.'
-- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/24/03/04/2159239
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ
Mobile +64 22 190 2375
https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
'Some news from "Copyleft Currents", the blog of open-source/IP lawyer
Heather Meeker:
On February 14, 2024, the Court of Appeal of Paris issued an order
stating that Orange, a major French telecom provider, had infringed
the copyight of Entr'Ouvert's Lasso software and violated the GPL.
They ordered Orange to pay €500,000 in compensatory damages and
€150,000 for moral damages.
This case has been ongoing for many years. Entr'ouvert is the
publisher of Lasso, a reference library for the Security Assertion
Markup Language (SAML) protocol, an open standard for identity
providers to authenticate users and pass authentication tokens to
online services. This is the open protocol that enables single sign-on
(SSO). The Lasso product is dual licensed by Entr'Ouvert under GPL or
commercial licenses.
In 2005, Orange won a contract with the French Agency for the
Development of Electronic Administration to develop parts of the
service-public.fr portal, which allows users to interact online with
the government for administrative procedures. Orange used the Lasso
software in the solution, but did not pass on the rights to its
modifications free of charge under GPL, or make the source code to its
modifications available. Entr'Ouvert sued Orange in 2010, and the case
wended its way through the courts, turning on, among other things,
issues of proof of Entr'Ouvert 's copyright interest in the software,
and whether the case properly sounded in breach of contract or
copyright infringement...
The compensatory damages were based on both lost profits of the
plaintiff and disgorgement of profits of Orange. Moral damages
compensate the plaintiff for harm to reputation or other non-monetary
injury.'
-- source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/03/03/030200
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ
Mobile +64 22 190 2375
https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
You already have companies like Adobe and Autodesk making their
software subscription-only, so you have to keep paying to use it; now
HP is bringing the same idea to its printers
<https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hp-wants-you-to-pay-up-to-36-month-…>.
You pay a monthly fee (inclusive of ink as well as printer rental), and
you get to print a certain number of pages each month.
This will require an always-on Internet connection, so HP can monitor
your printer. This will allow them to collect information, not just on
ink levels, but on what kind of printing you are doing, even the
applications you are using.
How would you like to “never own a printer again”? (Their tag line.)
I suppose you should be grateful they aren’t requiring you to buy their
paper as well. At least, not yet ...
