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LACT 0.10 Released With New NVIDIA Overclocking Controls, Blackwell Hotspot Sensor

LACT is one of the popular third-party Linux GPU configuration and monitoring utilities that works across NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel graphics. This GUI provides GPU overclocking controls plus a wealth of information reporting, which is especially great considering the lack of any official GUI control panel for AMD Radeon and Intel Arc graphics on Linux. With today's LACT 0.10 release, there are yet more features in tow...

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GNOME 51 could bring a floating search overlay to the Shell

The next version of GNOME Shell, out in September, is likely to include a redesigned search experience. In current versions of the desktop, when you start a search from the GNOME Shell overview, a dedicated search results screen replaces the one you’re looking at, i.e., the workspace row and dash (aka dock) are obscured. GNOME’s design team has long wanted to adopt a ‘semantic’ layout, whereby search results appear in an overlay that ‘spawns out of the search entry’ box and sits over the screen that triggered it. This concept has been explored and detailed in various mockups over the […]

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ChatGPT desktop app is now available for Linux (in preview)

OpenAI has announced a preview release of the official ChatGPT Desktop app for Linux. Compared to using ChatGPT in a browser tab, the GUI desktop app can run Codex in your local repos, hook into your other apps (via extensions) for ChatGPT Work related tasks and probe your local files without you having to upload anything elsewhere first. ChatGPT desktop for Linux joins Anthropic’s Claude desktop app for Linux, which entered beta last month. This announcement is about an official version of its full-fat desktop GUI app. You’ve no doubt seen plenty of unofficial wrappers around ChatGPT before now, and command-line […]