Introduced with the Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics hardware was support for Content Match Refresh Rate (CMRR) as an improvement over typical Variable Refresh Rate (VRR…
The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.98.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient soft…
For those using Canonical's Mir compositor for building Wayland-based shells, Mir 2.29 is now available with various improvements and new Wayland protocol cover…
Tiered-memory systems are built with multiple types of memory, each of which has different performance characteristics. In addition to the usual DRAM, a tiered …
LLVM developers have begun a discussion on whether the project should host an AGENTS.md file (and CLAUDE.md) in their Git repository for helping to guide AI age…
Version 4.0 of the Audacity audio editor has been released. Notable changes in this release include a rewritten interface using Qt, ability to save user-interfa…
Being worked on for over two years has been the latest attempt for async device shutdown support for Linux for getting Linux systems -- especially servers with …
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freerdp, go-fdo-server, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, kernel, kernel-rt, nodejs:24, perl-DBI, and php), De…
Following rumors in recent days of NVIDIA courting Hugging Face, it's now been officially announced that NVIDIA is acquiring Hugging Face...…
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Python JIT; rnull block driver; steal time; GNOME governance; 7.3 merge window; LUKS. Briefs: Kernel infrastru…
While Rust programming language use may help with memory safety and other security advantages, the default Linux kernel configuration is now losing randomizatio…
Firefox 155 has arrived quietly, speeding up page loads with Happy Eyeballs v3 and QUIC v2. And the timing is perfect for you to switch. Google just removed uBl…
The longtime Audacity open-source audio editor had been using wxWidgets for years but with today's Audacity 4.0 release they have transitioned to using the Qt6 …
Omarchy has been on something of a roll now. Funding for its foundation has been climbing fast, from an $8 million launch to $10 million a few weeks later, and …
As a follow up to last month's article about patches being posted for enabling "-mcpu=native -mtune=native" support for RISC-V with the GCC compiler, that code …
Debian has gotten some good press thanks to Federico Vaga and Nikos Tsipinakis, who presented a talk at MiniDebConf Winterthur this past weekend.…
InputPlumber is the open-source router and remapping daemon for Linux that is particularly popular among Linux gaming handhelds for combining multiple input dev…
Within the last few days, two important state actions have dealt a big blow to automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks. This is just the latest proof of …
Lemonade 11.9 is out today as the newest feature release to this AMD-backed, open-source local AI server solution across Linux, Windows, and macOS. Lemonade has…
About the report The report finds that the UK’s adoption of AI is a key part of state strategy that appears to be principally motivated by improving economic pe…
A new change proposal that's been filed for evaluation with next year's Fedora 46 release is to provide official, native support for the Crystal programming lan…
The UK is at a crossroads. Before it is an opportunity to govern one of the most disruptive technologies in history: AI. Yet the manner in which AI is currently…
Earlier this year NVIDIA led an effort with more than two dozen other companies to launch the Open Secure AI Alliance with a focus on keeping open-source AI mod…
The United States government has designated the Italian non-profit organisation Autistici/Inventati as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" for providing d…