Julia 1.13 released
Chanzo: LWN.net
Version 1.13 of the Julia programming language has been released. Highlights include faster precompilation of packages, improvements to Julia's REPL, and Juliau…
Linux Kernel is Getting Ready to Purge 55,00 Lines of Old 32-bit Arm Platform Code
Sourav Rudra · itsFOSS
A few days ago, thirteen patches were sent to the kernel mailing lists that are looking to delete some of the 32-bit Arm platform code that the upcoming Linux 7…
Security updates for Thursday
Chanzo: LWN.net
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds-base, ansible-core, buildah, expat, glib2, gpsd, gpsd-minimal, gzip, kernel, kernel-rt, opentelemetry-col…
FOSS Weekly #26.37: Swiss Linux Move, Flyline, PPA Guide, Fedora Win Over Windows and More
Abhishek Prakash · itsFOSS
Let's start with the good news. Switzerland is on track to kick out Microsoft across 3,000 workstations in its Federal Chancellery.…
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 10, 2026
Chanzo: LWN.net
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Rust's never type; Debian and CERN; memory tiering; testing multithreaded Python; fixing TCMalloc; Typst. Brie…
Omarchy Linux Quiz
Abhishek Prakash · itsFOSS
Omarchy has gained so much popularity, and if you are one of the fans, how about you answer a few questions and we see if you really are a true Omarchy lover.…
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Europe’s cookie law is really a law about surveillance
Chanzo: EDRi
The ePrivacy framework limits commercial tracking and state access to communications. It is now being weakened from several directions at once. The post Europe’…
Broadcom Kills Public VDDK Access to Tighten its Grip on VMware
Sourav Rudra · itsFOSS
Broadcom has taken down the public download pages for the VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK). The pages for VDDK 8 and 9, along with the landing page, n…
Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS Released With Linux 7.0 HWE Stack.
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
For those continuing to use Ubuntu 24.04 Long Term Support (LTS) series, Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS is released today as the latest point release...…
Nudity scanning tech will leave us more exposed
Pam Cowburn · Open Rights Group
The Government’s proposals to prevent under 18s from creating or sharing nude images aim to address serious issues such as sextortion, grooming, and abuse. Whil…
Intel Xeon 600 Workstation Performance vs. AMD Threadripper 9000 In Nearly 400 Benchmarks.
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Last month, I had the opportunity to test the Xeon 678X workstation processor as my first hands-on experience with the Xeon 600 "Granite Rapids WS" series. The …
Registrations for teacher accreditation by ProfEPT extended until September 15
Chanzo: Instituto Federal de Roraima
In IFRR, the program has two slots for faculty accreditation, one in each research line of the professional master's program.…
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KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta Released With Many Great Improvements, Kup Backup Scheduler
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Ahead of the stable release of Plasma 6.8 due out on 14 October that also marks the 30th anniversary of the KDE project, out today is the much anticipated beta …
CONDOLENCES
Chanzo: Instituto Federal de Roraima
Comunicamos, com pesar, o falecimento de Pamella Suellen de Oliveira Alves, esposa do servidor Diego Victor Rodrigues Barros, do Instituto Federal de Roraima - …
Intel BFF Driver Slated For Linux 7.4 Introduction
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Last month I covered Intel posting a new driver named "BFF" for the Linux kernel. This BFF driver is for a new hardware feature debuting with next-gen Diamond R…
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Chanzo: Instituto Federal de Roraima
O Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Roraima (IFRR), por meio do Campus Boa Vista, comunica, com profundo pesar, o falecimento do Sr. Raimun…
NVIDIA NVK Driver Lands Improvement To Help With Valve's Gamescope
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Merged today for next quarter's Mesa 26.3 release is an improvement for the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver paired with the Nouveau kernel driver. This l…
Hardware
Huawei FreeBuds 6 com 46% de desconto: som sem perdas, bateria de 36 horas e conforto o dia todo
Larissa Ximenes · Hardware
Se você está pesquisando um fone de ouvido sem fio que entregue qualidade de som de verdade, sem abrir mão do conforto no dia a dia, o Huawei FreeBuds 6 pode se…
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X.Org Server 26.1 Moves Closer To Release As Half-Decade Update
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
We're getting closer to the X.Org Server 26.1 stable release as the first new tagged feature release since X.Org Server 21.1 debuted back in October 2021. There…
GNOME 51 Adds Support For Custom Pointer Acceleration Profiles
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
As a last minute change ahead of next week's GNOME 51 desktop release, changes to Mutter and gsettings-desktop-schemas have now landed for supporting custom poi…
COSMIC Epoch 1.8 Provides Latest Fixes & Minor Improvements For This Rust Desktop
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Released overnight was the newest version of the Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment developed by System76 as part of the effort on their Pop!_OS Linux distri…
GNU Automake 1.19 Released With More Than One Year Worth Of Fixes
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
For those continuing to use GNU Automake over the likes of Meson or CMake for your build system, Automake 1.19 is out today as the first new release in 15 month…
Steam Client Beta Improves Big Picture Mode, Several Linux Enhancements
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Tonight Valve released a big Steam client beta update with a number of new features and fixes...…
ReactOS Dev Gets FEX Running For x86_64 Games On This "Open-Source Windows" OS Under ARM
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
A ReactOS developer for this open-source operating system project striving for binary compatibility with Windows drivers and applications has achieved an intrig…
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