Though their origins may be shrouded in mystery, fast radio bursts could be used to probe some of the universe's biggest puzzles, including the nature of dark m…
Climate change will increase our exposure to myriad infections, from tick-borne diseases to drug-resistant bacterial infections.…
PostgreSQL 19 was expected to be released in September, in keeping with the database project's longstanding tradition of a major release every year. However, so…
A huge analysis probes the genetics of personality, finding that the trait is much less straightforward than physical attributes like eye color.…
Version 1.13 of the Julia programming language has been released. Highlights include faster precompilation of packages, improvements to Julia's REPL, and Juliau…
Mercury, which is about one-third the size of Earth, may have shrunk more in its evolution than scientists originally thought.…
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds-base, ansible-core, buildah, expat, glib2, gpsd, gpsd-minimal, gzip, kernel, kernel-rt, opentelemetry-col…
IBM and NASA have partnered to create the Lunar Foundation Model, a new AI capable of processing decades of lunar data so we can more accurately map the moon's …
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…
With a bright f/1.4 aperture and wide field of view, this L-series prime lens is aimed at photographers who regularly shoot in low light…
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…
Generally mild weather and increasing hours of darkness make September a great month for observing, and this year, there's a particularly busy sky.…
Let's start with the good news. Switzerland is on track to kick out Microsoft across 3,000 workstations in its Federal Chancellery.…
The ePrivacy framework limits commercial tracking and state access to communications. It is now being weakened from several directions at once. The post Europe’…
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.…
For those continuing to make use of the Ubuntu 24.04 Long Term Support "LTS" series, Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS is out today as the newest point release...…
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…
Last month I had the chance to test the Xeon 678X workstation processor as my first hands-on opportunity with the Xeon 600 "Granite Rapids WS" series. The Intel…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…