LibreOffice 25.2 RC1 Brings Many Open-Source Office Suite Improvements
LibreOffice 25.2 Release Candidate 1 is out for testing today ahead of the stable release of this free software office suite around the start of February...
2025-01-03 10:05
Write Python like it’s 2025
It’s a new year, and we feel fine! 2024 was a breakout year for our favorite programming language, and we have a feeling 2025 will be even bigger. For this first Python report of the year, we’re offering our lineup of the most helpful, newsworthy,...
2025-01-03 09:00
The cloud architecture renaissance of 2025
The perfect storm is coming that will force enterprises to rethink their cloud strategy. Cloud architecture will take center stage during 2025. This isn’t just another hype cycle. First, we need to talk about the elephant in the room: generative AI....
2025-01-03 09:00
systemd Saw A Record Number Of Commits In 2024
While systemd has been around for a decade and a half, it's showing no signs of slowing down for driving new innovations to Linux for this system and service manager...
2025-01-03 08:48
ESET recommends installing Linux if your unsupported Windows 11 PC can't update from 10
ESET has suggested that users who are unable to update to Windows 11 due to unsupported hardware can try switching to Linux. Read more...
2025-01-03 07:26
Canonical Experimented With Rebuilding Its Ubuntu 25.04 Packages Under LLVM/Clang
This morning the first test rebuild results of the "Plucky Puffin" for Ubuntu 25.04 were shared on the mailing list... While typically not interesting to outsiders, one interesting bit is that as a "bonus" they rebuilt the main components of Ubuntu 25....
2025-01-03 07:09
GNU C Library glibc 2.41 Release Coming Soon With Many New Features
The GNU C Library "glibc" 2.41 release should be out around the very end of January or start of February. With glibc 2.41 there are many new features coming to this widely-used libc implementation by Linux systems and elsewhere...
2025-01-03 06:41
Intel Battlemage, Raspberry Pi 500 & Linux 6.13 Excited Linux Users In December
While there was the year-end holidays, daily activity on Phoronix doesn't let up and over the course of December there were 256 original news articles around Linux/open-source on the site along with 24 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page bench...
2025-01-03 06:31
KDE Internet of Things "Kiot" Started To Provide Nice Home Assistant Integration
Longtime KDE developer David Edmundson has recently been cleaning up some scripts he's been using personally for a few years to enhance the integration between the KDE desktop and Home Assistant for open-source home automation. This work has evolved in...
2025-01-03 06:16
Samsung, Google take on Dolby Atmos with new 'Eclipsa Audio'
Samsung has integrated 'Eclipse Audio' 3D sound technology it developed in collaboration with Google to its 2025 TVs and soundbars. Read more...
2025-01-03 06:08
Meta replaces policy chief Nick Clegg with Joel Kaplan amid Trump's return to power
Before Trump takes the President's office, Meta replaced its police exec Nick Clegg with prominent Republican Joel Kaplan. Read more...
2025-01-03 05:52
Apple adds Watch Series 4 and 2019 15-inch MacBook Pro to the vintage products list
Apple wasted no time adding the Apple Watch Series 4, and the last 15-inch MacBook Pro released by Apple in 2019, to the vintage products list. Read more...
2025-01-03 04:34
Samsung launches Galaxy A16 5G and Galaxy Fit3 in the US
Samsung expands its Galaxy lineup in the US with the budget-friendly A16 5G smartphone and the Galaxy Fit3 fitness tracker. Read more...
2025-01-03 04:18
Ruby completes switch to Prism parser
 Ruby 3.4.0, and Ruby 3.4.1, updates to the longstanding dynamic, open source programming language, have arrived, with Prism now the default parser. Ruby 3.4.0 was released December 25, Christmas Day, along with an update, Ruby 3.4.1, which merely ch...
2025-01-03 02:10
Windows 2: Final Fantasy of operating systems
It is common knowledge that Final Fantasy could have been the last game in the series. It is far less known that Windows 2, released around the same time, could too have been the last. If anything, things were more certain: even Microsoft believed that...
2025-01-03 00:17
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Here are some of the best apps for shooting and editing video on iPhone
iPhone has become the primary camera of many people around the world – not only because of its quality, but also because of the great apps available on the App Store. This year we’ve made a list of the best apps for shooting and editing video on iP...
2025-01-03 00:15
AROS centimeters closer to 64bit
We’ve just entered the new year, and that means we’re going to see some overviews about what the past year has brought. Today we’re looking at AROS, as AROS News – great name, very classy, you’ve got good taste, don’t change it – summaris...
2025-01-03 00:07
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‘Wicked’ director Jon M. Chu used Apple Vision Pro during the film’s post-production
Even Tim Cook recently acknowledged that Apple Vision Pro is an “early adopter product.” At $3,500, not everyone is sure about spending all that money on a headset. However, Vision Pro seems to work very well in specific niches, as the director of ...
2025-01-03 00:00
The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM
Do you think streaming platforms and other entities that employ DRM schemes use the TPM in your computer to decrypt stuff? Well, the Free Software Foundation seems to think so, and adds Microsoft’s insistence on requiring a TPM for Windows 11 into th...
2025-01-02 23:51
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