DebConf25 Logo Contest Results
Last November, the DebConf25 Team asked the community to help design the logo for the 25th Debian Developers' Conference and the results are in! The logo contest received 23 submissions and we thank all the 295 people who took the time to participate i...
2025-02-13 10:00
"Microsoft might legit publish more games on PS5 this year than Sony does." Gamers react to PlayStation State of Play, and the strange times Xbox finds itself in.
Sony had its semi-regular State of Play showcase yesterday, and PlayStation gamers hoping for a roadmap received a lot of third-party multiplatform titles instead. Did Xbox bow out too soon?
2025-02-13 09:57
Google Releases AOM-AV1 3.12 With More Performance Optimizations
For those preferring the AOM-AV1 open-source AV1 video encoder over SVT-AV1, Rav1e, or other AV1 encoders, Google this week unveiled AOM-AV1 3.12...
2025-02-13 09:51
How can you personalize your Ubuntu Pro subscription?
Ubuntu Pro is Canonical’s subscription for open source software security, support and compliance. Users of Ubuntu Pro benefit from Expanded Security Maintenance, which extends patching from the standard 5 years to 10 years, for both the Main and Univ...
2025-02-13 09:17
How to use mutexes and semaphores in C#
Thread synchronization is used to prevent multiple threads from accessing a shared resource concurrently. The Mutex and Semaphore classes in .NET represent two of the most important related concepts. Let’s understand what both of these do and when w...
2025-02-13 09:00
Diving into the Windows Copilot Runtime
Announced at the May 2024 launch of Arm-powered Copilot+ PCs, the Windows Copilot Runtime is at the heart of Microsoft’s push to bring AI inferencing out from Azure and on to the edge and our laptops. Since then it’s been released in drip-feed for...
2025-02-13 09:00
Wayland Color Management & HDR Protocol Support Merged
As a quick follow-up to the article earlier today... The Wayland Color Management and HDR protocol support is now merged to upstream Wayland Protocols!..
2025-02-13 08:25
Apple starts selling refurbished M4 MacBook Pro and Mac mini models
Refurbished M4 MacBook Pro and Mac mini models are available on Apple's official online store in the US, the UK, Canada, and some European markets. Read more...
2025-02-13 07:48
Tumbleweed Plans to Adopt SELinux as Default
Tumbleweed is planning to adopt SELinux as the default Linux Security Module (LSM) for new installations in the nearterm. The transition was announced on the mailing list in July and marks a significant development for the rolling release. A new announ...
2025-02-13 07:00
Tumbleweed Adopts SELinux as Default
Tumbleweed has adopted SELinux as the default Linux Security Module (LSM) for new installations after a recent snapshot. The transition was announced on the mailing list in July and marks a significant development for the rolling release. A new announc...
2025-02-13 07:00
Device Trees For Apple T2 SoCs Slated For Upstreaming In Linux 6.15
While there has been the recent drama over upstream maintainership over Apple Silicon / Asahi Linux code, Sven Peter is continuing to move things forward for the upstream kernel and this week sent out a set of Apple SoC DeviceTree updates intended for ...
2025-02-13 06:58
NVIDIA Wiring Up Autonomous Performance Level Selection To Linux CPPC CPUFreq Driver
Similar to the Autonomous Performance Level Selection and Energy Performance Preference (EPP) support already found within the Intel P-State and AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling drivers for their modern processors, NVIDIA engineers are working on simi...
2025-02-13 06:40
Wayland Color Management & HDR Protocols Expected To Be Merged Imminently
Today could finally be the day. In the works for 5+ years, the Wayland color management and HDR protocol additions look like they will finally be merged in the coming hours...
2025-02-13 06:30
While flagship phones wait, this new Samsung budget phone runs One UI 7 out of the box
Samsung has been pretty lazy with the One UI 7 update, and while premium phones are still waiting for the update, the Galaxy F06 runs the latest software out of the box. Read more...
2025-02-13 05:40
Paramount channels including CBS, MTV, and Nickelodeon disappear from YouTube TV
Paramount and YouTube have failed to reach a contract renewal after the former accused the latter of one-sided terms. Read more...
2025-02-13 05:24
Monster Hunter Wilds features a 40 FPS "Balanced" mode on Xbox Series X and PS5
Monster Hunter Wilds features a 40 FPS Balanced mode on Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5, Capcom has confirmed.
2025-02-13 04:05
Sony unveils Saros, new third-person roguelike from Returnal developer Housemarque
The next game from Sony's first-party studio, Housemarque, has been revealed to be Saros, offering a similar experience to Returnal. The title is not releasing anytime soon though. Read more...
2025-02-13 00:12
Go 1.24 arrives with generic type aliases, boosted WebAssembly support
Go 1.24, an update to Google‘s popular open source programming language, is now generally available as a production release, with full backing for generic type aliases, performance improvements, and improved WebAssembly support. The release was unve...
2025-02-13 00:07