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Bcachefs Preps More Fixes For Linux 6.14, Continues Tracking Down Other Bugs
With the Linux 6.14 kernel Bcachefs has its last big planned on-disk format upgrade before removing the "experimental" tag on this copy-on-write file-system. Well, that's the hope at least. In addition to some early fixes last week, some additional Bca...
2025-02-07 06:33
NVIDIA Publishes RTX Neural Texture Compression "RTXNTC" Beta
NVIDIA on Thursday published their first public beta of their RTX Neural Texture Compression "RTX NTC" software development kit...
2025-02-07 06:22
AMDVLK 2025.Q1.1 Brings New Performance Tuning & Fixes
AMDVLK 2025.Q1.1 is out this morning as the first update of the year to this official AMD open-source Vulkan driver for Linux systems...
2025-02-07 05:54
Ubuntu's crypto-config Continues Being Developed For Gradual Roll-Out
A year ago I raised attention about crypto-config as a new Ubuntu project for system-wide cryptography configuration. That crypto config tool continues being developed by Canonical engineers for a gradual roll-out into the Ubuntu Linux landscape...
2025-02-06 20:47
VirtIO Media Driver Upstreaming Pursued For Relaying V4L2 Media Devices To Guests
Android and Chrome OS already are carrying the VirtIO Media driver as a means of enabling virtualization of host media devices into a guest while now patch review is underway in trying to get VirtIO Media upstreamed in the mainline Linux kernel...
2025-02-06 14:42
KDE Gear 24.12.2 Improves Dolphin, Itinerary, Tokodon, and Many Other KDE Apps
KDE Gear 24.12.2 is now available as the second maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 24.12 open-source software suite series with fixes for various KDE applications. The post KDE Gear 24.12.2 Improves Dolphin, Itinerary, Tokodon, and Many Other KD...
2025-02-06 14:20
LibreOffice 25.2 Released, This is What’s New
LibreOffice 25.2 has been released, this year’s first major update to the leading open-source office software for Windows, macOS, and Linux. As you’d expect, the update delivers a sizeable set of changes spread throughout the productivity suite, in...
2025-02-06 12:30
Canonical achieves ISO/SAE 21434 certification, strengthening automotive cybersecurity standards
Certified cybersecurity processes to help safeguard next-generation connected vehicles Canonical is proud to announce it has achieved the ISO/SAE 21434 certification for its Security Management System, following an extensive assessment by TÜV SÜD, a ...
2025-02-06 12:00
Canonical achieves ISO 21434 certification, strengthening automotive cybersecurity standards
Certified cybersecurity processes to help safeguard next-generation connected vehicles Canonical is proud to announce it has achieved the ISO 21434 certification for its Security Management System, following an extensive assessment by TÜV SÜD, a glob...
2025-02-06 12:00
LibreOffice 25.2 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, This Is What’s New
LibreOffice 25.2 open-source, free, and cross-platform office suite is now available for download with new features and improvements. Here’s what’s new! The post LibreOffice 25.2 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, This Is What’s New ap...
2025-02-06 12:00
Proxmox Platinum Sponsor of DebConf25
We are pleased to announce that Proxmox has committed to sponsor DebConf25 as a Platinum Sponsor. Proxmox develops powerful, yet easy-to-use Open Source server software. The product portfolio from Proxmox, including server virtualization, backup, and ...
2025-02-06 11:50
SMT Remains Very Advantageous For 5th Gen AMD EPYC Performance
After recently re-visiting the AMD EPYC 9005 series AVX-512 performance, I followed up with some fresh SMT benchmarks looking at the performance benefits and power of toggling Simultaneous Multi-Threading on the 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" hardware. Here ...
2025-02-06 10:50
EU Cyber Resilience Act compliance: best practices for IoT manufacturers
The EU Cyber Resilience Act has considerable repercussions for the IoT device manufacturers. In this blog, we explore these new regulatory requirements and give our blueprint for compliant, market-ready devices.
2025-02-06 10:20
Tails 6.12 Anonymous OS Fixes Security Issues in Tor Circuits, Persistent Storage
Tails 6.12 amnesic incognito live system distribution is now available for download with more fixes for critical vulnerabilities, updated components, and bug fixces. Here's what's new! The post Tails 6.12 Anonymous OS Fixes Security Issues in Tor Circu...
2025-02-06 10:20
A CISO’s comprehensive breakdown of the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act (EU CRA)
The CRA is coming, and you need to be prepared. Depending on the Class your product falls into, there could be additional assessment, security, documentation, patching, compliance and reporting requirements on you and your teams. Find out how your digi...
2025-02-06 10:20
AMD Talks Up IREE/MLIR Programming For Ryzen AI NPUs
While the AMDXDNA driver was merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel for enabling the Ryzen AI NPUs atop a mainline kernel build, there's still the user-space software needed for making use of the neural processing units found in Ryzen AI SoCs. AMD talked mor...
2025-02-06 10:00
Intel's OpenVINO 2025.0 Brings Support For Deepseek Models, Better AI Performance
Intel's software engineers working on the OpenVINO AI toolkit today released OpenVINO 2025.0 that brings support for the much talked about Deepseek models along with other large language models (LLMs), performance improvements to some of the existing m...
2025-02-06 08:34
LibreOffice 25.2 Open-Source Office Suite Released With Many Improvements
LibreOffice 25.2 is out this morning as the newest half-year update to this leading cross-platform, free software office suite...
2025-02-06 08:13
Mesa 25.0 Is Trending Well For Release Later This Month
Mesa 25.0-rc2 was released yesterday and it's rather boring on the changes, but that's a good thing during this bug fixing phase...
2025-02-06 06:56
GNU Gold Linker Is Deprecated & Will Be Gone For Good Without New Developers
With the recent GNU Binutils 2.44 release, one of the changes is worth calling out in its own article: the GNU Gold linker is now officially deprecated and is now being segregated to its own extra Binutils package but risks being removed all together w...
2025-02-06 06:39