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You have a license to code
One of the coolest things about software development is that you don’t need anyone’s permission to do it. If you need an application for your business or personal use, there isn’t a single thing stopping you from learning to code and writing it...
2024-12-18 09:00
Build a server-side web app with .NET, C#, and HTMX
There are many stacks on the server side and one of the most longstanding and capable ones is the .NET platform using C#. .NET is broadly comparable to the Java platform, and over the years, the two have been competitors and mutual influencers. Each...
2024-12-18 09:00
Microsoft 365 app UI and Copilot are getting a massive update in 2025 including new icon
Microsoft has announced some big changes to its M365 app UI as well as M365 Copilot for early next year. Read more...
2024-12-18 08:52
EROFS Switches To Buffered I/O For File-Backed Mounts To Speed-Up Container Start Times
Back for the Linux 6.12 kernel EROFS introduced support for file-backed mounts to help with container and sandboxing use-cases. As part of the EROFS "fixes" merged yesterday to the Linux 6.13 kernel, file-backed mounts are now using buffered I/O by def...
2024-12-18 08:49
Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2025 promo leaked, teases four Galaxy S25 models
A teaser of the Galaxy Unpacked 2025 event has been leaked, confirming the Galaxy S25 series launch date. Read more...
2024-12-18 08:44
Apple Maps web beta now supports 'Look Around' feature
The Apple Maps web beta now supports the 'Look Around' feature, which is Apple's version of Google's 'Street View' feature. Read more...
2024-12-18 08:32
FTC puts an end to junk fees on short-term lodging and online rentals 
The US Federal Trade Commission has just passed a new law that bans hidden junk fees in short-term lodging and live-event ticket prices. Read more...
2024-12-18 08:16
New to the web platform in December
Discover some of the interesting features that have landed in stable and beta web browsers during December 2024.
2024-12-18 08:00
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Linux Looks To Drop Support For IBM Cell Blade Servers
The latest house cleaning of the Linux kernel is looking to drop support for IBM Cell Blade servers for those platforms from the better part of two decades ago with Cell BE processors that also had worked their way into some supercomputers at the time...
2024-12-18 06:47
Intel Linux Graphics Driver To Do A Better Job Of Keeping Track Of Its Engine Busyness
A drm-intel-gt-next pull request was sent in today to DRM-Next of the latest batch of Intel kernel graphics driver updates destined for the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle...
2024-12-18 06:23
SilverStone XED120S-WS Offers Mega Cooling For 4U Intel/AMD Workstations & Servers
A few weeks back I reviewed the SilverStone XE360-SP5 and XE04-SP5 cooling solutions catering to AMD EPYC 9004/9005 Socket SP5 processors. These coolers worked well with 400 Watt EPYC processors and especially the XE360-SP5 all-in-one liquid cooling wa...
2024-12-18 04:00
Lenovo Legion Linux Driver Posted For Handling Power/Performance Settings
A patch posted on Tuesday for the Linux kernel would introduce new Lenovo Legion WMI driver options for supporting Lenovo Legion laptops as well as the Legion Go handheld gaming console to support different power/performance settings...
2024-12-18 02:00
Fedora proposes dropping Atomic desktops for PPC64LE
Fedora is proposing to stop building their Atomic desktop versions for PPC64LE. PopwerPC 64 LE basically comes down to IBM’s POWER architecture, and as far as desktop use goes, that exclusively means the POWER9 machines from Raptor Computing Systems....
2024-12-18 00:11
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AOMP 20.0-1 GPU Compiler Rebased Against ROCm 6.3, Brings SPIR-V JIT Offloading
AOMP 20.0-1 was released on Tuesday as the newest version of this LLVM/Clang downstream focused on shipping the latest AMD patches around Radeon/Instinct OpenMP accelerator offload support...
2024-12-18 00:00
Marvel Rivals crosses 20 million players as NetEase readies winter celebration event
Marvel Rivals has just crossed another major milestone, this time blowing past 20 million players less than two weeks following its launch. A winter update is coming later this week too. Read more...
2024-12-17 23:50
Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses will soon identify songs with Shazam
Meta this week announced new features coming to its smart glasses designed in partnership with Ray-Ban. will soon gain new AI capabilities as well as integration with Apple’s Shazam to identify songs. more…
2024-12-17 23:48