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Addressing Automotive Functional Safety in an Open Source Environment
Addressing Automotive Functional Safety in an Open Source Environment An Interview with Leonardo Rossetti and Martin Schleicher, Co-Leads of the New Eclipse SDV Special Interest Group “Automotive Processes for Open Source Software”The Eclipse Softw...
2024-09-11 08:17
System insights with command line tools: lsof and lsblk
In our ongoing series on Linux system insights, we have a look into essential command-line utilities that provide information about the system’s hardware and status. Following our previous discussions on lscpu, lsusb, dmidecode and lspci, we now ...
2024-09-11 08:00
TypeScript 5.6 now generally available
TypeScript 5.6, the latest version of Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript variant, is now available as a production release. The update features capabilities that include disallowing nullish and truthy checks on syntax that never varies on nullish...
2024-09-11 07:00
Device Tree Patches Posted For Review To Boot Linux On Apple A7 To A11 Devices
Device Tree patches have been posted to the Linux kernel mailing list for review and possible upstreaming to the mainline Linux kernel for booting Apple iPhones, iPads, and iPods that use the A7 to A11 SoCs...
2024-09-11 06:50
Verso Taking Shape As A Servo-Powered Web Browser
With Mozilla having backed away from the Servo web engine years ago and recent open-source development on Servo focused on making it suitable for embed purposes into other applications/software, it's remained to be picked up by any standalone web brows...
2024-09-11 06:22
LLVM Makes Progress On Using ClangIR To Compile GPU Kernels
ClangIR is a new IR for LLVM's Clang compiler built atop MLIR. Thanks to this year's Google Summer of Code, there has been progress on being able to compile GPU kernels using ClangIR as another improvement for heterogeneous programming with this open-s...
2024-09-11 06:04
Torvalds Inclined To Release Linux 6.11 This Coming Sunday
With this past weekend's release of Linux 6.11-rc7, the kernel changes for the week were larger than prior RCs and Torvalds was a bit hesitant on releasing v6.11 this coming Sunday due to the upcoming that takes place next week in Vienna, Austria. But ...
2024-09-11 05:57
Kernel Shader Variants Merged For Mesa's Rusticl OpenCL Driver
The latest Rust-written OpenCL driver "Rusticl" work by Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst is support for shader variants and introducing an optimized kernel variant...
2024-09-11 05:46
Mozilla extends Firefox support on unsupported Windows versions to March 2025
Not too long ago, Mozilla announced it was going to extend its support for Windows 7, and was mulling over extending support for Windows 8.x as well, without providing any time frames or details. Well, we’ve got the details now. According to the...
2024-09-11 00:16
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Apple will give users the option to stay on iOS 17 and get security patches
Apple has already confirmed that it will release iOS 18 to the public next week, on September 16. The update brings a lot of new features, but some users may not want to install it right away to avoid bugs and compatibility issues with important apps. ...
2024-09-10 23:54
Oracle Code Assist moves to beta
Oracle Code Assist, the company’s AI-powered programming assistant, is available in a beta trial. The beta version is optimized for Java and adds capabilities intended to boost development of applications for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracl...
2024-09-10 22:57
Rust on illumos
With the recent Rust in Linux events in the last couple of days, it’s a good time to write up Rust in illumos. Both to spread the word a bit and also to set expectations for both sides (Rust and illumos/OpenIndiana devs) what is currently possible an...
2024-09-10 21:56
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CosmicBeetle Deploys Custom ScRansom Ransomware, Partnering with RansomHub
The threat actor known as CosmicBeetle has debuted a new custom ransomware strain called ScRansom in attacks targeting small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America, while also likely working as an affiliate for R...
2024-09-10 21:18
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Developers can now submit iOS 18-ready apps to the App Store
As the official launch of iOS 18 approaches, Apple is now inviting developers to submit their new apps or updates ready for the next versions of the company’s systems. This also includes watchOS 11 and macOS Sequoia, which are coming next week. more…
2024-09-10 21:11
Here are all the iPhone 16 features that won’t be ready at launch
Apple announced a feature-packed iPhone 16 lineup. There are new A18 chips, larger Pro displays, Camera Control, better battery life, Apple Intelligence, Visual Intelligence, and a lot more. But more so than ever before, a variety of new iPhone feature...
2024-09-10 20:56
Juno Tab 3 Linux Tablet — Nice, But Overpriced?
Juno Computers have announced their latest Linux tablet, the Juno Tab 3, and it’s available to buy preloaded with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (or a choice of other Linux distributions). Which is great. The Juno Tab 3 is powered by an Intel N100 processor, 1...
2024-09-10 20:28
9to5Mac Daily: September 10, 2024 – iPhone lineup changes, new AirPods Pro features
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by ...
2024-09-10 20:23
wolfSSL "Immediately Retired" From Fedora Linux For Failing To Follow Packaging Rules
WolfSSL is an embedded SSl/TLS library designed for a range of use-cases and available as open-source under the GNU GPLv2. WolfSSL was recently packaged and added to Fedora Linux since Netatalk began building against wolfSSL and in the longer-term plan...
2024-09-10 20:11
First Geekbench result shows how much faster the iPhone 16’s A18 chip is
A new round of iPhones means a new round of Apple Silicon benchmarks, and we’ve just gotten our first look at a Geekbench result for the A18 chip, showcasing modest performance gains. more…
2024-09-10 19:23