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GitHub suffers a cascading supply chain attack compromising CI/CD secrets
A sophisticated cascading supply chain attack has compromised multiple GitHub Actions, exposing critical CI/CD secrets across tens of thousands of repositories. The attack, which originally targeted the widely used “tj-actions/changed-files” utili...
2025-03-19 11:42
EU confirms Apple can make a portless iPhone without USB-C
The iPhone 17 Air is expected to be the slimmest iPhone Apple has ever made, and a report over the weekend suggested that the company even considered making it the first portless phone. It said the iPhone maker ultimately decided against this, in part ...
2025-03-19 11:29
Another Round Of Rust Compiler Improvements Merged For GCC 15.1
A few days ago there was a batch of 145 patches merged for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler release to enhance the Rust "gccrs" front-end. That big set of patches merged the Polonius borrow checker and made other notable improvements. Today another 144 pat...
2025-03-19 11:28
CISA Warns of Active Exploitation in GitHub Action Supply Chain Compromise
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a vulnerability linked to the supply chain compromise of the GitHub Action, tj-actions/changed-files, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The high-sever...
2025-03-19 10:35
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Microsoft no longer includes a power supply with Surface Pro 11 in some regions — now you have to pay extra for one
Microsoft is now complying with an EU initiative that allows the Surface Pro 11 to ship without a power supply, instead charging extra for it as an optional accessory.
2025-03-19 10:34
Intel Wrapping Up Family 18 / Family 19 CPU Model Preparations Ahead Of Linux 6.15
Over the past year Intel has been working to prepare the Linux kernel for the end of the "Family 6" CPU era. There's been a big rework to the Intel CPU model handling within the Linux kernel given that "Family 6" has been in use since the 1990s and mov...
2025-03-19 10:20
SAP introduces Joule for Developers
SAP has added AI capabilities powered by its AI assistant, Joule, to SAP Build Process Automation and SAP Build apps, extending the existing AI capabilities in SAP Build Code and ABAP Cloud. The announcement at this week’s SAPInsider event in Las Ve...
2025-03-19 10:17
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2025-03-19 10:00
Fedora 42 Beta out with new COSMIC desktop environment Spin 
Fedora 42 Beta is now available for download. In around one month, the stable version will be released. So, it's looking for people to test the beta and report bugs. Read more...
2025-03-19 09:48
Astro with HTMX: Server-side rendering made easy
Astro.js is a well-thought-out and capable full-stack JavaScript platform that provides flexible technology choices on both the front and back end. It’s no surprise it currently has 50,000 stars on GitHub. Astro provides a structure to start with wh...
2025-03-19 09:00
You can build it on a Chromebook
I was a Windows guy from the very beginning. I used Windows 1.02 on my IBM PS/2 Model 25 back in the late 1980s. I was thrilled to build applications for Windows 3.1 using Turbo Pascal for Windows. I remember how fun it was to allocate a whopping 2G...
2025-03-19 09:00
Beyond The ROCm Software, AMD Has Been Making Great Strides In Documentation & Robust Containers
AMD recently allowed me some time with their AMD Accelerator Cloud (AAC) leveraging multiple Instinct MI300X accelerators. During this brief opportunity to try out their latest software advancements with the Instinct MI300X and the ROCm compute stack, ...
2025-03-19 08:56
Roku TV wireless soundbar and subwoofer (2023 model) back to lowest ever price
The Roku TV wireless soundbar and wireless subwoofer (2023 model) combo is on sale for the lowest price again after many months. Read more...
2025-03-19 08:40
Microsoft partners with Swiss startup to develop AI inspired by the human brain
Microsoft is teaming up with Swiss startup inait to integrate its biologically-inspired AI model to revolutionise robotics, financial trading and more. Read more...
2025-03-19 08:04
Oracle details new features, performance improvements of Java 24
Oracle has announced the release of Java 24, including JDK 24, for developers to download. It introduces new AI and post-quantum crypto capabilities. Read more...
2025-03-19 07:44
Intel AVX10 Drops Optional 512-bit: No AVX10 256-bit Only E-Cores In The Future
Intel updated their AVX10 whitepaper and associated open-source compiler patches around this next Advanced Vector Extensions standard... While AVX10 had intended to allow either 256-bit or 612-bit modes depending upon processor capabilities, Intel has ...
2025-03-19 06:48
Linux 6.15 To Support The Airoha NPU - A RISC-V Network Processor Unit
Patches queued up this month into net-next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel merge window add support for the Airoha NPU... Not to be confused with the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that is all the rage these days for helping with AI, the Airoha N...
2025-03-19 06:36