Rusticl Wins: Mesa Officially Deprecates Clover OpenCL
With today's Mesa 25.1-devel Git code, the "Clover" OpenCL Gallium3D state tracker is officially deprecated. Clover will be eventually removed with the Rust-written Rusticl OpenCL driver being modern, much more actively maintained, and all-around a bet...
How DeepSeek innovated large language models
The release of DeepSeek roiled the world of generative AI last month, leaving engineers and developers wondering how the company achieved what it did, and how they might take advantage of the technology in their own technology stacks. The DeepSeek t...
Speeding up .NET application development with Uno Studio
Developer productivity is one of those topics that never goes away. How can we not only make it easier to deliver code but also make that code more reliable and resilient? As a result, we’re seeing something of a renaissance in developer tools, from...
IT leaders are driving a new cloud computing era
At fictional Tech Innovations Inc., a midsize software company, the rapid adoption of cloud technology was once seen as a transformative stepping stone toward agility and scalability. Initially, the company migrated its applications to a well-known pu...
AMDVLK 2025.Q1.3 Brings Radeon RX 9070 Series Support
AMD today released AMDVLK 2025.Q1.3 as their official open-source Vulkan API driver for Linux systems. With this update is support for the Navi48 GPU with the recently-launched Radeon RX 9070 RDNA4 graphics cards...
Zed Editor Rolls Out Native Git Integration
The Zed Editor as a modern IDE-focused text editor for programmers and developed by some of the Atom editor creators continues on quite a roll. Over the past year Zed has rolled out native Linux builds, added various AI features and also began open-sou...
Mesa 25.1 To Enable Working Chromium VA-API Support
A new set of Gallium3D video acceleration front-end patches by AMD contractor David Rosca allow for the Google Chromium/Chrome browser code to enjoy working VA-API accelerated video decoding with the open-source Mesa drivers...
Google unveils Gemma 3 multi-modal AI models
Google DeepMind has introduced Gemma 3, an update to the company’s family of generative AI models, featuring multi-modality that allows the models to analyze images, answer questions about images, identify objects, and perform other tasks that invol...
Iconography of the PuTTY tools
Ah, PuTTY. Good old reliable PuTTY. This little tool is one of those cornerstone applications in the toolbox of most of us, without any fuss, without any upsells or anti-user nonsense – it just does its job, and it has been doing its job for 30 years...
