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Exploring the Potential of Open Source in Europe A Recap of the HiPEAC Open Source Consultation Dayby Gaël Blondelle, Philippe Krief, and Diana KupferOn September 24, the HiPEAC European project brought together around 20 researchers, industry leader...

Ardour 8.8 open-source digital audio workstation is now available for download with various bug fixes and improvements. Here's what's changed! The post Ardour 8.8 Open-Source DAW Released with Various Bug Fixes and Improvements appeared first on 9to5Li...

Microsoft's refreshed Copilot experience has received negative feedback due to missing features, reduced functionality, and a decline in overall user experience. Read more...

BrainChip's Akida Pico has sub-milliwatt power consumption which opens up a world of small, battery-powered AI applications for healthcare and military use

Diablo 4 Season of Hatred Rising is about to begin, but you needn't pay for the Battle Pass; you can get one for free through Microsoft Rewards.

We tested the new Asus Zenbook S14 with the Core Ultra 9 288V processor, and surprisingly found that the Core Ultra 9 is slower than the Ultra 7 model in threaded workloads.

How can you check your CPU's temperature and what's a good or normal range? We break it down for you.

ImJustWhelmed has created a Raspberry Pi setup just for road trips that makes it easy to stream your favorite TV shows and movies on the go.

The open-source ZLUDA project began life as a drop-in CUDA replacement that ran atop Intel GPUs using the Level Zero API. Then AMD quietly began funding it for several years as a viable CUDA implementation running atop AMD GPUs until discontinued fundi...

Richard Hughes of Red Hat just announced Fwupd 2.0 as a major release to this open-source firmware updating utility for Linux systems. Fwupd 2.0 clears out a lot of long deprecated and legacy bits while adding new features and shipping many fixes...

A third-party unofficial Windows 11 mod promises to improve the Windows 11 UI and UX while not altering system files in any way. Read more...

An Australian court has fined X A$610,500 (approximately $418,000) for failing to comply with regulatory inquiries regarding child abuse content. Read more...

Nvidia announced 22 new games hitting GeForce Now in October, including the latest Call of Duty by Treyarch Studios.

According to a study by Akamai Technologies, 87% of digital-native businesses (which seems to be a term specific to Asia/Pacific) now prioritize security over cost and scalability when selecting a cloud provider. While this study focused on Asia, we s...

Blender 4.3 is available today in beta form to encourage public testing of this next feature release to this leading open-source 3D modeling software...

Amazon US is currently offering the 65-inch Hisense QLED 4K CanvasTV with Hi-Matte Display, 2.0.2 surround sound, and more at a $201 discount on its original MSRP. Read more...

Leaks suggest that Google could launch the Pixel 9a much earlier than its predecessors, probably a move to counter the hype of the iPhone SE 4. Read more...

Red Hat engineer Jocelyn Falempe has been working to sort out DRM Panic support for the AMDGPU driver. The DRM Panic infrastructure is useful since it's what allows presenting a panic screen, a.k.a. a "Blue Screen of Death" type experience when running...

The Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver has experimental code now available for testing that also implements the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) atop the Vulkan Video APIs. This is an interesting effort that now allows VA-API applications to rely on drivers w...

Zrythm is an interesting open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software package. It's been making use of the GTK toolkit but now the developers have decided to switch to Qt6 instead...