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FM TOWNS Technical Databook partially translated to English
In recent months, we’ve talked twice about FM Towns, Fujitsu’s PC platform aimed solely at the Japanese market. It was almost entirely only available in Japanese, so it’s difficult to explore for those of us who don’t speak Japanese. There’s ...
2025-01-14 19:42
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GNOME 48 Expands Core Apps With New Audio Player
When GNOME 48 is released in March it will debut with a brand-new audio player. Per a recent merge request, Decibels graduates from GNOME Incubator to GNOME Core Apps as part of GNOME 48, making the software something GNOME recommends downstream Linux ...
2025-01-14 19:26
Rsync remote code execution and related vulnerability fixes available
Security researchers at Google (Pedro Gallegos, Simon Scannell, and Jasiel Spelman) discovered vulnerabilities in the rsync server and rsync client. The rsync server vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-12084 and CVE-2024-12085) ultimately allow remote code execu...
2025-01-14 18:41
A Treasure Trove of Data: Propelling Open Source Investment with the 2024 Global Spotlight Insights Report
There’s nothing better than to start a new year off with a clear picture of the elements in your sphere that are working well and can be accelerated, what things need to be developed from scratch, and in which areas improvements can be made. And wha...
2025-01-14 17:26
Flatpak 1.16 Improves USB Access, Wayland Integration & Accessibility
A new stable release of Flatpak is out with a wealth of improvements in tow. Flatpak 1.16.0 is the first stable release in the new 1.16.x series, coming more than two years after the Flatpak 1.14.x cycle began and containing features, fixes, and other ...
2025-01-14 17:01
The success of Interop 2024!
With close of 2024 came the end of another year of the Interop project — the annual collaboration between browser engine teams to improve the interoperability of web technology by collectively focusing on fixing bugs and improving features in specifi...
2025-01-14 16:00
Intel Arc B580 Linux Graphics Driver Performance One Month After Launch
Yesterday I looked at how the Intel OpenCL GPU compute performance evolved for the Arc Graphics B580 in the one month since that first Battlemage graphics card premiered. There were nice Intel GPU compute optimizations merged over the past month to imp...
2025-01-14 15:47
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 211
Safari Technology Preview Release 211 is now available for download for macOS Sequoia and macOS Sonoma.
2025-01-14 15:28
GNOME 48 Desktop Introducing An Official Audio Player: Decibels
The modern GNOME desktop hasn't had a core application to playback audio files although many different audio/multimedia players exist. But now for the upcoming GNOME 48 desktop release, there is now a promoted core app for audio playback: Decibels...
2025-01-14 12:19
OpenVINO with Generative AI
The openSUSE Innovator initiative and the Intel Innovator program play a crucial role in ensuring that the openVINO repository remains up to date for the openSUSE Linux distribution community, which I continually to strive to help. OpenVINO (Open Visua...
2025-01-14 12:00
GCC Developers Consider Deprecating ARM64 ILP32 Support
ARM64 ILP32 is the Armv8 architecture with a 32-bit ABI rather than 64-bit -- akin to the "x32" x86 effort that never really took off on Linux. ARM64 ILP32 support never ended up making it into the mainline Linux kernel or GNU C Library but did appear ...
2025-01-14 11:01
Your data applications, contained and maintained
Introducing trusted open source database containers  It’s time to stop proclaiming that “cloud native is the future”. Kubernetes has just celebrated its 10 year anniversary, and 76% of respondents to the latest CNCF Annual Survey reported that t...
2025-01-14 10:40
Intel IPU6 Web Camera Support Still Poses A Challenge For Linux Laptops
Back in 2022 there were Linux kernel developers like Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman recommending that Intel Alder Lake laptops be avoided. This was due to the Intel web camera support in those new-at-the-time laptops yet to be properly up...
2025-01-14 10:11
The journey towards a knowledge graph for generative AI
How does the journey to a knowledge graph start with unstructured data—such as text, images, and other media? The evolution of web search engines offers an instructive example, showing how knowledge can be extracted from unstructured sources and ref...
2025-01-14 09:00
The cloud cost wake-up call I predicted
For years, I’ve cautioned organizations about the hidden downsides of cloud computing. Ironically, I’m “Dave the cloud guy” who warns enterprises about the cloud. The benefits of the cloud’s agility, scalability, and innovation can quickly b...
2025-01-14 09:00
How to build your first model using DSS
GenAI is transforming how we approach technology. This blog explores how you can use Canonical’s Data Science Stack (DSS) to set up your environment and dive into Hugging Face’s new self-paced course on LLMs. Learn how to build your first model and...
2025-01-14 08:29
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands More Performance Optimizations Ahead Of The B570
It's not only the Intel GPU compute stack seeing some nice improvements recently but over with the Mesa 25.0-devel code for the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver there have been some new performance optimizations arriving this week...
2025-01-14 06:55
Haiku OS Gets The Iceweasel Web Browser Up & Running
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system has published their latest monthly development report. During December they worked on a number of features and fixes as well as getting a modern web browser up and running...
2025-01-14 06:36