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Researchers build a bridge from C to Rust and memory safety
Memory errors such as out-of-bounds reads and writes and use-after-free bugs have plagued applications for decades, causing problems ranging from minor execution glitches to global security nightmares. The infamous WannaCry, Slammer, and Heartbleed ex...
2025-01-09 21:55
New Year Starts with Slowroll Version Bump
The openSUSE Slowroll community has welcomed the January version bump that was completed recently. Slowroll’s snapshots mark the beginning of fresh updates with the initial updates now accessible on mirrors globally. This month’s bump comes a day e...
2025-01-09 18:00
Flatpak 1.16 Linux App Sandboxing and Distribution Framework Officially Released
Flatpak 1.16 Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework is now available for download. This is a major release that brings several new features and improvements. The post Flatpak 1.16 Linux App Sandboxing and Distribution Framework Officia...
2025-01-09 17:55
COSMIC Alpha 5 Desktop Brings COSMIC Media Player As Default, VRR Updates
Building off the COSMIC Alpha 4 release from early December, COSMIC Alpha 5 is now available as the newest stepping stone toward the first stable release of this Rust-based open-source desktop developed by System76 for their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...
2025-01-09 17:05
Announcing Supporters of Chromium-based Browsers
Since Google announced the Chromium project in 2008, we have been excited to build on the great foundations of open-source web browsers and contribute to the continued development of a rich web platform. Today, Chromium is used by hundreds of differen...
2025-01-09 17:01
AMD Secure TSC Support Might Finally Be Ready For Landing In The Linux Kernel
Going back to January 2023 were patches for enabling Secure TSC support for use by SEV-SNP guests with AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" and newer processors... Two years later and after sixteen rounds of revising the Linux kernel patches, it looks like the AMD Se...
2025-01-09 16:42
Raspberry Pi 5 with 16GB RAM Announced for $120
Raspberry Pi has today announced the launch of a Raspberry Pi 5 with 16GB RAM. A engorged-memory model had been oft-rumoured since the launch of the raspberry Pi 5 in 2024 – and long-desired by fans of this particular single-board computer (SBC). The...
2025-01-09 15:52
Raspberry Pi 5 with 16GB RAM Announced for £115/$120
Raspberry Pi has today announced the launch of a Raspberry Pi 5 with 16GB RAM. A engorged-memory model had been oft-rumoured since the launch of the raspberry Pi 5 in 2024 – and long-desired by fans of this particular single-board computer (SBC). The...
2025-01-09 15:52
KDE Plasma 6.3 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Here’s What’s New
KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment is now available for public beta testing with many new features and improvements. Here’s what to expect in the final release! The post KDE Plasma 6.3 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Here’s What’s New a...
2025-01-09 15:21
VLC gets caught in “AI” hype, adds “AI” subtitles and translations
VLC media player, the popular open-source software developed by nonprofit VideoLAN, has topped 6 billion downloads worldwide and teased an AI-powered subtitle system. The new feature automatically generates real-time subtitles — which can then also b...
2025-01-09 15:06
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KDE Frameworks 6.10 Adds Support for Converting Between “Rack Units” in KRunner
KDE Frameworks 6.10 open-source software suite is now available with support for convert between "rack units" and other units of length, as well as other improvements. The post KDE Frameworks 6.10 Adds Support for Converting Between “Rack Units” in...
2025-01-09 14:30
Intel Compute Runtime 24.52.32224.5 Brings More Battlemage Optimizations
The Intel Compute Runtime 24.52.32224.5 release was made earlier today as the newest update to this open-source Linux and Windows compute stack for Intel graphics hardware for providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero implementations...
2025-01-09 13:39
Google & Linux Foundation Launch "Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers" Fund
Google and the Linux Foundation today announced the creation of the "Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers" fund to help provide funding to open-source developers working on Chromium-based open-source projects...
2025-01-09 12:23
KDE Gear 24.12.1 Is Out to Improve Dolphin, Kate, NeoChat, and Other KDE Apps
KDE Gear 24.12.1 is now available as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 24.12 open-source software suite series with fixes for various KDE applications. The post KDE Gear 24.12.1 Is Out to Improve Dolphin, Kate, NeoChat, and Other KDE ...
2025-01-09 12:21
Tails 6.11 Anonymous Linux OS Released with Critical Security Fixes
Tails 6.11 amnesic incognito live system distribution is now available for download with support for detecting partitioning errors and fixes for critical vulnerabilities. The post Tails 6.11 Anonymous Linux OS Released with Critical Security Fixes appe...
2025-01-09 11:21
KDE Plasma 6.3 Beta Released With A Ton Of Improvements
Ahead of the planned stable release next month, the beta version of Plasma 6.3 is out today for testing this next iteration of the KDE desktop...
2025-01-09 11:05
Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Model Is Now Available at $120 USD
The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB model is now available for sale at $120 USD as a more powerful variant of the Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computer. The post Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Model Is Now Available at $120 USD appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not reproduce t...
2025-01-09 10:47
Microsoft's Azure Linux Introduces New AMD Graphics Driver Options
Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution known as Azure Linux is out with its 3.0.20250102 update today. One of the interesting changes in this release is adding new AMD driver package repositories for allowing Azure Linux users to fetch the latest offi...
2025-01-09 10:28
How to use the new Lock object in C# 13
The C# programming language has provided support for thread synchronization using the lock keyword since its earliest versions. By using a lock statement, you ensure that only one thread can execute the body of the statement at a time. Any other threa...
2025-01-09 09:00