Open Source

AMD Announces Ryzen 9 9950X3D & Ryzen AI Max, Previews AMD RDNA 4 Graphics
AMD's CES 2025 keynote was used to announce a slew of new products. They are just announcements today without any immediate availability or any hardware reviews to publish, but a look ahead for what is on the horizon for AMD in the consumer space in 2025.
2025-01-06 14:45
DisplayPort 2.1b Arriving This Spring With DP80LL Cables
In addition to the HDMI Forum announcing the HDMI 2.2 specification for release in the first half of this year, VESA also took to CES 2025 to announce their forthcoming DisplayPort 2.1b standard...
2025-01-06 14:12
HDMI 2.2 Announced With 96 Gbps Bandwidth - Still With Restricted Licensing
The HDMI Forum used CES for today announcing the HDMI 2.2 specification that will be available to HDMI 2.x adopters in the first half of the calendar year...
2025-01-06 13:10
Demand for AI skills soars, while demand for programming skills falls – O’Reilly report
It’s perhaps not a surprise, but demand for AI-related skills has soared, according to technology educator O’Reilly, which just released its annual technology trends report. By contrast, interest in programming languages Python and Java has taken ...
2025-01-06 13:00
Qualcomm Bringing Snapdragon X Series To Mini PCs For As Little As ~$600 USD
Following last year's launch of Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered laptops, Qualcomm is using CES 2025 this week in Las Vegas for promoting the Snapdragon X Series for mini desktop form factor PCs. But the Linux support and performance out of these forthco...
2025-01-06 11:33
Firefox 134 Available With Experimental HTML "autocorrect" Attribute
Mozilla has published the Firefox 134.0 release binaries today ahead of their official release tomorrow. This first Firefox update of 2025 brings a few new features to Linux users and those on other platforms...
2025-01-06 11:04
NVIDIA Working On "-flto-partition=locality" GCC Option To Boost Performance For Some CPU Workloads
NVIDIA compiler engineers have spent the past several months working on a proposed GCC option -flto-partition=locality for having the compiler optimize the code layout for locality between callees and callers as part of the link-time optimization (LTO)...
2025-01-06 10:05
Intel Announces Core Ultra 200H / Core Ultra 200HX Series
Intel used the start of CES 2025 for announcing the newest Arrow Lake processors for the Core Ultra 200H and Core Utra 200HX mobile processors...
2025-01-06 09:10
Device Mapper Atomic Write Support Patches Posted
Along with other recent Linux kernel patches around atomic write support, a set of Device Mapper (DM) patches were posted today for implementing said functionality...
2025-01-06 09:01
My robot teacher: The challenge of AI in computer science education
Over the past two years, generative AI has been a force for transformation—and disruption—everywhere it’s landed. Education was no exception; if anything, schools were among the first institutions to grapple with AI’s implications. As students...
2025-01-06 09:00
3 forecasts about time-series forecasting
Over the last year, we’ve seen an explosion in innovation in time-series forecasting. Along with new statistical models, transformer-based approaches have allowed for the creation of zero-shot foundation models from well-known organizations such as ...
2025-01-06 09:00
Someone needs to make AI easy
2024 was a year filled with AI possibilities; 2025 needs to turn those possibilities into realities. For that, we need the cloud companies to stop churning out “primitives” such as large language models (LLMs) and instead give developers solutions...
2025-01-06 09:00
Fedora Stakeholders Have Been Debating Whether To Retire GlusterFS
A discussion that originally started last summer has been reignited: whether it's time to retire GlusterFS within Fedora Linux. But following discussions in recent days, there may be a new packager willing to take over but it doesn't change the fact of...
2025-01-06 06:46
HiSilicon HIBMC DP Support For Linux 6.14, Additional AMDXDNA Fixes Queued
Maxime Ripard of Red Hat today sent out the first set of "drm-misc-next" patches of 2025 for queuing into DRM-Next until the Linux 6.14 merge window opens in the coming weeks...
2025-01-06 06:25
Intel Touch Host Controller Drivers Nearing The Mainline Linux Kernel
For the past several months Intel Linux software engineers have been working on Intel Touch Host Controller drivers as an IP block on the PCH for handling touchscreen, touchpad, and related touch input devices. On Sunday the fourth iteration of these d...
2025-01-06 06:14
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 5th, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for January 5th, 2025, brings news about Debian 13 installer alpha, KDE Plasma 6.2.5, Nobara 41, PeaZip 10.2, as well as all the latest distro and software updates. The post 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 5th, 2025 appea...
2025-01-06 00:39
Linux 6.13-rc6 Released Following A Fairly Quiet Week
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.13-rc6 as the newest weekly test release of the Linux 6.13 kernel that is working its way toward stable later in January...
2025-01-05 17:28
Why Half-Life 3 speculation is reaching a fever pitch again
The more than two decades since Half-Life 2‘s release have been filled with plenty of rumors and hints about Half-Life 3, ranging from the official–ish to the thin to the downright misleading. As we head into 2025, though, we’re approaching somet...
2025-01-05 14:35
local_offer
ChromeOS UCSI Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.14 Cycle
With the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle Google is poised to have its ChromeOS UCSI driver upstreamed...
2025-01-05 12:21
Xubuntu 25.04 Preparing Xfce 4.20 Desktop Upgrade
For fans of the Xubuntu derivative of Ubuntu Linux, the upcoming Xubuntu 25.04 release will feature the Xfce 4.20 desktop...
2025-01-05 10:58