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Z3fold Allocator Slated For Removal From The Linux Kernel
The Z3fold allocator for compressed pages was quietly deprecated several months ago with users encouraged to use zsmalloc instead. With no one vocally objecting, the Z3fold allocator code is now being positioned for removal from the Linux kernel source...
2025-01-28 06:15
Hangover 10.0 Released For Running Windows Games/Apps On ARM64 Linux
Building off last week's release of Wine 10.0, Hangover 10.0 is now available as this adaptation for running Windows games and applications on ARM64 Linux and other non-x86_64 CPU architectures...
2025-01-28 06:05
PebbleOS becomes open source, new Pebble device announced
Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble, the original smartwatch maker, made a major announcement today together with Google. Pebble was originally bought by Fitbit and in turn Fitbit was then bought by Google, but Migicovsky always wanted to to go back to ...
2025-01-27 23:50
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New Pebble Smartwatch Planned After Google Open Sources the OS
Did you ever own (or covet) one of those e-ink Pebble smartwatches of yore? Well, good news if you did: Google today open-sourced the PebbleOS operating system it used (minus proprietary bits) having acquired Pebble’s assets when buying Fitbit in 202...
2025-01-27 23:46
Pebble Smartwatch Returns After Google Open Sources OS
Did you ever own (or covet) one of those e-ink Pebble smartwatches of yore? Well, good news: Google has open-sourced the PebbleOS operating system it ran on (minus some vital proprietary bits like the Bluetooth stack), having acquired Pebble’s assets...
2025-01-27 23:46
New Pebble Smartwatch Planned After Google Open Source OS
Did you ever own (or covet) one of those e-ink Pebble smartwatches of yore? Well, good news if you did: Google today open-sourced the PebbleOS operating system it used (minus proprietary bits) having acquired Pebble’s assets when buying Fitbit in 202...
2025-01-27 23:46
Chinese researchers just built an open-source rival to ChatGPT in 2 months, and Silicon Valley is freaked out
Speaking of “AI”, the Chinese company DeepSeek has lobbed a grenade dead-centre into the middle of the “AI” bubble, and it’s been incredibly entertaining to watch. DeepSeek has released several new “AI” models, which seem to rival or even...
2025-01-27 23:38
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AI bots paralyze Linux news site and others
Apparently, since the beginning of the year, AI bots have been ensuring that websites can only respond to regular inquiries with a delay. The founder of Linux Weekly News (LWN-net), Jonathan Corbet, reports that the news site is therefore often slow to...
2025-01-27 22:51
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Mozilla Thunderbird 134 Adds New Notification System for Real-Time Desktop Alerts
Mozilla Thunderbird 134 open-source and free email and calendar client is now available for download with new features and bug fixes. Here's what's new! The post Mozilla Thunderbird 134 Adds New Notification System for Real-Time Desktop Alerts appeared...
2025-01-27 21:47
Completed NTSYNC Driver Merged For Linux 6.14: "Should Make Many SteamOS Users Happy"
The "char/misc" pull request was submitted today for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window and already merged to the Linux Git tree... As expected, the completed code around the NTSYNC driver has landed for better emulating the Windows NT synchronization...
2025-01-27 20:25
IYKYK: The secret language of memes
Dr. Erica Brozovsky is a sociolinguist, a public scholar and a lover of words. She is the host of Otherwords, a PBS series on language and linguistics, and a professor of writing and rhetoric at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. You can find her at @eri...
2025-01-27 19:09
WebKit Features in Safari 18.3
Today marks the arrival of Safari 18.3.
2025-01-27 19:00
Prompt Security adds code sanitization, data leak prevention for GitHub Copilot
Prompt Security has announced an upgrade to its security and governance platform for GitHub Copilot and other AI coding assistants. The enhancements to the platform, also named Prompt Security, include stronger capabilities for real-time code sanitiza...
2025-01-27 18:06
Llama.cpp AI Performance With The GeForce RTX 5090
In beginning the NVIDIA Blackwell Linux testing with the GeForce RTX 5090 compute performance, besides all the CUDA/OpenCL/OptiX benchmarks delivered last week a number of readers asked about AI performance and in particular the Llama.cpp performance w...
2025-01-27 14:33
AMD ZenDNN 5.0 Software For AI Delivers "400% Performance Uplift"
Released last November following the AMD 5th Gen EPYC "Turin" server processor launch was ZenDNN 5.0 as their deep neural network library optimized for EPYC/Ryzen processors. ZenDNN 5.0 is their updated version of their neural network library that is c...
2025-01-27 13:18
Hyprland 0.47 Wayland Compositor Delivers Experimental HDR, GPU Hotplugging
Hyprland 0.47 is out to begin a new week with some exciting enhancements to this visuals-focused Wayland compositor...
2025-01-27 09:51
How to utilize CPU offloads to increase storage efficiency
Canonical Ceph with IntelⓇ Quick Assist Technology (QAT) When storing large amounts of data, the cost ($) to store each gigabyte (GB) is the typical measure used to gauge the efficiency of the storage system. The biggest driver of storage cost is the...
2025-01-27 09:11
11 cutting-edge programming languages to learn now
A clean slate. A fresh start. The new broom sweeps clean. The folk sayings are in agreement. Sure, your favorite old programming language is comfortable and easy to use. You know the APIs and libraries backward and forward. But you also know all the g...
2025-01-27 09:00
How to pick the right SAST tool
Like pretty much any security tool, picking a SAST (static application security testing) tool isn’t a matter of “What’s the best?” but rather “What’s the best for me?” Whether you already have a tool that needs replacing or you’re star...
2025-01-27 09:00
Is ChatGPT making us stupid?
Years ago Nicholas Carr argued that Google was making us stupid, that ease of access to information was shortening our attention spans and generally making it hard for us to do “deep reading.” Others worried that search engines were siphoning away...
2025-01-27 09:00