Open Source

Linux 6.13-rc2 To Workaround Buggy Intel Lunar Lake Leading To Responsiveness Issues
Sent out this morning were the "x86/urgent" updates ahead of Linux 6.13-rc2 due out later today. There are x86 fixes for both Intel and AMD processors this week. Most notable though is fixing some buggy Intel Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" behavior that could...
2024-12-08 06:33
Manjaro 24.2 Released With GNOME 47 Updates, Powered By Linux 6.12 LTS
Manjaro 24.2 "Yonada" is out today as the newest version of this popular desktop focused Linux distribution built atop Arch Linux...
2024-12-08 06:05
Mold 2.35 Released With Big Endian ARM64 Support
Rui Ueyama announced the release today of Mold 2.35 as the latest iteration of this high speed linker alternative to the linkers available from the GCC and LLVM toolchain projects...
2024-12-08 05:41
GNOME 47.2 Officially Released with Various Bug Fixes and Improvements
GNOME 47.2 is now available as the second maintenance update to the latest GNOME 47 "Denver" desktop environment series with more bug fixes, updated translations, and other changes. The post GNOME 47.2 Officially Released with Various Bug Fixes and Imp...
2024-12-07 20:37
More Kernel Bitrot: Old & Busted UltraSPARC T2 "Niagara 2" SPU Driver Slated For Removal
Following 107k lines of old driver code within the staging area of the kernel removed for Linux 6.13, over in the crypto space they are looking at some cleaning as well with plans raised to remove the Stream Processing Unit (SPU) driver for the old Sun...
2024-12-07 16:09
OBS Studio 31.0 Released with NVIDIA Blur Filter and Background Blur
OBS Studio 31.0 open-source software for video recording and live streaming is now available for download with new features and improvements. Here's what's new! The post OBS Studio 31.0 Released with NVIDIA Blur Filter and Background Blur appeared firs...
2024-12-07 13:46
Celebrating 20 Years of Thunderbird: Independence, Innovation and Community 
Thunderbird turns 20 today. Such a huge milestone invites reflection on the past and excitement for the future. For two decades, Thunderbird has been more than just an email application – it has been a steadfast companion to millions of users, offeri...
2024-12-07 10:00
OpenWrt Affected By Security Issue That Could Have Led To Compromised Build Artifacts
A security issue was reported to the OpenWrt project this week around their Attendedsysupgrade Server (ASU) instances that could have led to compromised firmware images being served...
2024-12-07 09:00
UMD Direct Submission "Proof Of Concept" For The Intel Xe Linux Driver
One of the interesting Intel Xe Linux kernel graphics driver patches that was volleyed for discussion last month is working on user-mode driver (UMD) direct submission support for allowing work to be directly submitted from user-space to the GPU hardwa...
2024-12-07 06:58
AMD Hardware Feedback Interface "HFI" Patches Updated For The Linux Kernel
While there are many great new features in Linux 6.13 like the AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver, one of the features that wasn't buttoned up in time for this current kernel cycle were the patches implementing the AMD Hardware Feedback Interface (HFI). B...
2024-12-07 06:31
Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0 Adds 64K Kernel Option, NFTables & Intel E800 Networking
Microsoft engineers rounded out their work week by releasing Azure Linux 3.0.20241203 on Friday evening as the newest monthly installment for their in-house Linux distribution...
2024-12-07 06:18
KDE Starts December By Landing A Number Of New Features
While the winter holidays are quickly approach, KDE developers remain very busy working on new feature code for the Plasma 6.3 desktop. A number of new features were merged this week for the KDE desktop...
2024-12-07 05:47
Clarifai previews AI compute orchestration
AI platform provider Clarifai is publicly previewing compute orchestration for AI workloads that the company says works across any AI model on any compute, at any scale. Clarifai said its vendor-agnostic platform could build and orchestrate AI workloa...
2024-12-06 23:44
EXiGY: let’s make shareware again
EXiGY rolls up the all of the above experiences into a single package: make games the way they were made in the mid-90s, by dragging and dropping objects into a window, programming some behaviour into those objects, and clicking the Run button. It’s ...
2024-12-06 22:20
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RISC-V Redox runs on x86-64 Redox
Every time a new Redox monthly report comes out, I’m baffled by the fact we’ve apparently rounded another month. They just keep on coming and going, don’t they? And I even turned 40 this 1 December, so it hits even harder this time. I’m now as ...
2024-12-06 22:08
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Vanir: open-source security patch validation
Today, we are announcing the availability of Vanir, a new open-source security patch validation tool. Introduced at Android Bootcamp in April, Vanir gives Android platform developers the power to quickly and efficiently scan their custom platform code...
2024-12-06 21:48
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OpenAI releases o1 LLM, unveils ChatGPT Pro
OpenAI has officially released its OpenAI o1 large language model (LLM), built for complex reasoning. The company also introduced ChatGPT Pro, a $200 monthly plan that includes unlimited access to OpenAI o1, o1-mini, GPT-4o, and advanced voice convers...
2024-12-06 21:47
OBS Studio 31.0 Released With New Features For Screen Recording & Screencasting
OBS Studio 31.0 was released this evening as the newest feature update to this open-source, cross-platform software for live streaming and desktop screen recording purposes. OBS Studio remains a leading choice across operating systems for screen record...
2024-12-06 20:32
Linux 6.12 Kernel Confirmed as Long-Term Support Version
Last month’s Linux 6.12 kernel was a big update filled with new features, hardware support, and performance tune-ups. Now, it’s just gotten even sweeter: it’s an LTS! Those au fait with kernel development won’t be surprised by this news since, ...
2024-12-06 16:40
Wine 10.0-rc1 Released With Updated VKD3D, Initial Bluetooth Driver
The first release candidate of Wine 10.0 is out today that also now marks the feature freeze ahead of this stable release expected to be out around mid-January...
2024-12-06 16:04