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Anaconda Web UI Installer for Spins and Editions Test Days: August 4 – 8 2025
Join us this week for the Anaconda Web UI Installer test week where we are focusing testing on Anacondas brand new WebUI for KDE and Spins live images. What is a test week? Test weeks are organised by the Fedora QA team per release cycle and are a grea...
2025-08-05 15:07
Replacing an Amiga’s brain with Doom
There’s a lovely device called a pistorm, an adapter board that glues a Raspberry Pi GPIO bus to a Motorola 68000 bus. The intended use case is that you plug it into a 68000 device and then run an emulator that reads instructions from hardware (ROM ...
2025-08-05 14:05
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Debian 13 Showing 13% Performance Improvement Over Debian 12 On AMD EPYC
If all goes according to plan Debian 13.0 will be released this weekend. Already in its effectively final state aside from any last minute fixes, I've begun running Debian 13 testing builds on various systems in the lab to great success. With two years...
2025-08-05 12:00
exFAT Fixes Significant Random Write Performance Regression With Linux 6.17
Following yesterday's F2FS pull request, the exFAT file-system updates were sent out and since merged for the ongoing Linux 6.17 kernel merge window...
2025-08-05 11:00
Why benchmarks are key to AI progress
Benchmarks are often reduced to leaderboard standings in media coverage, but their role in AI development is far more critical. They are the backbone of model evaluation—guiding improvements, enabling reproducibility, and ensuring real-world appl...
2025-08-05 09:00
The problem with AI agent-to-agent communication protocols
You know the routine: The IT industry, driven as much by vendor ambition as by necessity, develops many competing standards to solve a simple problem. Today’s culprit: agent-to-agent communication in AI. The recent rise of so-called “standards” ...
2025-08-05 09:00
Intel Upstreams libsycl SYCL Runtime Library Into LLVM
For several years now Intel has been working on SYCL support within LLVM and various related efforts like the LLVM SPIR-V back-end as part of their oneAPI ambitions and Data Parallel C++ across their spectrum of hardware. The latest hitting upstream LL...
2025-08-05 08:55
Raja Koduri Announces New GPU Software & IP Startup - OXPython For CUDA AI On Non-NVIDIA GPUs
Oxmiq Labs exited stealth mode today as a new startup led by Raja Koduri of AMD / Apple / Intel fame to focus on GPU software and licenseable graphics IP. Oxmiq Labs is a new GPU software and IP startup that has been in development for two years alread...
2025-08-05 08:33
SDL Library Lands Precision Scrolling For X.Org Usage
For Linux gamers relying on the X.Org Server, the SDL3 library that is widely-used by cross-platform games has landed support for precision/pixel scrolling...
2025-08-05 06:52
FFmpeg Delivers Very Nice Performance Gains For Bwdif Deinterlacing With AVX-512
FFmpeg developers are known for delivering some really wild performance gains from hand-optimized Assembly code especially around Intel/AMD AVX-512 optimizations for various features of this widely-used open-source multimedia library. Merged this week ...
2025-08-05 06:38
Linux 6.17 Introduces hash_pointers= Boot Parameter
Linus Torvalds yesterday merged a patch from SUSE's Petr Mladek introducing a new boot parameter option for the kernel to provide greater control over the behavior of hashing pointer values...
2025-08-05 06:28
Intel Updates Legacy Compute Driver To Benefit Broadwell Through Ice Lake iGPUs
Last year Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support discontinued its support for Broadwell through Ice Lake integrated graphics to focus strictly on Tigerlake with Intel "Gen12" graphics and newer. Today though ...
2025-08-05 06:12
Python popularity boosted by AI coding assistants – Tiobe
Python, the highest-ranking language ever in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, has been getting a boost from AI coding assistants, according to Tiobe. In the Tiobe index for July 2025, Python scored a rating of 26.98%, the highest ev...
2025-08-05 00:22
Flameshot Screenshot App Gets First Major Update in 3 Years
Flameshot 13.0 marks the screenshot tool's first major update in over 3 years, adding Qt6 support, disabling Imgur uploads by default, and improving its tools. You're reading Flameshot Screenshot App Gets First Major Update in 3 Years, a blog post from...
2025-08-04 23:01