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Meet Canonical at the Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona
Canonical is excited to return to the Mobile World Congress (MWC), taking place in Barcelona on March 3-6, 2025.  Next year’s event brings attendees together around a new theme: Converge. Create. Connect. This edition will delve into topics like ent...
2024-12-05 11:00
COSMIC Alpha 4 Released For System76's Rust-Based Desktop
System76 today released the newest development/testing version of their Rust-based desktop environment designed for their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...
2024-12-05 10:46
NVIDIA 565.77 Linux Driver Released As First Stable R565 Build
For the past month and a half the NVIDIA R565 Linux driver series has been in public beta with a number of (X)Wayland improvements, DMA-BUF enhancements, VKD3D fixes, and a variety of other enhancements. Today the NVIDIA 565.77 Linux driver was release...
2024-12-05 10:13
Get started with Azure AI Content Understanding
Modern AI is about a lot more than chatbots, as shown by Microsoft’s Ignite 2024 pivot to using its stable of large and small language models to power autonomous agents. Much of its focus was on using productivity tools and software-generated events...
2024-12-05 09:00
Alpine Linux 3.21 Released With Linux 6.12 & GCC 14, LoongArch CPU Support
Alpine Linux 3.21 is out today as the newest version of this simple, lightweight, and security-minded Linux distribution that is popular for use within containerized environments, embedded systems, and more...
2024-12-05 08:48
Linus Torvalds Comes Out Against "Completely Broken" x86_64 Feature Levels
With the new Linux kernel patches posted yesterday for cleaning up x86 32-bit kernels on x86_64 CPUs as part of that patch series was introducing new Kconfig build options around the x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels. It turns out though that To...
2024-12-05 06:53
Imagination PowerVR Driver Being Extended To Work On RISC-V
The Linux 6.8 kernel merged the Imagination PowerVR driver as a new open-source driver for supporting the PowerVR "Rogue" graphics architecture and being developed in tandem by Imagination Tech with their upstream Mesa Vulkan driver. Initially this Pow...
2024-12-05 06:34
New AMD XDNA Linux Driver Patches Add Ryzen AI NPU6 IP, Other Improvements
The "AMDXDNA" accelerator driver for supporting the Ryzen AI NPU is set to be introduced in the Linux 6.14 kernel next year. Ahead of that debut, a new set of patches from AMD surfaced on Wednesday to provide fixes and code improvements as well as intr...
2024-12-05 06:21
Linux Patches Would Allow RISC-V To Use A 64K Page Size
Patches from a Bytedance engineer for the Linux kernel allow for overcoming the current 4K page size limitation of RISC-V and introduce a new 64K page size option...
2024-12-05 06:04
Mozilla Formally Unveils its Rawr-Some New Logo
Mozilla has finally announced its new branding, describing its first refresh in over a decade as not merely ‘a facelift’ but an effort to lay the foundation for the company’s next 25 years. If you read this blog regularly — thank you! — you k...
2024-12-05 03:23
Mozilla Formally Unveils its Rawr-Some New Branding
Mozilla has finally unwrapped its new branding, describing the first refresh to its logo in over a decade as not merely ‘a facelift’ but an effort to lay foundations for the company’s next 25 years. If you read this blog regularly — thank you! ...
2024-12-05 03:23
Want to Try Tab Groups in Firefox? Here’s How
Tab groups, a nifty productivity feature already present in many other web browsers, including Google Chrome and Vivaldi, are coming to Mozilla Firefox. Except— that isn’t news, of course. Mozilla announced a series of major new features coming to ...
2024-12-04 23:50
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 209
Safari Technology Preview Release 209 is now available for download for macOS Sequoia and macOS Sonoma.
2024-12-04 23:00
Reclaim the internet: Mozilla’s rebrand for the next era of tech
Mozilla isn’t just another tech company — we’re a global crew of activists, technologists and builders, all working to keep the internet free, open and accessible. For over 25 years, we’ve championed the idea that the web should be for everyone...
2024-12-04 21:41
Mesa 24.3.1 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes
Building off the Mesa 24.3 release from two weeks ago is now Mesa 24.3.1 as the first stable point release following their usual bi-weekly release regiment...
2024-12-04 20:41
Intel Linux Display Driver Being Adapted For DRM Panic "Blue Screen of Death" Support
The DRM Panic infrastructure has been in the Linux kernel for several releases now and allows for a kernel-based experience similar to Windows' "Blue Screen of Death as well as more recently allowing QR code kernel error messages and other features. Th...
2024-12-04 16:55
Linux Foundation Newsletter: December 2024
The December 2024 LF newsletter is full of essential updates. We’ve got can’t-miss events, research news, new open source initiatives, and more! We’re so glad you’re here. Check out the highlights, save the dates, and be sure to register for u...
2024-12-04 15:28
This Is the Default Theme of Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie”
Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” default artwork has been revealed featuring organic forms inspired by Trixie's frill, with an obvious debt to futurePrototype. The post This Is the Default Theme of Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” appeared first on 9to...
2024-12-04 15:03