Open Source

Canonical announces Ubuntu Security Research Alliance Program 
Today, Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announced its new Ubuntu Security Research Alliance Program, a free partnership between Canonical and open source vulnerability scanning organizations.  The goal is to ensure vulnerability data is more transp...
2024-12-04 14:56
Fedora Moves Towards Forgejo – A Unified Decision
The decision to move to Forgejo as the new git forge has been made. There are numerous factors involved in this decision and this article will discuss them, present some background on the process, and invite one more chance for feedback before the form...
2024-12-04 14:11
Fedora Moves Towards Forgejo
The decision to move to Forgejo as the new git forge has been made. There are numerous factors involved in this decision and this article will discuss them, present some background on the process, and invite one more chance for feedback before the form...
2024-12-04 14:11
How Chrome doubled its Speedometer scores on Android
Today’s The Fast and the Curious post covers how Chrome achieved best-in-class Speedometer scores on mobile devices, resulting in faster and smoother web experiences for Android users. Chrome has always been about speed. Whether it's loading pages q...
2024-12-04 14:00
NVIDIA vs. AMD GPU Workstation Performance For Blender 4.3
With the recent release of Blender 4.3 for this leading open-source 3D modeling software, I've been carrying out some fresh NVIDIA vs. AMD GPU benchmarks for accelerated rendering across several different popular benchmark scenes.
2024-12-04 13:39
"Ceratopsian" will be the default theme for Debian 13
The theme "Ceratopsian" by Elise Couper has been selected as the default theme for Debian 13 "trixie". The theme is inspired by Trixie's (the fictional character from Toy Story) frill and is also influenced by a previously used theme called "futureProt...
2024-12-04 13:30
6 ways we supported learning and education in 2024
To help, Google for Education rolled out more than 65 updates across our products in 2024, based on feedback from millions of educators and students. From tailoring Goog…
2024-12-04 13:00
AWS amplifies developer tools with new gen AI features
AWS is leaving no stone unturned to get generative AI tools embedded into every aspect of application development. At its annual re:Invent conference, AWS CEO Matt Garman showcased a large of features and tools that the company has built for developer...
2024-12-04 12:33
Microsoft: we’re not lowering the Windows 11 system requirements
If you were secretly hoping Microsoft would lower the system requirements for Windows 11 so you could upgrade your or your family’s Windows 10 machines to Windows 11, you’re going to be in for some bad news. In a blog post, Microsoft detailed that ...
2024-12-04 12:20
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Meta quietly leans on rival GPT-4 despite Zuckerberg’s bold Llama claims
Mark Zuckerberg has consistently championed Meta’s Llama AI model as a leader in generative AI technology, positioning it as a strong competitor to OpenAI and Google. However, behind the scenes, Meta is complementing Llama with a rival AI model to m...
2024-12-04 11:51
Debian 13 Desktop Theme Finalized Ahead Of Next Year's Release
As a follow-up to last month's article around the Debian 13 release processes continuing and desktop artwork voting underway for Debian 13 "Trixie", the winning desktop theme/artwork was announced today...
2024-12-04 10:53
OpenVPN DCO Looks Like It Might Be Ready For Linux 6.14 To Speed-Up VPN Performance
In development for several years has been the OpenVPN DCO Linux kernel module for data channel offload (DCO) capabilities to provide for much faster virtual private networking (VPN) performance. It's looking like the lengthy review process on OpenVPN D...
2024-12-04 10:35
AMDVLK 2024.Q4.2 Released With New Extensions, Other Changes
AMDVLK 2024.Q4.2 is out today as the newest official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver release for Linux systems...
2024-12-04 10:27
Leap Micro 6.1 Release Candidate
Release Candidate images of Leap Micro 6.1 can be found at get.opensuse.org. At this point we’re only awaiting confirmation of the Leap Micro 6.1 maintenance setup prior making an official release; hopefully coming later this week. Please be aware th...
2024-12-04 10:00
Cython tutorial: How to speed up Python
Python is a powerful programming language that is easy to learn and easy to work with, but it is not always the fastest to run—especially when you’re dealing with math or statistics. Third-party libraries like NumPy, which wrap C libraries, can im...
2024-12-04 09:00
Intro to Express.js: Endpoints, parameters, and routes
Express.js is the most-used HTTP server and middleware platform for Node.js. Let’s take a hands-on look at what it brings to the table. Request handling with Express.js Handling requests over the Internet is one of the most frequent and common task...
2024-12-04 09:00
Just say no to JavaScript
The JavaScript programming language has a lot of history, but it was created over about — yes — a week in 1995. It was first called LiveScript, but the name was changed to JavaScript to ride the bandwagon for Java, despite having nothing to do wi...
2024-12-04 09:00