Heroku PaaS adds .NET support
Meeting a longstanding request from users, Salesforce’s Heroku — one of the original platforms as a service (PaaS) — has unveiled official support for .NET development. Heroku also made its Heroku Next Generation Platform available in a pilot. T...
Flexbar Brings Apple’s Touch Bar Back from the Dead
A new crowdfunding project aims to revive the (oft-derided) MacBook Pro Touch Bar, this time as a standalone device that work with Windows, macOS and, potentially, Linux too. It’s called Flexbar, and it’s currently seeking cash through Kickstarter....
Convert NTFS to Btrfs and boot Windows off Btrfs
Ntfs2btrfs is a tool which does in-place conversion of Microsoft’s NTFS filesystem to the open-source filesystem Btrfs, much as btrfs-convert does for ext2. The original image is saved as a reflink copy at image/ntfs.img, and if you want to keep t...
Kotlin previews guard conditions in when expressions
JetBrains has released Kotlin 2.1.0, an update to the Kotlin programming language that previews guard conditions and has compiler updates offering flexibility around checks. Released November 27, Kotlin 2.1.0 can be installed as an update by following...
AMD ROCm 6.3 Tags Begin Appearing On GitHub
Last week ROCm 6.3 was announced on the AMD Community Blog with a set of nice enhancements to this open-source GPU compute stack. While some good additions, when the announcement went live ROCm 6.2 software was still showing up as the latest and the op...
Bridging the gap: Hybrid themes
Discover the key differences between two common WordPress theme types and learn how to seamlessly integrate modern block theme features into a classic theme. This approach allows for a smooth, gradual transition to block-based functionality while retai...
ASF Project Spotlight: Apache CloudStack
Can you tell us a bit about the project? Apache CloudStack is an open source solution designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines as a highly available, highly scalable cloud computing platform. CloudStack includes an intuitive ...
Using trusted execution environments for advertising use cases
This article is the next in a series of posts we’ll be doing to provide more information on how Anonym’s technology works. We started with a high level overview, which you can read here. Mozilla acquired Anonym over the summer of 2024, as a key p...
