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PostgreSQL Finally Deprecates MD5 Passwords
While long overdue, the PostgreSQL database server has finally deprecated MD5 password support with its latest code...
2024-12-03 05:20
Last Call For This Year's Phoronix Premium Cyber Week Sale
If you would like to show your support this holiday season and enjoy the site ad-free, multi-page articles on a single page, and other benefits, today is the last day of the discounted rate on joining Phoronix Premium...
2024-12-03 05:07
Rust 1.83 expands const capabilities
The Rust Team has released Rust 1.83, an update to the memory-safe and thread-safe programming language that brings expanded capabilities for code running in const contexts. The Rust Team also announced that it is moving forward with the Rust 2024 edi...
2024-12-03 01:46
Bits from the DPL
This is bits from DPL for November. MiniDebConf Toulouse I had the pleasure of attending the MiniDebConf in Toulouse, which featured a range of engaging talks, complementing those from the recent MiniDebConf in Cambridge. Both events were preceded by a...
2024-12-03 00:00
Cinnamon Desktop 6.4 Released with New Look
A new version of the Cinnamon desktop environment has been tagged for release – a sure-fire sign that the Linux Mint 22.1 beta is on the way! As the flagship desktop of Linux Mint, Cinnamon 6.4 will come preinstalled in Linux Mint 22.1 when it’s re...
2024-12-02 22:09
Cinnamon Desktop 6.4 Brings New Look, New Features
A new version of the Cinnamon desktop environment has been tagged for release – a sure-fire sign that the Linux Mint 22.1 beta is on the way! As the flagship desktop of Linux Mint, Cinnamon 6.4 will come preinstalled in Linux Mint 22.1 when it’s re...
2024-12-02 22:09
Join Canonical in Mumbai at HPE Discover More
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is proud to sponsor HPE Discover More in Mumbai. Join us to learn how Canonical and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) can help you securely advance your business with comprehensive open source solutions that span fr...
2024-12-02 21:13
FreeBSD 14.2 Released With OpenZFS Upgrade, Installer Improvements
FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE is out today as a strong, incremental update to the FreeBSD 14 series...
2024-12-02 20:20
Red Hat Ansible service comes to AWS Marketplace
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Service, for automating the management of hybrid cloud infrastructure, now is available as a managed offering on Amazon Web Services through the AWS Marketplace. General availability of Red Hat’s automation servic...
2024-12-02 18:52
Canonical announces public beta of optimized Ubuntu image for Qualcomm IoT platforms
Today Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, and Qualcomm® Technologies announce the official beta launch of the very first optimized image of  Ubuntu for Qualcomm® IoT Platforms. Through this beta program, developers will be able to download and use U...
2024-12-02 16:50
Qt Creator 15 Open-Source IDE Released with Axivion Support, New Themes
Qt Creator 15 open-source IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is now available for download with Axivion support, new themes, and more. Here's what's new! The post Qt Creator 15 Open-Source IDE Released with Axivion Support, New Themes appeared fi...
2024-12-02 16:14
AWS PartyRock updated with free daily usage for developers
Amazon Web Services has updated AWS PartyRock, its mostly free low code tool for building generative AI applications with a new app search function and the ability to build document processing into applications. PartyRock, otherwise known as Amazon Be...
2024-12-02 15:42
Download the Cloud Optimization Enterprise Spotlight
Download the December 2024 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World.
2024-12-02 15:00
If not React, then what?
Rejecting an engrained practice of bullshitting does not come easily. Frameworkism preaches that the way to improve user experiences is to adopt more (or different) tooling from the framework’s ecosystem. This provides adherents with something to do...
2024-12-02 14:10
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NVK, RADV, & Other Mesa Drivers Ready With Launch Day Vulkan 1.4 Support
Years ago when new OpenGL spec releases would occur, it could take months or years for the open-source Mesa drivers to catch-up in supporting the latest versions... Thankfully in the Vulkan space it continues to prove to be a very different story. As w...
2024-12-02 14:09
Mir 2.19 Released With Atomic KMS Platform Support, New Wayland Protocols
Mir 2.19 is out today as the newest version of this Ubuntu/Canonical project making it easier for other desktops/environments to embrace Wayland support. This set of libraries for building Wayland-based shells has added a few new features with today's ...
2024-12-02 13:51
The Hall SC-VGA-2 video processor, the Atari ST and NeXTSTEP: more tales of the unscreenshotable
This is the Hall Research Technologies SC-VGA-2, sold as a “VGA/HDTV Video Processor.” In addition to slicing, dicing and pureeing, apparently, it will take any of a bundle of input formats and both rescale and resample them on the fly into the VGA...
2024-12-02 13:31
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AWS brings RAG evaluation and LLM-as-a-judge feature to Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated Amazon Bedrock with features designed to help enterprises streamline the testing of applications before deployment. Announced during the ongoing annual re:Invent conference, the new features include a retrieval au...
2024-12-02 12:57
MNT Pocket Reform Sculpt 24.10 preview image
Within in the last release cycle we worked on adding and extending the support for the i.MX8MP SoC as also found in one of the SoM options for the MNT Pocket Reform and are happy to show-case a first preview version of Sculpt running on this handy co...
2024-12-02 12:39
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Vulkan 1.4 Released With More Extensions Mandated, Better 8K Rendering
As a lovely early Christmas present, The Khronos Group used SIGGRAPH Asia today for announcing the Vulkan 1.4 specification release...
2024-12-02 12:00