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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
openSUSE Leap 16.0 Enters RC Phase With New Installer, Xfce On Wayland Option
Working toward the stable openSUSE Leap 16.0 release in late 2025, the release candidate period has begun for this Linux distribution aligned with SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 sources...
2025-08-04 21:31
F2FS Sees New Improvements Merged For Linux 6.17 While Bcachefs Languishes
Sent out today for the Linux 6.17 merge window and already merged hours later were the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) feature updates...
2025-08-04 20:21
Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
We are observing stealth crawling behavior from Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine. Although Perplexity initially crawls from their declared user agent, when they are presented with a network block, they appear to obscure their crawling identity i...
2025-08-04 19:34
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Chrome 140 Plans to Enable Auto Wayland Detection
Chrome's Ozone backend will auto-detect Wayland on Linux from v140. This should fix issues with blurry text and UI elements when fractional scaling is active. You're reading Chrome 140 Plans to Enable Auto Wayland Detection, a blog post from OMG! Ubunt...
2025-08-04 16:44
Chrome 140 Plans to Play Nicer with Wayland on Linux
Chrome's Ozone backend will auto-detect Wayland on Linux from v140. This should fix issues with blurry text and UI elements when fractional scaling is active. You're reading Chrome 140 Plans to Play Nicer with Wayland on Linux, a blog post from OMG! Ub...
2025-08-04 16:44
Chrome Plans to Play Nicer with Wayland on Linux
Chrome's Ozone backend will auto-detect Wayland on Linux from v140. This should fix issues with blurry text and UI elements when fractional scaling is active. You're reading Chrome Plans to Play Nicer with Wayland on Linux, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu...
2025-08-04 16:44
Individual Donors Help Keep Apache Software Free for Billions of Users Worldwide
The world’s most popular operating systems and apps rely on open source software projects overseen by The Apache Software Foundation By Sally Khudairi, VP Sponsor Relations Apache software touches our lives every day — often without our being aware...
2025-08-04 16:00
Git 2.51-rc0 Makes More Preparations For Git 3.0 Where It Will Use SHA-256 By Default
Junio Hamano announced the release of Git 2.51-rc0 to kick off the new week and the first step toward Git 2.51 as the next milestone for this open-source distributed version control system...
2025-08-04 14:40
AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 "Krackan Point" Offers Outstanding Value In Sub-$500 Laptops
Over the past three months we have been excitedly testing AMD's Strix Halo SoC with the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 flagship model as well as the Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 as one step below. Strix Halo offers excellent CPU and GPU performance capabilities at the ...
2025-08-04 13:25
NVIDIA CUDA 13.0 Available With Unified Arm Platform Support
Along with today's NVIDIA R580 Linux driver beta, the CUDA 13.0 toolkit is now available to download and depends upon the new R580 Linux driver series...
2025-08-04 12:49
Mesa NVK Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.4 For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" GPUs
Merged a short time ago to Mesa 25.3-devel Git and marked for back-porting to the Mesa 25.2 series is advertising Vulkan 1.4 conformance for NVIDIA's latest Blackwell GPUs...
2025-08-04 12:36
Try Xfce on Wayland with openSUSE Leap 16.0 RC
Entering RC Phase openSUSE Leap 16.0 has officially transitioned from Beta into the Release Candidate phase with the Build 148.4. The biggest challenge for the Release Team prior to Autumn release is source code management, as we want to transition bot...
2025-08-04 11:00
NVIDIA 580 Beta Linux Driver Brings Fixes, Wayland fifo-v1 Support With Vulkan
NVIDIA today published the v580.65.06 as their first beta driver version in the new NVIDIA 580 Linux driver series...
2025-08-04 10:55
Microsegmentation for developers
In the early days of network security, microsegmentation was a firewall tactic. You divided your network into trust zones, assigned rules to each zone, and tried to prevent lateral movement. Microsegmentation was slow to implement, hard to maintain, a...
2025-08-04 09:00