Open Source

Khronos Announces Slang Initiative From Open-Source NVIDIA Code
On top of an exciting Vulkan spec update out today, The Khronos Group has announced the Slang Initiative based on NVIDIA's open-source Slang compiler code...
2024-11-21 09:42
Advanced programming with Java generics
Generics in Java enhance the type safety of your code and make it easier to read. In my last article, I introduced the general concepts of generics and showed examples from the Java Collections Framework. You also learned how to use generics to avoid ...
2024-11-21 09:00
VKD3D 1.14 Released With Initial Metal Shading Language Output
Ahead of the upcoming freeze for Wine 10.0, VKD3D 1.14 is now available for this prominent Wine component that allows Direct3D 12 to be implemented over the Vulkan API for enhancing Windows games/apps running on Linux and other platforms...
2024-11-21 08:35
Linux 6.13 EDAC Preps For Panther Lake H & Missing Support For Old Kabylake S CPUs
The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates landed this week for the ongoing Linux 6.13 kernel merge window...
2024-11-21 06:34
PHP 8.4 Released With Property Hooks, Lazy Objects & Other New Features
PHP 8.4 is out today as the newest annual major feature release to this widely-used scripting language...
2024-11-21 06:24
Vulkan 1.3.302 Published With AV1 Encode & NVIDIA Display Stereo Extensions
Vulkan 1.3.302 was published this morning with a handful of new extensions, including AV1 encode support for Vulkan Video...
2024-11-21 05:50
RHEL AI, JBoss EAP 8 coming to Azure cloud
Red Hat will be making Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 8 available on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. Both arrangements were announced on November 19. Through a collaboration with Micro...
2024-11-21 01:32
Linux to lose support for Apple and IBM’s failed PowerPC Common Hardware Reference Platform
Ah, the Common Hardware Reference Platform, IBM’s and Apple’s ill-fated attempt at taking on the PC market with a reference PowerPC platform anybody could build and expand upon while remaining (mostly) compatible with one another. Sadly, like so ma...
2024-11-20 23:09
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Microsoft pushes full-screen ads for Copilot+ PCs on Windows 10 users
Windows 10’s free, guaranteed security updates stop in October 2025, less than a year from now. Windows 10 users with supported PCs have been offered the Windows 11 upgrade plenty of times before. But now Microsoft is apparently making a fresh push ...
2024-11-20 22:53
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OpenVMS V9.2-3 released
VMS Software, the company migrating OpenVMS to x86 (well, virtualised x86, at least) has announced the release of OpenVMS 9.2-3, which brings with a number of new features and changes. It won’t surprise you to hear that many of the changes are about ...
2024-11-20 22:41
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Bcachefs Changes Rejected Reportedly Due To CoC, Kernel Future "Uncertain"
While the Bcachefs feature changes for Linux 6.13 were already submitted even before the Linux 6.12 stable kernel was released, merging these changes are supposedly on hold due to the kernel's Code of Conduct (CoC) board...
2024-11-20 22:34
Azure Container Apps launches Python, JavaScript interpreters
Python code interpreter sessions are generally available for Microsoft’s Azure Container Apps serverless platform for running applications and microservices.  The service is also offering custom dynamic sessions, with JavaScript code interpreter ca...
2024-11-20 22:26
Linux 6.13 Adds Support For Ultra Capacity SD Cards "SDUC" For 2TB To 128TB Storage
Linux 6.13 has merged support for the Secure Digital Ultra Capacity "SDUC" standard for 2TB to 128TB storage capacity SD cards...
2024-11-20 20:22
Ubuntu? That’s a Bullfinch, Not an Oriole
Here’s something a little lighthearted—unless you’re pedantic about ornithology, in which case you won’t be so chirpy: it seems a Bullfinch found its way into Ubuntu 24.10 ‘Oracular Oriole’. Did someone leave a window open?! If you upgraded...
2024-11-20 18:30