DOJ will push Google to sell Chrome to break search monopoly
Speaking of Google, the United States Department of Justice is pushing for Google to sell off Chrome. Top Justice Department antitrust officials have decided to ask a judge to force Alphabet Inc.’s Google to sell off its Chrome browser in what would...
20 years of Firefox: How a community project changed the web
What was browsing the web like in 2004? People said things like “surfing the internet,” for starters. Excessive pop-up ads were annoying but they felt like the norm. The search bar and multiple tabs did not exist, and there seemed to be only one br...
Google is reportedly killing Chrome OS in favour of Android
Mishaal Rahman, who has a history of being right about Google and Android-related matters, is reporting that Google is intending to standardise its consumer operating system efforts onto a single platform: Android. To better compete with the iPad as we...
Akka distributed computing platform adds Java SDK
Akka, formerly known as Lightbend, has released Akka 3, an update to the JVM-based distributed computing platform that adds a Java SDK as well as serverless and “bring your own cloud” deployment options. Akka 3 and the company’s name change were...
You Can Now Download Daily Builds of Ubuntu 25.04
A sure-fire way to tell that development has moved up a gear: Ubuntu 25.04 daily builds are now available to download. Development formally got underway on Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ last month, with the final stable release of Ubuntu 25.04 arriv...
Ubuntu 25.04 Daily Builds Are Now Available
A sure-fire way to tell that development has moved up a gear: Ubuntu 25.04 daily builds are now available to download. Development formally got underway on Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ last month, with the final stable release of Ubuntu 25.04 arriv...
Profile-guided optimization: A case study
Software developers spend a huge amount of effort working on optimization – extracting more speed and better performance from their algorithms and programs. This work usually involves a lot of time-consuming manual investigation, making automatic per...
Charging ahead on AI openness and safety
On the official ”road to the French Government’s AI Action Summit,” Mozilla and Columbia University’s Institute of Global Politics are bringing together AI experts and practitioners to advance AI safety approaches that embody the values of open...
Linux 6.13 Quadrupling Workqueue Concurrency Limit
The Linux kernel Workqueue (WQ) is used for handling asynchronous process execution. For the past many years there has been an upper limit on the number of workqueue execution contexts per CPU at 512, but with Linux 6.13 that is being quadrupled to a l...
Linux 6.12 released
Version 6.12 of the Linux kernel has been released. The main feature consists of the merger of the real-time PREEMPT_RT scheduler, most likely one of the longest-running merger sagas in Linux’ history. This means that Linux now fully supports both so...
Ignite Creativity in Hack Week
Open-source software developers, tech enthusiasts and innovators worldwide are set for Hack Week 24 that starts today and runs through Nov. 22. The event is a cornerstone of fostering creativity and collaboration and invites participants to explore per...
14 great preprocessors for developers who love to code
As much as we love them, programming languages can often feel like straitjackets. They’re a complex bundle of syntactic rules, and if we break them–even once–the compiler starts screaming out error messages. There are conventions to define every...
