Open Source

Startup’s “AI” tool spams GitHub repositories with bogus commits, without consent
Most of the time, products with “AI” features just elicit sighs, especially when the product category in question really doesn’t need to have anything to do with “AI” in any way, shape, or form. More often than not, though, such features are ...
2024-11-14 22:47
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Rust Foundation moves forward on C++ and Rust interoperability
The Rust Foundation, which stewards development of the Rust language, has released a statement addressing challenges and opportunities for interoperability between Rust and C++, with the intent of making cross-language development more accessible and ...
2024-11-14 21:18
JetBrains IDEs ease debugging for Kubernetes apps
JetBrains IDEs, with new 2024.3 edition releases, now provide a logical code structure view alongside the familiar physical code structure view in the Structure tool window. The updated IDEs also streamline debugging for Kubernetes applications and pr...
2024-11-14 20:06
Khronos SYCL Being Updated To Increase Appeal For HPC & Scientific Computing
In addition to the release today of OpenMP 6.0 ahead of the SC24 supercomputing conference in Atlanta, over at The Khronos Group they have provided an update on upcoming SYCL improvements to benefit high performance computing (HPC) and scientific compu...
2024-11-14 19:00
OpenMP 6.0 Released With An Emphasis On Easier Parallel Programming
The OpenMP Architecture Review Board announced from SC24 that OpenMP 6.0 is now available as a major upgrade to the OpenMP specification for multi-process programming within C / C++ / Fortran. A big emphasis on OpenMP 6.0 is making it easier for develo...
2024-11-14 13:02
LibreOffice 24.8.3 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 88 Bug Fixes
The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 24.8.3 as the third maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 24.8 office suite series fixing … The post LibreOffice 24.8.3 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download ...
2024-11-14 12:40
Upstream Linux Developers Take Aim At TUXEDO's Out-Of-Tree GPLv3 Drivers
A new patch series posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list would block kernel modules/drivers from TUXEDO Computers from accessing GPL-only symbols in the kernel...
2024-11-14 12:10
Supermicro H13SSL-N For AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" 1P Servers
While it's difficult still finding Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" motherboards/servers widely available at Internet retailers/distributors, when it comes to the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors that launched just last month, there is better availability...
2024-11-14 10:52
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Enters Beta With Many New Features & Updates
The first public beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL 10) was released on Wednesday with a wide variety of new/updated packages, new features, and other changes over RHEL 9...
2024-11-14 10:26
How to use DispatchProxy for AOP in .NET Core
Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) decomposes an application’s source code into distinct aspects that isolate the core business logic from cross-cutting concerns. With AOP, cross-cutting concerns like logging and authentication become “aspects” t...
2024-11-14 09:00
Understanding Hyperlight, Microsoft’s minimal VM manager
Virtualization seemed to be one of those technologies that was done. With Hyper-V, VMware, and KVM all offering similar features and performance, all that was left to do was to support new chipset instructions and fix bugs. But slowly things began to ...
2024-11-14 09:00
AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver To Be Merged For Linux 6.13
Last month AMD Linux engineers posted patches for a 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver for Linux that allows the user to communicate their cache vs. frequency preference depending upon workload and for the 3D V-Cache processors where some CCDs have the larger...
2024-11-14 08:39
Linux 6.13 To Tune Intel Granite Rapids For Better Performance Out-Of-The-Box
A patch queued yesterday ino the Linux power management subsystem's "linux-next" branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 merge window will tune Intel Xeon Granite Rapids processors for better performance out-of-the-box...
2024-11-14 07:02
Linux To Allow Disabling TPM PCR Integrity Protection Due To Performance Bottleneck
Linux 6.10 introduced TPM bus encryption and integrity protection for enhancing the Trusted Platform Module support to protect against interposers from compromising them with TPM sniffing attacks. There is now a new option being added to opt-out of thi...
2024-11-14 06:35
Intel Touch Host Controller "THC" Driver Support Being Worked On For Linux
The newest Linux driver being developed by Intel is for the Touch Host Controller (THC) as a new high performance input tech for enhancing touch screen, touch pad, and stylus input handling...
2024-11-14 06:20
Bcachefs Squeezes More Fixes Into Linux 6.12
Ahead of the expected final Linux 6.12 stable kernel release this weekend, a last round of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted today for this next kernel version...
2024-11-14 06:07
Google drastically improves quality of the Android Emulator
One of the things I’ve consistently heard from just about anyone involved in Android development are laments about the sorry state of the Android Emulator included in Google’s Android Studio. It seems that particularly its performance is not great,...
2024-11-14 01:38
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Rhythmbox’s New Release Fixes Its Broken DAAP Server + More
A new version of the GTK-based music player Rhythmbox has been released, the first major update in over a year. Rhythmbox 3.4.8 is billed as a ‘minor improvement release’ so there are no shiny new features or (some would say overdue) UI changes to ...
2024-11-14 00:48
Rhythmbox’s New Release Fixes Its Broken DAAP Server
A new version of the GTK-based music player Rhythmbox has been released, the first major update in over a year. Rhythmbox 3.4.8 is billed as a ‘minor improvement release’ so there are no shiny new features or (some would say overdue) UI changes to ...
2024-11-14 00:48
Rhythmbox Update Brings DAAP Server Fix, Podcast Tweaks
A new version of the GTK-based music player Rhythmbox has been released, the first major update in over a year. Rhythmbox 3.4.8 is billed as a ‘minor improvement release’, so there are no shiny new features or (some would say overdue) UI changes to...
2024-11-14 00:48