AMD deprioritizing flagship gaming GPUs
I had a chance to speak to Jack Huynh, AMD’s senior vice president and general manager of the Computing and Graphics Business Group, during IFA 2024 in a question and answer session. Due to speculation that AMD won’t launch flagship GPUs fo...
Ubuntu 24.10 Desktop To Ship With Sysprof Profiler Pre-Installed
Following Canonical's decision to enable frame pointers by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and then they ended up adding a number of performance tools to ship by default with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, for Ubuntu 24.10 a late change is adding another tool to be ins...
Rust 1.81 stabilizes Error trait
Rust 1.81 is now available, with the newest version of the memory-safe language, featuring a stabilization of the Error trait in the Rust core library. Rust 1.81 was released September 5. Developers with a previous version of Rust installed via rustu...
C language slumps in Tiobe popularity index
The C language has dropped to fourth place in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, its lowest position in the monthly index ever. The index was begun in 2001. In the Tiobe Programming Community Index for September 2024, published Septe...
Redox 0.9.0 released
It’s been two years, but we finally have a proper new Redox release: the Redox team released version 0.9.0 today. Since we’ve been covering all the monthly progress reports from this Rust-based operating system for a long time now, we’...
AppSumo: this week’s sponsor
AppSumo is a marketplace where software developers and other entrepreneurs can launch their products, giving special offers to early adopters. Many AppSumo deals offer lifetime licenses, so you can throw in your support for an up-and-coming product and...
Linux’s bedtime routine
How does Linux move from an awake machine to a hibernating one? How does it then manage to restore all state? These questions led me to read way too much C in trying to figure out how this particular hardware/software boundary is navigated. ↫ Jacob A...
KDE to focus on improving developer experience, input methods
The KDE project is currently having its yearly conference – Akademy – and at the conference, the project announced its goals for the coming years. The KDE community has charted its course for the coming years, focusing on three interconnect...
Does your organization need a data fabric?
Data fabrics have gained importance over the last year as more organizations seek to leverage their data and intellectual property in generative AI solutions. Data fabrics help address the challenges of centralizing data across business units and data...
Junior developers and AI
Generative AI has filled the world with code. Unfortunately, enough of it is bad code that you’re still going to need experienced developers who can fix the errors introduced by genAI. But what about junior developers? What’s their role in a world...
Haystack review: A flexible LLM app builder
Haystack is an open-source framework for building applications based on large language models (LLMs) including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications, intelligent search systems for large document collections, and much more. Haystack is cur...
How to implement a headless data architecture
The headless data architecture is the formalization of a data access layer at the center of your organization. Encompassing both streams and tables, it provides consistent data access for both operational and analytical use cases. Streams provide low-...
RISC Laptops of the 90s and early 2000s
Paul Weissmann’s OpenPA, the invaluable archive on anything related to the HP’s PA-RISC architecture, devices, and operating systems, has branched off for a bit and started collecting information on RISC laptops. Technical computing in the ...
Fastfetch is the Perfect Replacement for Neofetch
When development on system info tool Neofetch was discontinued1 earlier this year a slew of forks, alternatives, and upstart projects sprung up to fill the void. Yet the Neofetch alternative that’s gained the most traction —anecdotally, at leas...
