Open Source

AMX-FP8 Support Upstreamed Into LLVM For Intel Diamond Rapids
Intel compiler engineer Feng Zou has upstreamed AMX-FP8 support into the LLVM compiler stack. This FP8 extension to the Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) is coming with next-gen Diamond Rapids processors alongside other new ISA extensions...
2024-10-31 06:43
SUSE's Agama Installer Adds QR Code To The Console & Other Improvements
SUSE's Agama OS installer 10 was recently released as the newest feature iteration for this next-gen OS installer for SUSE/openSUSE...
2024-10-31 06:33
SVT-AV1 2.3 Brings More Performance Improvements: AVX-512 & LTO By Default, More Tuning
SVT-AV1 2.3 is now available as the newest feature release to this leading open-source AV1 encoder. With SVT-AV1 2.3 there are yet more performance improvements...
2024-10-31 06:20
AMDVLK 2024.Q4.1 Adds A Few More Vulkan Extensions
One month has passed since the AMDVLK 2024.Q3.3 driver release while today has brought the AMDVLK 2024.Q4.1 release with a few new Vulkan API extensions...
2024-10-31 06:03
Google Chrome Update Offers More Control Over Memory Usage
The latest stable update to Google Chrome introduces an enhanced Memory Saver feature which could help you reduce the browser’s memory footprint. It’s fair to say that Google Chrome is infamous for being a memory hog. Is it deserved? Perhaps once u...
2024-10-30 23:54
Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
The standard trope when talking about timezones is to rattle off falsehoods programmers believe about them. These lists are only somewhat enlightening – it’s really hard to figure out what truth is just from the contours of falsehood. So here’s a...
2024-10-30 23:49
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Google’s Flutter framework has been forked
Flutter, the Google-led development environment for building multi-device UIs from a single codebase, has been forked. The intention behind the fork is to expand Flutter’s available labor and accelerate development, said developer Matt Carroll. In a...
2024-10-30 23:29
Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” Is Slated for Release on April 17th, 2025
Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” operating system has been slated for release next year on April 17th, 2025, and it’s expected to come with the GNOME 48 desktop environment and Linux kernel 6.14. The post Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” Is Slated fo...
2024-10-30 21:06
Ubuntu 25.04 Opens Development with Big Build Change
Ubuntu developers today announced that Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ is officially open for development. There’s even a release date: Ubuntu 25.04 is out on April 17, 2025. Still, that’s a way off; there are 6 months of development stretching ou...
2024-10-30 20:59
Ubuntu 25.04 Opens Development with Major Build Change
Ubuntu developers today announced that Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ is officially open for development. There’s even a release date: Ubuntu 25.04 is out on April 17, 2025. Still, that’s a way off; there are 6 months of development stretching ou...
2024-10-30 20:59
Ubuntu 25.04 Officially Opens for Development
Ubuntu developers today announced that Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ is officially open for development. There’s even a release date: Ubuntu 25.04 is out on April 17, 2025. Still, that’s a way off; there are 6 months of development stretching ou...
2024-10-30 20:59
Ubuntu 25.04 Opens Development with Major Packaging Change
Ubuntu developers today announced that Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ is officially open for development. There’s even a release date: Ubuntu 25.04 is out on April 17, 2025. Still, that’s a way off; there are 6 months of development stretching ou...
2024-10-30 20:59
Wasmer WebAssembly platform now backs iOS
Wasmer 5.0, the latest stable version of the WebAssembly-based runtime, has been released with support for the iOS mobile operating system. The release also features a leaner codebase and enhanced performance, and support for the Emscripten compiler t...
2024-10-30 20:42
AMD "Cleaner Shader" Coming For GFX11.0.3 GPUs To Help Ensure User/App Isolation
A new patch posted today for the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver is introducing a "cleaner shader" explicitly for GFX11.0.3 GPUs like the Radeon 780M integrated graphics to help ensure that there is sufficient data isolation between different workl...
2024-10-30 20:27
Audacity 3.7 Delivers Bug Fixes, Improves Compatibility with Linux
Music makers, podcast producers, and amateur audio enthusiasts alike will be pleased to hear a new version of Audacity is out – and it fixes a lot of bugs. Audacity 3.7.0 marks a new series of maintenance releases which will fix flaws, balm bugs, and...
2024-10-30 20:08
Amazon rolls out a genAI-powered inline chat function for Amazon Q Developer
Saving even a few keystrokes is worth quite a bit to enterprise developers, and to assist with that, Amazon Tuesday rolled out an updated version of its genAI-powered in-IDE chat capabilities that brings the AI-suggested code and documentation directl...
2024-10-30 19:10
Audacity 3.7 Open-Source Audio Editor Is Out to Improve Linux Compatibility
Audacity 3.7 open-source digital audio editor and recording software is now available for download with improved Linux compatibility and various bug fixes. Here's what's changed! The post Audacity 3.7 Open-Source Audio Editor Is Out to Improve Linux Co...
2024-10-30 18:22
Pre-Orders Open for Pine64’s e-Ink Linux Tablet
Forget Amazon’s recent Kindle refresh, the most exciting e-ink device around is the PineNote from prolific open-source hardware makers Pine64. I reported last month that Pine64 had confirmed a new PineNote production run, the first in several years, ...
2024-10-30 18:16