Mission Center 1.0: New Features, Better Performance
Linux system monitoring app Mission Center has put out its first update in 6 months – and it’s a big one! Mission Center 1.0 adds new hardware tracking, UI tweaks, and refactors its backend to provide palapble performance improvements, boost the ap...
Mozilla’s CEO discusses testimony in U.S. v. Google search case
Today, Mozilla Chief Financial Officer, Eric Muhlheim, testified in the U.S. v. Google LLC search trial, highlighting the potential impacts this case could have on small and independent browsers, and the overall ecosystem. There are a few key themes ...
OSle: a tiny boot sector operating system
OSle is an incredibly small operating system, coming in at only 510 bytes, so it fits entirely into a boot sector. It runs in real-mode, and is written in assembly. Despite the small size, it has a shell, a read and write file system, process managemen...
Paprius Icon Set Update Adds New Icons, Plasma 6 Support
If you use the Papirus icon theme on Ubuntu, you’ll be pleased to hear a new version is available to download. Frequent updates are a major reason why the Papirus icon set is so popular with Linux users. After all, it’s annoying to switch to a styl...
Papirus Icon Set Update Adds New Icons, Plasma 6 Support
If you use the Papirus icon theme on Ubuntu, you’ll be pleased to hear a new version is available to download. Frequent updates are a major reason why the Papirus icon set is so popular with Linux users. After all, it’s annoying to switch to a styl...
AWS changes the pricing of CloudWatch logs in Lambda
AWS has changed the pricing of CloudWatch logs inside its serverless compute service Lambda to introduce tiered pricing that can lower costs for high-volume enterprise users. “On May 1st, 2025, AWS announced changes to Lambda logging, which can redu...
Amazon launches Nova Premier, its ‘most capable’ AI model yet
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched Nova Premier, its most advanced AI model to date, via Amazon Bedrock. Designed for enterprise use, the model targets complex, multi-step workflows and supports model distillation, enabling smaller models to inher...
Experiments in JavaScript: What’s new in reactive design
Experimentation is the name of the game in front-end JavaScript development, and reactive frameworks like Angular, React, Vue, and Svelte are the nexus for innovation in modern web UIs. Keeping an eye on that landscape helps keep your perspective fre...
Public cloud providers get into the chip market
The world of public cloud computing is at an inflection point. Cloud providers face significant challenges amid a global surge in demand for GPUs, driven by artificial intelligence and other data-intensive workloads. There is no easy path, given the s...
Tumbleweed Monthly Update - April 2025
The rolling release Tumbleweed continues enhancements in April and brings more usefulness to gamers, developers and others with the delivery of several snapshots. Among the key highlights this month, Tumbleweed users benefit from a major security boost...
Canonical Brings Ubuntu 24.04 to Qualcomm Dragonwing Vision Kit
Canonical has announced the first official Ubuntu desktop image for the Qualcomm DragonWing platform. A beta image of Ubuntu 24.04 desktop compatible with Qualcomm Dragonwing QCS6490 and QCS5430 processors, and specifically tailored for the Qualcomm R...
JetBrains AI Assistant panned in JetBrains Marketplace
Despite having been downloaded nearly 23 million times, the JetBrains AI Assistant has received bad reviews on the company’s JetBrains Marketplace website, prompting JetBrains to remove some of the reviews. Unveiled in December 2023, the JetBrains A...
DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1 released
It has been well over two years since the last release of DragonFlyBSD, version 6.4.0, and today the project pushed out a small update, DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1. It fixes a few small, longstanding issues, but as the version number suggests, don’t expect an...
Zhaoxin’s KX-7000 x86-64 processor
Chips and Cheese takes a very detailed look at the latest processor design from Zhaoxin, the Chinese company that inherited VIA’s x86 license and has been making new x86 chips ever since. Their latest design, 世纪大道 (Century Avenue), tries to t...
Run x86-64 games on RISC-V with felix86
If RISC-V ever manages to take off, this is going to be an important tool in RISC-V users’ toolbox: felix86 is an x86-64 userspace emulator for RISC-V. felix86 emulates an x86-64 CPU running in userspace, which is to say it is not a virtual machine l...
