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Stupendous Python stunts without a net
In this week’s Python Report: Sly tricks for setting up Python on a machine with no network, snappier Python code with asyncand await, swifter Python programs with Zig, and slicker web apps with HTMX and Django. Top picks for Python readers on InfoW...
2025-03-14 17:35
Radeon RX 9070 Fan Speed Reporting & Other Last Minute AMD Changes For Linux 6.15
Additional AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver updates were sent out today for collecting ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window. As we are late in the cycle, most of the new AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver changes are fixes,...
2025-03-14 16:43
What is System Hardening? Essential Checklists from OS to Applications
Hardening a system aims to decrease its exposure to make it difficult to hack, and to lessen the potential collateral damage in the event of a compromise.
2025-03-14 14:39
Git 2.49 Released With Faster Packing, Rust Foreign Language Interface
Git 2.49 is out today as the latest feature update for this widely-used distributed version control system...
2025-03-14 14:22
Mediatek DRM Driver Adding MT8365 "Genio 350" Support In Linux 6.15
On top of the big features for the Intel graphics driver code and new AMD hardware support coming for Linux 6.15 along with the initial NOVA driver stub, the smaller Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers have also been lining up their changes for this...
2025-03-14 11:24
GCC 15 Deprecates Support For The ESA/390 Architecture
In addition to the COBOL language front-end being merged this week for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler release, another notable change also landed this week... Deprecating ESA/390 architecture support in preparation for its eventual removal...
2025-03-14 10:15
Arm Shows Off Great Performance Results For PGO & BOLT With LLVM/Clang
Arm software engineer Peter Waller has shared some insightful benchmarks of the impact of PGO, Context Sensitive PGO (CSPGO), and BOLT optimizations across various classes of Neoverse processor designs...
2025-03-14 10:03
Glibc's Hyperbolic Functions Score Nice Speed-Ups With FMA Optimizations
The GNU C Library's tanh and other hyperbolic functions are now as much as 14~17% faster on modern Intel and AMD CPUs with the FMA instruction support for fused multiply-add operations...
2025-03-14 09:00
What is Llama? Meta AI’s family of large language models explained
Llama, a family of sort-of open-source large language models (LLMs), was introduced in February 2023, and has been updated periodically ever since. Llama shook up the world of LLMs, which had previously been dominated by ever-larger closed-source mode...
2025-03-14 09:00
Mesa RADV/RadeonSI Now Support RDNA4 GPUs With Radeon GPU Profiler
Landing in Mesa 25.1 today for the RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI OpenGL drivers is Radeon GPU Profiler "RGP" integration for RDNA4/GFX12 GPUs with the newly-launched Radeon RX 9070 series...
2025-03-14 07:05
Free95 0.2 Alpha Released As Open-Source Windows Compatible OS
While ReactOS is widely known as the open-source operating system working on maintaining software and driver compatibility with Microsoft Windows, there's another new one in the field and it's Free95. The Free95 project is working to become an open-sou...
2025-03-14 06:40
IGT GPU Tools 2.0 Released For Helping To Develop DRM Drivers
IGT GPU Tools began as a set of tools by Intel for working on their Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver but with time has been broadened by the open-source community to support non-Intel drivers/hardware. IGT GPU Tools 2.0 was released o...
2025-03-14 06:22
Java hiring plans slip, survey says
Slightly more than half of Java shops surveyed (51%) have plans to add more Java developers in the coming year, down from 60% in 2024, according to a report by Perforce, a provider of Java development and devops tools. And while 34% plan to increase t...
2025-03-14 02:51
Haiku gets new malloc implementation, removes Gopher support from its browser
We’ve got the Haiku activity report covering February, and aside from the usual slew of bug fixes and minor improvements, there’s one massive improvement that deserves attention. waddlesplash continued his ongoing memory management improvements, fi...
2025-03-13 23:53
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WinRing0: why Windows is flagging your PC monitoring and fan control apps as a threat
When I checked where Windows Defender had actually detected the threat, it was in the Fan Control app I use to intelligently cool my PC. Windows Defender had broken it, and that’s why my fans were running amok. For others, the threat was detected in ...
2025-03-13 23:22
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KDE splits KWin into kwin_x11 and kwin_wayland
One of the biggest behind-the-scenes changes in the upcoming Plasma 6.4 release is the split of kwin_x11 and kwin_wayland codebases. With this blog post, I would like to delve in what led us to making such a decision and what it means for the future of...
2025-03-13 22:50
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Bodhi Linux Shows Off New Theme, Revived Modules
A ‘fresh new look’ is heading to Bodhi Linux, the Ubuntu-based Linux distribution built around the Moksha desktop, a fork of Enlightenment 17. Noting that the look of recent releases has leaned towards the dark side—no, not that one, Darth—the ...
2025-03-13 22:10
Linux Patch Posted For Syncing The Kernel Code With Zstd 1.5.7
The Zstandard (Zstd) compression code sadly hasn't been regularly synced with the latest upstream Linux kernel sources but a patch posted this evening goes ahead and syncs the in-kernel Zstd code against the Zstd 1.5.7 state...
2025-03-13 20:55