Open Source

Linux Will Finally Be Able To Reboot Apple M1/M2 Macs With The v6.17 Kernel
While there have been various elements of the Apple M1 and M2 SoC support in the mainline Linux kernel along with support for various Macs, different features have been missing from the upstream kernel such as the Apple GPU kernel graphics driver as on...
2025-07-25 14:19
Facebook, Google cease political advertising in the EU because of new EU transparency and accountability law
Last year the European Union introduced legislation to greatly improve the transparency around political advertising, specifically on social media and websites. The law mandates a few very basic requirements that tend to already apply to many other for...
2025-07-25 14:18
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Intel Quietly Sunset Its PlaidML Open-Source Deep Learning Software
Another hit to the open-source Intel software ecosystem this year was the company formally archiving/discontinuing work on the PlaidML deep learning software. PlaidML was the deep learning framework that Intel acquired back in 2018 as part of their acq...
2025-07-25 12:53
Linux 6.16 Is Exciting For Open-Source NVIDIA, OpenVPN DCO & More Performance
The Linux 6.16 kernel is expected to be released as stable this coming Sunday, 27 July, barring any last minute issues that cause Linus Torvalds to have reservations over issuing v6.16 stable and to instead do a v6.16-rc8 test release. With Linux 6.16 ...
2025-07-25 12:30
Bcachefs Lands Last Minute Fixes For Linux 6.16
Ahead of the Linux 6.16 stable kernel expected to be released on Sunday, some last minute Bcachefs file-system fixes join various other kernel regression/bug fixes landing today in Git...
2025-07-25 12:10
Final Benchmarks Of Clear Linux On Intel: ~48% Faster Than Ubuntu Out-Of-The-Box
Last week Friday the unfortunate news came down that Intel was discontinuing their Clear Linux project effective immediately. For the past ten years Intel software engineers have been crafting Clear Linux as a high performance distribution that is exte...
2025-07-25 10:52
Threadripper 9000 Series Available On 31 July, 9980X For $4999 USD
Last month AMD detailed the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series as the new Zen 5 Threadrippers. After the Threadripper PRO 9000WX Series debuted this week, AMD announced today that the Threadripper 9000 series will begin hitting retailers next week...
2025-07-25 09:58
What public cloud gets wrong with AI
AI is not cheap. During the past year, public cloud giants have significantly accelerated their investments in AI. By the close of 2024, Microsoft had invested more than $80 billion in AI infrastructure, partnerships, and development. AWS is on track ...
2025-07-25 09:00
How to use Dapper Plus in .NET Core
Dapper—the open-source and lightweight “micro ORM” (object-relational mapper) I’ve written about often—supports many databases including SQL Server, MySQL, SQLite, SQL CE, and Firebird. You can use Dapper in your applications to simplify dat...
2025-07-25 09:00
What you can do now with Python 3.14 RC1
Python 3.14’s first release candidate is here, and we’ve done a quick review of all the best new features. Also, four tips for making the best of Python’s now-fully-supported free-threading features, a first look at how Astral’s uv tool doub...
2025-07-25 09:00
Fedora Considers Reducing The Scope That BIOS Systems Can Hold Up A Release
Given that non-UEFI BIOS systems are quite old at this point and Intel/AMD systems for the past number of years have all supported UEFI, another change proposal being considered this week by Fedoa Linux is limiting the release-blocking status of variou...
2025-07-25 08:49
Not ready for prime time: Agentic IDEs need maturity before enterprise rollout
Despite the buzz surrounding next-generation agentic integrated development environments (IDEs) that aim to revolutionize software development with autonomous coding agents, enterprises should remain cautious about immediate adoption, analysts say. Th...
2025-07-25 07:27
Ayn Gaming Handhelds To See Better Linux Support With New Open-Source Driver
Ayn is a Chinese brand of handheld gaming devices that have included Arm-based devices shipping Android as well as AMD Ryzen powered handhelds with Windows 11 or even the option of installing Ubuntu. Better support for the Ayn x86 gaming handheld devic...
2025-07-25 06:41
Red Hat Has Been Rewriting Bash-Based Greenboot In Rust
Greenboot is a generic health check framework for systemd on RPM-OSTree based Linux distributions. Red Hat engineers have worked on Greenboot as part of the likes of Fedora IoT and their other RPM-OSTree initiatives for checking on the overall system h...
2025-07-25 06:25
Fedora 43 Looks To Offer Support For The Hare Programming Language
Fedora 43 is looking to offer packages to support the Hare system programming language...
2025-07-25 06:09
Supply chain attack compromises NPM packages to spread backdoor malware
In a newly discovered supply chain attack, attackers last week targeted a range of NPM-hosted JavaScript type testing utilities, several of which were successfully compromised to distribute malware. Anyone automatically downloading these packages woul...
2025-07-25 01:32
You can now run graphical applications in Android’s Linux Terminal
The Linux Terminal app that Google introduced earlier this year is one of the most exciting new features in Android, not for what it currently does but for what it can potentially do. The Terminal app lets you boot up an instance of Debian in a virtu...
2025-07-24 23:18
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How to Install Gemini CLI on Ubuntu
A simple guide to installing and using Google's Gemini CLI on Ubuntu, a free, open source command line way to access Gemini LLM and use it to work with local files. You're reading How to Install Gemini CLI on Ubuntu, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do no...
2025-07-24 22:59
How to Install Gemini CLI on Ubuntu to Access AI from Your Terminal
A simple guide to installing and using Google's Gemini CLI on Ubuntu, a free, open source command line way to access Gemini LLM and use it to work with local files. You're reading How to Install Gemini CLI on Ubuntu to Access AI from Your Terminal, a b...
2025-07-24 22:59
Google Labs announces Opal for developing AI mini apps
Google Labs has announced the public beta of Opal, an experimental tool for building AI mini apps by chaining together prompts, tools, and models, using natural language and visual editing. Currently available in the United States only, Opal was intro...
2025-07-24 21:23