Open Source

Mozilla’s Response to Proposed Remedies in U.S. v. Google LLC
Last week the Department of Justice and some state attorneys general filed revised proposed remedies in the U.S. v. Google LLC search case. If the proposed remedies barring all search payments to browser developers are adopted by the court, these misgu...
2025-03-11 12:52
Mozilla’s response to proposed remedies in U.S. v. Google
Last week the Department of Justice and some state attorneys general filed revised proposed remedies in the U.S. v. Google LLC search case. If the proposed remedies barring all search payments to browser developers are adopted by the court, these misgu...
2025-03-11 12:52
Nouveau On NVIDIA Turing GPUs & Newer Will Now Prefer NVK+Zink For OpenGL
As a sign of the times for both the NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa and the generic Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan code, with next quarter's Mesa 25.1 release when using a NVIDIA Turing GPU or newer with the Nouveau driver stack it will now def...
2025-03-11 12:40
CrossOver 25.0 Announced - Built Atop Wine 10.0 For Linux & macOS
CodeWeavers that continues to be the largest patron to the development of the open-source Wine software announced today CrossOver 25.0 as the newest version of their commercial downstream...
2025-03-11 11:19
LXQt 2.2 Desktop Promises Many Wayland Improvements, QTerminal Updates
LXQt 2.2 desktop environment promises many Wayland improvements, QTerminal updates, and various other enhancements. Here’s what to expect from the upcoming release in mid-April 2025. The post LXQt 2.2 Desktop Promises Many Wayland Improvements, QTerm...
2025-03-11 10:07
Weaviate adds agents to its tech stack to ease gen AI app development
Vector database provider Weaviate has added three new agents to its development stack to facilitate the development of generative AI-based applications.   These agents are modular agentic workflows that use large language models (LLMs) and prompts to...
2025-03-11 09:36
3 of the best LLM integration tools for R
When we first looked at this space in late 2023, many generative AI R packages focused largely on OpenAI and ChatGPT-like functionality or coding add-ins. Today, the landscape includes packages that natively support more LLM suppliers—including mode...
2025-03-11 09:00
Has AWS lost its edge?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has long maintained its dominance in the cloud computing market, serving as the backbone for many enterprises’ digital transformation efforts for more than a decade. However, recent shifts in strategy suggest that AWS may b...
2025-03-11 09:00
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D Delivers Excellent Performance For Linux Developers, Creators & Technical Computing
Ahead of tomorrow's availability of the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPUs in retail channels, today the embargo lifts on being able to deliver Ryzen 9 9950X3D reviews and performance benchmarks. Simply put, for Linux creators, developers, enthus...
2025-03-11 09:00
GNOME Dash To Panel Extension Development Being "Passed On"
The GNOME Dash To Panel extension that allows moving the dash into the GNOME main panel has proven popular with GNOME desktop users for an integrated icon taskbar and status panel on GNOME Shell. Unfortunately though one of the main developers to Charl...
2025-03-11 08:52
COBOL Language Frontend Merged For GCC 15 Compiler
A big albeit late feature landed today for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler... The COBOL programming language front-end has been merged!..
2025-03-11 06:22
Linux Kernel Patches Posted For The ESWIN EIC7700 SoC + SiFive HiFive Premier P550
Patches were posted to the Linux Kernel Mailing List this morning for wiring up the ESWIN EIC7700 RISC-V SoC support and the most notable board using this SoC so far, the SiFive HiFive Premier P550...
2025-03-11 06:10
Servo Makes Improvements To Its Demo Browser & Embedding API
The Servo open-source web engine is out with its February 2025 status update to highlight work on the engine itself as well as its demo browser and embed API capabilities for using Servo by other applications...
2025-03-11 05:55
AMD Announces The EPYC Embedded 9005 Series
Since last year we have continued to be impressed by the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" server processors while today they are announcing the EPYC Embedded 9005 line-up. The AMD EPYC Embedded 9005 Series processors are much like the EPYC 9005 series processors ...
2025-03-11 05:11
Audacity 3.7.2 Released with Ubuntu AppImage Fix + More
Open source audio editor Audacity has issue a new patch release with a sizeable set of bug fixes, including an appreciable one for Ubuntu users using the official Audacity AppImage. Audacity 3.7.2, the second point update in the currently Audacity 3.7....
2025-03-10 23:27
Fortran, Delphi rise in Tiobe popularity index
Older programming languages such as Fortran and Delphi are making a comeback, based on the results of this month’s Tiobe index of language popularity. Tiobe attributes their rise to the need to maintain vital legacy systems still dependent on them. ...
2025-03-10 21:47