Open Source

Intel's Rendering Toolkit Turns To More Open, Community-Welcoming Development Model
Intel's oneAPI Rendering Toolkit with the likes of OSPRay, Embree, OpenVKL, Open Image Denoise, and others has been open-source for years. But it's not been exactly an open-source development model with making it easy for independent contributors to pr...
2024-10-08 09:51
Embracing your inner on-premises self
In a significant development in the cloud computing industry, AWS, a leading hyperscaler, has recently acknowledged considerable competition from on-premises IT solutions. This admission counters the longstanding belief that enterprises seldom revert ...
2024-10-08 09:00
California’s vetoed AI bill: Bullet dodged, but not for long
Artificial intelligence has the power to revolutionize industries, drive economic growth, and improve our quality of life. But like any powerful, widely available technology, AI also poses significant risks. California’s now vetoed legislation, SB 1...
2024-10-08 09:00
SAP Build gains AI capabilities to help build autonomous agents
SAP wants developers to view its Build platform as the one extension solution for all of SAP’s applications, according to Michael Aneling, chief product officer for SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). At its TechEd event this week it is showing ...
2024-10-08 07:00
KDE Plasma 6.2 Released With More Desktop Polishing
KDE Plasma 6.2 is now available as the latest refinement to the modern Plasma 6 desktop environment...
2024-10-08 06:58
A Few Intel Xe2 Graphics Tuning Updates Found In Linux 6.12-rc2
Merged as part of last week's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) graphics/display driver fixes for Linux 6.12-rc2 are a few performance tuning updates for Intel Xe2 graphics to benefit the recently released Core Ultra 200 Series "Lunar Lake" laptops...
2024-10-08 06:43
LunarG Exploring Vulkan To Metal Translation With Mesa
While there is the open-source MoltenVK project that implements the Vulkan API atop Apple's Metal graphics drivers on iOS/macOS, the 3D graphics consulting firm LunarG is exploring the possibility of implementing Vulkan to Metal translation using Mesa...
2024-10-08 06:19
Qt 6.8 LTS Released With XR Module, Lower RAM Usage & Quicker Start Times
Today marks the release of Qt 6.8 as not only a new feature release but also the latest long-term support (LTS) release for this open-source, cross-platform toolkit...
2024-10-08 06:05
WordPress 6.7 Beta 2
WordPress 6.7 Beta 2 is now ready for testing! This beta version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it is recommended you ev...
2024-10-08 00:44
Oracle touts ‘tip and tail’ release model for Java library development
Oracle is touting a “tip and tail” model for Java library development that the company says would give application developers a better experience and at the same time help library developers innovate faster. The JEP (JDK Enhancement Proposal) crea...
2024-10-07 23:57
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 205
Safari Technology Preview Release 205 is now available for download for macOS Sequoia beta and macOS Sonoma.
2024-10-07 23:00
OpenBSD 7.6 released
OpenBSD 7.6, the release in which every single line of the original code form the first release has been edited or removed, has been released. There’s a lot of changes, new features, bug fixes, and more in 7.6, but for desktop users, the biggest new ...
2024-10-07 22:31
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Rust resumes rise in popularity
Rust, the fast and memory-safe programming language born out of Mozilla, has resumed its rise up the monthly Tiobe index of programming language popularity, although it still has not cracked the index’s top 10. Rust returned to 13th place in the Oct...
2024-10-07 20:50
GNOME Foundation Announces Cost Cutting Measures Due To Budget Woes
While the recently-departed GNOME Foundation Executive Director in the summer statement was described as "drafting a bold five-year strategic plan for the Foundation, securing two important fiscal sponsorship agreements with GIMP and Black Python Devs,...
2024-10-07 20:44
The best new features and fixes in Python 3.13
Python 3.13 has just been released. This article presents a rundown of the most significant new features in Python 3.13 and what they mean for Python developers. Major new features in Python 3.13 Here’s a rundown of the biggest new features in Pyth...
2024-10-07 20:41
Google must crack open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge
Late last year, Google’s Play Store was ruled to be a monopoly in the US, and today the judge in that case has set out what Google must do to address this situation. Today, Judge James Donato issued his final ruling in Epic v. Google, ordering Goog...
2024-10-07 20:29
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OpenBSD 7.6 Released With AVX-512, Initial Support For Snapdragon X Elite SoCs
OpenBSD 7.6 is out this evening as another major step forward for this BSD operating system with enhanced hardware support, security improvements, updating various user-space software, and enabling other kernel enhancements...
2024-10-07 19:19
WPGraphQL is Canonical
Happy to announce that WP GraphQL is becoming canonical on WordPress.org. I could say more, but I’ll let Jason tell his story.
2024-10-07 18:44
FEX 2410 Released With New JIT Optimizations
FEX 2410 is out as the newest monthly update to this open-source emulator that allows running Linux x86/x86_64 binaries on Linux AArch64 (ARM 64-bit) systems, including for games and software like Steam. With FEX 2410 there are yet more fixes as well a...
2024-10-07 16:09
Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Tomcat 11.0 
Celebrates 25th Anniversary Since First Commit as an ASF Project DENVER – Community Over Code –  Oct. 7, 2024 — The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 320 active open source proj...
2024-10-07 15:00