Windows to Linux, Set Up Full Disk Encryption on openSUSE
Data breaches and cyber threats are becoming increasingly common and securing your personal and professional information has never been more critical. Users transitioning from Windows to Linux through the Upgrade to Freedom campaign can use openSUSE’...
Microsoft’s first step to scalable quantum computing
There’s a race going on. Not the one to build artificial general intelligence, whatever that may be, but to deliver the first at-scale quantum computer that’s able to solve a class of massive problems that would take far too long using even the mo...
Mozilla once again confirms it’s all about ads and “AI” now
We’ve recognized that Mozilla faces major headwinds in terms of both financial growth and mission impact. While Firefox remains the core of what we do, we also need to take steps to diversify: investing in privacy-respecting advertising to grow new r...
NES86: x86 emulation on the NES
The goal of this project is to emulate an Intel 8086 processor and supporting PC hardware well enough to run the Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset (ELKS), including a shell and utilities. It should be possible to run other x86 software as long as it doesn...
Zstd 1.5.7 Pushing Compression Performance Even Further
Zstandard 1.5.7 was released a short time ago as the newest update to this widely-used compression algorithm backed by Meta. Zstd 1.5.7 packs more than 500 commits, including new performance optimizations and other enhancements...
Mozilla Announce Leadership Changes, Plans to ‘Diversify’
Mozilla Corporation’s president, Mark Surman, today announced plans to tackle what he says are ‘major headwinds’ facing the company’s ability to grow, make money, and remain relevant. “Mozilla’s impact and survival depend on us simultaneous...
Microsoft updates VS Code C# Dev Kit extension
Microsoft announced updates to its C# Dev Kit for Visual Studio Code extension, including enhancements to Razor/Blazor Hot Reload and for debugging and testing Blazor web pages. In a February 11 blog post, Wendy Breiding, Microsoft senior manager for ...
Mesa 25.0 Released with Support for Vulkan 1.4 & OpenGL 4.6
A new version of the Mesa graphics library has been released. Mesa 25.0 features Vulkan 1.4 support, which the team bill as the ‘flashiest addition’ in this new development release as it spans Anv (Intel), Asahi (Apple), Lavapipe (software), NVK (N...
Growing Mozilla — and evolving our leadership
Since 2022, Mozilla has been in an active process evolving what we do – and renewing our leadership. Today we announced several updates on the leadership piece of this ongoing work. We’ve recognized that Mozilla faces major headwinds in terms of ...
