Open Source

Sovereign Tech Agency Investing €515k Into The Eclipse Foundation
Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency (née Sovereign Tech Fund) announced they have begun investing into the Eclipse Foundation and the work they are doing on open-source integrated development environment (IDE) software...
2025-02-19 05:57
Humane is shutting down the AI Pin and selling its remnants to HP
Humane is selling most of its company to HP for $116 million and will stop selling AI Pin, the company announced today. AI Pins that have already been purchased will continue to function normally until 3PM ET on February 28th, Humane says in a support ...
2025-02-19 00:31
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Power Profiles Daemon 0.30 Preps Support for Linux 6.14
A new version of the Power Profiles Daemon (PPD) was uploaded to the Plucky archives today, and should soon make its way out to Ubuntu 25.04 daily builds —but what’s changed? The power-profiles-daemon is what those of who run Ubuntu (or Linux Mint...
2025-02-18 23:04
AIDA64 drops support for Windows 95, 98, and ME
AIDA64, the popular benchmarking tool for Windows, released a new version today. I don’t particularly care about benchmarking – even less so benchmarking on Windows – but this new release comes with an interesting line in the release notes. Disco...
2025-02-18 21:05
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Latest AVX-512 Optimization For FFmpeg Shows Wild Improvement On AMD Ryzen
Merged today for the widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library was yet another AVX-512 optimized code path... Compared to the pure C code, the AVX2 code path was 10.98x faster while this new AVX-512 code path clocks in at 18x the performance of...
2025-02-18 20:28
Spring detox with Firefox for iOS
A fresh start isn’t just for your home — your iPhone or iPad deserves a privacy detox too. With Firefox for iOS, you can block hidden trackers, stop fingerprinting, and keep your browsing history more private with Enhanced Tracking Protection. How ...
2025-02-18 17:54
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Sling™ 13
Open source web framework for Java provides performance and security enhancements in latest release Wilmington, DE – February 18, 2025 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 320 a...
2025-02-18 17:00
What is the best hardware concurrency for running inference on CPU?
In the Firefox AI Runtime, we can use multiple threads in the dedicated inference process to speed up execution times CPU. The WASM/JS environment can create a SharedArrayBuffer and run multiple threads against its content and distribute the load on se...
2025-02-18 16:34
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080/5090 Performance With Neat Video 6 On Linux
Last week NeatLab released Neat Video 6 as the newest version of their video engine to reduce noise and enhance video quality that can be used with the likes of DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut, and Premiere Pro software. Neat Video 6 features a faster rende...
2025-02-18 15:17
Linus Torvalds Would Reportedly Merge Rust Kernel Code Over Maintainer Objections
The drama surrounding Rust code within the Linux kernel continues... Christoph Hellwig is the maintainer of the DMA mapping helpers and several other areas of the kernel has been an outspoken critic of Rust code or secondary programming languages withi...
2025-02-18 14:53
KDE Plasma 6.3.1 Released with Plasma Discover Improvements and Many Bug Fixes
KDE Plasma 6.3.1 is now available as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment series with numerous bug fixes and a few improvements. The post KDE Plasma 6.3.1 Released with Plasma Discover Improvements and Many Bug ...
2025-02-18 14:30
Wasmer 6.0 Wires Up Support For Multiple Heterogeneous Backends
For those interested in WebAssembly for the "run anywhere" prospects and container-like secure execution, Wasmer remains one of the leading WASM runtime options. Wasmer 6.0 Alpha 1 is out today as the latest to further along this quest...
2025-02-18 14:05
Mistral turns focus toward regional LLMs with Saba release
French AI startup Mistral is turning its focus toward providing large language models (LLMs) that understand regional languages and their parlance as a result of rising demand among its enterprise customers. “Making AI ubiquitous requires addressing...
2025-02-18 10:07
KDE Plasma 6.3.1 Released With A Few Dozen Fixes For The Week
For those that typically wait for the first point release before moving to a new software version, KDE Plasma 6.3.1 is out today with a few dozen fixes for the week since the Plasma 6.3 debut...
2025-02-18 09:45
Key strategies for MLops success in 2025
Integrating and managing artificial intelligence and machine learning effectively within business operations has become a top priority for businesses looking to stay competitive in an ever evolving landscape. However, for many organizations, harnessin...
2025-02-18 09:00
3 reasons to consider a data security posture management platform
A week rarely goes by without a major data security breach. Recent news includes a breach impacting an energy company’s 8 million customers, another compromising the information on 450,000 current and former students, and one more exposing 240,000 c...
2025-02-18 09:00
Serverless was never a cure-all
An obituary for serverless computing might read something like this: In loving memory of serverless computing, born from the fervent hopes of developers and cloud architects alike. Its life began with the promise of effortless scalability and reduced ...
2025-02-18 09:00
Ubuntu Linux LTS Releases May Offer Additional Intel Graphics Driver Updates
Ubuntu developers at Canonical are looking at including more Intel graphics driver packages as part of the hardware enablement "HWE" stacks shipped as part of Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) point releases. This would provide more comprehensive coverage...
2025-02-18 07:38
Reproducible-openSUSE (RBOS) Project Hits Milestone
The Reproducible-openSUSE (RBOS) project, which is a proof-of-concept fork of openSUSE, has reached a significant milestone after demonstrating a usable Linux distribution can be built with 100% bit-identical packages. Reproducible builds ensure softwa...
2025-02-18 07:00