Open Source

Diving into the Windows Copilot Runtime
Announced at the May 2024 launch of Arm-powered Copilot+ PCs, the Windows Copilot Runtime is at the heart of Microsoft’s push to bring AI inferencing out from Azure and on to the edge and our laptops. Since then it’s been released in drip-feed for...
2025-02-13 09:00
Wayland Color Management & HDR Protocol Support Merged
As a quick follow-up to the article earlier today... The Wayland Color Management and HDR protocol support is now merged to upstream Wayland Protocols!..
2025-02-13 08:25
Tumbleweed Plans to Adopt SELinux as Default
Tumbleweed is planning to adopt SELinux as the default Linux Security Module (LSM) for new installations in the nearterm. The transition was announced on the mailing list in July and marks a significant development for the rolling release. A new announ...
2025-02-13 07:00
Tumbleweed Adopts SELinux as Default
Tumbleweed has adopted SELinux as the default Linux Security Module (LSM) for new installations after a recent snapshot. The transition was announced on the mailing list in July and marks a significant development for the rolling release. A new announc...
2025-02-13 07:00
Device Trees For Apple T2 SoCs Slated For Upstreaming In Linux 6.15
While there has been the recent drama over upstream maintainership over Apple Silicon / Asahi Linux code, Sven Peter is continuing to move things forward for the upstream kernel and this week sent out a set of Apple SoC DeviceTree updates intended for ...
2025-02-13 06:58
NVIDIA Wiring Up Autonomous Performance Level Selection To Linux CPPC CPUFreq Driver
Similar to the Autonomous Performance Level Selection and Energy Performance Preference (EPP) support already found within the Intel P-State and AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling drivers for their modern processors, NVIDIA engineers are working on simi...
2025-02-13 06:40
Wayland Color Management & HDR Protocols Expected To Be Merged Imminently
Today could finally be the day. In the works for 5+ years, the Wayland color management and HDR protocol additions look like they will finally be merged in the coming hours...
2025-02-13 06:30
Go 1.24 arrives with generic type aliases, boosted WebAssembly support
Go 1.24, an update to Google‘s popular open source programming language, is now generally available as a production release, with full backing for generic type aliases, performance improvements, and improved WebAssembly support. The release was unve...
2025-02-13 00:07
Ubuntu 24.04.2 Delayed, Won’t Be Released This Week
Bad news for anyone expecting Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS to drop tomorrow – the release has been delayed by a week. An ‘unfortunate incident’ caused some Ubuntu 24.04.2 images to be built without the HWE kernel on board (Linux 6.11), Canonical’s Utkars...
2025-02-12 22:48
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 213
Safari Technology Preview Release 213 is now available for download for macOS Sequoia and macOS Sonoma.
2025-02-12 22:10
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Switching From AppArmor To SELinux For New Installations
SUSE/openSUSE has a long history with the AppArmor Linux security module going back to the Novell days and when AppArmor was originally known as SubDomain. OpenSUSE/SUSE and Ubuntu Linux have been big proponents of AppArmor for Linux security but now m...
2025-02-12 20:47
HandBrake 1.9.1 Open-Source Video Transcoder Improves AV1 Video Decoding
HandBrake 1.9.1 open-source video transcoder is now available for download with improved support for SRT files with overlapping subtitles and various bug fixes. Here's what's new! The post HandBrake 1.9.1 Open-Source Video Transcoder Improves AV1 Video...
2025-02-12 19:52
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Delayed To Next Week
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS along with new point releases for its derivatives had been scheduled for release on Thursday. But a last minute issue has delayed this release...
2025-02-12 19:06
Announcing Interop 2025
Exciting news for web developers, designers, and browser enthusiasts alike — Interop 2025 is here, continuing the mission of improving cross-browser interoperability.
2025-02-12 18:30
What’s new for developers? (February 2025)
February is moving along quickly and WordPress 6.8 is right around the corner. Catch up on all the news and activities around the community from the last few weeks.
2025-02-12 17:03
Bluesky’s Emily Liu on rethinking social media (and why it’s time to chime in)
Here at Mozilla, we are the first to admit the internet isn’t perfect, but we know the internet is pretty darn magical. The internet opens up doors and opportunities, allows for human connection, and lets everyone find where they belong — their cor...
2025-02-12 16:46