Open Source

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
GNOME’s Website Just Got a Major Redesign
GNOME rolled out a huge revamp to its official website today, and I have to say: it’s a solid improvement over the old one. The official GNOME website has an important role, serving as both showcase and springboard for those looking to learn more abo...
2025-02-12 15:39
Snowflake announces preview of Cortex Agent APIs to power enterprise data intelligence
Snowflake on Wednesday announced the public preview of Cortex Agents, a set of APIs built on top of the Snowflake Intelligence platform, a low-code offering that was first launched in November at Build, the company’s annual developer conference. As...
2025-02-12 14:05
ARCTIC Freezer 4U-SP5 Provides Effective Cooling For AMD EPYC 9004/9005 CPUs
Along with the recently reviewed ARCTIC Freezer 4U-M for Ampere Altra, ARCTIC Cooling had also recently sent over their ARCTIC Freezer 4U-SP5 heatsink for cooling AMD EPYC 9004/9005 server processors within 4U rackmount height requirements. This cooler...
2025-02-12 14:00
Darktable 5.0.1 Adds Support for Leica SL3-S, Minolta DiMAGE 5, and Panasonic S5D
Darktable 5.0.1 open-source RAW image editor is now available for download with support for new cameras, new noise profiles, and bug fixes. Here's what's new! The post Darktable 5.0.1 Adds Support for Leica SL3-S, Minolta DiMAGE 5, and Panasonic S5D ap...
2025-02-12 13:00
Mesa 25.0-rc3 Released With Numerous RADV & RadeonSI Fixes
Mesa 25.0-rc3 is out today as a rather large weekly release candidate to Mesa 25.0 that will be debuting as stable later this month...
2025-02-12 12:51
AI in 2025: is it an agentic year?
2024 was the GenAI year. With new and more performant LLMs and a higher number of projects rolled out to production, adoption of GenAI doubled compared to the previous year (source: Gartner). In the same report, organizations answered that they are usi...
2025-02-12 10:19
Linux 6.13 Performance For 250Hz vs. 1000Hz Timer Frequency Comparison
Given the recent patch proposal to raise the Linux kernel's default timer frequency from 250Hz to 1000Hz, I ran some fresh benchmarks looking at the 250Hz vs. 1000Hz comparison on some modern desktop hardware...
2025-02-12 10:05
GNU Shepherd 1.0.2 Service Manager Delivers Fixes
In addition to the recent release of SysVinit 3.14 and systemd continuing to tack on new features, the GNU Shepherd system/user service manager written in Guile Scheme is out today with a new release...
2025-02-12 10:00
Dynamic web apps with HTMX, Python, and Django
Python is one of the most popular programming language today, in part due to its large ecosystem of tools for data science and AI applications. But Python is also a popular choice for developing web apps, particularly using the Django web framework. I...
2025-02-12 09:00
Rust memory management explained
Rust shares many concepts with other languages intended for systems programming. For instance, Rust distinguishes between memory allocated from the stack and memory allocated from the heap. It also ensures that variables declared within a scope are un...
2025-02-12 09:00
Keep your code open to possibilities
I’ve been developing software for many years now. Decades. I’ve learned a lot along the way, and I dare to think that I’ve collected some wisdom about software development worth sharing with others. At some point, you think “Yeah, I’ve got...
2025-02-12 09:00
Open-Source Licensing Gets AI Upgrade
Developers of the openSUSE community continue their commitment toward improving legal compliance and software transparency with the release of the Cavil Legal Text dataset on Hugging Face. This dataset is designed to enhance automated legal text classi...
2025-02-12 09:00
Paris AI Action Summit: A milestone for open and Public AI
As we close out the Paris AI Action Summit, one thing is clear: the conversation around open and Public AI is evolving—and gaining real momentum. Just over a year ago at Bletchley Park, open source AI was framed as a risk. In Paris, we saw a major sh...
2025-02-12 08:00