Open Source

Linux 6.15 To Bring More Improvements To DRM Panic "Screen of Death"
Now that the Linux 6.14 merge window has passed, new feature material aiming for the Linux 6.15 kernel is beginning to get ready for staging in DRM-Next ahead of that next merge window opening up around the end of March. Sent out today was the first ba...
2025-02-12 06:52
Intel C1 Demotion Knob Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Help Newer Xeon CPUs
A patch has been proposed for the Linux kernel to add a C1 demotion knob via /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/c1_demotion for more control over lower power state handling for recent Xeon Scalable processors. This C1 demotion knob can help with the perfo...
2025-02-12 06:35
Open-Source Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan Driver Matures To Default AArch64 Mesa Driver List
The open-source Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan driver within Mesa known as "TURNIP" has now matured enough that it's going to be built by default when compiling Mesa for ARM64/AArch64 hardware...
2025-02-12 06:30
Intel Thermal Daemon 2.5.9 Prepares For Panther Lake
Intel on Tuesday released Thermal Daemon 2.5.9 as their newest feature release of this open-source daemon to help monitor and control the CPU/SoC temperature within laptops and other modern Intel hardware...
2025-02-12 06:21
Don’t use public ASP.NET keys (duh), Microsoft warns
Microsoft Threat Intelligence in December observed a “threat actor” using a publicly available ASP.NET machine key to inject malicious code and fetch the Godzilla post-exploitation framework, a “backdoor” web shell used by intruders to execute...
2025-02-12 02:50
Clapper Media Player Adds New Features, Official Windows Build
A new version of the slick Clapper media player is out with several neat improvements Not newly new, I should say. I hadn’t run a flatpak update in Ubuntu I an age so I only jus noticed an update pending for this nifty little media player. But I figu...
2025-02-12 02:14
“We Have No Moat”: Open Source AI's Breakneck Innovation
In May 2023,a memo from an unnamed Google AI engineer leakedand quickly made therounds of the tech newsophere, racking up thousands of comments on Hacker News. The memo was titled “ We Have No Moat…And Neither Does OpenAI”. The gist of the post ...
2025-02-11 19:16
Defending 1 billion Chrome users with Enhanced Protection
Learn how advanced AI and machine learning models help Enhanced Protection mode of Safe Browsing keep you safe on the web.
2025-02-11 17:00
Python 3.14 Alpha 5 Released With New Tail-Call Interpreter
Python 3.14 Alpha 5 is out today as the latest of many development releases in stepping toward the Python 3.14 stable release in October...
2025-02-11 16:53
WordPress 6.7.2 Maintenance Release
WordPress 6.7.2 is now available! This minor release includes 35 bug fixes, addressing issues affecting multiple components including the block editor, HTML API, and Customize. WordPress 6.7.2 is a short-cycle release. The next major release will be ve...
2025-02-11 16:52
KDE Plasma 6.3 brings drawing tablet improvements
Speaking of KDE, Plasma 6.3 has been released. It brings with it a ton of improvements aimed at digital artists, such as much improved management and configuration of drawing tablets. You can now map an area of the tablet’s surface to a part of the s...
2025-02-11 16:31
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Moving KDE’s styling into the future
One of the major issues with KDE’s styling system is the fact that over the year, it has accumulated four ways of styling applications – which makes themeing and changing aspects of the default theme far more cumbersome than it should be. In fact, ...
2025-02-11 16:10
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KDE Plasma 6.3 Released, This is What’s New
A new version of the KDE Plasma desktop environment is out and, as you’d expect, the update is packed with new features, UI tweaks, and performance boosts. KDE Plasma 6.3 is the fourth major update in the KDE Plasma 6.x series and it also marks the o...
2025-02-11 14:00
Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest – January 2025
Hello again Thunderbird Community! As January drew to a close, the team was closing in on the completion of some important milestones. Additionally, we had scoped work for our main Q1 priorities. Those efforts are now underway and it feels great to cro...
2025-02-11 13:41
Healthy Competition With GCC 15 vs. LLVM Clang 20 Performance On AMD Zen 5
In the recent discussion over the GNU Gold linker being deprecated, there was the usual LLVM vs. GCC compiler/toolchain debate. Fortunately, with recently working on some initial benchmarks of the GCC 15 compiler I was following that up with some fresh...
2025-02-11 13:03
Intel CPU Microcode Updated For Five New Security Issues
Intel just published new CPU microcode for Alder Lake, Emerald Rapids, Ice Lake, Raptor Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Sierra Forest, and other platforms going back to Coffee Lake H. There are five new security issues being addressed plus a number of different...
2025-02-11 12:15
KDE Plasma 6.3 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New
KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment is now available with various new features and improvements for Plasma and its components. Here's what's new! The post KDE Plasma 6.3 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New appeared first on 9to...
2025-02-11 11:32
GNOME 48 Now Allows Grouping Notifications By App
While the GNOME 48 feature and UI freezes went into effect just a little more than one week ago, a freeze exception was granted for merging support in GNOME Shell for grouping notifications on a per-app basis...
2025-02-11 10:18
Canonical announces 12 year Kubernetes LTS 
Canonical’s Kubernetes LTS (Long Term Support) will support FedRAMP compliance and receive at least 12 years of committed security maintenance and enterprise support on bare metal, public clouds, OpenStack, Canonical MicroCloud and VMware. February 1...
2025-02-11 10:01