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...
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...
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...
Why the generative AI hype is good
Elon Musk predicts artificial general intelligence (AGI) by 2025. Former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner says AGI by 2027. Futurist Ray Kurzweil bets on 2029 for AI surpassing human intelligence. OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever declared that lan...
Review: Zencoder has a vision for AI coding
Zencoder is an AI coding assistant with interfaces to Visual Studio Code and JetBrains IDEs. It is designed to help developers ship products faster, much like GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q Developer, and Tabnine. Zencoder also offers AI coding agents, much...
The cloud giants stumble
Recent financial results from the major cloud providers reveal a concerning trend in cloud adoption and growth. AWS reported just 13% growth in the final quarter of 2023, Microsoft Azure saw 19% growth, and Google Cloud achieved 26% growth—all below...
C++, Go, and Rust gaining popularity – Tiobe
With Tiobe’s February 2025 rankings, the publisher of the monthly index of programming language popularity notes that fast programming languages such as C++, Go, and Rust are gaining ground. But index leader Python, described as a “slow” languag...
Oasis: a small, statically-linked Linux system
You might think the world of Linux distributions is a rather boring, settled affair, but there’s actually a ton of interesting experimentation going on in the Linux world. From things like NixOS with its unique packaging framework, to the various imm...
Haiku Activity & Contract Report, January 2025
This report covers hrev58487 through hrev58583. Applications omesh-barhate contributed a patch to add a context menu to WebPositive’s bookmark bar items, to allow them to be edited more easily. humdinger cleaned up the strings in the new context menu...
Redox’ relibc becomes a stable ABI
The Redox project has posted its usual monthly update, and this time, we’ve got a major milestone creeping within reach. Thanks to Anhad Singh for his amazing work on Dynamic Linking! In this southern-hemisphere-Redox-Summer-of-Code project, Anhad ha...
Rediscovering Plan 9 from Bell Labs
During a weekend of tidying up – you know, the kind of chore where you’re knee-deep in old boxes before you realize it. Digging through the dusty cables and old, outdated user manuals, I found something that I had long forgotten: an old Plan 9 di...
