Open Source

The challenge of cloud computing forensics
As the digital landscape evolves, so does the difficulty of safeguarding it. This is especially true in cloud computing, which is now the mother of all IT complexity, with security challenges that confound forensic investigators. Lately, I’ve notice...
2024-09-24 09:00
Java 23 highlights crypto performance and security
While the recently released Java 23 features a dozen official features ranging from a second class-file API preview to an eighth incubator of a vector API, it also comes with various security capabilities. Security enhancements include crypto performa...
2024-09-24 09:00
Gleam language reaches 1.5 release
Gleam 1.5, the latest version of a statically typed language for the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes, has been published, with productivity improvements such as upgraded compile-time error messages. Launched September 19, Gleam 1.5 can ...
2024-09-24 09:00
Linux 6.12 Adds A Kernel Stack Usage Histogram To Help With Optimizations
Merged as part of the memory management "MM" changes for the Linux 6.12 kernel is a kernel stack usage histogram to help developers in better optimizing the kernel stack sizes and minimizing memory waste...
2024-09-24 08:57
Intel LPSS Driver Adds Panther Lake Support In Linux 6.12
Going along with other early Linux kernel driver additions for enabling Panther Lake, the intel-lpss driver in Linux 6.12 has made its device ID additions for supporting Panther Lake H and Panther Lake P processors...
2024-09-24 07:07
Intel's LPMD "Low Power Mode Daemon" Now Identifies As The "Energy Optimizer"
The Intel LPMD open-source project is a user-space daemon for optimizing active idle power handling on Linux and can be useful particularly for modern Intel Core hybrid processors. LPMD is short for the "Low Power Mode Daemon" while with today's v0.0.7...
2024-09-24 06:43
Landlock Sandboxing Now Supports More Controls Around Unix Sockets
Landlock as the Linux security module for unprivileged access control handling is adding new controls around Unix socket handling with the Linux 6.12 kernel...
2024-09-24 06:32
Dell-WMI-Sysman Linux Driver Being Extended For Alienware Systems
The Dell-WMI-Sysman driver on Linux allows for managing BIOS settings from within Linux using sysfs. This dell-wmi-sysman kernel driver supports most Dell platforms from 2018 and newer for convenient BIOS management...
2024-09-24 06:17
F2FS With Linux 6.12 Converts I/O Paths To Use Folios, Other Improvements
The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.12 merge window...
2024-09-24 06:11
Microsoft deprecates Windows Server Update Services, suggests cloud services instead
As part of our vision for simplified Windows management from the cloud, Microsoft has announced deprecation of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). Specifically, this means that we are no longer investing in new capabilities, nor are we accepting ne...
2024-09-23 22:26
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Disable Sequoia’s monthly screen recording permission prompt
The widely–reported “foo is requesting to bypass the system private window picker and directly access your screen and audio” prompt in Sequoia (which Apple has moved from daily to weekly to now monthly) can be disabled by qui...
2024-09-23 21:38
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MPV 0.39.0 Released with NVIDIA RTX and Intel VSR Scaling Support
MPV 0.39.0 open-source media player software is now available for download with support for NVIDIA RTX and Intel VSR scaling via the D3D11VA filter, multi-touch support, and more. The post MPV 0.39.0 Released with NVIDIA RTX and Intel VSR Scaling Suppo...
2024-09-23 17:58
Actions from Data Views: Adding images to the Media Library
Explore Data Views actions and what you can do with them, such as interacting with WordPress through the REST API or displaying modal windows.
2024-09-23 17:23
Announcing New ASF Board Member Kanchana Welagedara
Apache Software Foundation (ASF) board member Christofer Dutz resigned from the board of directors for personal reasons and is succeeded by Kanchana Welagedara. We thank Chris for his service to the ASF and ongoing contributions to many open source pro...
2024-09-23 15:15
Intel Diamond Rapids Switches To "Family 19" In Ending Intel Family 6 CPU Era
Months ago Intel Linux engineers began adapting the Linux kernel to end the assumptions made around "Family 6" for Intel CPUs that had been used since the 90's with the Pentium Pro as the CPU family ID. With Linux 6.12 they finished the Intel CPU famil...
2024-09-23 14:15
KaOS Linux 2024.09 Adds Calligra as Default Office Suite, Improves Installation
KaOS 2024.09 Linux distribution is now available for download with an improved installation experience and Calligra as the default office suite, as well as the latest KDE software. The post KaOS Linux 2024.09 Adds Calligra as Default Office Suite, Impr...
2024-09-23 13:40
14 AI projects to watch: Mozilla’s first Builders Accelerator cohort kicks off
We launched the Mozilla Builders Accelerator with the theme of local AI back in June. Our goal was to spark innovation in the AI Ecosystem. Now, 14 exciting projects are leading the charge. Calling on AI and machine learning engineers passionate about ...
2024-09-23 13:00
AMD HIP RT 2.4 Brings H-PLOC & New Graphics Architecture Support
AMD's GPUOpen team has released HIP RT 2.4 as the newest version of this open-source ray-tracing library built atop their HIP interface...
2024-09-23 10:20
vDSO getrandom() Ported To Five More CPU Architectures With Linux 6.12
Linux 6.11 introduced the getrandom() in the vDSO support for faster yet secure user-space random number generation needs. Initially that was focused on Linux x86_64 while for Linux 6.12 is ported to five more architectures...
2024-09-23 10:04