Open Source

LibreOffice 25.2 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, This Is What’s New
LibreOffice 25.2 open-source, free, and cross-platform office suite is now available for download with new features and improvements. Here’s what’s new! The post LibreOffice 25.2 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, This Is What’s New ap...
2025-02-06 12:00
Proxmox Platinum Sponsor of DebConf25
We are pleased to announce that Proxmox has committed to sponsor DebConf25 as a Platinum Sponsor. Proxmox develops powerful, yet easy-to-use Open Source server software. The product portfolio from Proxmox, including server virtualization, backup, and ...
2025-02-06 11:50
Google rolls out cheaper AI model as industry scrutinizes costs
Google has announced several updates to its Gemini portfolio, including a budget-friendly product, amid growing demand for low-cost AI models driven by the rise of Chinese competitor DeepSeek. “We’re releasing a new model, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite, o...
2025-02-06 11:37
SMT Remains Very Advantageous For 5th Gen AMD EPYC Performance
After recently re-visiting the AMD EPYC 9005 series AVX-512 performance, I followed up with some fresh SMT benchmarks looking at the performance benefits and power of toggling Simultaneous Multi-Threading on the 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" hardware. Here ...
2025-02-06 10:50
EU Cyber Resilience Act compliance: best practices for IoT manufacturers
The EU Cyber Resilience Act has considerable repercussions for the IoT device manufacturers. In this blog, we explore these new regulatory requirements and give our blueprint for compliant, market-ready devices.
2025-02-06 10:20
Tails 6.12 Anonymous OS Fixes Security Issues in Tor Circuits, Persistent Storage
Tails 6.12 amnesic incognito live system distribution is now available for download with more fixes for critical vulnerabilities, updated components, and bug fixces. Here's what's new! The post Tails 6.12 Anonymous OS Fixes Security Issues in Tor Circu...
2025-02-06 10:20
A CISO’s comprehensive breakdown of the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act (EU CRA)
The CRA is coming, and you need to be prepared. Depending on the Class your product falls into, there could be additional assessment, security, documentation, patching, compliance and reporting requirements on you and your teams. Find out how your digi...
2025-02-06 10:20
AMD Talks Up IREE/MLIR Programming For Ryzen AI NPUs
While the AMDXDNA driver was merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel for enabling the Ryzen AI NPUs atop a mainline kernel build, there's still the user-space software needed for making use of the neural processing units found in Ryzen AI SoCs. AMD talked mor...
2025-02-06 10:00
Using NATS with .NET Aspire
If you’re building a cloud-native application using a scalable cluster of microservices, you’re going to need a way for those services to communicate. Traditional API calls work well for tightly coupled code, but what if you’re building an appli...
2025-02-06 09:00
Intel's OpenVINO 2025.0 Brings Support For Deepseek Models, Better AI Performance
Intel's software engineers working on the OpenVINO AI toolkit today released OpenVINO 2025.0 that brings support for the much talked about Deepseek models along with other large language models (LLMs), performance improvements to some of the existing m...
2025-02-06 08:34
LibreOffice 25.2 Open-Source Office Suite Released With Many Improvements
LibreOffice 25.2 is out this morning as the newest half-year update to this leading cross-platform, free software office suite...
2025-02-06 08:13
Mesa 25.0 Is Trending Well For Release Later This Month
Mesa 25.0-rc2 was released yesterday and it's rather boring on the changes, but that's a good thing during this bug fixing phase...
2025-02-06 06:56
GNU Gold Linker Is Deprecated & Will Be Gone For Good Without New Developers
With the recent GNU Binutils 2.44 release, one of the changes is worth calling out in its own article: the GNU Gold linker is now officially deprecated and is now being segregated to its own extra Binutils package but risks being removed all together w...
2025-02-06 06:39
PipeWire Is Doing An Excellent Job Handling Audio/Video Streams On The Linux Desktop
Red Hat engineer and PipeWire lead developer Wim Taymans presented at FOSDEM 2025 last weekend around the state of the PipeWire project for this integral component to the modern Linux desktop...
2025-02-06 06:24
Malicious package found in the Go ecosystem – update
Update February 6: Google has removed the package and provided the following statement: The module has been removed from both the Go module proxy and GitHub, and we’ve added it to the Go vulnerability database for anyone who thinks they may have bee...
2025-02-05 22:51
Malicious package found in the Go ecosystem
A malicious typosquat package has been found in the Go language ecosystem. The package, which contains a backdoor to enable remote code execution, was discovered by researchers at the application security company Socket. A February 3 Socket blog post ...
2025-02-05 22:51
Installing Ubuntu on WSL Just Got Much Easier
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) user? If so, you will be pleased to hear that Ubuntu is now available in Microsoft’s new tar-based distro format — no need to use the sluggish Microsoft Store. Canonical announced the news today, noting that “the...
2025-02-05 20:54
Installing Ubuntu on WSL in Windows 11 is Now Easier
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) user? If so, you will be pleased to hear that Ubuntu is now available in Microsoft’s new tar-based distro format — no need to use the sluggish Microsoft Store. Canonical announced the news today, noting that “the...
2025-02-05 20:54