Thunderbird Moves to Monthly Updates from March 2025
The Thunderbird email client is making its monthly ‘release channel’ builds the default download starting in March. “We’re excited to announce that starting with the 135.0 release in March 2025, the Thunderbird Release channel will be the defau...
Apple’s macOS UNIX certification is a lie
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a someone mentioning macOS is a UNIX approaches 1. In fact, it was only late last year that The Open Group announced that macOS 15.0 was, once again, certified as UNIX, continuing Apple’s long-...
Async closure support is stable for Rust 1.85
Rust’s leadership team announced progress on the 26 Rust project goals for 2024. Leadership representatives said the project emphasized work on asynchronous closures and finalizing its Rust development goals for early 2025. Async closures, cited as ...
Confirmed: Ubuntu Dev Discussions Moving to Matrix
Ubuntu’s key developers have agreed to switch to Matrix as the primary platform for real-time development communications involving the distro. From March, Matrix will replace IRC as the place where critical Ubuntu development conversations, requests,...
Protect your VPN from TunnelVision attacks with NetworkManager
Many users trust in a variety of VPN solutions to securely protect their privacy or access to personal or company’s resources when connecting from an untrusted network. This may be an airport or cafe’s WiFi network. This article describes how to us...
The biggest ideas in software and technology today
One of the coolest things about being a software developer is that you often know what’s behind the curtain. To some extent, at least. Working in tech gives you the chance to know first-hand what a neural network is, or what makes quantum computing ...
