Open Source

Rust resumes rise in popularity
Rust, the fast and memory-safe programming language born out of Mozilla, has resumed its rise up the monthly Tiobe index of programming language popularity, although it still has not cracked the index’s top 10. Rust returned to 13th place in the Oct...
2024-10-07 20:50
GNOME Foundation Announces Cost Cutting Measures Due To Budget Woes
While the recently-departed GNOME Foundation Executive Director in the summer statement was described as "drafting a bold five-year strategic plan for the Foundation, securing two important fiscal sponsorship agreements with GIMP and Black Python Devs,...
2024-10-07 20:44
The best new features and fixes in Python 3.13
Python 3.13 has just been released. This article presents a rundown of the most significant new features in Python 3.13 and what they mean for Python developers. Major new features in Python 3.13 Here’s a rundown of the biggest new features in Pyth...
2024-10-07 20:41
Google must crack open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge
Late last year, Google’s Play Store was ruled to be a monopoly in the US, and today the judge in that case has set out what Google must do to address this situation. Today, Judge James Donato issued his final ruling in Epic v. Google, ordering Goog...
2024-10-07 20:29
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OpenBSD 7.6 Released With AVX-512, Initial Support For Snapdragon X Elite SoCs
OpenBSD 7.6 is out this evening as another major step forward for this BSD operating system with enhanced hardware support, security improvements, updating various user-space software, and enabling other kernel enhancements...
2024-10-07 19:19
WPGraphQL is Canonical
Happy to announce that WP GraphQL is becoming canonical on WordPress.org. I could say more, but I’ll let Jason tell his story.
2024-10-07 18:44
FEX 2410 Released With New JIT Optimizations
FEX 2410 is out as the newest monthly update to this open-source emulator that allows running Linux x86/x86_64 binaries on Linux AArch64 (ARM 64-bit) systems, including for games and software like Steam. With FEX 2410 there are yet more fixes as well a...
2024-10-07 16:09
Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Tomcat 11.0 
Celebrates 25th Anniversary Since First Commit as an ASF Project DENVER – Community Over Code –  Oct. 7, 2024 — The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 320 active open source proj...
2024-10-07 15:00
Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Cassandra® 5.0, the Most Advanced, Secure, and AI-Ready Cassandra Yet
Open source enterprise-grade distributed database powers next-generation applications with unprecedented performance, scalability, and AI capabilities DENVER – Community Over Code –  Oct. 7, 2024 — The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-v...
2024-10-07 15:00
Python 3.13 Debuts With New Interactive Interpreter & Experimental JIT
Following a last minute delay due to a performance regression, Python 3.13 stable is out today as the annual major feature release to this widely-used scripting language implementation...
2024-10-07 13:57
Git 2.47 Released With Improvements & Encouraging More Positive Code Reviews
Git 2.47 is out today as the newest feature release to this immensely popular distributed revision control system...
2024-10-07 12:45
WP Briefing: Episode 87: Enterprise Clients and the Business of WordPress
Back by popular demand! We’re taking a look at one of our most insightful episodes: Enterprise Clients and the Business of WordPress. Whether you missed it the first time or just want a refresher, we rewind and look back at the importance of WordPres...
2024-10-07 12:00
Development start of Leap 16.0
Hello everyone! I’d like to announce the start of development and the public availability of what we currently refer to as Leap 16.0 pre-Alpha. Since this is a pre-Alpha version, significant changes may occur, and the final product may look very diff...
2024-10-07 12:00
KDE Plasma 6.2 Released, This is What’s New
A new major update to the KDE Plasma desktop has been released, and it’s jam-packed with new features, enhancements, and performance-focused improvements. Serving as the third release in the new 6.x series, KDE Plasma 6.2 builds on the foundations in...
2024-10-07 11:20
Gentoo Linux To See Improved ARM64 Support Thanks To An Ampere Altra Max Server
Gentoo Linux will be working on better support for ARM64/AArch64 and 32-bit ARM now that they have received an Ampere Altra Max server to help expedite their ARM build times for binary packages and installation stage builds...
2024-10-07 10:47
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 6th, 2024
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for October 6th, 2024, brings news about Firefox 131, Linux Mint 22.1 release date, FFmpeg 7.1, fwupd 2.0, Audacious 4.4.1, qBittorrent 5.0, Ardour 8.8, NetworkManager 1.50, Firefox 132 beta, as well as all the latest distr...
2024-10-07 10:37
5 ways data scientists can prepare now for genAI transformation
Until recently, data scientists and analysts’ primary deliverables were data visualizations, machine learning models, dashboards, reports, and analytical insights used for storytelling. Now, with genAI capabilities, data scientists are called to exp...
2024-10-07 09:00
Open source isn’t going to save AI
“You don’t want AI only in the hands of a few companies.” Thus spake Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue, suggesting that open source will come to the rescue of AI. It’s a nice thought, but one that has exactly zero historical precedent. Yes, open ...
2024-10-07 09:00
macOS 15.0 now UNIX 03-certified
You have to wonder how meaningful this news is in 2024, but macOS 15.0 Sequoia running on either Apple Silicon or Intel processors is now UNIX 03-certified. The UNIX 03 Product Standard is the mark for systems conforming to Version 3 of the Single UNIX...
2024-10-07 08:58
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openSUSE Leap 16.0 Pre-Alpha Available, GA Next October
While not expected to reach general availability (GA) state until October of 2025, available today in pre-alpha form is the openSUSE Leap 16.0 distribution...
2024-10-07 08:56