Open Source

Visual Studio Code 1.94 improves file search
The September 2024 release of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor, version 1.94, features improvements for finding files using the File Explorer. The upgrade also introduces the ability to run Python tests with coverage. Introduced October 3, Visu...
2024-10-03 23:25
Samsung is porting Tizen to RISC-V
In case you missed it at the 2024 Samsung Developer Conference today, our partners at Samsung Visual Display discussed the work they have been doing to port the Tizen operating system to RISC-V. Tizen is an open-source operating system (OS) that is use...
2024-10-03 20:39
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New AMD Linux Patches Aim To Further Boost Performance For Heterogeneous CPU Designs
A new set of patches from AMD Linux engineers today aim to boost the performance for heterogeneous CPU designs such as the recent Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" SoCs that have multiple core types...
2024-10-03 20:22
SingleStore acquires BryteFlow to boost data ingestion capabilities
SingleStore, the company behind the relational database SingleStoreDB, is acquiring data ingestion and integration software provider BryteFlow to boost its ability to connect to disparate data sources for data analytics. “SingleStore’s acquisitio...
2024-10-03 18:00
A free and open internet shouldn’t come at the expense of privacy
MARK SURMAN, PRESIDENT, MOZILLA Keeping the internet, and the content that makes it a vital and vibrant part of our global society, free and accessible has been a core focus for Mozilla from our founding. How do we ensure creators get paid for their wo...
2024-10-03 16:00
Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure
LAURA CHAMBERS, CEO, MOZILLA CORPORATION As Mark shared in his blog, Mozilla is going to be more active in digital advertising. Our hypothesis is that we need to simultaneously work on public policy, standards, products and infrastructure. Today, I wan...
2024-10-03 16:00
Introducing Lumigator
In today’s fast-moving AI landscape, choosing the right large language model (LLM) for your project can feel like navigating a maze. With hundreds of models, each offering different capabilities, the process can be overwhelming. That’s why Mozilla....
2024-10-03 15:12
Canonical at Cloud Expo 2024
The Cloud Expo Madrid 2024 will run on 16 and 17 October at IFEMA Madrid. Come down to our booth, K87, to meet us and chat about Cloud, AI, ML and more.
2024-10-03 15:09
What is a vector database?
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2024-10-03 14:56
Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" List Prices Top Out At $17,800 USD
Last week with the launch of the Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" processors, Intel didn't disclose their list prices... Today they added the Granite Rapids list prices to their ARK database. With Granite Rapids making Intel much more competitive to t...
2024-10-03 14:30
Redox’ progress in September 2024
Hot on the heels of releasing Redox 0.9.0, the team is back with yet another monthly update. Understandably, it’s not as massive of an update as other months, but there’s still more than enough here. There’s the usual bug fixes and small changes,...
2024-10-03 14:16
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Mesa 24.2.4 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes
Mesa 24.2.4 is out today as the newest stable point release to this collection of predominantly OpenGL and Vulkan open-source drivers...
2024-10-03 13:58
Windows 11 version 24H2 is now available for download
Windows 11 2024 Update, also known as version 24H2, is now publicly available. Microsoft announced the rollout alongside the new AI-powered features that are coming soon to Windows Insiders with Copilot+ PCs and Copilot upgrades. Unlike recent Windo...
2024-10-03 13:45
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MRDIMM 8800MT/s vs. DDR5-6400 Memory Performance With Intel Xeon 6
Last week when kicking off the Intel Granite Rapids benchmarking with the Xeon 6980P processors there was particularly strong performance within HPC and other scientific computing workloads. Besides going now up to 128 cores / 256 threads per socket, a...
2024-10-03 11:15
Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest: September 2024
Hello Thunderbird Community! I’m Toby Pilling, a new team member and I’ve spent the last couple of months getting up to speed, and have really enjoyed meeting the team and members of the community virtually, and some in person! September is now ove...
2024-10-03 11:00
OpenAI updates API with model distillation, prompt caching abilities
In what can only be seen as OpenAI’s efforts to catch up with rivals, the ChatGPT-maker released several updates to its API to help ease the development of generative AI-based applications. These updates, introduced during its DevDay conference this...
2024-10-03 10:53
How to use extension methods in C#
In the C# programming language, extension methods enable you to extend the functionality of existing types without modifying them or deriving new types from them using inheritance. You don’t need to create subclasses of existing classes or recompile...
2024-10-03 09:00
Understanding VBS Enclaves, Windows’ new security technology
Recently Microsoft announced efforts to improve security in its planned Recall AI assistant tool. Many of the details were not a surprise, as it built on familiar tools and services I’ve written about during the past few years, but the most importan...
2024-10-03 09:00
Fedora's Kernel Build Now Enabling Sched_Ext Support
Now that sched_ext was upstreamed into the mainline Linux kernel as part of the many great features in Linux 6.12, Fedora's kernel builds are prepared to enable this innovative scheduler feature that allows for new scheduling policies to be loaded via ...
2024-10-03 08:37