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How to upgrade to Linux Mint 22.1
It is now possible to upgrade Linux Mint 22 to version 22.1. If you’ve been waiting for this we’d like to thank you for your patience. 1. Create a system snapshot You can use Timeshift to make a system snapshot before the upgrade. If anything goes ...
2025-01-18 08:41
Intel Tofino P4 Software Open-Sourced Years Later
An interesting open-source announcement out of Intel this week is that they have open-sourced their P4 software for their line of Tofino programmable Ethernet switches...
2025-01-18 07:24
GNOME Snapshot Can Now Read QR Codes, Flatpak 1.16 Brings More Features
It was a busy week in the GNOME space with many packages checking in their "48.alpha" releases for the GNOME 48 Alpha milestone. Plus there has been some additional exciting GNOME developments for the week...
2025-01-18 06:53
Year Of The BSD Desktop? There's Going To Be A BSD Desktop Conference At Least
Technical BSD conferences aren't quite as common as the many Linux conferences these days. For the BSD conferences that do happen they tend to be more general in nature than carrying a desktop focus. But being announced this week was GhostBSDCon 2025 a...
2025-01-18 06:42
KDE Developers Fixing "Record Amounts Of Bugs" Following Plasma 6.3 Beta
Following the recent KDE Plasma 6.3 Beta, there's been a lot of bug fixing happening ahead of the stable release due out next month for this open-source desktop...
2025-01-18 06:25
Secure AI? Dream on, says AI red team
The group responsible for red teaming of over 100 generative AI products at Microsoft has concluded that the work of building safe and secure AI systems will never be complete. In a paper published this week, the authors, including Microsoft Azure CTO...
2025-01-18 03:21
Hands-on graphics without X11 using NetBSD’s wscons
Now, if you have been following the development of EndBASIC, this is not surprising. The defining characteristic of the EndBASIC console is that it’s hybrid as the video shows. What’s newsworthy, however, is that the EndBASIC console can now run di...
2025-01-18 01:16
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Microsoft adds “AI” to Microsoft 364 and raises prices to pay for it
Up until now, if you were subscribed to Office 365 – I think it’s called Microsoft 365 now – and you wanted the various “AI” Copilot features, you needed to pay $20 extra. Well, that’s changing, as Microsoft is now adding these features to ...
2025-01-18 00:59
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Microsoft adds “AI” to Microsoft 365 and raises prices to pay for it
Up until now, if you were subscribed to Office 365 – I think it’s called Microsoft 365 now – and you wanted the various “AI” Copilot features, you needed to pay $20 extra. Well, that’s changing, as Microsoft is now adding these features to ...
2025-01-18 00:59
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Venture: cross-platform GUI tool for parsing and analyzing Windows event logs
Venture is a cross-platform viewer for Windows Event Logs (.evtx files). Built with the Tauri, it is intended as a fast, standalone tool for quickly parsing and slicing Windows Event Log files during incident response, digital forensics, and CTF compet...
2025-01-18 00:41
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Google announces it’s going to intentionally violate EU law
Google has told the EU it will not add fact checks to search results and YouTube videos or use them in ranking or removing content, despite the requirements of a new EU law, according to a copy of a letter obtained by Axios. In a letter written to Rena...
2025-01-17 23:41
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Wine 10.0-rc6 Released With Another 18 Bugs Fixed
Wine 10.0 is working its way to a stable release within the next week or two while for today there is the sixth weekly release candidate...
2025-01-17 20:17
A comprehensive guide to NIS2 Compliance: Part 2 – Understanding NIS2 requirements
In my previous blog, we ran through what NIS2 is and who it applies to. In this second part of the series, I’ll break down the main requirements you’ll find in NIS2 and help translate them into actionable and practical measures you can take to achi...
2025-01-17 19:18
GNU Coreutils 9.6 Released With Changes For POSIX 2024, More AVX2 & AVX-512 Use
GNU Coreutils 9.6 released today as the updated version of these core utilities common to Linux systems and elsewhere...
2025-01-17 12:00
Many Exciting Features & New Hardware Support Expected For Linux 6.14
Linux 6.13 is bringing many exciting features for its stable debut expected this Sunday. But following that it's onward to the Linux 6.14 kernel merge window for which it will be yet another very exciting round from completing the NTSYNC driver to addi...
2025-01-17 11:00
Vulkan 1.4.305 Published With Three New Extensions
Vulkan 1.4.305 has been published as the newest version of the Vulkan API specification for high performance graphics and compute...
2025-01-17 10:23
Linux 6.14 To Add Support For SpacemiT's "Energy Efficient AI" RISC-V CPUs
The upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel is poised to introduce initial support for SpacemiT platforms, the Chinese computing chip company developing "next-generation RISC-V high-performance CPUs." For this next Linux kernel release the SpaceMiT Key Stone K1 oct...
2025-01-17 10:02
Python eats the world
In this week’s Python Report: Everyone’s favorite snake-named language is getting closer to being everyone’s favorite language, period. We also have a guide to unpacking the power of Python’s abstract base classes, and a tutorial for developer...
2025-01-17 09:00