Open Source

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
Federated learning: The killer use case for generative AI
Let’s imagine a fictional company, Global Retail Corporation, a multinational retail chain struggling with its initial approach to AI integration. They built custom generative AI applications on their cloud provider using OpenAI’s APIs for broader...
2025-01-17 09:00
LibreOffice 25.2 RC2 For Last Minute Testing This Updated Free Software Office Suite
LibreOffice 25.2 RC2 is out today with the official release of this updated open-source office suite coming in just about two weeks...
2025-01-17 08:35
Fedora 42 Boot Splash Screen Looks To Workaround GPU Drivers Taking Too Long To Load
Linux kernel graphics drivers have been growing too much in size that they are taking too long to load at boot time for quickly lighting up the display to present the nice Plymouth boot splash experience. This has led to situations of the Plymouth boot...
2025-01-17 07:02
AMDXDNA Submitted For Linux 6.14 With Kernel Accelerator/Graphics Driver Updates
Due to Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) lead maintainer David Airlie of Red Hat going on holidays the next two weeks, he's preemptively submitted the DRM/accelerator feature pull request ahead of the Linux 6.14 merge window officially opening...
2025-01-17 06:38
In Case You Wondered, RADV Doesn't Work On AMD CDNA Instinct Accelerators
Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics driver team landed some changes on Thursday to the open-source RADV driver within Mesa around GPU checks for the hardware supported by this popular AMD Vulkan driver on Linux systems...
2025-01-17 06:14
RadeonSI UVD/VCE Video Acceleration Improvements Merged For Mesa 25.0
At the start of the new year I talked about patches improving AMD Radeon video encode/decode for older GPUs. That work to the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver's UVD and VCE support has now been merged ahead of the Mesa 25.0 code branching coming up in just ov...
2025-01-17 05:59
Here’s how Google is using LLMs for complex internal code migrations
Code migration is a critical process in maintaining software applications. It helps improve performance and resilience, keeps systems up to date, and removes stale or irrelevant code. But it can be complex and time-consuming on a number of levels, not...
2025-01-17 05:00
Google rolls out Vertex AI RAG Engine
Google has formally introduced Vertex AI RAG Engine, a developer tool aimed at streamlining the complex process of retrieving relevant information from a knowledge base and feeding it to an LLM (large language model). Introduced in a January 15 blog p...
2025-01-17 00:55
PCI Express 7.0 Remains On Track For 2025, v0.7 Spec Published
Back in 2022 the PCI Express 7.0 specification was announced with hitting 128 GT/s and planned availability in 2025. Since then they have been iterating on the spec with PCI-SIG members and today they announced the PCI Express 7.0 v0.7 specification...
2025-01-16 20:25
Snowflake open sources SwiftKV to reduce inference workload costs
Cloud-based data warehouse company Snowflake has open-sourced a new proprietary approach — SwiftKV — designed to reduce the cost of inference workloads for enterprises running generative AI-based applications. SwiftKV was launched in December. Th...
2025-01-16 16:00
Linux Mint 22.1 Released, Here’s Everything New
A major new release of Linux Mint is now available to download. Linux Mint 22.1 is the first update in the Linux Mint 22.x series and, like that version, is built on top of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and uses Linux Kernel 6.8 (though the distro plans to release...
2025-01-16 14:04