Raspberry Pi’s New $70 AI Camera Works With All Pi Models
If you’re looking to kick the tyres on some AI image processing/recognition tasks and you own an older Raspberry Pi, the new AI Camera add-on may be of interest. While the $70 Raspberry Pi AI Kit only works with a Raspberry Pi 5, the $70 AI camer...
Linux Mint Gives First Look at New Cinnamon Theme
As revealed last month, Linux Mint is working on an improved default theme for the Cinnamon desktop – and today we got our first look at what’s coming. The way Cinnamon looks in Linux Mint (the distribution) is not the way it looks if you insta...
Mission Center (Linux System Monitor) Now Reports Fan Info
A major new release of Mission Center, a modern system monitor app for Linux desktops, has been released. Fans of this Rust-based GTK4/libadwaita system monitoring tool (which to address the recurring elephant in the room does indeed have a user interf...
Build your private 5G network with Charmed Aether SD-Core
You might recall that we recently announced the beta release of Charmed Aether SD-Core, bringing automation to the Linux Foundation’s open source 5G software-defined core (SD-Core) networking software. SD-Core is distributed by the Aether project and...
VirtualBox 7.1.2 Adds Support for 3D Acceleration in ARM VMs
Oracle has release a new maintenance update for VirtualBox, its open-source virtualisation software. VirtualBox 7.1.2 is the first such point release since the VirtualBox 7.1 series debuted earlier this month. Naturally, it builds on that major release...
AI in Healthcare: 5 Use Cases and 1 challenge
The accelerated developments in machine learning and artificial intelligence in healthcare have set the stage for some interesting transformations. By enabling better care for patients, optimizing processes, and generating new opportunities for medical...
Ubuntu Patches ‘Severe’ Security Flaw in CUPS
If you’ve cast a half-glazed eye over Linux social media feeds at some point in the past few days you may have caught wind that a huge Linux security flaw was about to be disclosed. And today it was: a remote code execution flaw affecting the CUP...
CUPS Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Fix Available
Four CVE IDs have been assigned that together form an high-impact exploit chain surrounding CUPS: CVE-2024-47076, CVE-2024-47175, CVE-2024-47176 and CVE-2024-47177. Canonical’s security team has released updates for the cups-browsed, cups-filters, li...
COSMIC DE Alpha 2 Released, This is What’s New
Chocks away —British saying, don’t stare at me weirdly— as the second alpha of System76’s homegrown COSMIC desktop environment has been released. To make it easy for us all to try out the latest improvements a second alpha build of Pop!...
5G mobile networks: A driver for edge computing
Recently, a striking report published by Omdia and Canonical highlighted that 86% of communication service providers (CSPs) are optimistic about the future of edge computing on telco networks. This is a market that is expected to grow substantial...
Charmed OpenSearch enters general availability
Today, Canonical announced the release of Charmed OpenSearch, an enterprise solution for OpenSearch® with advanced automation features, multi-cloud capabilities, and comprehensive support. OpenSearch is an open source search and analytics suite that ...
TurtleBot3 OpenCR firmware update from a snap
The TurtleBot3 robot is a standard platform robot in the ROS community, and it’s a reference that Canonical knows well, since we’ve used it in our tutorials. As a matter of fact, we use it to demonstrate some of our work, such as distributing a ROS...
Ubuntu 24.10 ARM ISO Supports the ThinkPad X13s
Ubuntu 24.10 supports the Snapdragon-powered Lenovo ThinkPad X13s laptop in the official ‘generic’ ARM64 ISO — a notable change. Although it is possible to use Ubuntu 23.10 on the Thinkpad X13s it requires using of a custom ISO spun-up sp...
How to Disable the ‘Recent’ Files Section in Nautilus
There’s one feature in the Nautilus file manager I use daily: the Recent files shortcut. One-click gives me access to my most recently downloaded, modified, and newly created files together, regardless of the folder they’re in. I find it de...
