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Calibre 7.25 Adds Support for Importing KFX Files from 2024 Kindle Devices via MTP
Calibre 7.25 open-source ebook management software is now available for download with support for importing KFX files from 2024 Kindle devices that use the MTP protocol. The post Calibre 7.25 Adds Support for Importing KFX Files from 2024 Kindle Device...
2025-02-07 13:31
Security in depth with Ubuntu: Mapping security primitives to attacker capabilities
Cybersecurity is not about perfection. In fact, it’s more like a game of chess: predicting your opponent’s moves and making the game unwinnable for your opponent. Like chess players, attackers are always looking for an opening, probing for weakness...
2025-02-07 13:24
Vulkan Cooperative Matrix Merged For RDNA4 GPUs With RADV, DCC Support Inches Closer
Last week when RADV lead developer Samuel Pitoiset with Valve was commenting on the AMD RDNA4 state with the Mesa RADV driver it was noted that Vulkan cooperative matrix support, Vulkan Video encode/decode, and DCC support were still missing. But in th...
2025-02-07 11:28
GCC 15 Compiler Showing Off Nice Performance Improvements On AMD Zen 5
With the GCC 15 compiler having progressed to its final stage of development prior to the GCC 15.1 stable release in the likely March~April time frame, I've begun testing the updated GNU Compiler Collection on some test systems. Overall GCC 15 is looki...
2025-02-07 10:13
Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Steps Down As Upstream Apple Silicon Maintainer
Following arguments on the Linux kernel mailing list the past few days over some Linux kernel maintainers being against the notion of Rust code in the mainline Linux kernel and trying to avoid it and very passionate views over the Linux kernel developm...
2025-02-07 08:32
Introduction to Pipewire
Pipewire is a multimedia server and framework available as the default sound server in the latest Fedora versions. It is, by design, for low-latency audio and video routing and processing. It is capable of multiplexing multimedia streams to multiple cl...
2025-02-07 08:00
Serpent OS Working Toward Second Alpha, More Immutable OS Features
Despite Serpent OS development said to be slowing down to a lack of funding, they are hoping for the best and aiming to push forward with this original, from-scratch Linux distribution...
2025-02-07 06:42
Bcachefs Preps More Fixes For Linux 6.14, Continues Tracking Down Other Bugs
With the Linux 6.14 kernel Bcachefs has its last big planned on-disk format upgrade before removing the "experimental" tag on this copy-on-write file-system. Well, that's the hope at least. In addition to some early fixes last week, some additional Bca...
2025-02-07 06:33
NVIDIA Publishes RTX Neural Texture Compression "RTXNTC" Beta
NVIDIA on Thursday published their first public beta of their RTX Neural Texture Compression "RTX NTC" software development kit...
2025-02-07 06:22
AMDVLK 2025.Q1.1 Brings New Performance Tuning & Fixes
AMDVLK 2025.Q1.1 is out this morning as the first update of the year to this official AMD open-source Vulkan driver for Linux systems...
2025-02-07 05:54
Ubuntu's crypto-config Continues Being Developed For Gradual Roll-Out
A year ago I raised attention about crypto-config as a new Ubuntu project for system-wide cryptography configuration. That crypto config tool continues being developed by Canonical engineers for a gradual roll-out into the Ubuntu Linux landscape...
2025-02-06 20:47
VirtIO Media Driver Upstreaming Pursued For Relaying V4L2 Media Devices To Guests
Android and Chrome OS already are carrying the VirtIO Media driver as a means of enabling virtualization of host media devices into a guest while now patch review is underway in trying to get VirtIO Media upstreamed in the mainline Linux kernel...
2025-02-06 14:42
KDE Gear 24.12.2 Improves Dolphin, Itinerary, Tokodon, and Many Other KDE Apps
KDE Gear 24.12.2 is now available as the second maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 24.12 open-source software suite series with fixes for various KDE applications. The post KDE Gear 24.12.2 Improves Dolphin, Itinerary, Tokodon, and Many Other KD...
2025-02-06 14:20
LibreOffice 25.2 Released, This is What’s New
LibreOffice 25.2 has been released, this year’s first major update to the leading open-source office software for Windows, macOS, and Linux. As you’d expect, the update delivers a sizeable set of changes spread throughout the productivity suite, in...
2025-02-06 12:30
Canonical achieves ISO 21434 certification, strengthening automotive cybersecurity standards
Certified cybersecurity processes to help safeguard next-generation connected vehicles Canonical is proud to announce it has achieved the ISO 21434 certification for its Security Management System, following an extensive assessment by TÜV SÜD, a glob...
2025-02-06 12:00
LibreOffice 25.2 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, This Is What’s New
LibreOffice 25.2 open-source, free, and cross-platform office suite is now available for download with new features and improvements. Here’s what’s new! The post LibreOffice 25.2 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, This Is What’s New ap...
2025-02-06 12:00
Proxmox Platinum Sponsor of DebConf25
We are pleased to announce that Proxmox has committed to sponsor DebConf25 as a Platinum Sponsor. Proxmox develops powerful, yet easy-to-use Open Source server software. The product portfolio from Proxmox, including server virtualization, backup, and ...
2025-02-06 11:50
SMT Remains Very Advantageous For 5th Gen AMD EPYC Performance
After recently re-visiting the AMD EPYC 9005 series AVX-512 performance, I followed up with some fresh SMT benchmarks looking at the performance benefits and power of toggling Simultaneous Multi-Threading on the 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" hardware. Here ...
2025-02-06 10:50
EU Cyber Resilience Act compliance: best practices for IoT manufacturers
The EU Cyber Resilience Act has considerable repercussions for the IoT device manufacturers. In this blog, we explore these new regulatory requirements and give our blueprint for compliant, market-ready devices.
2025-02-06 10:20
Tails 6.12 Anonymous OS Fixes Security Issues in Tor Circuits, Persistent Storage
Tails 6.12 amnesic incognito live system distribution is now available for download with more fixes for critical vulnerabilities, updated components, and bug fixces. Here's what's new! The post Tails 6.12 Anonymous OS Fixes Security Issues in Tor Circu...
2025-02-06 10:20