GNOME Replaces Totem Video Player with Showtime
Roll credits on Totem, roll camera on Showtime — GNOME developers have cast a new video player for a staring role in GNOME 49, out in September. Per an upstream change now merged, the aged GTK3 video player Totem has been replaced by newer, fresher...
7 application security startups at RSAC 2025
The RSAC Early Stage Expo, the innovation hub of RSAC 2025, was created to spotlight emerging players in the information security space. Among the dozens of startups packed into the second-floor booth area, these VC-backed newcomers in API and applica...
Cloud repatriation hits its stride
For the past decade, the cloud was the ultimate destination for forward-thinking IT leaders. Hyperscale providers sold a compelling promise: agility, scalability, and always-on innovation. CIOs pushed cloud-first mandates and for a time, moving worklo...
Python popularity climbs to highest ever – Tiobe
Python continues to soar in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, rising to a 25.35% share in May 2025. It’s the highest Tiobe rating for any language since 2001, when Java topped the chart. Python’s popularity increased roughly 2.2 ...
Easily Toggle Ubuntu’s New Wellbeing Reminders On/Off
The Wellbeing controls available in Ubuntu 25.04 make it easy to get periodic prompts to move your butt or look away from your screen — you might not want them enabled all the time, though. Wellbeing controls were one of the flagship features of GNOM...
Introducing Mac Themes Garden
I’ve “launched” the Mac Themes Garden! It is a website showcasing more than 3,000 (and counting) Kaleidoscope from the Classic Mac era, ready to be seen, downloaded and explored! Check it out! Oh, and there also is an RSS feed you can subscribe t...
Reverse-engineering Fujitsu M7MU RELC hardware compression
This is a follow-up to the Samsung NX mini (M7MU) firmware reverse-engineering series. This part is about the proprietary LZSS compression used for the code sections in the firmware of Samsung NX mini, NX3000/NX3300 and Galaxy K Zoom. The post is docum...
Fighting Unwanted Notifications with Machine Learning in Chrome
Notifications in Chrome are a useful feature to keep up with updates from your favorite sites. However, we know that some notifications may be spammy or even deceptive. We’ve received reports of notifications diverting you to download suspicious sof...
Linux Mint 22.2 Modernises its Default Theme
More details on the makeup of the upcoming Linux Mint 22.2 release have been revealed, including its new codename (for those who track those). Linux Mint 22.2—due to be released sometime in late July or early August—is named ‘Zara’, continuing ...
Monthly News – April 2025
Hello everyone, Many thanks to our sponsors and to all of you who support the project with your donations. Codenames The codenames for the next releases of Linux Mint and LMDE were chosen: Linux Mint 22.2 will be called “Zara” LMDE 7 will be called...
Comparing the AI code generators
Every developer has now pasted code into ChatGPT or watched GitHub Copilot autocomplete a function. If that’s your only exposure, it’s easy to conclude that coding with large language models (LLMs) isn’t “there yet.” In practice, model quali...
Running PyTorch on an Arm Copilot+ PC
When Microsoft launched its Copilot+ PC range almost a year ago, it announced that it would deliver the Copilot Runtime, a set of tools to help developers take advantage of the devices’ built-in AI accelerators, in the shape of neural processing uni...
Sizing up the AI code generators
Every developer has now pasted code into ChatGPT or watched GitHub Copilot autocomplete a function. If that’s your only exposure, it’s easy to conclude that coding with large language models (LLMs) isn’t “there yet.” In practice, model quali...
