NordVPN Linux App Updated with New GUI
NordVPN today announced a major update to its Linux app, adding a much-requested GUI front-end that makes it easier to control, configure and monitor secure connections. Linux users have been able to use an official, comprehensive command-line interfac...
Thunderbird Monthly Developer Digest – April 2025
Hello from the Thunderbird development team! With some of our time spent onboarding new team members and interviewing for open positions, April was a fun and productive month. Our team grew and we were amazed at how smooth the onboarding process has be...
What ‘cloud first’ can teach us about ‘AI first’
In the early 2010s, enterprises enthusiastically embraced the “cloud first” ethos. Between 2010 and 2016, businesses aggressively migrated applications and data to the public cloud, spurred on by promises of lower costs, greater efficiency, and un...
Agentic mesh: The future of enterprise agent ecosystems
Every week, a new AI agent platform is announced, each promising to revolutionize how work gets done. The vision is compelling. Simply task an AI agent with a job, and it will autonomously plan, execute, and deliver flawless results. Industry leaders ...
Ubuntu 25.04 Upgrades Have Been Re-Enabled
If you’ve been itching to do an in-place upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 from 24.10, your patience has paid off — upgrades have been re-enabled. For those unaware, Ubuntu was forced to halt upgrades to the new Ubuntu 25.04 release a few hours after its rel...
Ubuntu 25.04 Upgrades Set to Go Live Again Soon
If you’ve been patiently waiting to do an in-place upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 from 24.10, your patience is about to pay off. Ubuntu developers were forced to halt upgrades to the new Ubuntu 25.04 release due to a number of major bugs affecting users acr...
Haiku Activity & Contract Report, April 2025
This report covers hrev58788 through hrev58847. Applications jackburton79 fixed a case where the cursor color in Terminal wouldn’t be initialized, especially notable when running Terminal as a replicant. He also added support for executing commands i...
C# 14 introduces extension members
C# 14, a planned update to Microsoft’s cross-platform, general purpose programming language, adds an extension member syntax to build on the familiar feature of extension methods. Extension members allow developers to “add” methods to existing ...
A brief history of the numeric keypad
The title is a lie. This isn’t brief at all. Picture the keypad of a telephone and calculator side by side. Can you see the subtle difference between the two without resorting to your smartphone? Don’t worry if you can’t recall the design. Most o...
A brief history of the BSD Fast FileSystem
We’re looking at an article from 2007 here, but I still think it’s valuable and interesting, especially from a historical perspective. I first started working on the UNIX file system with Bill Joy in the late 1970s. I wrote the Fast File System, no...
