JetBrains IDEs now include AI tools by subscription
JetBrains AI tools, including the improved AI Assistant tool and coding agent dubbed Junie, are now available with a single subscription and with a free tier for JetBrains IDEs. Including AI tools under a single subscription makes it easier to access ...
Full Steam Ahead with RISC-V and Fedora Linux 42
The Fedora RISC-V SIG is excited to share that our RISC-V images for Fedora Linux 42 have landed on-time and without delay! If you’ve been watching our progress over the past few releases, you know that staying on schedule is a big deal, especially g...
Google is a monopolist in online advertising tech, judge says
Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some online advertising technology, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, adding to legal troubles that could reshape the $1.86 trillion company and alter its power over the internet. Judge Leonie Brinkema ...
Onehouse opens up the lakehouse with Open Engines
Data lake vendor Onehouse on Thursday released Open Engines, a new capability on its platform which it says provides the ability to deploy open source engines on top of open data. Available in private preview, it initially supports Apache Flink for st...
How to Upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’
Do you currently run Ubuntu 24.10 on your computer but want to upgrade to the new Ubuntu 25.04 release to benefit from its (many) changes? As long as you’re full up-to-date and have a working internet connection, you can upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 di...
Canonical Releases Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin
The latest interim release of Ubuntu introduces “devpacks” for popular frameworks like Spring, along with performance enhancements across a broad range of hardware. 17 April 2025 Today Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 25.04, codenamed “P...
ActiveX disabled by default in Microsoft 365
ActiveX is a powerful technology that enables rich interactions within Microsoft 365 applications, but its deep access to system resources also increases security risks. Starting this month, the Windows versions of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Micr...
Ubuntu 25.04 Release Now Available for Download
Pull the party poppers and unpack the cake for today is Ubuntu release day — and Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ is now available to download! Ubuntu 25.04 is arguably the most polished, performant release to date! As the latest short-term release o...
Mozilla’s CEO weighs in on U.S. v. Google
The CEO of Mozilla, Laura Chambers, provided insights about the U.S. v. Google LLC case ahead of the trial slated to begin April 21, 2025. “As the CEO of Mozilla, I often have conversations about the future of this company. Most times these conversat...
Enter the parallel universe of Java’s Vector API
If there is one thing you can describe as an obsession for both developers and devops, it’s how to improve the performance of applications. Ultimately, better performance leads to lower costs (through reduced utilization of resources) or bigger prof...
Headlamp: A multicluster management UI for Kubernetes
As important as Kubernetes is to the modern cloud-native stack, it’s still not easy to use on your own hardware. That’s surprising, considering how long it’s been around. Sure, you can use managed cloud services such as Azure Kubernetes Service,...
A threat model for opposing authoritarianism
A decade ago, I published a book on privacy “Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance.” In the book, and since then, in articles and speeches, I have been dispensing advice to people on how to...
Gleam 1.10 improves compiler, JavaScript codegen
Gleam 1.10, a new release of the type-safe programming language for the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes, is now available. The update features compiler improvements centering on holding more information and improving exhaustive analysis...
What makes Slackware different?
I’m not entirely sure how to link to this properly, but what we have here is a simple, to-the-point text file describing some of the benefits of Slackware, the oldest still maintained Linux distribution. It’s still run by Patrick Volkerding, and fo...
