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Data ethics in action: Zenjob, TikTok and Mozilla’s Anonym show a better way to measure
Let’s face it — measuring ad performance is challenging in a shifting privacy landscape. With tightening regulations and data sharing under a well-deserved microscope, advertisers are under more pressure than ever to prove their campaigns can work ...
2025-04-09 22:20
GitHub Advanced Security now offers security campaigns
GitHub has made security campaigns available for GitHub Advanced Security and GitHub Code Security users. Security campaigns help control security debt and manage risk by enabling collaboration between developers and security teams, GitHub said. Annou...
2025-04-09 21:08
FreeDOS 1.4 released
With FreeDOS being, well, DOS, you’d think there wasn’t much point in putting out major releases and making big changes, and you’d mostly be right. However, being a DOS clone doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement within the confines o...
2025-04-09 20:15
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What’s up with Linux support for Qualcomm X Elite chips?
Remember when Qualcomm promised Linux would be a first-tier platform alongside Windows for its Snapdragon X Elite, almost a year ago now? Well, the Snapdragon X laptop have been out in the market for a while running Windows, but Linux support is still ...
2025-04-09 19:46
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This month in Redox, March 2025
Another month, another month of Redox improvements and bug fixes. This month saw a ton of work on process management as part of the NLnet grant, massive improvements to the USB stack, including a USB hub driver, as well as the usual kernel and driver i...
2025-04-09 18:32
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Google Cloud Next 2025: News and insights
Google Cloud Next ’25, which runs from April 9-11 in Las Vegas) is highlighting the latest advancements and future directions of Google Cloud Platform and cloud computing. This year, artificial intelligence and machine learning, along with announcem...
2025-04-09 16:51
SONiC: The open source network operating system for modern data centers
Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) is an open-source network operating system that has revolutionized data center networking. Originating as a Microsoft-led initiative in the Open Compute Project (OCP) in 2016, SONiC has rapidly gained t...
2025-04-09 16:10
Linux Mint Introduces More Regex Filters to Nemo
Finding the exact files you want in the Nemo file manager will soon be easier and faster. Linux Mint is bringing ‘enhanced’ search functionality to the next major version of its GTK-based Nemo file manager (which is likely to see release the same t...
2025-04-09 15:30
Linux Mint Expands Regex File Search in Nemo
Finding the exact files you want in the Nemo file manager will soon be easier and faster. Linux Mint is bringing ‘enhanced’ search functionality to the next major version of its GTK-based Nemo file manager (which is likely to see release the same t...
2025-04-09 15:30
Monthly News – March 2025
Hi everyone, Before we start with the news, I’d like to thank all the people who donate, sponsor and contribute in various ways to our project. Many thanks to all of you! Note: The features which are previewed in this post are planned for upcoming re...
2025-04-09 14:02
The View from Here
Imagine an investigative journalist, renowned for her work exposing corruption. She is communicating with a confidential informant and on the verge of cracking a high-profile case. She believes her conversations with the informant are secure - until a...
2025-04-09 14:00
Google adds natural language query capabilities to AlloyDB
Google is enhancing AlloyDB, its fully managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS), to help developers build applications underpinned by generative AI. Announced at Google’s annual Cloud Next conference, the updates could give the PostreSQL-compatible All...
2025-04-09 12:00
Google Cloud introduces cloud app design center
Google Cloud has introduced Application Design Center, a service that helps platform administrators and developers design, deploy, and manage applications on the Google Cloud Platform. Application Design Center is in public preview. Application Design...
2025-04-09 12:00
Google adds open source framework for building agents to Vertex AI
Google is adding a new open source framework for building agents to its AI and machine learning platform Vertex AI, along with other updates to help deploy and maintain these agents. It unveiled the open source Agent Development Kit (ADK) at its annua...
2025-04-09 12:00
Google’s Agent2Agent open protocol aims to connect disparate agents
Google has taken the covers off a new open protocol — Agent2Agent (A2A) — that aims to connect agents across disparate ecosystems. At its annual Cloud Next conference, Google said that the A2A protocol will enable enterprises to adopt agents more ...
2025-04-09 12:00
What is Kubernetes? Scalable cloud-native applications
Kubernetes is a popular open source platform for container orchestration—that is, for managing applications built from multiple, largely self-contained runtimes called containers. Containers have become increasingly popular since Docker launched in ...
2025-04-09 09:00
Four paradoxes of software development
Civil engineers can rightfully claim that no two bridges are exactly alike. However, bridges share many known characteristics, and the materials they are built with have known characteristics. Building bridges involves many known knowns and not as m...
2025-04-09 09:00