Open Source

Audacity 3.7.5 Fixes More Bugs, Windows on ARM Builds
A new version of Audacity, the popular open-source audio editor, is available for download. Audacity 3.7.5 is the latest in the 3.7.x series of maintenance releases launched last year. Major new features are not the focus, only (still welcome) fixes an...
2025-08-05 22:59
JetBrains previews no-code development platform
JetBrains is offering early access to Kineto, an AI-powered, no-code development platform intended to help anybody create professional or personal apps regardless of technical ability. Launched August 5, Kineto helps users create, deploy, and maintain...
2025-08-05 21:58
JetBrains previews no-code app builder
JetBrains is offering early access to Kineto, an AI-powered, no-code development platform intended to help anybody create professional or personal apps regardless of technical ability. Launched August 5, Kineto helps users create, deploy, and maintain...
2025-08-05 21:58
systemd 258-rc2 Released In Preparing For H2'2025 Linux Distributions
Released two weeks ago was systemd 258-rc1 with many changes throughout its massive codebase. Out today is a second release candidate of the forthcoming systemd 258...
2025-08-05 21:00
Windows NT 4.0 set us on the path to Windows NT desktop dominance
The most popular desktop operating system today is still Windows, with its userbase roughly equally divided between Windows 10 and Windows 11. While we tend to focus on the marketing names used by Microsoft, like Windows XP, Windows 7, or Windows 11, t...
2025-08-05 20:38
local_offer
Rust Making Progress On Its 2025 Project Goals
The Rust project put out a status update concerning its 2025 project goals to summarize what has been accomplished during the first half of the year...
2025-08-05 20:35
Maintenance Releases for WordPress branches 4.7 to 6.7
Following on from the WordPress 6.8.2 maintenance release last month, the included update to the root security certificate bundle has been backported to all branches back to 4.7. This ensures that when your site performs server-side HTTP requests, the ...
2025-08-05 19:11
Toot, Toot: Linux Mastodon App Tuba Gets a Huge Update
Tuba 0.10 features a redesigned post composer, YouTube playback, timeline tweaks and more, making this open-source Linux Mastodon client even better. You're reading Toot, Toot: Linux Mastodon App Tuba Gets a Huge Update, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. D...
2025-08-05 18:04
Toot, toot: Linux Mastodon App Tuba Gets a Major Update
Tuba 0.10 features a redesigned post composer, YouTube playback, timeline tweaks and more, making this open-source Linux Mastodon client even better. You're reading Toot, toot: Linux Mastodon App Tuba Gets a Major Update, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. ...
2025-08-05 18:04
PCI Express 8.0 Aims For 256 GT/s In 2028
The PCI-SIG announced today the PCI Express 8.0 specification due out in 2028 will double the data of the PCI Express 7.0 specification, taking it to 256 GT/s...
2025-08-05 17:01
Anaconda Web UI Installer for Spins and Editions Test Days: August 4 – 8 2025
Join us this week for the Anaconda Web UI Installer test week where we are focusing testing on Anacondas brand new WebUI for KDE and Spins live images. What is a test week? Test weeks are organised by the Fedora QA team per release cycle and are a grea...
2025-08-05 15:07
Replacing an Amiga’s brain with Doom
There’s a lovely device called a pistorm, an adapter board that glues a Raspberry Pi GPIO bus to a Motorola 68000 bus. The intended use case is that you plug it into a 68000 device and then run an emulator that reads instructions from hardware (ROM ...
2025-08-05 14:05
local_offer
Debian 13 Showing 13% Performance Improvement Over Debian 12 On AMD EPYC
If all goes according to plan Debian 13.0 will be released this weekend. Already in its effectively final state aside from any last minute fixes, I've begun running Debian 13 testing builds on various systems in the lab to great success. With two years...
2025-08-05 12:00
exFAT Fixes Significant Random Write Performance Regression With Linux 6.17
Following yesterday's F2FS pull request, the exFAT file-system updates were sent out and since merged for the ongoing Linux 6.17 kernel merge window...
2025-08-05 11:00
Why benchmarks are key to AI progress
Benchmarks are often reduced to leaderboard standings in media coverage, but their role in AI development is far more critical. They are the backbone of model evaluation—guiding improvements, enabling reproducibility, and ensuring real-world appl...
2025-08-05 09:00
The problem with AI agent-to-agent communication protocols
You know the routine: The IT industry, driven as much by vendor ambition as by necessity, develops many competing standards to solve a simple problem. Today’s culprit: agent-to-agent communication in AI. The recent rise of so-called “standards” ...
2025-08-05 09:00