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LXQt 2.1 Promises Experimental Wayland Session, Styling Improvements
LXQt 2.1 desktop environment promises experimental Wayland session, styling improvements, and various other enhancements. Here's what to expect from the upcoming release in mid-November 2024. The post LXQt 2.1 Promises Experimental Wayland Session, Sty...
2024-09-24 12:54
Data centre networking: What is OVN?
Providing an overview of Open Virtual Network (OVN), its architecture and the main drivers behind it in the data centre networking space.
2024-09-24 11:15
Intel Xeon 6980P "Granite Rapids" Linux Benchmarks
With the Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" launch today the review embargo has now expired. I began with my Intel Granite Rapids Linux benchmarking a few days ago and have initial benchmarks to share for the flagship Xeon 6980P processors paired with M...
2024-09-24 11:00
Intel Launches Xeon 6900P Series "Granite Rapids" Processors
Building off the launch earlier this year of the first Xeon 6 processors with the Xeon 6700E "Sierra Forest" processors, today Intel is lifting the wraps on the much anticipated Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" processors. Where as Sierra Forest is optimize...
2024-09-24 11:00
Formation of the Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group 
By: Dirk-Willem van Gulik, ASF VP Public Affairs Today the Eclipse Foundation announced the official formation of the Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group (ORC WG). This initiative will first and foremost capture current best practices around softw...
2024-09-24 11:00
Intel Gaudi 3 Linux Driver Support Expected Next Month
Intel used their Enterprise Tech Tour last week in Oregon to not only provide insight into the new Xeon 6900 "Granite Rapids" server processors (and Xeon 6980P benchmarks) but also to shed more light on their Gaudi 3 AI inference accelerator. The quest...
2024-09-24 11:00
VIDEO: The Thunderbird Council
The Thunderbird Council is an important part of the Thunderbird story, and one of the main reasons we’re still around. In this month’s office hours, we sat down to chat with one of the very first Thunderbird Council members, Patrick Cloke, ...
2024-09-24 11:00
OpenAI Academy to help train developers, offer free credits
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is launching a new global program, named OpenAI Academy, to help train developers working in the field of AI and generative AI, the company said on Monday. “OpenAI is launching the OpenAI Academy, which will invest in developers...
2024-09-24 10:34
The challenge of cloud computing forensics
As the digital landscape evolves, so does the difficulty of safeguarding it. This is especially true in cloud computing, which is now the mother of all IT complexity, with security challenges that confound forensic investigators. Lately, I’ve notice...
2024-09-24 09:00
Java 23 highlights crypto performance and security
While the recently released Java 23 features a dozen official features ranging from a second class-file API preview to an eighth incubator of a vector API, it also comes with various security capabilities. Security enhancements include crypto performa...
2024-09-24 09:00
Gleam language reaches 1.5 release
Gleam 1.5, the latest version of a statically typed language for the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes, has been published, with productivity improvements such as upgraded compile-time error messages. Launched September 19, Gleam 1.5 can ...
2024-09-24 09:00
Linux 6.12 Adds A Kernel Stack Usage Histogram To Help With Optimizations
Merged as part of the memory management "MM" changes for the Linux 6.12 kernel is a kernel stack usage histogram to help developers in better optimizing the kernel stack sizes and minimizing memory waste...
2024-09-24 08:57
Intel LPSS Driver Adds Panther Lake Support In Linux 6.12
Going along with other early Linux kernel driver additions for enabling Panther Lake, the intel-lpss driver in Linux 6.12 has made its device ID additions for supporting Panther Lake H and Panther Lake P processors...
2024-09-24 07:07
Intel's LPMD "Low Power Mode Daemon" Now Identifies As The "Energy Optimizer"
The Intel LPMD open-source project is a user-space daemon for optimizing active idle power handling on Linux and can be useful particularly for modern Intel Core hybrid processors. LPMD is short for the "Low Power Mode Daemon" while with today's v0.0.7...
2024-09-24 06:43
Landlock Sandboxing Now Supports More Controls Around Unix Sockets
Landlock as the Linux security module for unprivileged access control handling is adding new controls around Unix socket handling with the Linux 6.12 kernel...
2024-09-24 06:32
Dell-WMI-Sysman Linux Driver Being Extended For Alienware Systems
The Dell-WMI-Sysman driver on Linux allows for managing BIOS settings from within Linux using sysfs. This dell-wmi-sysman kernel driver supports most Dell platforms from 2018 and newer for convenient BIOS management...
2024-09-24 06:17
F2FS With Linux 6.12 Converts I/O Paths To Use Folios, Other Improvements
The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.12 merge window...
2024-09-24 06:11
Microsoft deprecates Windows Server Update Services, suggests cloud services instead
As part of our vision for simplified Windows management from the cloud, Microsoft has announced deprecation of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). Specifically, this means that we are no longer investing in new capabilities, nor are we accepting ne...
2024-09-23 22:26
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Disable Sequoia’s monthly screen recording permission prompt
The widely–reported “foo is requesting to bypass the system private window picker and directly access your screen and audio” prompt in Sequoia (which Apple has moved from daily to weekly to now monthly) can be disabled by qui...
2024-09-23 21:38
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