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GNOME 46.7 Improves Accessibility of Quick Settings’ Keyboard Backlight Toggle
GNOME 46.7 is now available as the seventh maintenance update to the GNOME 46 desktop environment series with various bug fixes, updated translations, and other changes. The post GNOME 46.7 Improves Accessibility of Quick Settings’ Keyboard Backlight...
2024-12-09 17:32
NTSYNC Linux Patches Revived To Help Boost Steam Play Gaming Performance
Back in May for the Linux 6.10 kernel the initial bits of the NTSYNC driver was upstreamed for helping to emulate the Windows NT synchronization primitives so Windows games running under Wine/Proton (such as Valve's Steam Play) can enjoy a very nice pe...
2024-12-09 15:15
Supply chain compromise of Ultralytics AI library results in trojanized versions
Attackers have compromised Ultralytics YOLO packages published on PyPI, the official Python package index, by compromising the build environment of the popular library for creating custom machine learning models. The malicious code deployed cryptocurr...
2024-12-09 14:14
OS-SCi: This Week’s Sponsor
We’re grateful for our weekly sponsor, OpenSource Science B.V., an educational institution focused on Open Source software. OS-SCi is training the next generation FOSS engineers, by using Open Source technologies and philosophy in a project learning ...
2024-12-09 14:13
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GNU Shepherd 1.0 Service Manager Released As "Solid Tool" Alternative To systemd
GNU Shepherd as a service manager for both system and user services that is used by Guix and relying on Guile Scheme has finally reached version 1.0. For those not pleased with systemd, GNU Shepherd can be used as an init system and now has finally cro...
2024-12-09 13:42
Raspberry Pi 500 Computer Launches with the Official Raspberry Pi Monitor
The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced today the launch of the Raspberry Pi 500 computer, powered by the Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computer, alongside the Raspberry … The post Raspberry Pi 500 Computer Launches with the Official Raspberry Pi Monitor...
2024-12-09 12:32
NVIDIA R565 vs. Linux 6.13 + Mesa 25.0 Git AMD / Intel Graphics For Linux Gaming
It's been a few months since running any fresh Linux graphics driver comparison benchmarks. But given the imminent availability of the first Intel Arc Battlemage graphics cards, I have been carrying out some fresh Linux GPU driver testing. Given the re...
2024-12-09 12:12
Thank you to our weekly sponsor, OS-SCi
We’re grateful for our weekly sponsor, OpenSource Science B.V., an educational institution focused on Open Source software. OS-SCi is training the next generation FOSS engineers, by using Open Source technologies and philosophy in a project learning ...
2024-12-09 10:40
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GPU Switching: A Multi-GPU Game Changer
Users of openSUSE can now rely on the built-in switcherooctl tool for GPU switching, which is already integrated into our distributions with major desktop environments like GNOME and KDE Plasma. This is a game changer because it eliminates the need for...
2024-12-09 10:00
Rust-Based, Memory-Safe PNG Decoders "Vastly Outperform" C-Based PNG Libraries
Video and image encoders/decoders written in the Rust programming language for its memory safety guarantees is often viewed as one of the compelling areas for the programming language to better protect against malformed/malicious content especially wit...
2024-12-09 09:05
Why business teams must stay out of application development
In the last 10 years of building WaveMaker, the one thing we always hear are user expectations that low code will miraculously allow business users to develop feature-rich applications. Well, it can, but it most certainly shouldn’t. I’ll tell you ...
2024-12-09 09:00
Surveying the LLM application framework landscape
Large language models by themselves are less than meets the eye; the moniker “stochastic parrots” isn’t wrong. Connect LLMs to specific data for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and you get a more reliable system, one that is much less likel...
2024-12-09 09:00
Why AI coding assistants are best for experienced developers
Generative AI has hit the mainstream with software developers. According to a recent GitHub survey, more than one million developers actively use GitHub Copilot. More importantly, these developers increasingly use AI as “a new building block in deve...
2024-12-09 09:00
The 2024 LLVM Developers’ Meeting Videos Now Online
For those wishing to kick off the new week with some interesting technical videos and are into compiler tech, the video recordings from the 2024 LLVM Developers' Meeting are now online...
2024-12-09 08:36
The state of Falkon: KDE’s browser is much better than you know
It’s no secret that I am very worried about the future of Firefox, and the future of Firefox on Linux in particular. I’m not going to rehash these worries here, but suffice to say that with Mozilla increasingly focusing on advertising, Firefox’ n...
2024-12-09 08:27
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Unofficial Windows 11 mobile is possible even on select budget phones with a free utility
Back in December 2019, Microsoft finally killed off Windows 10 Phone as it announced the end of support. The company’s grand plans with Lumia and Windows Phones sadly never became the success it needed to be in order to be able to compete with the ...
2024-12-09 08:23
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ASUS TUF GAMING X670E PLUS Seeing Linux Sensors Support
For those with the ASUS TUF GAMING X670E PLUS as a ~$230 USD AM5 motherboard for Ryzen 7000/9000 series processors, this desktop motherboard is seeing support tacked onto the asus-ec-sensors hardware monitoring driver so you can enjoy working sensor re...
2024-12-09 06:48
Glibc 2.41 Adds C23's sinpi / cospi / tanpi Functions
Ahead of the GNU C Library "glibc" 2.41 release due out around early February, more C23 features are being finished up. The latest crossing the finish line is support for C23's sinpi, cospi, and tanpi trigonometric functions...
2024-12-09 06:36