The OSNews 2024 fundraiser: support OSNews to keep it alive
Do you want OSNews to continue to exist? Do you like the selection of news items I manage to scrounge up almost every day? Do you want OSNews free from corporate influence, “AI”-generated nonsense, and the kind of SEO-optimised blogspam we all desp...
Unleash new ways of working with flexible, cost-effective VDI
Empower your modern workforce with VDI from HPE and Canonical For years, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has helped power the most complex IT environments—and the technology is still relevant today. After all, VDI allows employees to access thei...
WebKit Features in Safari 18.1
Today, Safari 18.1 is available for iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, macOS Sequoia 15.1 and visionOS 2.1, as well as macOS Sonoma and macOS Ventura.
World’s first Haiku ransomware/malware
There’s many ways to judge if an operating system has made it to the big leagues, and one of the more unpleasant ones is the availability of malware. Haiku, the increasingly capable and daily-driveable successor to BeOS, is now officially a mainstrea...
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Linux Memory DDR5 Performance Testing
Following last week's launch testing of the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K and Core Ultra 5 245K Arrow Lake desktop processors, the next area I've been exploring deeper has been the DDR5 memory performance including with CUDIMMs. Here's a closer look at the C...
Canonical at India Mobile Congress 2024 – a retrospective
With an ambition to become Asia’s technology hub for telecommunications in the 5G/6G era, India hosts the annual India Mobile Congress (IMC) in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. IMC is an annual trade exhibition for the telecommunication sector, bringing to...
Imagining the future of Cybersecurity
October 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of Ubuntu. The cybersecurity landscape has significantly shifted since 2004. If you have been following the Ubuntu Security Team’s special three-part series podcast that we put out to mark Cybersecurity Awarene...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 27th, 2024
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for October 27th, 2024, brings news about GNOME 47..1, OpenSSL 3.4, Tor Browser 14, KDE Plasma 6.2.2, PeaZip 10 , Parrot OS 6.2, Thelio Astra, AlmaLinux OS Kitten, Ubuntu turns 20, as well as all the latest distro and softw...
Bridging the performance gap in data infrastructure for AI
In the current technology landscape, organizations are looking to AI to provide transformative product differentiation and groundbreaking new revenue streams. In 2023, large language models (LLMs) dazzled folks with the possibility of new capabilities...
Open source gets complicated
Oh, for the days when “open source” was simply the business-friendly version of “free software.” When we could make believe that the Open Source Definition (OSD) crafted for a world of packaged software shipped on CDs or other physical media w...