Open Source

TypeScript 5.9 brings deferred module evaluation, expandable hovers
TypeScript 5.9, an update to Microsoft’s JavaScript superset with syntax for types, has moved to a release candidate stage. The new TypeScript release brings support for ECMAScript’s deferred module evaluation and a preview of expandable hovers fo...
2025-07-29 20:39
Longtime Linux Kernel Engineer With 14 Years At Intel Is Now At Meta
Facebook's Meta already employs an all-star team of Linux kernel engineers and it doesn't appear that they are over in recruiting top-tier Linux kernel talent. One of Intel's senior Linux software engineers is now the latest high profile kernel develop...
2025-07-29 20:20
Proton 10.0-2 Beta Delivers More Enhancements For Linux Gaming
Proton 10.0-2 beta was released today by Valve and CodeWeavers for furthering this Wine-derived software powering Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux with great success...
2025-07-29 20:06
Google patches Gemini CLI tool after prompt injection flaw uncovered
It’s barely been out for a month and already security researchers have discovered a prompt injection vulnerability in Google’s Gemini command line interface (CLI) AI agent that could be exploited to steal sensitive data such as credentials and API...
2025-07-29 19:56
You don’t need theme.json for block theme styles
When you want or need to step away from using theme.json for styling themes, this guide will walk you through best practices for using stylesheets instead.
2025-07-29 18:10
FluidCloud introduces ‘cloud cloning’ platform
Startup FluidCloud, described as a portable cloud infrastructure provider, has launched the FluidCloud Platform, a “cloud cloning” platform that lets users clone, migrate, restore, and optimize infrastructure across clouds in minutes, according to...
2025-07-29 18:05
Fish Shell Adds Modern Features to Your Ubuntu Terminal
Fish might be the Bash alternative you didn't know you needed, thanks to features like highlighting, and smarter command suggestions. Learn how to install it on Ubuntu. You're reading Fish Shell Adds Modern Features to Your Ubuntu Terminal, a blog post...
2025-07-29 18:04
Fish is Like Bash With a Brain — Here’s How to Try it on Ubuntu
Fish might be the Bash alternative you didn't know you needed, thanks to features like highlighting, and smarter command suggestions. Learn how to install it on Ubuntu. You're reading Fish is Like Bash With a Brain — Here’s How to Try it on Ubuntu,...
2025-07-29 18:04
Linux 6.17 Staging Continues Cleaning The Realtek RTL8723BS Driver
The staging area of the Linux kernel, where preliminary code initially appears to mature until being promoted out, continues seeing a lot of code churn. With Linux 6.17 the staging updates were submitted and now merged with one driver in particular sta...
2025-07-29 16:19
Snowflake brings analytics workloads into its cloud with Snowpark Connect for Apache Spark
Snowflake is preparing to run Apache Spark analytics workloads directly on its infrastructure, saving enterprises the trouble of hosting an Apache Spark instance elsewhere, and eliminating data transfer delays between it and the Snowflake Data Cloud. ...
2025-07-29 15:53
Xtraceroute Ported To GTK4 + Vulkan For Demonstrating The Open-Source Potential For AI
Christian Schaller, a Fedora developer and Director of Software Engineering at Red Hat, recently began exploring the potential of AI usage more from the open-source/Linux perspective. He was left impressed from his ability to easily generate a Python a...
2025-07-29 15:05
xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0.0 Released With Two Years Worth Of Fixes
It had been two years since the last update to the AMDGPU X.Org DDX driver but now xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0.0 is now available for those relying on this driver/hardware-specific driver for X.Org enabled Linux systems rather than the xf86-video-modesettin...
2025-07-29 14:04
Canonical MAAS awarded as best quality software by TIOBE
Canonical’s MAAS User Interface has been ranked as the top-quality software project in its category by the quarterly TIOBE Software Quality Assurance Award
2025-07-29 13:30
Welcoming New Faces to the Thunderbird Community Team
Community First Thunderbird is (and has always been) powered by the people. The project exists because of the amazing community of passionate code contributors, bug-bashers, content creators, and all-around wonderful humans who have stood behind it and...
2025-07-29 13:24
Teradata joins Snowflake, Databricks in expanding MCP ecosystem
Teradata has released its first Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, designed to enable enterprises to connect their agents to data stored within the data analytics provider’s databases, amid rising demand for agentic applications. The Teradata MCP ...
2025-07-29 13:00
AMD Streaming SDK Updated With Linux Support - But Recommending X.Org Over Wayland
AMD's GPUOpen group today released the AMD Interactive Streaking SDK 1.1 release that now delivers Linux support alongside the existing Microsoft Windows support. The AMD Interactive Streaming SDK is designed to provide pieces for developers to build-o...
2025-07-29 11:29
Farewell Benchmarks Of Intel's Clear Linux On AMD EPYC Shows More Performance Left To Tap
Last week I ran the last planned benchmarks of Intel CPU performance on Clear Linux vs. Ubuntu with Intel having ceased development of Clear Linux following the restructuring at the company. In today's article is a final look at how the AMD EPYC perfor...
2025-07-29 10:10