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Calibre 7.20 Adds New PDF Input Engine, Supports New Tolino Shine 5 Firmware
Calibre 7.20 open-source ebook manager is now available for download with a new default PDF Input engine, new firmware for the Tolino Shine 5 reader, and other changes. Here's what's new! The post Calibre 7.20 Adds New PDF Input Engine, Supports New To...
2024-10-18 07:59
AMD ROCm Looks Like It Will Finally Be Supporting OpenCL 3.0 Soon
The OpenCL 3.0 compute specification has been out in finalized form since September 2020. Since then NVIDIA's official Windows/Linux drivers have been exposing OpenCL 3.0 going back to 2021, the Intel Compute Runtime stack has also been exposing OpenCL...
2024-10-18 06:38
Ubuntu Snaps Up Intel's NPU User-Space Software So It's Easier To Accelerate AI
Ubuntu Linux maker Canonical has announced the availability of an Intel NPU driver Snap package within their Snap Store to make it easier to leverage the Intel neural processing unit (NPU) on Core Ultra processors within Ubuntu Linux...
2024-10-18 06:27
Valve Contributes OpenVR Video Driver To SDL
Merged to upstream SDL today is an OpenVR video driver that was developed at Valve Software...
2024-10-18 06:14
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Has Invested Over $24.9M In Open-Source In Two Years
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) is today celebrating its second anniversary for "empowering public digital infrastructure." In the past two years it has invested more than €23 million (about $24.94M USD) into sixty open technologies...
2024-10-18 06:07
Ardour 8.10 Open-Source DAW Released with Fixes for New Major Issues
Ardour 8.10 open-source digital audio workstation is now available for download with various bug fixes and minor improvements. Here's what's changed in this release! The post Ardour 8.10 Open-Source DAW Released with Fixes for New Major Issues appeared...
2024-10-17 23:58
How to install Windows 11 on supported and unsupported PCs, 24H2 edition
We’ve pulled together all kinds of resources to create a comprehensive guide to installing and upgrading to Windows 11. This includes advice and some step-by-step instructions for turning on officially required features like your TPM and Secure Boot,...
2024-10-17 22:01
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The costs of the i386 to x86-64 upgrade
If you read my previous article on DOS memory models, you may have dismissed everything I wrote as “legacy cruft from the 1990s that nobody cares about any longer”. After all, computers have evolved from sporting 8-bit processors to 64-bit process...
2024-10-17 21:50
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Microsoft Open-Sources Rust-Written OpenHCL For Running Confidential Intel/AMD VMs
Microsoft announced today the new and now open-source OpenHCL paravisor for the virtualization stack for enabling Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP confidential computing virtual machines (VMs) with this Rust-written software stack. This effort by Microsoft ha...
2024-10-17 20:28
Android 15’s security and privacy features are the update’s highlight
Android 15 started rolling out to Pixel devices Tuesday and will arrive, through various third-party efforts, on other Android devices at some point. There is always a bunch of little changes to discover in an Android release, whether by reading, pokin...
2024-10-17 18:05
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Meet our EDU team at EDUCAUSE 2024
We’re excited to announce our participation in EDUCAUSE 2024.
2024-10-17 17:57
Intel NPU Driver Being Updated To Handle Larger AI Workloads
Following the recent patch work for enabling the Intel 5th Gen NPU premiering with Panther Lake, a new patch series posted today brings a number of improvements for this Intel neural processing unit driver -- including the ability to handle larger work...
2024-10-17 16:54
Mastering theme.json: You might not need CSS
A walkthrough of many tips, tricks, and techniques for using theme.json and style variations to their full extent.
2024-10-17 16:21
WP Engine Promotions
Given the egregious legal attacks by WP Engine against WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, a number of their customers have been looking for alternative hosting, and in return a number of hosts have created specials and promotions for WP Engine custom...
2024-10-17 15:19
WP Engine Promotions & Coupons
Given the egregious legal attacks by WP Engine against WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, a number of their customers have been looking for alternative hosting, and in return a number of hosts have created specials and promotions for WP Engine custom...
2024-10-17 15:19
VirtualBox 7.1.4 Readies Linux Kernel 6.12 Support + More
Oracle has released the second maintenance update for the latest VirtualBox 7.1 series. VirtualBox 7.1.4 includes a small set of improvements, bug fixes, and stability enhancements to this open-source, cross-platform virtualisation tool, though new maj...
2024-10-17 14:44
Exploring The Zen 5 SMT Performance With The AMD EPYC 9755 "Turin" CPU
Continuing on with the testing around the AMD EPYC 9005 series "Turin" processors, today is a look at the Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) performance impact for Turin while using the AMD EPYC 9755 as the highest-end "Turin Classic" processor with 12...
2024-10-17 13:38
PyTorch 2.5 Released With Improved Intel GPU Support
PyTorch 2.5 is out today as the latest major update to this widely-used machine learning library...
2024-10-17 12:58
Why is Ubuntu Linux the leading choice to replace CentOS for financial services?
Financial services are powered by technology. The customer experience is increasingly driven by data, with tailoring of products and services to reflect individual behaviors and preferences. All of this rests on a foundation of secure, stable technolog...
2024-10-17 10:28
Red Hat Engineer Nikita Popov Now The Lead Maintainer For LLVM
Following a proposal that began last month, Red Hat engineer Nikita Popov was nominated to become the new lead maintainer for LLVM. Following unaminous approval, as of last week in LLVM Git he's been appointed the official lead maintainer for this crit...
2024-10-17 10:27