A Google breakup is on the table, say DOJ lawyers
Next up in my backlog of news to cover: the US Department of Justice’s proposed remedies for Google’s monopolistic abuse. Now that Judge Amit Mehta has found Google is a monopolist, lawyers for the Department of Justice have begun proposing soluti...
Internet Archive hacked and victim of DDoS attacks
Internet Archive’s “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records. News of the breach began circulating Wednesday afterno...
Improvements To The Ad Experience
As a result of user feedback and being able to reproduce some annoying ad experiences, particularly on mobile devices, I've been able to make some enhancements to hopefully improve the user ad experience when browsing Phoronix...
Goodbye Windows 7
I finally seem to be recovering from a nasty flu that is now wreaking havoc all across my tiny Arctic town – better now than when we hit -40 I guess – so let’s talk about something that’s not going to recover because it actually just fucking di...
Mesa 24.3 Allows Rusticl On Asahi Gallium3D By Default
Building off the recent infrastructure merged for Mesa 24.3 as a build option to allow Rusticl driver support to be enabled by default, Red Hat's Karol Herbst has added the Asahi Gallium3D driver to the default list...
Secure Custom Fields
On behalf of the WordPress security team, I am announcing that we are invoking point 18 of the plugin directory guidelines and are forking Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) into a new plugin, Secure Custom Fields. SCF has been updated to remove commercial u...
AMD XDNA Linux Driver Updated As It Nears The Upstream Kernel
Back in January AMD published an open-source XDNA Linux kernel driver for supporting their Ryzen AI NPUs. But it wasn't until July that the formal review process for the AMD XDNA driver began as the necessary prerequisite for getting picked up into the...
Intel Panther Lake H EDAC Support Posted For Linux
With Intel Core Ultra Lunar Lake systems now shipping and the Linux support largely settled, Intel open-source software engineers have begun ramping up their support for Panther Lake due out in a year...
Ktor 3.0 switches to kotlinx.io library
Ktor 3.0, the latest version of the Kotlin-based framework for building asynchronous client- and server-side applications, is now available. Ktor 3.0 switches to the kotlinx.io library for handling data sources. The release also highlights support for...
Embedded developers face mounting pressure on security
Developers and software engineers face mounting pressure to balance rapid innovation with safety and security, says software provider BlackBerry Limited. The company released the results of its survey of 1,000 embedded software developers and engineer...
