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Everyone needs a genAI strategy now
Does your company have an AI strategy yet? Our top stories this month point to the perils of not having one—including but not limited to the rising threat of shadow IT. We’re also looking ahead to the future of highly adaptive UIs, the rise of cit...
2025-03-21 09:00
Bridging the digital skills gap
A recent McKinsey study highlights that 87% of executives now view skill shortages as a critical barrier to their digital transformation efforts. The digital skills gap hinders a company’s ability to fully leverage advanced technologies such as arti...
2025-03-21 09:00
Linux 6.14 Sees Last Minute Fix For A Two Year Old Regression Causing A 30% Performance Drop
Submitted today ahead of the Linux 6.14 stable release expected Sunday is a lone scheduler fix for the kernel. This patch is for reverting a change made to the Linux kernel two years ago that ended up regressing some workloads with a significant perfor...
2025-03-21 09:00
AMD Announces Open-Source "GAIA" For GenAI But Currently Windows-Only
AMD on Thursday announced GAIA for "Generative AI Is Awesome" as a means of easily running local large language models (LLMs) on Ryzen AI PCs with the XDNA NPU. GAIA provides an easy software demonstration for Ryzen AI capabilities but sadly for the mo...
2025-03-21 08:30
Contribute at the Fedora 42 CoreOS Test Week
The Fedora 42 CoreOS Test Week focuses on testing FCOS based on Fedora 42. The FCOS next stream has been rebased on Fedora 42 content. This will be coming soon to testing and stable. To prepare for the content being promoted to other streams, the Fedor...
2025-03-21 08:00
Choose Freedom, Not Trialware
A few weeks ago, a customer walked into a Best Buy, which is a well-known retailer in North America that sells computers, appliances and gadgets of all kinds. On a mission to buy a new laptop for a family member, the customer sought something simple, r...
2025-03-21 07:00
ASUS ROG Flow Z13 Improvements For Linux, RGB Controls For The ROG Ally
A set of eleven patches being worked on for the ASUS HID and platform drivers work to enhance the support for the AMD Strix Halo powered ROG Flow Z13 (2025) laptop as well as adding RGB control support for the ROG Ally gaming handheld...
2025-03-21 06:46
Dynamic EPP & Raw EPP Features Coming To AMD P-State Driver
The AMD P-State Linux kernel driver for CPU frequency scaling with modern Ryzen processors has been working out quite well and proving very effective over the prior ACPI CPUFreq generic driver use. Beyond recently being extended to becoming the default...
2025-03-21 06:28
Vulkan 1.4.311 Released With New Extension For BFloat16
The Vulkan 1.4.311 specification update is out today with a handful of issues resolved with various clarifications and other subtle refinements. Plus two new extensions...
2025-03-21 05:55
Developers: apply these 10 mitigations first to prevent supply chain attacks
DevOps leaders hoping to find a single cybersecurity risk framework that will prevent their work from experiencing the kinds of compromises that lead to supply chain attacks will have a hard time, according to a new research paper. In a paper submitte...
2025-03-21 01:04
Microsoft .NET 10 Preview 2 shines on C#, runtime, encryption
Microsoft has unveiled a second preview of its planned .NET 10 developer platform, featuring enhancements related to encryption, the .NET runtime, and the C# language. Published March 18, .NET 10 Preview 2 follows the February 25 debut of Preview 1. P...
2025-03-20 22:41
FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
What do SourceHut, GNOME’s GitLab, and KDE’s GitLab have in common, other than all three of them being forges? Well, it turns out all three of them have been dealing with immense amounts of traffic from “AI” scrapers, who are effectively perfor...
2025-03-20 22:19
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elementary OS 8.1 Brings Bug Fixes, New Kernel + More
Didn’t get around to trying last year’s elementary OS 8.0 release? No bother as elementary OS 8.1 arrived this week, providing an opportune jumping-on point for new users. Based atop the recent Ubuntu 24.04.2 release, elementary OS 8.1 is powered b...
2025-03-20 22:10
elementary OS 8.0.1 Brings Bug Fixes, New Kernel + More
Didn’t get around to trying last year’s elementary OS 8.0 release? No bother as elementary OS 8.0.1 arrived this week, providing an opportune jumping-on point for new users. Based atop the recent Ubuntu 24.04.2 release, elementary OS 8.1 is powered...
2025-03-20 22:10
Intel Updates Advanced Performance Extensions "APX" Code For The Linux Kernel
In addition to Intel software engineers this week being busy doing a late restructuring of AVX10 support in moving away from possible 256-bit maximum vector register size (a great move and still so excited to see this materialize!), there are also Inte...
2025-03-20 20:59
Accelerating AI with open source machine learning infrastructure
The landscape of artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving, demanding robust and scalable infrastructure. To meet these challenges, we’ve developed a comprehensive reference architecture (RA) that leverages the power of open-source tools and cuttin...
2025-03-20 20:19
Memory safety for web fonts in Chrome: Google replaces FreeType with Rust-based alternative
There’s no escaping Rust, and the language is leaving its mark everywhere. This time around, Chrome has replaced its use of FreeType with Skrifa, a Rust-based replacement. Skrifa is written in Rust, and created as a replacement for FreeType to make f...
2025-03-20 19:51
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I think we need a bigger boot partition
Long ago, during the time of creation, I confidently waved my hand and allocated a 1GB ESP partition and a 1GB boot partition, thinking to myself with a confident smile that this would surely be more than enough for the foreseeable future. However, thi...
2025-03-20 19:10
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Reaching readers, one TikTok at a time
Spoiler: The internet’s not finished. Welcome to “Web in Progress,” a series celebrating the internet as a space you can shape, not just scroll through. Just as Firefox empowers you to take charge of your online experience, this series highlights...
2025-03-20 17:58