Open Source

Firefox is Finally (Re)Adding Support for Web Apps
A few months back Firefox announced it was finally adding support for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) after years of ignoring its own user’s requests to do so. If you’re running a recent Firefox Nightly build, you can now flicking the switch on an expe...
2025-03-17 16:25
Apple’s long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found
In 1994, a single Macintosh Performa model, the 550, came from the factory with a dedicated, hidden recovery partition that contained a System 7 system folder and a small application that would be set as bootable if the main operating system failed to ...
2025-03-17 15:55
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Microsoft accidentally cares about its users, releases update that unintentionally deletes Copilot from Windows
It’s rare in this day and age that proprietary operating system vendors like Microsoft and Apple release updates you’re more than happy to install, but considering even a broken clock is right twice a day, we’ve got one for you today. Microsoft r...
2025-03-17 15:26
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Nginx Rejects Dark Mode Support For Error Pages
A pull request was opened last week for adding web browser dark mode support for Nginx error pages. Unfortunate for those who prefer browsing in dark mode and then shocked when hitting Nginx-served 404 error pages or similar, the change has been reject...
2025-03-17 14:39
Big Rust Update Merged For GCC 15 - Lands The Polonius Borrow Checker
Some 145 patches for the Rust "gccrs" front-end were posted today and subsequently merged to GCC Git ahead of the upcoming GCC 15.1 stable release...
2025-03-17 13:05
Attackers attempted hijacking 12,000 GitHub accounts with click-fix alerts
In a new phishing campaign, GitHub developers are being targeted with fake “Security Alerts” where they are prompted to authorize a malicious OAuth application. Successful execution of the Click-fix campaign, which has reportedly targeted over 12,...
2025-03-17 11:23
AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D Linux Performance
Last week AMD began shipping the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D Zen 5 3D V-Cache desktop processors. We delivered Ryzen 9 9950X3D benchmarks and review for launch day but AMD sadly didn't seed any review samples of the 12-core Ryzen 9 9900X3D proc...
2025-03-17 11:00
Intel XeSS SDK 2.0.1 Published With New XeSS 2 Features, Still Closed-Source
The Intel XeSS SDK 2.0.1 was published today to GitHub as their first XeSS 2.0 release being available there and their first released version since the XeSS SDK 1.3.1 update from last July. While on GitHub, the XeSS SDK remains closed-source and Window...
2025-03-17 09:57
Combining AI and no-code for business app development
Generative AI and no-code development tools are dramatically changing the software landscape. Just as a new generation of business software is being built using AI, no-code tools place these powerful capabilities in the hands of a much wider audience ...
2025-03-17 09:00
Why AI-generated code isn’t good enough (and how it will get better)
Large language models (LLMs) seemed to arrive in a flash. Monumental productivity gains were promised. Coding assistants flourished. Millions of multi-line code blocks were generated with a key press and merged. It worked like magic. But at the back o...
2025-03-17 09:00
AI can give you code but not community
For years, developers have flocked to Q&A sites for answers to tricky code challenges, best practices, and even broad design discussions. Stack Overflow in particular has been a bustling hub where expert answers and detailed discussions created a veri...
2025-03-17 09:00
Raspberry Pi RP2350 Now Available For Purchase, Stacked Memory Variant Coming Soon
Raspberry Pi last year announced the RP2350 second-generation micro-controller that debuted within their $5 Raspberry Pi Pico 2 single board computer. Today they announced the RP2350 micro-controller is now available to purchase for your own micro-cont...
2025-03-17 08:49
FFmpeg Lands Vulkan Improvements With Initial FFV1 Vulkan Decoder
FFmpeg developer Lynne has landed a number of Vulkan Video improvements today into FFmpeg Git. In addition, there is now an FFV1 Vulkan-based decoder...
2025-03-17 08:00
GIMP 3.0 Image Editor Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
GIMP 3.0 open-source image editor is now available for download with a much-refined interface, massive improvements to color management, and more. Here's what's new! The post GIMP 3.0 Image Editor Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New ap...
2025-03-17 07:56
FreeDesktop.org GitLab Begins Its Week Long Cloud/Server Migration
It's going to be a light week for development of the Mesa graphics drivers, Wayland, various other X.Org related components, and the dozens of other open-source projects that rely on the FreeDesktop.org GitLab for facilitating merge requests, CI testin...
2025-03-17 06:49
Ubuntu 25.04 To Enable NVIDIA Dynamic Boost By Default
The upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 Linux OS release will be enabling NVIDIA Dynamic Boost support by default when using their packaged driver support on capable laptops...
2025-03-17 06:37
GIMP 3.0 Stable Being Released As Long-Awaited Update To Adobe Photoshop Alternative
After some 13 years of writing about GIMP 3.0 development, today is finally the day: GIMP 3.0 has been tagged and is in the process of being released...
2025-03-17 06:14
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 16th, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for March 16th, 2025, brings news about Debian 12.10, KDE Plasma 6.3.3, Garuda COSMIC, DXVK 2.6, GStreamer 1.26, KDE Frameworks 6.12, Audacity 3.7.2, digiKam 8.6, LXQt 2.2 features, Mesa 25.1 defaulting to NVK, as well as a...
2025-03-16 23:23
Linux 6.14-rc7 Released With v6.14 Final Expected Next Weekend
Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.14-rc7 kernel with expectations of releasing Linux 6.14 stable next weekend...
2025-03-16 19:05