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ECMAScript 2025: The best new features in JavaScript
This year’s update to the JavaScript specification covers a lot of ground. The headline addition is the new built-in Iterator object and its functional operators. Other updates include new Set methods, a direct JSON module import, improvements to re...
2025-07-16 09:00
Database design tips for developers
It is a universal truth that everything in software eventually rots. Things slowly get worse. What starts out as cool and clean becomes “what the hell were they thinking” before you know it. But that doesn’t mean we sit back and let it happen...
2025-07-16 09:00
Oracle’s Java licensing shift sparks mass migration to open source
Nearly 8 in 10 organizations are moving away from Oracle Java, driven by rising costs and frustration over the company’s shift to employee-based pricing, according to a research report based on the ITAM & SAM Survey 2025. The survey, which was joint...
2025-07-16 08:58
LLVM 22 Eliminates The Final Support For Google Native Client "NaCl"
One of the early changes for the LLVM 22 compiler stack now in development is completing the removal of support for Google's Native Client "NaCl"...
2025-07-16 08:52
ESWIN Computing launches the EBC77 Series Single Board Computer with Ubuntu
ESWIN Computing partners with Canonical to unveil a low cost, performant RISC-V SBC with Ubuntu as the preferred operating system We are excited to announce that ESWIN Computing, in collaboration with Canonical, is bringing Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to the ESWI...
2025-07-16 08:50
ESWIN Computing EBC77 RISC-V SBC To Support Ubuntu Linux
Canonical announced today that they teamed up with ESWIN Computing to ship Ubuntu Linux as the preferred operating system on their ESWIN Computing EBC77 Series single board computer...
2025-07-16 06:47
Intel Media Driver 2025Q2 Ships Panther Lake Video Encoding Support
The Intel Media Driver is out with its quarterly feature release for bringing all of the latest open-source video acceleration improvements for Intel graphics hardware on Linux. Enhancing support for upcoming Panther Lake SoCs continues to be a primary...
2025-07-16 06:32
Hyprland 0.50 Released With New Render Scheduling, Drops Legacy Renderer
Hyprland 0.50 is out today as the newest feature release for this Wayland compositor focused on delivering a lot of Linux desktop bling...
2025-07-16 06:06
Cognition agrees to buy what’s left of Windsurf
AI builders are starving for agentic integrated development environments (IDEs), which help developers code more efficiently and thus, ideally, speed up production. And nowhere has this been more apparent than in the tug-of-war over Windsurf. In the l...
2025-07-16 03:41
Kiro, Amazon-Backed AI-Powered IDE, Enters Public Preview
Kiro, a new AI-powered IDE for Linux, macOS, and Windows, is now in public preview. Learn about its "spec-driven" workflow and VS Code compatibility. You're reading Kiro, Amazon-Backed AI-Powered IDE, Enters Public Preview, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu...
2025-07-15 22:59
Kiro, Amazon-Backed Agentic IDE, Enters Public Preview
Kiro, a new AI-powered IDE for Linux, macOS, and Windows, is now in public preview. Learn about its "spec-driven" workflow and VS Code compatibility. You're reading Kiro, Amazon-Backed Agentic IDE, Enters Public Preview, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. D...
2025-07-15 22:59
Firebase Studio adds autonomous Agent mode, MCP support, Gemini CLI
Google’s Firebase Studio, an AI-powered development workspace hosted in the Google Cloud, has added new AI-assisted development tools including an autonomous agent mode, foundational support for MCP (Model Context Protocol), and Gemini CLI integrat...
2025-07-15 22:48
VirtualBox 7.1.12 Improves Support for Linux Kernel 6.16 on Linux Hosts and Guests
VirtualBox 7.1.12 open-source virtualization software is now available for download with improved support for Linux kernel 6.16 and other changes. Here's what's new! The post VirtualBox 7.1.12 Improves Support for Linux Kernel 6.16 on Linux Hosts and ...
2025-07-15 21:24
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" GPUs Now Vulkan 1.2 Conformant With NVK
Yet more feature code continues piling in for the Mesa 25.2 release due out next month and days ahead of the feature freeze. Hitting Mesa Git this evening is now treating NVIDIA Kepler GPUs as Vulkan 1.2 conformant following the Vulkan 1.2 CTS passing ...
2025-07-15 20:46
Additional AMD RDNA3 & RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Improvements For Mesa 25.2 RADV
Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 feature freeze and code branching expected later this week, some additional ray-tracing optimizations were merged today for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver. These latest RADV ray-tracing improvements benefit the latest Radeon RX ...
2025-07-15 20:22
Akka releases platform for agentic AI
Akka, provider of a popular framework for building reactive, distributed applications on the JVM, has introduced the Akka Agentic Platform, an integrated suite of offerings for building, operating, and evaluating agentic AI systems. Announced July 14,...
2025-07-15 19:32
Review: the NovaCustom V54 is an outstanding Linux laptop with Dasharo coreboot firmware
When it comes to open hardware, choices are not exactly abundant. Truly open source hardware – open down to the firmware level of individual components – that also has acceptable performance is rare, with one of the few options being the Talos II a...
2025-07-15 19:27
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KDE’s Plasma Bigscreen TV interface sees a ton of improvements
Did you know KDE has a television-focused user interface? It’s been languishing for a while now, but a recent week-long effort by KDE developer Devin has brought a lot of new life into the project. I have been a long time Plasma Mobile contributor,...
2025-07-15 19:27
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