Open Source

Misinformation in the age of AI: It’s in the details (like extra fingers)
As you scroll through social media, the posts blend together: a heroic cat, a shocking statistic, a breaking news clip. But in a world where AI blurs the line between fact and fiction, how do you tell what’s real from what’s misinformation?  The s...
2025-03-11 18:28
First Look: Garuda Linux Introduces New COSMIC Edition
A first look at the new Garuda Linux edition featuring the up-and-coming COSMIC desktop environment developed by System76. The post First Look: Garuda Linux Introduces New COSMIC Edition appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not reproduce this article witho...
2025-03-11 17:49
Mesa 25.1 to Replace Nouveau Driver with Zink/NVK by Default for NVIDIA GPUs
Mesa 25.1 open-source graphics stack will use Zink and NVK instead of Nouveau for NVIDIA GPU users in terms of the default graphics driver. The post Mesa 25.1 to Replace Nouveau Driver with Zink/NVK by Default for NVIDIA GPUs appeared first on 9to5Linu...
2025-03-11 16:38
WordPress 6.8 Beta 2
WordPress 6.8 Beta 2 is ready for download and testing! The scheduled final release date for WordPress 6.8 is April 15, 2025. Your help testing Beta and RC versions over the next five weeks is vital to ensuring the final release is everything it should...
2025-03-11 15:46
Join Canonical at NVIDIA GTC 2025
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu and the trusted source for open source software, is thrilled to announce its presence at NVIDIA GTC again this year. Join us in San Jose from March 18th to the 21st and explore what’s next in AI and accelerated co...
2025-03-11 15:16
Go-based TypeScript to dramatically improve speed, scalability
Microsoft is developing a native TypeScript implementation based on Google’s Go language. The initiative promises dramatic improvements in editor startup speed, build times, and memory usage, making it easier to scale TypeScript to large code bases,...
2025-03-11 15:00
How to deploy Kubeflow on Azure
Kubeflow is a cloud-native, open source machine learning operations (MLOps) platform designed for developing and deploying ML models on Kubernetes. Kubeflow helps data scientists and machine learning engineers run the entire ML lifecycle within one too...
2025-03-11 14:52
KDE Plasma 6.3.3 Implements Battery Charge Threshold Support for More Devices
KDE Plasma 6.3.3 desktop environment is now available with various improvements and numerous fixes for bugs, crashes, and other issues. Here are the details! The post KDE Plasma 6.3.3 Implements Battery Charge Threshold Support for More Devices appeare...
2025-03-11 14:47
Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest – February 2025
Hello again Thunderbird Community! Despite the winter seeming to last forever and the world being in a state of flux, the Thunderbird team has been hard at work both in development and planning strategic projects. Here’s the latest from the team dedi...
2025-03-11 14:32
IPFire Hardened Linux Firewall Distro Is Now Powered by Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS
IPFire 2.29 Core Update 192 open-source hardened Linux firewall is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.12 LTS and other changes. Here’s what’s new! The post IPFire Hardened Linux Firewall Distro Is Now Powered by Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS ap...
2025-03-11 14:30
Haiku Activity & Contract Report, February 2025
This report covers hrev58584 through hrev58696. Applications jscipione fixed opening folders by double-clicking the “Location” column in query results in Tracker. He also fixed hard-coded values for certain menu item metrics, bringing them in line ...
2025-03-11 14:20
Ubuntu 24.04 Fixes Bluetooth Audio Connection Issues
If you’re an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS user regularly experiencing issues with connecting to audio devices, there’s an important update to the Bluetooth stack rolling out this week. Many users of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS have found paired Bluetooth audio devices (m...
2025-03-11 14:12
Intel Overclocking Watchdog Driver Posted For The Linux Kernel
An unexpected patch on the Linux kernel mailing list today by a Siemens engineer is implementing a driver for the Intel Over-Clocking Watchdog...
2025-03-11 14:10
Mozilla’s Response to Proposed Remedies in U.S. v. Google LLC
Last week the Department of Justice and some state attorneys general filed revised proposed remedies in the U.S. v. Google LLC search case. If the proposed remedies barring all search payments to browser developers are adopted by the court, these misgu...
2025-03-11 12:52
Mozilla’s response to proposed remedies in U.S. v. Google
Last week the Department of Justice and some state attorneys general filed revised proposed remedies in the U.S. v. Google LLC search case. If the proposed remedies barring all search payments to browser developers are adopted by the court, these misgu...
2025-03-11 12:52
Nouveau On NVIDIA Turing GPUs & Newer Will Now Prefer NVK+Zink For OpenGL
As a sign of the times for both the NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa and the generic Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan code, with next quarter's Mesa 25.1 release when using a NVIDIA Turing GPU or newer with the Nouveau driver stack it will now def...
2025-03-11 12:40
CrossOver 25.0 Announced - Built Atop Wine 10.0 For Linux & macOS
CodeWeavers that continues to be the largest patron to the development of the open-source Wine software announced today CrossOver 25.0 as the newest version of their commercial downstream...
2025-03-11 11:19