Open Source

Haiku gets proper HiDPI cursor scaling, improved colour schemes, and more
Haiku also survived another month of development, so it’s time for another roundup of what they’ve been doing. Considering it’s the height of Summer, it’s no surprise the list of changes is a bit shorter, consisting mostly of smaller bugfixes a...
2025-07-15 19:18
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JavaScript, MacOS lead usage in worldwide developer survey
JavaScript was the most-used language and MacOS the most-used desktop OS in a recent survey of nearly 9,000 developers worldwide that asked about technology usage as well as about demographics, income, and workplace. The findings of The State of Devs ...
2025-07-15 17:58
A first-party data reality check
Part I in Anonym’s Rewiring the Rules Series First-party data — the kind users share willingly with brands they trust — is a marketer’s most valuable and precious asset. But often, when it comes time to activate that data in the form of an adve...
2025-07-15 17:22
Blender 4.5 LTS Released with ‘Full Vulkan Support’
The new Blender 4.5 LTS release features major improvements, including full Vulkan support, faster startup, new Geometry Nodes, HDR and more. You're reading Blender 4.5 LTS Released with ‘Full Vulkan Support’, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not ...
2025-07-15 17:22
Let’s talk about data control
A new series exploring the connection between data protection and performance. The digital advertising industry is in a period of meaningful data use transition. An ecosystem that has fostered third-party cookies, device IDs, cross-site tracking, and m...
2025-07-15 17:19
The Apache Software Foundation Thanks Myrle Krantz for Her Service as VP Infrastructure
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) extends its deepest gratitude to Myrle Krantz for her many years of leadership, vision, and tireless service to the Foundation—most recently in the role of VP Infrastructure. Myrle’s ASF journey began in 2015, w...
2025-07-15 16:09
WordPress 6.8.2 Maintenance Release
WordPress 6.8.2 is now available! This minor release includes fixes for 20 Core tickets and 15 Block Editor issues. For a full list of bug fixes, please refer to the release candidate announcement. WordPress 6.8.2 is a short-cycle maintenance release. ...
2025-07-15 15:41
Intel Enabling SR-IOV For Battlemage Graphics Cards With Linux 6.17
The upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel is going to be an especially nice release for users of modern Intel graphics hardware on Linux. The very latest feature being enabled for this next Linux kernel version is SR-IOV for Battlemage GPUs to vastly enhance the ...
2025-07-15 15:15
Blender 4.5 LTS Open-Source 3D Graphics App Makes the Vulkan Backend Stable
Blender 4.5 LTS open-source 3D graphics and modeling software is now available for download with various new featuers and improvements. Here's what's new! The post Blender 4.5 LTS Open-Source 3D Graphics App Makes the Vulkan Backend Stable appeared fi...
2025-07-15 14:54
Blender 4.5 LTS Released With Vulkan & Wayland Improvements, Some Optimizations
Blender 4.5 is now officially available today as the newest feature release and one that is a Long Term Support (LTS) for this popular, cross-platform 3D modeling software...
2025-07-15 11:49
KDE Plasma 6.4.3 Improves the Automatic Screen Scale Calculator on Wayland
KDE Plasma 6.4.3 is now available as the third maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment series with more bug fixes and improvments. The post KDE Plasma 6.4.3 Improves the Automatic Screen Scale Calculator on Wayland appeared...
2025-07-15 11:39
Broadcom BCM5770X Networking Driver Support Heading To Linux 6.17
One month ago there was the report on Phoronix of the Broadcom "BNGE" open-source driver being published for forthcoming BCM5770X networking chipsets. That new Broadcom BNGE driver is now set to be introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel for suppo...
2025-07-15 11:30
LLVM 22 Compiler Enters Development With LLVM 21 Now Branched
The LLVM 21 compiler stack was branched today as release preparations get underway for shipping this next half-year compiler release as stable in late August or early September. In turn that now opens up LLVM 22 for development...
2025-07-15 10:40
GTK3 Port Of The Kernel's gconfig Utility Appears Ready For Linux 6.17
Last month patches were posted for porting the Linux kernel's "gconfig" graphical kernel configuration utility from GTK2 to GTK3. It looks like those patches for the GTK3-ified gconfig are ready for upstreaming come Linux 6.17...
2025-07-15 10:23
How agentic AI will transform mobile apps and field operations
Many first-generation mobile applications were direct adaptations of their web equivalents. Poor user experiences, slow performance, and low adoption forced organizations to rethink their business objectives and implementation strategies. As developme...
2025-07-15 09:00
Does public cloud AI cost too much?
In today’s rapidly changing digital landscape, artificial intelligence remains the most transformative technology on the horizon. As organizations seek to integrate AI into mission-critical operations, the question of where to run these workloads is...
2025-07-15 09:00
Intel ANV Driver Now Exposes Vulkan Video AV1 Decode On Battlemage & Lunar Lake
While the Intel Media SDK with VA-API has long supported accelerated video decoding, the latest Mesa 25.2 development code has now landed support for AV1 decoding using the Vulkan Video API with the Intel ANV driver for Xe2 Battlemage / Lunar Lake grap...
2025-07-15 08:48