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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
Latest Intel Engineering Layoffs Lead To An Intel Linux Driver Being Orphaned
The latest round of cost-cutting at Intel seems to be having a larger impact on their software engineering efforts than some of their previous rounds of layoffs. In addition to a prominent Linux kernel developer veteran leaving Intel last week where he...
2025-07-15 06:38
LibreOffice Office Suite Lands Built-In Support For Bitcoin Currency
Merged yesterday to the latest development code for the LibreOffice open-source office suite is now recognizing Bitcoin "BTC" as a supported currency for use within the Calc spreadsheet program and elsewhere within this cross-platform free software off...
2025-07-15 06:29
Google Publishes Updated Proposal For Standardizing Haptic Touchpads On Linux
As part of work going back to 2019, an engineer on Google's Chromium OS team submitted an updated proposal on Monday for seeking to standardize the haptic touchpad support within the Linux kernel...
2025-07-15 06:09
RADV Lands Experimental Host Image Copy Support (VK_EXT_host_image_copy)
Making it into the RADV Vulkan driver ahead of this week's Mesa 25.2 feature freeze is experimental support for the VK_EXT_host_image_copy extension. The Vulkan host image copy extension was worked on by Valve and others for letting applications/games ...
2025-07-15 05:55
Plasma Bigscreen, KDE’s TV Interface, is Back on the Air
KDE's Plasma Bigscreen TV UI gets rebooted with slicker visuals, search functionality, and more – thanks to one developer tuning in to its potential. You're reading Plasma Bigscreen, KDE’s TV Interface, is Back on the Air, a blog post from OMG! Ubu...
2025-07-15 01:57
Plasma Bigscreen, KDE’s TV Interface, is Back on Air
KDE's Plasma Bigscreen TV UI gets rebooted with slicker visuals, search functionality, and more – thanks to one developer tuning in to its potential. You're reading Plasma Bigscreen, KDE’s TV Interface, is Back on Air, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu....
2025-07-15 01:57
Google confirms it’s merging ChromeOS and Android
Late last year, Mishaal Rahman reported that Google was going to merge ChromeOS and Android, and it seems Google itself has now confirmed that’s exactly what’s happening. “I asked because we’re going to be combining ChromeOS and Android into a ...
2025-07-14 20:40
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New Effort To Upstream LTTng In The Linux Kernel Draws Criticism From Torvalds
The LTTng tracing toolkit is twenty years old this year and it's seen significant adoption by different hyperscalers and other notable organizations like IBM and Sony and Siemens beyond basic end-users and administrators for system tracing/debugging. W...
2025-07-14 20:37
Chrome OS is (Apparently) Merging with Android
Google has said it is 'combining ChromeOS and Android into a single platform'. Why is it happening, and will the merger mean the end of ChromeOS as a brand? You're reading Chrome OS is (Apparently) Merging with Android, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do...
2025-07-14 20:01
Is Chrome OS Merging with Android? Apparently So
Consider this post a little apropos of nothing given that nothing has actually been formally announced yet, but it seems the long-rumoured merge of Google’s Chrome OS and Android operating systems is indeed happening. That’s according to Sameer Sam...
2025-07-14 20:01
Celebrating Kim Parsell: 2025 WordCamp US Scholarship Applications Open
The WordPress Foundation is pleased to announce the return of the Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship for WordCamp US 2025. Applications are being accepted until July 25, 2025. Remembering Kim Parsell Kim Parsell was a dedicated contributor and a beloved ...
2025-07-14 18:57
Blender 5.0 to introduce HDR support for Wayland on Linux, but not for Windows
The latest alpha of the upcoming Blender 5.0 release comes with High Dynamic Range (HDR) support for Linux on Wayland which will, if everything works out, make it into the final Blender 5.0 release on October 1, 2025. The post on the developer forum ...
2025-07-14 18:41
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Tribblix Milestone 37 released
Tribblix, the illumos distribution that aims to provide a retro feel with modern components, has just released a new update, Milestone 37. At the system level, the max PID is now 99999, so you may see larger PIDs. Usernames exceeding 8 characters are n...
2025-07-14 17:57
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Does showing seconds in the Windows System Tray actually use more power?
On Windows, there’s an option to show the seconds on the taskbar clock, but it comes with a warning that it might reduce battery life if you switch it on. LTT Labs decided to look into this to see just how much of a thing this really is, and they con...
2025-07-14 17:47
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