Visual Studio Code 1.98 shines on GitHub Copilot
Visual Studio Code 1.98 has arrived, featuring enhancements to the GitHub Copilot AI coding assistant, including previews of Copilot Next Edit Suggestions, Copilot agent mode improvements, and Copilot Edits support for notebook files. Otherwise known ...
Thunderbird 136 Release Adds New Appearance Controls
Desktop email client Thunderbird announced a move to monthly releases by default earlier this year, allowing new users to benefit from new features, sooner – as the new Thunderbird 136.0 release makes evident! Thunderbird 136.0 sees messages auto-ad...
The Apache Software Foundation Announces New Board Members
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) held its Annual Members’ Meeting today. The following individuals were elected to the ASF Board of Directors: The ASF thanks Willem Ning Jiang, Jeff Jirsa, and Craig Russell for their service, and welcomes our new...
KDE Gear 24.12.3 Improves Dolphin, Konsole, Tokodon, Itinerary, Kasts, and More
KDE Gear 24.12.3 is now available as the third maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 24.12 open-source software suite series with fixes for various KDE applications. The post KDE Gear 24.12.3 Improves Dolphin, Konsole, Tokodon, Itinerary, Kasts, an...
Huawei’s New Laptops May Run Linux, not HarmonyOS Next
Is Huawei planning to ship Linux on its upcoming MateBook laptops instead of HarmonyOS NEXT? A fresh leak out of China this week suggests so. Huawei is no stranger to selling laptops with Linux. Various models in its MateBook 13, 14, 15, and MateBook X...
Browser choice? Here’s how EU’s DMA is helping make it real
Too often, well-intentioned regulation misses the mark. This can be due to poor design, poor implementation, poor compliance, or failure to address unintended consequences. But the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) has the potential to be different. The...
Thunderbird for Android January/February 2025 Progress Report
Hello, everyone, and welcome to the first Android Progress Report of 2025. We’re ready to hit the ground running improving Thunderbird for Android experience for all of our users. Our January/February update involves a look at improvements to the acc...
Comparing Fuchsia components and Linux containers
Fuchsia is a new (non-Linux) operating system from Google, and one of the key pieces of Fuchsia’s design is the component framework. Components on Fuchsia have many similarities with some of the container solutions on Linux (such as Docker): they bot...
Google, DuckDuckGo massively expand “AI” search results
Clearly, online search isn’t bad enough yet, so Google is intensifying its efforts to continue speedrunning the downfall of Google Search. They’ve announced they’re going to show even more “AI”-generated answers in Search results, to more peo...
Ubuntu 25.10 Planning To Use Dracut By Default
For the past number of months there has been talk in the Ubuntu developer space around replacing initramfs-tools with Dracut for handling initrd generation. While there has been progress in switching to Dracut, they aren't over the finish line yet and ...
SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Linux Performance
SiFive recently sent over a review sample of the much anticipated HiFive Premier P550 developer board, their newest RISC-V creation featuring four RISC-V cores, Imagination AXM-8-256 integrated GPU, Gigabit Ethernet, PCIe x16 slot, and 16GB or 32GB of ...
How to handle type erasure in advanced Java generics
Generics programming in Java enhances type safety and code reusability by allowing developers to define classes and methods using type parameters. Advanced techniques like bounded types and wildcards support the creation of flexible data structures an...
Portkey: An open-source AI gateway for easy LLM orchestration
The explosion of open-source AI frameworks has given developers unprecedented flexibility in deploying AI models. Portkey, an open-source AI gateway, simplifies AI model orchestration by providing a unified API for multiple AI providers, reducing fric...
The key new features in .NET 10
The first preview of the next long-term support release of .NET is now available. Like previous even-numbered releases, .NET 10 builds on features introduced in the current short-term release, with a focus on performance and reliability improvements. ...
