Open Source

KDE Frameworks 6.16 Improves Plasma’s Ability to Detect the Most Powerful GPU
KDE Frameworks 6.16 open-source software suite is out now with various improvements and bug fixes for KDE apps and the Plasma desktop. Here’s what’s new! The post KDE Frameworks 6.16 Improves Plasma’s Ability to Detect the Most Powerful GPU appe...
2025-07-11 15:11
Attack Vector Controls Could Be Ready For Linux 6.17 Introduction
The AMD engineering led work on Attack Vector Controls for the Linux kernel could be mainlined with the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel with the remaining patches now being queued within a TIP branch...
2025-07-11 13:02
Calibre 8.6 Open-Source E-Book Manager Improves Database Restore Performance
Calibre 8.6 open-source ebook manager is now available for download with various new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Here's what's new! The post Calibre 8.6 Open-Source E-Book Manager Improves Database Restore Performance appeared first on 9to5...
2025-07-11 12:53
AI coding tools can slow down seasoned developers by 19%
Experienced developers can take 19% longer to complete tasks when using popular AI assistants like Cursor Pro and Claude, challenging the tech industry’s prevailing narrative about AI coding tools, according to a comprehensive new study. The researc...
2025-07-11 12:44
Sovereign AI Platform Picks openSUSE
Europe’s first federated AI initiative has chosen openSUSE as part of its foundation aimed sovereign AI. OpenNebula Systems officially announced the launch of Fact8ra, which is Europe’s first federated AI-as-a-Service platform. This initiative mark...
2025-07-11 10:00
AMD Radeon RX 9070 Ray-Tracing Performance Improving With Mesa 25.2
With the feature freeze and code branching for Mesa 25.2 expected to take place next week and kick off the release process for this quarterly Mesa 3D version to debut as stable in August, I've begun running more benchmarks of this latest code on popula...
2025-07-11 09:48
Python-powered AI agents are here
Python gets in on the agentic AI revolution, and you can, too, with the new Google Agent Development Kit. Also, get started with editable installs to make local Python development easier, use the Python client API to tap into Google’s Data Commons l...
2025-07-11 09:00
Sovereign clouds in the age of cost control and AI
For years, hyperscalers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud have dominated the market by providing a comprehensive ecosystem tailored to the needs of businesses of all sizes. These platforms deliver agility and global access, attracting ent...
2025-07-11 09:00
Smarter Cache Flushing For AMD SEV KVM Guest VMs Expected For Linux 6.17
Going back several months have been patches out of Google to optimize AMD cache flushing for KVM-based Linux guest virtual machines when making use of Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). As anticipated, that AMD SEV cache flushing optimization work ...
2025-07-11 08:46
Improved Debugging Support For AMDGPU Driver Expected For Linux 6.17
Sent out on Thursday along with Intel's huge Xe driver pull request with new features was the drm-misc-next material for the week. Notable with the drm-misc-next code were actually a set of AMDGPU driver patches to enhance the debugging with the inform...
2025-07-11 08:10
RadeonSI Begins Upstreaming Its OpenGL Mesh Shader Support
OpenGL doesn't receive nearly as much love these days as the Vulkan API, but over the past several months there's been at least one notable new extension in the works: cross-vendor mesh shader support with the pending GL_EXT_mesh_shader extension. Begi...
2025-07-11 06:48
QuestDB 9.0 Released For High Performance, Time-Series Database
QuestDB 9.0 debuted today as the latest major update to this high performance, time-series database that is open-source under an Apache 2.0 license. QuestDB continues to be built using a combination of Java, C++, and Rust for being an interesting time-...
2025-07-11 06:35
GCC 12.5 Compiler Released To End Out The GCC 12 Series With 241+ Bug Fixes
For those seldom update to new compiler versions, GCC 12.5 was released today as the newest and final update to the GCC 12 compiler that debuted back in 2022...
2025-07-11 06:23
From sales development to renewals: Mariam Tawakol’s career progression at Canonical
Career progression doesn’t follow a single path – and at Canonical, we embrace that. Our culture encourages individuals to explore roles aligned with their evolving skills and interests, even if it means stepping into a completely new technical spa...
2025-07-11 04:30
Ubuntu 24.04 Users Get Major Kernel, GPU Driver Update
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users are getting a new HWE update with Linux 6.14 and Mesa 25.0, delivering a big gaming boost and support for newer hardware. You're reading Ubuntu 24.04 Users Get Major Kernel, GPU Driver Update, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not...
2025-07-10 22:59
Ubuntu 24.04.3 HWE Stack Provides a Major Mesa Upgrade
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users are getting a new HWE update with Linux 6.14 and Mesa 25.0, delivering a big gaming boost and support for newer hardware. You're reading Ubuntu 24.04.3 HWE Stack Provides a Major Mesa Upgrade, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not...
2025-07-10 22:59
Ubuntu 24.04.3 HWE Stack Brings Big Mesa Upgrade
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users are getting a new HWE update with Linux 6.14 and Mesa 25.0, delivering a big gaming boost and support for newer hardware. You're reading Ubuntu 24.04.3 HWE Stack Brings Big Mesa Upgrade, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not repro...
2025-07-10 22:59
Ada, other older languages vie for top spots in Tiobe language index
Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen says Ada, a system programming language whose initial development dates back to the late 1970s, could outlast similarly aged languages like Visual Basic, Perl, and Fortran in the language popularity race. In comments on this mont...
2025-07-10 22:11
Thread: the tech we can’t use or teach
There’s quite a few ways to mess around with home automation, with the most popular communication methods being things like ZigBee, plain Wi-Fi, and so on. One of the more promising new technologies is Thread, and Dennis Schubert decided to try and u...
2025-07-10 21:02
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