Bash 5.3 Release Adds ‘Significant’ New Features
A new version of the GNU project’s Bourne Again SHell (better known to most of us as Bash) has been released, nearly 3 years after the last. According the official release announcement Bash 5.3 includes ‘significant new features’ alongside an a...
Windows 11 finally overtakes Windows 10’s user share
As of today, Stat Counter reports that Windows 11 now has 50.88% of the Windows market, with Windows 10 dropping to 46.2%, giving it a comfortable lead over its predecessor. Windows 11 has been on the market since 2021 but had only amassed less than 10...
Microsoft broke Windows Update on Windows 7 (again)
The developers of Legacy Update, the tool that allows users of older Windows versions to keep downloading updates from Microsoft, recently discovered that users of the tool on Windows 7 were having issues. After doing some debugging they figured out it...
Welcome to Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”
The wait is over! Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse” has reached totality. From all of us at the Thunderbird project, from MZLA staff and the Thunderbird Council to our global community of contributors, we’re excited to announce the latest Extended Suppor...
The State of Silicon and Devices – Q2 2025 Roundup
Welcome to the Q2 2025 edition of the State of Silicon and Devices by Canonical. In this quarter, we have seen momentum accelerate in edge computing, as well as growing interest in hardware platforms designed for AI, automation, and long-term maintaina...
Lenovo WMI Gaming Series Drivers Expected To Debut In Linux 6.17
Being worked on for a number of months now has been the Lenovo Gaming Series WMI Drivers for Linux to expose additional power/performance settings for Lenovo gaming series hardware like the Lenovo Legion Go S gaming handheld with Steam OS. With the upc...
Advanced unit testing with JUnit 5, Mockito, and Hamcrest
In this second half of a two-part introduction to JUnit 5, we’ll move beyond the basics and learn how to test more complicated scenarios. In the previous article, you learned how to write tests using the @Test and @ParameterizedTest annotations, val...
Arriving at ‘Hello World’ in enterprise AI
Brendan Falk didn’t set out to become a cautionary tale. Three months after leaving AWS to build what he called an “AI-native Palantir,” he’s pivoting away from enterprise AI projects altogether. In a widely shared X thread, Falk offers some o...
LibreOffice Begins Landing Markdown File Import Support
While coming a few weeks too late for making it into the LibreOffice 25.8 open-source office suite release, merged today to LibreOffice Git for next year's LibreOffice 26.2 is adding initial support for importing Markdown files into the LibreOffice Wri...
