Released yesterday was the OpenJDK Java 25 release along with Oracle's GraalVM 25 alternative JVM...

The Slackware-based PorteuX 2.3 distribution, inspired by Slax and Porteus and designed to be super fast, small, portable, modular, and immutable, is out today with various updates and changes.

Texas Instruments has introduced its most affordable C2000 real-time MCUs to date, aimed at appliances, digital power supplies, and power tools. The new F28E12x series, including the F28E120SC and F28E120SB, delivers a 30% performance boost over earlier C2000 devices while maintaining a cost-efficient design. The F28E12x devices integrate TI’s C28x digital signal processor core with […]

The past few months we have been intrigued by an AMD GFX1250 target added to the LLVM codebase for the AMDGPU shader compiler back-end. GFX12 is RDNA4 and GFX1250 is presumably some "RDNA 4.5" / "RDNA Refresh" part akin to GFX1150 having been for the RDNA 3.5 parts with Strix Halo / Strix Point. The prior LLVM code confirmed GFX1250 is in APU form factor but product details beyond that have been scarce. Today a new AMD GFX1251 target was merged to LLVM...

JDK 25 LTS improves IO, HTTP, concurrency, and TLS while removing outdated system properties.

First up: $41M to use human annotators to label all that unstructured military data. What could go wrong?Data curation firm Scale AI has partnered with the Pentagon to deploy its AI on Top Secret networks - a move its interim CEO says is necessary if the US wants AI to be useful for national security.…

The ASUS Ascent GX10 is a compact AI supercomputer built on the NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip with a unified CPU+GPU memory model and NVIDIA’s AI software stack. Introduced in March 2025, it targets developers, researchers, and data scientists needing petaflop-scale performance in a desktop system with scalable deployment options. The GB10 Superchip combines a […]

When recently carrying out the Windows 11 25H2 vs. Ubuntu Linux benchmarks I also ended up carrying out some Llama.cpp AI benchmarks as the first time exploring the AI inferencing performance between Windows and Linux for both CPU and GPU-accelerated deployments. Here are those results for exploring the Llama.cpp performance between Windows and Linux with different large language models.

The GNOME Project released today GNOME 49 “Brescia” as the latest stable version of this widely used desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions, a major release that introduces exciting new features.

Systemd 258 is out today as stable as the latest major feature release to this Linux init system and service manager...

Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20250910 as the newest version of this in-house Linux distribution used by Azure and other services. Azure Linux 3.0 has long been using the Linux 6.6 LTS kernel while now Linux 6.12 LTS is a new option focused on providing better hardware enablement support...

The long-anticipated LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) 7 (codename Gigi) operating system is now available for public beta testing, featuring the latest Cinnamon desktop environment and a Debian Trixie base.

The GuitarPedal repo is just an experiment, but because it comes from Linus Torvalds, it’s already creating buzz among open-source fans.

complyctl is a powerful command-line utility implementing the principles of “ComplianceAsCode” (CaC) with high scalability and adaptability for security compliance. In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, maintaining a robust security posture isn’t just a best practice – it is a necessity. For Fedora users, system administrators, and developers, ensuring that your systems meet various security […]

Following below is an attempt to setup Hyprland with ML4W Dotfiles 2.9.9.3 (Stephan Raabe) on Fedora 43 Beta . Several Copr repositories , which may be easily detected via command `dnf5 repolist` , will be automatically activated.First step would be add the repository using using remote-add and installing com.ml4w.dotfilesinstaller . . .

AMD engineers have begun ironing out ACPI C4 support for the Linux kernel in order to provide greater power savings on newer AMD Ryzen platforms that have begun to support this deeper sleep state...

Former head of Kubuntu and neon says adiós after 25 yearsSad news for KDE: one of the core people guiding the project for the whole century so far has left the building.…

Godot 4.5 is out today as the latest update to this leading open-source and cross platform game engine...

Quick guide to hide applications, plugins, and other items that shouldn’t appear in the KDE Plasma menu.

The big set of Rust DRM kernel graphics/display driver updates were sent out to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel. Most notable with this pull request is merging the Tyr driver, the new open-source and Rust-based DRM driver for Arm Mali GPUs...