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AMD's legal team appears to have clawed back control of much of the ZLUDA project's code base. The open source project, for which the House of Zen pulled support earlier this year, enabled compiled CUDA code to run natively on non-Nvidia GPUs.

Raspberry Pi announced the release of the Raspberry Pi Pico 2, priced at $5. This new microcontroller uses the RP2350 MCU, enhancing its lineup with advanced features and improved security measures.

System76 today is releasing an alpha build of Pop!_OS 24.04 that is built atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and making it very interesting is that it includes the alpha version of their Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment.

A years-old security oversight has been addressed in basically all web browsers – Chromium-based browsers, including Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome, WebKit browsers like Apple's Safari, and Mozilla's Firefox.

I don't think of myself as a sysadmin. I am more of a self-hoster who has some experience hosting websites for me and my friends. That doesn't qualify me as a sysadmin, I think.

As mentioned in the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 article, third-party RP2350 boards are already available, and one of them is the MOTION 2350 Pro board from Cytron designed for robotics and motor control. The board features a DC motor driver capable of controlling up to 4 brushed DC motors with voltage ratings from 3.6V to 16V.

As Windows 11 continues to face criticism over its system demands and privacy concerns, many users are exploring alternatives. Linux distributions offer compelling options that not only match but often surpass the Windows experience in performance, customization, and security.

GNOME's libspelling library is seeing up to eight times faster spell checking performance thanks to threading and other optimizations.

Four years after data science biz Anaconda revised its terms of service, some research and academic organizations are just now finding out they have to pay for software they'd previously used at no cost.

eBPF is a versatile tool for improving Linux kernel security. This guide shows you how to write eBPF programs and discusses potential challenges.

Valve has just released a SteamOS 3.6.9 beta as the newest update to their Arch Linux derived operating system powering the Steam Deck and other gaming devices.

Developers behind openKylin, the desktop Linux distro backed by China's National Industrial Information Security Development Research Center, have decided local users need to take advantage of Intel's Meteor Lake silicon and the neural processing units it includes, tuning the latest release of the OS to Chipzilla's AI PC SoC.

One of the original greats from the original indie games boom has returned, World of Goo 2 from 2DBOY and Tomorrow Corporation is now available.

Security researchers with the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security have disclosed GhostWrite, a new CPU vulnerability affecting a common RISC-V processor.

It’s been 4 weeks since Firefox 128 dished out a unified cookie, cache n’ data clearing experience, the ability to translate portions of text on a web page, and introduced a new privacy-respecting ‘alternative to user tracking’ API. Does Firefox 129 improve on all of that?

Google's monopoly over web search was bound to raise concerns with the various antitrust watchdogs around the world, and reports revealing that Google paid $26 Billion to be the default search engine on several platforms in 2021 didn't help.

Google has just announced the Chromecast media streamer would be phased out, introducing instead the Google TV Streamer for both TV streaming and the Smart Home with not only gigabit Ethernet, WiFi 5, and Bluetooth 5.1 connectivity, but also Matter support and Thread border router function.

Ilpo Järvinen of Intel sent in a new round of x86 platform driver fixes today for the ongoing Linux 6.11 kernel cycle. This pull request has a few items worth mentioning as part of this fixes queue.

Selecting a Linux distribution can be daunting but when you finally find the one, you stick with it. Pop!_OS has been my go-to for a long time. Here's why.

Linux, an open source operating system, powers a vast array of devices from personal computers to servers and supercomputers. Its flexibility and efficiency have made it a popular choice among developers, system administrators, and tech enthusiasts. However, like any operating system, Linux requires performance optimization to ensure it operates at peak efficiency.