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The Infineon XENSIV Game Controller combines XENSIV magnetic position sensors and the PSoC 6 BLE microcontroller to create a precise, low-power, plug-and-play device ideal for gaming and control applications.

While the Linux 6.12 merge window has been closed for more than one week, the modern NTFS "NTFS3" driver has seen some late feature enhancements as well as some fixes merged today for this new kernel version.

MZLA, the company behind the Thunderbird email client, is finally putting its mobile email client app into beta testing – but it's a lot more mature than that sounds.

Fedora test days are events where anyone can help make certain that changes in Fedora Linux work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and the public is welcome at these events. If you’ve never contributed to Fedora before, this is a perfect way to get started.

Today, Thundercomm introduced RUBIK Pi at an industry event in Austin, Texas. This development board, built on Qualcomm SoC platforms, is the first Pi product to offer AI capabilities tailored for high-performance application development.

With the Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids benchmarking at Phoronix the past few weeks it's been in a dual socket (2S / 2P) configuration. For those curious about the Intel Xeon 6980P 128-core server performance for a single socket (1S) configuration, here are those complementary results out today and for both DDR5-6400 and MRDIMM-8800 memory configurations.

If you’re using Canonical’s Steam snap to game on Ubuntu you may be pleased to hear that a number appreciable performance improvements have begun to filter out.

Over the decades, my primary operating system of choice has changed a few times. As a wee child of six years old, we got out first PC through one of those employer buy-a-PC programs, where an employer would subsidize its employees buying PCs for use in the home..

elementary OS 8 release is around the corner. It is based on Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS and features Linux kernel 6.8 at its core. While we shared some of its initial details last year, and its progress last month, it is time to compile all of its expected features here considering the release is closer than ever before!

This tutorial shows how to completely disable suspend and/or hibernate function, so your Linux computer will never go to sleep.

Silicon Labs Solutions architect Nicola Wrachien has designed an Arduino Nano Matter gamepad for which he was successfully able to port Quake, a popular first-person shooter game. We have seen developers and engineers port doom on everything from toothbrushes to GPS receivers.

For more than one year Arm engineers have been working on Guarded Control Stack "GCS" support for the Linux kernel as a means of protecting against return-oriented programming (ROP) sttacks with modern AArch64 processors. It looks like for Linux 6.13 this Arm GCS support will be ready for upstreaming.

Use of Red Hat on Amazon Web Services (AWS) has allowed UK-based financial technology (fintech) innovator Banfico to both get to market quicker but also offer a genuinely global service.

Exciting news! The Tazama project is officially a Digital Public Good having met the criteria to be accepted to the Digital Public Goods Alliance! Tazama is a groundbreaking open source software solution for real-time fraud prevention, and offers the first-ever open source platform dedicated to enhancing fraud management in digital payments.

The Linux community is preparing to release version 6.12 0f the Linux kernel. The 6.12 version is currently in the “release candidate” phase, with 6.12rc1 available as of Sept. 29, 2024.

Linux is a powerful operating system that forms the backbone of numerous servers, workstations, kiosks, and embedded devices worldwide. It accounts for approximately 3.08% (Edit: It's actually 4%) of all operating systems in use globally. Given its critical role in infrastructure and technology, ensuring the security of Linux environments is paramount.

Today marks the release of Qt 6.8 as not only a new feature release but also the latest long-term support (LTS) release for this open-source, cross-platform toolkit.

Stability? Predictability? Reliability? Where's the fun in that? EuroBSDcon 2024: One of Stefano Marinelli's NetBSD boxes sat quietly serving for a decade, because everyone forgot about it. This is how Unix is meant to be.

The Linux kernel is a critical component of infrastructure systems worldwide and is known for its stability and security. At the same time, the kernel’s complexity introduces vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit.

Linux. You've heard about it. You've maybe even tried it. However, statistically, you probably don't use it. Globally as of 2024, just over 4% of desktop PCs run Linux. That's a tiny slice of the market, and yet it's a milestone for Linux worth celebrating.