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Here's the up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for January 24th, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck. Each week Prime Gaming, part of what you get with a subscription to Amazon Prime, add and remove various games you can claim to keep.

For those looking for a heatsink fan to cool a custom build of an Ampere Altra / Altra Max server or workstation, the ARCTIC Freezer 4U-M ends up being a very potent option that offers similar performance to more expensive Ampere Altra heatsinks while providing similar performance.

The NXP Semiconductors FRDM-IMX93 Development Board is a development platform designed for industrial and IoT applications. Key features include dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, multiple display and camera interfaces, and support for CAN bus communication.

ISD is a new open-source project aiming to provide a more "Interactive SystemD" for simplifying management of Linux systems with systemd.

Though not a big-name distro, Zentyal is easy enough for an administrator to deploy and make work for just about any business.

Hands on Chinese AI startup DeepSeek this week unveiled a family of LLMs it claims not only replicates OpenAI's o1 reasoning capabilities, but challenges the American model builder's dominance in a whole host of benchmarks.

Gain insights into programming language trends, explore the practical applications of different languages, and broaden your programming language knowledge base with ITPro Today's top 10 programming language stories of 2024.

A set of patches being worked on by Oracle engineers allow for optionally sharing page table entries (PTEs) between processes. For some workloads this can equate to very significant memory savings.

Apache CouchDB is an open-source NoSQL and document-oriented database that supports multiple formats and protocols to store its data. Apache CouchDB allows you to use JSON to store data, and it also provides web UI for managing the CouchDB system and HTTP API that enables you to query data easily.

Antmicro recently highlighted the MSP430 microcontroller family, renowned for its ultra-low-power design and versatility in applications such as IoT, automation, and space. Their article explores how the Renode simulation platform facilitates efficient testing and development of MSP430-based systems.

If you want to take control of your music playback, try Musify on Android.

You know, when it comes to DIY projects, we like to see ideas that use 3D printers and pre-bought materials that get the job done. However, when we do, we lose sight of the real foundation of DIY fans everywhere: Lego blocks.

The Volla Phone Quintus is now available and aims to entice buyers with its focus on privacy. The smartphone runs on either Android or Ubuntu Touch and foregoes all Google services, if desired.

While there have been a lot of GeForce RTX 5090 Windows gaming benchmarks since the review embargo lift yesterday, for those more fascinated by this high-end Blackwell desktop graphics card for its GPU compute potential on Linux, this article is for you.

Bad actors are using a fake Homebrew site on a Google ads page to distribute infostealer malware that’s targeting macOS and Linux devices.

I consider myself an amateur photographer and video creator. That means, most of the time, I'll get by fine just by using ffmpeg, VLC, GIMP, and KDEnlive for my artistic endeavors. But now and then, I wonder whether I can up my game, and try my luck and skill using a top-notch tool like DaVinci Resolve. This near-3GB program offers a lot of goodies, and it's heavily used in the film industry. Well, perchance.

The announcement that Lenovo’s second-gen Legion Go S handheld is powered by Valve’s Linux-based SteamOS, the first PC gaming handheld to hold that honor, has started tongues wagging that Microsoft should be very worried about SteamOS establishing a foothold in prebuilt PCs.

The first alpha release of GNOME 48 is out today! See what’s new in the desktop environment that will be default in next Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora Workstation 42.

Now that NVIDIA is rolling out the "Blackwell" GPU driver support, it looks like the NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta generations will soon be moving to a legacy driver branch.

Great news, Linux fans! Support for the Copilot key is coming in the 6.14 kernel. What do you think it should do?