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As we close out the Paris AI Action Summit, one thing is clear: the conversation around open and Public AI is evolving—and gaining real momentum. Just over a year ago at Bletchley Park, open source AI was framed as a risk. In Paris, we saw a major shift. There is now a growing recognition that openness isn’t just compatible with AI safety and advancing public interest AI—it’s essential to it.

Once upon a time, using Linux without the terminal was unthinkable. Now? For average users, the terminal is totally optional.

Go 1.24 programming language rolls out with performance boosts, better tooling, improved WebAssembly support, and more.

The new Marvel Rivals 20250214 patch drops on February 13, 2025, at 9AM UTC. Bringing a host of changes to the popular superhero multiplayer game, NetEase’s latest update fixes a host of core issues with the title.

Choosing the right web server can make or break your website’s performance. With so many options available Apache, NGINX, LiteSpeed, OpenLiteSpeed, Caddy, and Lighttpd how do you know which one is the fastest, most efficient, and best suited for your needs? To find out, we conducted a comprehensive benchmark, testing these six popular web servers under different conditions, including static file handling, high concurrency, large file downloads, and sustained traffic simulations.

SonicRadio gets our recommendation. It’s a wonderful open source internet radio program you won’t find in your distro’s software repositories.

Those making use of the GNOME Web "Epiphany" web browser with the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 release will be able to enjoy playing more popular web videos thanks to a packaging change.

Rustaceans could just wait for unwelcoming C coders to slowly SIGQUIT. The Rust for Linux project is alive and well, despite suggestions to the contrary, even if not every Linux kernel maintainer is an ally.

Rust's surge in popularity isn't just about security — it's also driven by developer fatigue with traditional languages like C and Java, as Rust offers a modern, efficient, and safer alternative.

Gnome.org has relaunched with a minimalist and cleaner design, but where's the favorite footprint?

Fastfetch is a modern and faster alternative to Neofetch for displaying system information on Linux, macOS and Windows.

Patch spam contains code that is downright wrong and nonfunctional. Even worse: It can introduce new vulnerabilities or backdoors. What's a developer to do?

After a short testing period, the Linux performance overlay MangoHud had version 0.8.0 released today to bring new features and fixes to one of my favourite open source projects. This also powers the built-in overlay on the Steam Deck.

In the recent discussion over the GNU Gold linker being deprecated, there was the usual LLVM vs. GCC compiler/toolchain debate. Fortunately, with recently working on some initial benchmarks of the GCC 15 compiler I was following that up with some fresh LLVM Clang compiler comparison metrics on the same AMD Zen 5 hardware.

A new version of the slick Clapper media player is out with several neat improvements.

The recent Linux kernel drama over Rust code has resulted in the creation of a Rust kernel policy.

FLAC 1.5 free lossless audio codec introduces a multithreaded encoder, improved decoding for chained Ogg FLAC files, and a bunch of fixes.

One of the major issues with KDE’s styling system is the fact that over the year, it has accumulated four ways of styling applications – which makes themeing and changing aspects of the default theme far more cumbersome than it should be.

GIMP image editor announced the third release candidate for the next major 3.0 series yesterday, with dozens of bug-fixes, requests, and translation updates.

Today, the KDE Project announced the release and general availability of the KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment series as a major update with new features and improvements.