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Russian organizations have been targeted by a cybercrime gang called ExCobalt using a previously unknown Golang-based backdoor known as GoRed.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet was able to solve 64% of problems related to bug fixing and functionality additions with open source codebases, a significant improvement over Claude 3 Opus’ 38% success rate.

GNOME developers continue to be very busy with a variety of initiatives thanks to the Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) financing as well as other general development efforts as they work their way toward GNOME 47 in September.

Mozilla has big plans for its browser and among the a fleet new features expected to rain down on us this year is greater personalisation of the new tab page.

Budgie developer Joshua Strobl announced the release of Budgie 10.9.2 as a minor maintenance update in the Budgie 10.9 series of this modern desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions.

Budgie 10.9.2 desktop environment enhancements include fixes for notifications, workspace applet, TabSwitcher, and more.

Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's open-source/Linux graphics driver team has submitted a merge request to "massively" improve the OpenGL glReadPixels performance within the common Mesa state tracker.

The Finder is the default file manager and graphical user interface shell for OS X.

Bitwarden is easily the most loved open-source password manager. Kyle Spearrin (Founder) tells us a bit more about the vision and goals.

At the 2024 XUANTIE RISC-V Ecosystem Conference, a collaborative effort between Yahboom, milK-V, and ALIBABA DAMO Academy led to the unveiling of the RISC-V MicroROS educational robot. This robot, based on the Milk-V Meles SBC, is now available for purchase and provides an advanced learning platform for robotics enthusiasts and students.

Sometimes, the best way to explain how to do something is to show it. This is why I'm excited about the new GIF tool in ChromeOS. It's now easy to take short GIFs on a Chromebook. It makes my job easier to show how things work in ChromeOS rather than just have static pictures.

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The Linux kernel community has sadly lost one of its longtime, prolific contributors to the wireless (WiFi) drivers.

Tuxedo computer is working on an ARM Linux laptop powered by Snapdragon X Elite chipset. Great news for Linux users! Tuxedo Computers, a company that specializes in creating computers built for Linux, has announced that they are working on an ARM-based Linux laptop using Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X Elite chipset.

Today, it's widely known that proprietary firmware, such as BIOS and UEFI, often contains backdoors that compromise user privacy. I believe that hardware manufacturers intentionally integrate these backdoors into their closed-source firmware for obvious reasons. This presents a serious privacy issue, prompting the open-source community and privacy advocates to develop secure, open-source boot firmware. These alternatives prioritize user privacy and enhance hardware security.

HandBrake 1.8.1 free video transcoder fixes video artifacts, subtitle corruption, and more. Windows users, install .NET Desktop Runtime 8.0.x first!

It's been a long time coming. Now our journos speak their brains. The US government on Thursday banned Kaspersky Lab from selling its antivirus and other products in America from late July, and from issuing updates and malware signatures from October.

Microsoft Paint is a simple raster graphics editor that has been included with all versions of Microsoft Windows.

SeeedStudio Previews R1000 Powered by Raspberry Pi CM4

Flathub as the centralized repository for serving Flatpak sandboxed Linux applications crossed the threshold this weekend of serving more than two billion downloads.