Continuing our series on Anonym’s technology, this post focuses on Anonym’s use of differential privacy. Differential privacy is a cornerstone of Anonym’s approach to building confidential and effective data solutions. In this post, we’ll explain why we integrate differential privacy (DP) into all our systems and share how we tailor our implementation to meet the unique demands of advertising use cases.

The eighth point-release of Bookworm – yes, you read that right – and the latest MX with new Xfce. Debian 12.9 - the latest point-release of Debian "Bookworm" - emerged at the weekend and coming hot on its heels is one of the more interesting downstreams, MX Linux 23.5.

After standard openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE Plasma 6.2.5 deployment add extra repos . It's important to use a higher priority (which means a lower value) than the main openSUSE repos and issue as root zypper dup --allow-vendor-change for the switch .

NewPipe, the popular Android app, has been ported to Linux desktops using a special technology called the Android Translation Layer (ATL).

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system has published their latest monthly development report. During December they worked on a number of features and fixes as well as getting a modern web browser up and running.

Linux Mint's latest upgrade is available. Explore more about it before you try it out!

Supabase is an open-source Firebase alternative built on top of the PostgreSQL database, the world's most trusted relational database. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to install Supabase on Ubuntu 24.04 server.

Security researchers have uncovered six critical vulnerabilities in rsync, a widely used file synchronization and transfer tool for Linux systems. The most severe flaw could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on machines running rsync servers with just anonymous read access.

The Luckfox Core1106 is a compact development board built around the Rockchip RV1106 chip. Designed to simplify hardware integration, it allows developers to efficiently verify designs or embed the board into products. With dimensions of 30 × 30 mm, the Core1106 is suitable for applications such as edge computing, IoT devices, and video processing.

WebScreen is an upcoming mini-screen that can sit on top of your monitor like a webcam, allowing you to customize it to get notifications and all sorts so you don't miss anything while you're busy (like playing video games).

Notepad Next 0.10, a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++, introduces enhanced bookmark operations, auto-closing HTML tags, Nix language support, and more.

The Intel Core Ultra 5/7 thin Mini-ITX SBC supports Linux, Windows 10, and Windows 11 operating systems with relevant datasheets and other docs available on the download section of the product page. Jetway generally provides drivers for Windows 10, 11, or Linux but for this motherboard, it is not available in the download section just yet.

Yesterday I looked at how the Intel OpenCL GPU compute performance evolved for the Arc Graphics B580 in the one month since that first Battlemage graphics card premiered. There were nice Intel GPU compute optimizations merged over the past month to improve the experience.

Don't listen to what you hear. I tell you the reality from my dual booting experience.

Rsnapshot is a backup utility for Linux-based machines. In this guide, you'll learn how to install and configure Rsnapshot on Rocky Linux 9 server. You'll also learn how to do an automatic backup with Rsnapshot and Cron.

If you are running an Ubuntu-based operating system such as Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, and even Linux Mint, you really need to apply available updates to patch the rsync package. Fixes have just been issued to address numerous vulnerabilities that allow remote code execution and affect servers and client machines.

If you want to get the most out of your system while keeping it clean, free of junk, and running smoothly, Stacer is the tool for you.

Songs of Syx is a deep and engrossing colony-building sim from Gamatron AB that has steadily improved with new updates since the 2020 release into Early Access but the 1.0 release is finally approaching. Songs of Syx has full Native Linux support.

Powered by kernel 6.8 and based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Linux Mint 22.1 "Xia" is now available for download, offering a Cinnamon 6.4 desktop environment.

The modern GNOME desktop hasn't had a core application to playback audio files although many different audio/multimedia players exist. But now for the upcoming GNOME 48 desktop release, there is now a promoted core app for audio playback: Decibels.

osTicket is an open-source help desk and ticketing solution written in PHP. In this guide, you'll learn how to install the osTicket open-source ticketing system on Ubuntu 24.04 server.

OSNews Sponsor OS-SCi is educating the next generation FOSS engineers, and as part of their coursework, they’re looking for worthy open source projects to which they can contribute their time and effort.

The wait is finally over as the Linux Mint team has published the final ISO images of the Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” release, which are available for download from the official mirrors.

Flatpak 1.16.0 is the first stable release in the new 1.16.x series, coming more than two years after the Flatpak 1.14.x cycle began and containing features, fixes, and other work undertaken from the 1.15.x development releases.

Here at Mozilla, we are the first to admit the internet isn’t perfect, but we know the internet is pretty darn magical. The internet opens up doors and opportunities, allows for human connection, and lets everyone find where they belong — their corners of the internet.

Rsync 3.4 is out today for this widely-used utility for incrementally transferring and synchronizing files between systems. Rsync is widely-used especially for backing up Linux servers in an incremental manner and unfortunately this v3.4 release isn't some cheery news...

There's already TPM in Ubuntu 24.10 (the latest Ubuntu release) and TPM pushers seem to really be eager to silence critics, just like UEFI 'secure' boot pushers - to the point of filing totally frivolous lawsuits against critics!

Linux Mint 22.x is based on Ubuntu 24.04 with long term support until 2029! The first point release features Cinnamon Desktop 6.4, that includes new default theme with rounder design and flat style buttons.

Rsyslog is an open-source logging system daemon that is used to collect, filter, store, and forward log messages of operating systems and applications. This guide will show you how to install rsyslog and set up remote logging on the Debian 12 server.

A system profiler is a utility that presents information about the hardware attached to a computer. Having access to hard information about your hardware can be indispensable when you need to establish exactly what hardware is installed in your machine.