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Rustls was initially talked up as a modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language for its memory safety guarantees. But now besides the talked up advantages due to being written in Rust, it has reached the point of reportedly being faster than both OpenSSL and BoringSSL...

The Free Software Foundation announced on Tuesday they have begun work on "freedom in machine learning applications". Or in particular, a to-be-issued "statement" on free machine learning applications for software and the associated scripts and training data...

Author would like to see a switch back to plain old static HTML. Us too Developer Loris Cro reckons his LSP language server for HTML is a world first, and that the absence of such tools up to now has had grave consequences for the web.…

Embedded systems have become a cornerstone of modern technology, powering everything from IoT devices to automotive control systems. These specialized systems rely on software that is lightweight, efficient, and highly optimized for specific hardware configurations.

Copr is a build-system for anyone in the Fedora community. It hosts thousands of projects for various purposes and audiences. Some of them should never be installed by anyone, some are already being transitioned to the official Fedora Linux repositories, and the rest are somewhere in between.

On Sunday there was a new patch posted by an Intel Linux engineer to boost the Lunar Lake Linux performance out-of-the-box for ASUS laptops by adjusting the new ASUS Intelligent Performance Technology "AIPT" feature so that Linux follows the same behavior as Windows 11.

GNU Boot is a "100% free software project aimed at replacing the non-free boot software" and is a downstream of Coreboot, GRUB, and SeaBIOS. While priding itself on being "100% free", last December they had to drop some motherboard support and CPU code after discovering they were shipping some files that are non-free by their free software standards.

The DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop II is one of the latest hardware platforms designed for developers interested in the RISC-V architecture. It features a RISC-V 64-bit 8-core CPU, Wi-Fi 6 connectivity, SSD support, and comes pre-installed with Ubuntu Desktop 23.10.

Linus Torvalds, Broadcom, Dell, HPE, and Lenovo on the list. The shape of the x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) is evolving. On Tuesday, Intel and AMD announced the formation of an ecosystem advisory group intended to drive greater consistency between the brands' x86 implementations.

The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS is out with their newest monthly development summary to highlight advancements made to this unique OS.

The Challenger+ RP2350 Wi-Fi6/BLE5 IPEX3 development board showcases the dual-core Cortex-M33/RISCV RP2350 microcontroller from Raspberry Pi. With 8MB of Flash and RAM, it’s optimized for developers creating embedded solutions that demand high-performance memory and wireless capabilities.

The Trenz Electronic AXE5-EAGLE-ES Agilex5 Devkit, powered by Intel’s Agilex 5 E-series SoC FPGA, supports a range of FPGA applications across industries such as wireless communication, video broadcast, and defense. Its scalable architecture offers engineers a reliable platform for testing designs with advanced FPGA technology and flexible expansion options.

OpenBSD is arguably the most secure general-purpose OS for general-purpose computers. This version has better laptop support, includes more Arm64 kit, and brings hardware-accelerated video playback.

While Intel Xe2 graphics have just debuted with Lunar Lake and we are awaiting Battlemage discrete GPUs with Xe2, Intel's open-source Linux driver engineers have begun work enabling Xe3 graphics! Xe3 driver work is now underway for next-generation Intel graphics.

With the recent Intel layoffs and early retirement / buyout packages, I have been curious to see what impact it will have on the open-source/Linux software engineers at the company.

How do Twitch streamers connect with so many people on the internet while keeping their personal lives private?

PostgreSQL 17 is out today as the newest annual feature release to this widely-used SQL database server. Notable with PostgreSQL 17 is having an AVX-512 optimized bit_count function along with several other heavy hitting performance optimizations.

The world of scientific computing has consistently leaned on robust, flexible operating systems to handle the demanding nature of research tasks. Linux, with its roots deeply embedded in the realms of free and open-source software, stands out as a powerhouse for computational tasks, especially in disciplines that require extensive data processing and modeling, such as neuroscience.

The URVE Board A55 is a compact, high-performance Arm-based computer designed for continuous 24/7/365 operation. It is well-suited for applications in industrial automation, IoT, robotics, and multimedia content display.

The more successful FOSS gets, the more it becomes a target. Patent trolls are increasingly targeting cloud native open source projects, leading the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Linux Foundation to make efforts to extend their legal shields over such efforts.