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Rather than needing to parse package/history log files manually and akin to functionality provided by Red Hat's DNF, a merge request is pending to add a built-in history command for APT...

Canonical today released the Ubuntu 25.10 Beta as they work toward the stable Ubuntu 25.10 release in mid-October...

Nordic Semiconductor has announced the nRF54LM20A, a high-memory addition to its nRF54L Series of ultra-low power wireless SoCs. Built on the company’s 22 nm technology platform, the device provides developers with more resources to design advanced Bluetooth LE and Matter products for consumer, industrial, and healthcare applications. According to Nordic, the nRF54LM20A integrates a 128 […]

AAEON has introduced the Intelli i14 Edge, a compact AI vision system powered by Intel’s 14th Gen Core i9-14900T and NVIDIA RTX MXM modules. Designed to deliver workstation-level performance in a small, rugged form factor, the system targets robotics, autonomous platforms, and embedded workstations. According to AAEON, the Intelli i14 Edge is equipped with a […]

Linux 6.17 is an interesting time to carry out fresh file-system benchmarks given that EXT4 has seen some scalability improvements while Bcachefs in the mainline kernel is now in a frozen state. Linux 6.17 is also what's powering Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10 out-of-the-box to make such a comparison even more interesting. Today's article is looking at the out-of-the-box performance of EXT4, Btrfs, F2FS, XFS, Bcachefs and then OpenZFS too.

As announced last month, PCI Express 8.0 is aiming for 256 GT/s speeds for allowing 1 TB/s bandwidth in an x16 configuration. In working towards the goals of PCIe 8.0, the PCI-SIG announced today that the v0.3 specification has been released to members...

This guide provides a step-by-step walk-through for integrating a uTrust FIDO2 security key (Identiv uTrust) with Fedora 42 to secure: Audience for this article The guide is intended for instructional cybersecurity labs and intermediate Fedora users. It prioritizes PIN + Touch verification for strong security. NOTE: Since misconfiguration can result in system lockout, readers should […]

Rust 1.90 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular programming language...

In the summer of 2025, Denmark’s government put forward a major policy change in its digital infrastructure: moving away from using Microsoft Office 365, and in part, open-source its operations with LibreOffice. Below is an original account of what this entails, why it matters, how it’s being done, and what the risks and opportunities are.

Why browse the web yourself when an AI sidekick can spoon-feed it to you? Now that it knows it won't be forced to sell its browser, Google is cramming AI into every vacant corner of Chrome it can find, whether you like it or not. …

One of the exciting elements of Intel's Xeon 6 Granite Rapids launch last year was introducing support for MRDIMMs alongside DDR5-6400 memory support. After the Xeon 6900P series debut I posted some of the first independent DDR5-6400 vs. MRDIMM-8800 benchmarks. One year later, today is a fresh look at the DDR5-6400 vs. MRDIMM-8800 performance for Granite Rapids with new/updated benchmarks, the latest Linux software improvements, and also looking at the impact on power and thermals of MRDIMM memory.

The Fedora Forge has been soft-launched for Fedora contributors to help modernize the development and collaboration tools around the Linux distribution...

Still exotic for now, but moves are afoot Arm devices are everywhere today and many of them run Linux. The operating system also powers cloud computing and IT environments all over the world. However, x86 is still the dominant architecture of global computer hardware, where the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) with Secure Boot incorporated is a standard. But what does UEFI look like from an Arm perspective?…

Following the recent release of Linux Mint 22.2 as the Linux Mint project's premiere operating system currently built atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, today marks the beta release of Linux Mint Debian Edition 7...

NVIDIA is making a $5 billion investment into Intel and the two companies will work together on custom data center and client CPUs...

Released yesterday was the OpenJDK Java 25 release along with Oracle's GraalVM 25 alternative JVM...

Texas Instruments has introduced its most affordable C2000 real-time MCUs to date, aimed at appliances, digital power supplies, and power tools. The new F28E12x series, including the F28E120SC and F28E120SB, delivers a 30% performance boost over earlier C2000 devices while maintaining a cost-efficient design. The F28E12x devices integrate TI’s C28x digital signal processor core with […]

The past few months we have been intrigued by an AMD GFX1250 target added to the LLVM codebase for the AMDGPU shader compiler back-end. GFX12 is RDNA4 and GFX1250 is presumably some "RDNA 4.5" / "RDNA Refresh" part akin to GFX1150 having been for the RDNA 3.5 parts with Strix Halo / Strix Point. The prior LLVM code confirmed GFX1250 is in APU form factor but product details beyond that have been scarce. Today a new AMD GFX1251 target was merged to LLVM...

First up: $41M to use human annotators to label all that unstructured military data. What could go wrong? Data curation firm Scale AI has partnered with the Pentagon to deploy its AI on Top Secret networks - a move its interim CEO says is necessary if the US wants AI to be useful for national security.…

The ASUS Ascent GX10 is a compact AI supercomputer built on the NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip with a unified CPU+GPU memory model and NVIDIA’s AI software stack. Introduced in March 2025, it targets developers, researchers, and data scientists needing petaflop-scale performance in a desktop system with scalable deployment options. The GB10 Superchip combines a […]