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LILYGO has unveiled the T-Watch Ultra, a multifunctional smartwatch platform that integrates wireless connectivity, location tracking, long-range communication, and intelligent motion sensing in a compact form. Built around the Espressif ESP32-S3, the device is targeted at developers working on embedded, wearable, and remote sensing applications. The ESP32-S3 used in the T-Watch Ultra features a dual […]

But there are tweaks for everyone – even if some are less welcome than others Mozilla has delivered the latest version of its web browser, alleviating a long-standing irritation for Linux users… but making its "AI" integration even more pervasive.…

The newest open-source Linux kernel driver being worked on for the growing accelerator "accel" subsystem is a new hardware driver courtesy of Arm for enabling their Ethos U65 and U85 NPUs...

Immutable Linux distributions are gaining traction by making core file systems unchangeable — offering enhanced security, improved stability, and simplified maintenance.

The first release candidate of Python 3.14 is now available for testing as what will be this year's big feature update to this popular scripting language...

The crew working on enhancing the FreeBSD laptop support is hoping to have an install option within the installer of FreeBSD 15 that will easily provide a KDE Plasma based desktop environment...

The Fedora project is seeking feedback from its user and developer community over potentially updating its release criteria to no longer block on optical media boot issues (DVD images) as well as whether to continue honoring dual boot issues for Intel-based Macs as release-blocking...

Fans say low usage no surprise when obscure but beloved feature disabled by default GitHub has "paused" the removal of the command palette, which enables keyboard control of the GitHub web application, following developer protests.…

The Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit is an upcoming high-performance platform built for next-generation humanoid robotics, real-time sensor fusion, and generative AI at the edge. It delivers up to 2070 FP4 TFLOPS of AI performance, includes 128 GB of LPDDR5X memory, and supports high-throughput, low-latency connectivity for deploying large transformer and vision-language models in real-time […]

The distro's greatest asset is arguably also its greatest weakness If you installed the Firefox, LibreWolf, or Zen web browsers from the Arch User Repository (AUR) in the last few days, delete them immediately and install fresh copies.…

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) this week voted to approve a number of new features/changes for the upcoming Fedora 43 release...

Last week NVIDIA open-sourced 12k lines of C header files for Blackwell GPUs to help in the open-source driver efforts, namely for Nouveau / NVK and the in-development NOVA Rust driver. On Friday they made public some additional header files for helping in the Blackwell and Hopper open-source driver enablement...

You only live once, but regret is forever Cursor's AI coding agent will run automatically, in YOLO mode, if you let it. According to Backslash Security, you might want to think twice about doing so.…

The Mozilla Firefox 141.0 release binaries are out today for this monthly update to this cross-platform, open-source web browser...

Chipmaker halts updates and support, urges users to migrate immediately Intel has abruptly killed off Clear Linux OS, ending Chipzilla's decade-long adventure in this part of the Linux world.…

While we await AMD to officially release ROCm 7.0 as the next major release of their open-source GPU compute stack, out this afternoon is ROCm 6.4.2 as the newest stable point release. ROCm 6.4.2 expands the officially supported Radeon consumer GPUs as well as bringing various fixes and enhancements to the various libraries and components making up this AMD GPU compute ecosystem stack...

Breaking on Friday afternoon was word that Intel is shutting down its Clear Linux project effective immediately after ten years of maintaining this high performance Linux distribution that relentlessly optimized for the best Linux x86_64 performance -- even when it benefited AMD x86_64 processors too. Here is a look back at the most popular of our Clear Linux testing over its decade in existence as a high performance Intel Linux OS...

The End of Windows 10 is looming. The world needs a simpler, easy, quick, snackable alternative Comment Dear Santa. For Windows-10-end-of-support-day in October, please may we have a dead simple bulletproof all-free OS that gets old PCs online without a Google account, and does nothing else?…

This month, Raspberry Pi launched two new components for embedded designs. The $4 Radio Module 2 adds Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to RP2040 and RP2350 projects, while the Camera Module 3 Sensor Assemblies offer a compact way to integrate Raspberry Pi’s 12MP camera into custom hardware. Raspberry Pi notes that the Radio Module 2 integrates the […]

Among the fixes merged today ahead of Linus Torvalds releasing the Linux 6.16-rc7 test kernel release is a lone patch on the "sched/urgent" side to fix possible bogus load average values. Reported system load averages within the kernel's scheduler code could potentially be off going back to May of 2021...