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PeaZip 10.8 debuts an archive preview overhaul, upgraded RAR and TAR handling, and improved tools for inspecting items inside archives.

Developers behind Redox OS, the original open-source operating system written from scratch in the Rust programming language, have ported Wayland to it with initially getting the Smallvil Wayland compositor up and running along with the Smithay framework and the Wayland version of the GTK toolkit...

STMicroelectronics introduced the ST67W611M1 series earlier this year, a low power WiFi 6 and Bluetooth LE coprocessor family developed with Qualcomm Technologies. The modules are designed to add wireless connectivity to STM32 based systems and streamline support for emerging IoT standards such as Matter and Thread. The ST67W611M1 modules combine Qualcomm’s connectivity platform with the […]

Audacity 3.7.6 has been released as a new stable version of this open-source digital audio editor and recording software to improve the stability and reliability of the software.

NVIDIA just released CUDA 13.1 for what they claim is "the largest and most comprehensive update to the CUDA platform since it was invented two decades ago." The most notable addition with the CUDA 13.1 release is CUDA Tile as a new tile-based programming model...

Calibre developer Kovid Goyal released Calibre 8.16 today as the latest stable update to this open-source e-book management software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

As anticipated the first release candidate of Wine 11.0 is now available in working toward the annual stable release in January...

State-backed attackers started poking flaw as soon as it dropped – anyone still unpatched is on borrowed time Amazon has warned that China-nexus hacking crews began hammering the critical React "React2Shell" vulnerability within hours of disclosure, turning a theoretical CVSS-10 hole into a live-fire incident almost immediately.…

Jolla kicked off a campaign for a new Jolla Phone, which they call the independent European Do It Together (DIT) Linux phone, shaped by the people who use it.

A California judge has tentatively sided with Software Freedom Conservancy in its GPL case over Vizio’s SmartCast TVs, but the final outcome of this week’s hearing is still pending.

The new OBS Studio 32.0.3 hotfix resolves crashes triggered by shutdown events and canvas removal, improving smoother operation.

ZFS Deduplication Explained: Learn how ZFS deduplication works by eliminating identical data blocks. We demonstrate the feature, compare results with dedup on and off, and discuss RAM requirements and best use cases. ZFS deduplication is powerful for environments with highly redundant data like VM images or backup repositories. However, for general use cases like web hosting, compression is usually a better choice due to lower RAM requirements.

Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers unveiled today the 4th generation (Gen4) of the TUXEDO Gemini 17 Linux-powered laptop with updated components.

The big set of kernel graphics driver features were merged today for the Linux 6.19 kernel. As usual there is a lot of new feature work on the AMD Radeon, Intel, and NVIDIA graphics drivers plus the smaller Arm/embedded graphics like now having initial Qualcomm Gen8 GPU support. Plus the growing number of accelerator "accel" drivers for NPUs / AI accelerators...

Project retires 32-bit ports, embraces pkgbase, and modernizes build process The latest release of FreeBSD contains a lot of crucial under-the-hood changes – and drops 32-bit support on both x86 and POWER, although ARM-v7 survives.…

Linus Torvalds shares stories and views about Linux in a detailed conversation with YouTube host Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips.

Amazon AWS today announced Graviton5 as their newest-generation ARM64 server processor for their EC2 cloud. Graviton5 is being promoted as offering 25% higher performance over existing Graviton4 processors...

The sound subsystem updates were merged on Thursday for enabling a variety of new audio hardware with the Linux 6.19. Among the hardware standing out is getting Intel Nova Lake audio support in order...

Open-source terminal Ghostty moves under Hack Club’s non-profit umbrella, ensuring stability and mission-driven stewardship.

Umpteen other distros just put out new versions, but this one is our favorite Kernel 6.18 has already been designated the new LTS release – just as we predicted – and Alpine Linux 3.23 has arrived carrying it ahead of a flurry of other year-end distro updates.…