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After looking at the new Calibre 8.16 which puts AI on the playing field, our writer wonders if that's a good idea.

Engineers cry foul over plan to charge $0.002/min for self-hosted Actions runners GitHub customers, take notice: Come March, the Microsoft-owned repository host will begin charging for some uses of self-hosted Actions runners.…

Since receiving the Gigabyte R284-A92-AAL1 a while back as a Xeon 6900 series 2U server platform to replace the failed Intel AvenueCity reference server, I have been getting caught-up in fresh Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids benchmarks with the latest software updates over the past year. I've provided fresh looks at the DDR5-6400 vs. MRDIMM-8800 performance, the AMX benefits for AI, SNC3 vs. HEX mode, Latency Optimized Mode, Cache Aware Scheduling, and more with the fresh Linux software stack and this production Gigabyte server platform. One of the areas I have been meaning to re-visit is a fresh head-to-head benchmark battle between 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" and Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids". In this article is a 128-core showdown between the Xeon 6980P and EPYC 9755 128-core processors with the latest open-source Linux software as of the end of 2025.

The Armbian Linux project introduced today a new utility called Armbian Imager for flashing the Armbian operating system to your single-board computer.

Systemd 259 is out as the newest feature release for this widely-used Linux init system and service manager. Yes, there are more features in tow for this systemd release to top off 2025...

Opus 1.6 open-source audio codec introduces 96 kHz Opus HD support, ML-based bandwidth extension, improved redundancy, and more.

Kubernetes 1.35, dubbed 'Treenetes,' delivers in-place pod resource adjustments, a capability that benefits AI training workloads and edge computing deployments.

For over a year, in close partnership with MediaTek, Collabora has been enhancing Chromium on Genio and Kompanio platforms to fully unlock the hardware users depend on every day, delivering out-of-the-box hardware-accelerated video decoding (H.264, HEVC, VP8, VP9) and encoding (H.264, HEVC) for high-performance, video-centric Chromium applications.

Mozilla CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo says Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser while keeping privacy and clarity at the forefront.

Intel this week released their last planned feature update to their open-source Compute Runtime for 2025. The Intel Compute Runtime 25.48.36300.8 delivers the latest OpenCL and Level Zero performance optimizations, Xe3 workarounds, and other fixes for those on Intel integrated and discrete graphics hardware...

In this article, you will learn what the hash list is, the differences between it and the history list, and how to use its command-line tool to manage records in the hash list in Linux.

Newer Lenovo ThinkPads are adding the ability to detect and report varying degrees of hardware damage. The Lenovo ThinkPad ACPI driver for Linux is being adapted for being able to communicate said hardware damage to user-space Linux software...

Doing what it can to keep it alive, Microsoft only loses more money (it now classifies it as "AI" to justify all the losses)

One of the exciting Intel innovations to the Linux kernel this year has been around the Cache Aware Scheduling for helping to deliver better performance on modern CPUs with multiple last level caches. The kernel patches have yet to be upstreamed but testing has shown to be quite promising for grouping tasks sharing data to the same LLC domain to help reduce cache misses and cache bouncing. Those wishing to learn more about Cache Aware Scheduling, there was a presentation on it last week by Intel engineers Tim Chen and Chen Yu at the Linux Plumbers Conference 2025 in Tokyo...

VLC 3.0.23 media player is out with Windows-focused fixes, OpenGL improvements, better image handling, and additional security updates.

If you are not satisfied with the current performance for PyTorch or ComfyUI / Stable Diffusion on your Strix Halo APU system or with other consumer RDNA3/RDNA4 Radeon consumer GPUs, AMD engineers are interested in your logs to help better optimize the performance going forward...

OpenShot creator Jonathan Thomas released OpenShot 3.4 today as a major update to this open-source, cross-platform, and free video editing software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

As part of my various year-end comparison benchmarking, I recently ran some tests looking at how the Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA 4 performance has evolved since its debut near the beginning of the year. The Vulkan ray-tracing performance in particular was standing out this year as having evolved quite nicely while for conventional OpenGL and Vulkan performance the performance has been largely stable this year with its great at-launch support.

OpenShot 3.4 video editor delivers a 32% performance boost, new video effects, faster exports, and an experimental timeline aimed at smoother, more reliable editing.

The ZLUDA open-source project that has been through several incarnations but ultimately about getting CUDA software up and running on non-NVIDIA GPUs now supports the AMD ROCm 7 series...