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Patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week are seeking to remove SHA1 support for signing of kernel modules. This is part of the larger effort in the industry for moving away from SHA1 given its vulnerabilities to hash collisions and superior hashing algorithms being available...

Browser maker scolds AI objectors, "The web is changing, and sitting it out doesn’t help anyone" Mozilla is apparently a lot more excited about adding AI features to Firefox than its community. The org has decided that AI deserves its own new environment in the browser, a move its fans met with withering criticism.…

The which command locates the executable command or file location in the user’s environmental path. It will give you the complete path an executable command or file is pointing towards in your file system.

Last week the Microsoft Azure HBv5 instances reached general availability as powered by the custom EPYC 9V64H CPUs with HBM3 memory. These very interesting EPYC processors for memory bandwidth intensive workloads were announced last year while have finally reached GA with jaw-dropping results for software able to take advantage of the 6.7 TB/s memory bandwidth thanks to the HBM memory. The Azure HBv5 benchmarks last week showed how they compare to prior generation HBv4 instances while this article is taking things further and putting the performance into perspective against the older HBv2 and HBv3 instances.

Understand how Arch Linux creates .pacnew files during updates and how to manage configuration changes without breaking your setup.

What happens when a seasoned Linux user returns to BSD for a hands-on review? GhostBSD delivers unexpected surprises.

Promises some easing of rules that knobble indie devs, eventually Google has decided to loosen some of its recently introduced rules regarding registration of Android developers and their apps, but isn’t rushing to deliver the modest changes it plans.…

Miracle-WM 0.8 was released on Wednesday as another step forward for this tiling Wayland compositor built atop Canonical's Mir software. Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek continues driving new features into Miracle-WM as it works toward its v1.0 milestone...

The LibreOffice 25.8.3 update delivers 70 fixes improving stability, compatibility, and performance across all core applications.

Canonical announced today the expansion of the legacy add-on for Ubuntu Pro to provide total coverage of Ubuntu LTS releases up to 15 years...

Thunderbird 145 introduces DNS-over-HTTPS and native Exchange Web Services support, along with enhancements to the Account Hub and bug fixes.

Arduino has released the Nesso N1, a compact IoT controller developed with M5Stack and built around the ESP32-C6. The device integrates a touch display, onboard sensors, and multiple wireless protocols inside a small enclosure aimed at rapid prototyping and portable embedded applications. The system is built around Espressif’s ESP32-C6 microcontroller, a single-core 32-bit RISC-V processor […]

Tails 7.2, a privacy-focused Linux distro, updates Tor Browser to 15.0, bringing vertical tabs, tab groups, and a redesigned address bar, plus Linux kernel 6.12 LTS.

Moving your Python packages from one virtual environment to another is super easy. This guide will show you exactly how to migrate Python packages between virtual environments in Linux.

RHEL 10.1 debuts an offline AI command-line assistant for secure, disconnected environments, bringing powerful guidance without cloud access.

In this article, you'll learn how to install GCC on Ubuntu, followed by writing and compiling basic C/C++ programs.

Sparky Linux 8.1 delivers updated kernels, refreshed desktops, and all Debian 13 “Trixie” stable patches as of November 2025.

Improves tracking prevention, profile management, PDF editing, and Perplexity creeps into your address bar Firefox 145 is out, with more privacy, better profile handling, better image search for Google users… and, almost inevitably, more LLM bot integration.…

openSUSE Tumbleweed switches to GRUB2-BLS as the default, improving boot speed, compatibility, and systemd integration.

Back in April PostgreSQL added AVX-512 support for CRC32 computations. At the time the gains for CRC32 computations with this popular open-source database server were reported to be 50% to 3x faster for x86_64 CPUs able to leverage AVX-512. That AVX-512 support is found with PostgreSQL 18.0 that released in September and now Intel is praising this addition to PostgreSQL for which their developers also had a part in along with AWS and others...