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I wasn’t about to write that without confirmation from benny. The fourth law of journalism, “don’t write about something unless you’re sure you know what you’re writing about,” applies as much to tech journalism as it does to real journalism.

Apple Weather is a weather app that keeps you informed about conditions including temperature, rain, snow, and wind. It's available on Apple devices such as iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches.

Miracle-WM 0.4 Wayland compositor rolls out with i3-IPC support, named workspaces, and better Waybar integration.

Here's a quick guide to adding users and groups, and then how to add users to groups, all from the command line on the Linux platform.

Software vulnerability submissions generated by AI models have ushered in a "new era of slop security reports for open source" – and the devs maintaining these projects wish bug hunters would rely less on results produced by machine learning assistants.

A promising patch for the Linux kernel is optimizing the locking contention and scattered address space for the MD bitmap code to improve both the storage throughput and latency.

Simplexity is a simple desktop app that accesses Perplexity. It’s free and open source software.

Microsoft must be very pleased with what IBM is doing

switcherooctl, a lightweight userspace utility, is the recommended solution for managing GPU switching on openSUSE with multiple GPUs.

MiniOS 4.0 unveils a new Toolbox edition, enhanced visuals, better system tools, kernel updates, and support for NTFS, FAT32, and exFAT storage.

While the Ubuntu desktop has been offered the newer GNOME Console as an alternative to GNOME Terminal, there's been a recent fondness around Ptyxis and apparently is becoming the recommended replacement to GNOME Terminal for the Ubuntu camp...

Currently the Linux kernel's "perf" performance monitoring subsystem has a limit on 2,048 CPU cores for its CPU map that is set by the MAX_NR_CPUS value. But that's becoming not enough in today's high core count era that patches are looking to raise it to a 4,096 CPU core limit by default...

Systemd 257 Linux service manager released with major updates: revamped tmpfiles purge, JSON public API, improved device handling, and future-proofed kernel support.

Mid-November release will be maintained for 'several years' Last month's new version of the Linux kernel, 6.12, has been confirmed as the newest LTS release… which also marks the end of the line for kernel 4.19.…

Big news for Arch Linux! ALPM, Arch Linux's packaging ecosystem, received €562K funding from Sovereign Tech Agency to modernize package creation, validation, and verification with Rust-based tooling and libraries.

Flathub is an increasingly popular portal for Flatpak apps for every Linux distribution. Now, it's doing something to help the ecosystem grow!

After 21 years, a minimalist yet powerful GNU Shepherd v1.0 service management daemon is live with timed services, log rotation, and more.

It's been a few months since running any fresh Linux graphics driver comparison benchmarks. But given the imminent availability of the first Intel Arc Battlemage graphics cards, I have been carrying out some fresh Linux GPU driver testing.

IBM has recently disclosed a security vulnerability (CVE-2024-37071) affecting its Db2 database software for Linux and UNIX platforms. Under certain circumstances, an authenticated user could use the flaw to launch a denial of service (DoS) attack by abusing bad memory allocation with a specially constructed query.

The GNOME Project released today GNOME 46.7 as the seventh maintenance update to the GNOME 46 desktop environment series with various bug fixes, updated translations, and other changes.