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The Ivy Carrier Board is designed for compatibility with the Verdin SoM family by Toradex. With a compact 130 x 105 mm form factor, it features dual Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0, Mini PCIe, industrial I/O, and MIPI DSI for display integration. Built for demanding environments, it supports an extended temperature range and a wide input voltage.

Research Firm Wiz Research began investigating DeepSeek soon after its generative AI took the tech world by storm.

Now that Firefox 135 is rolling out to users all over the globe, Mozilla has promoted the next major release of its open-source web browser, Firefox 136, to the beta channel for public testing.

Ubuntu Mate 24.10 is a desktop operating system that helps ease new users into the world of Linux with a fairly traditional UI that can be easily updated with built-in features.

Users who take advantage of the new DISA STIG can give their AlmaLinux servers military-grade hardening.

Beware false headlines and fake text from cybersecuritynews.com and gbhackers.com. Those sites with their false headlines are being spread around by Google News. They often spread anti-Linux messages, set aside text manipulation that turns facts into lies.

Intel on Friday released an updated user-space driver for their Neural Processing Unit (NPU) found with Core Ultra SoCs. This user-space driver code works with the IVPU accelerator kernel driver for opening up the Intel NPU for helping speed-up AI workloads on Linux.

The CAN FD Adapter enables high-speed CAN FD connectivity for embedded and industrial applications. Available in M.2 B-key and mini-PCIe form factors, it supports data rates from 12.5 kbit/s to 8 Mbit/s. It integrates with systems used in industrial monitoring, robotics, automation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, remote access, and data logging.

As Equinix Metal winds down, Alpine Linux faces critical hosting challenges. Flathub is also in a similar situation.

Also, Netgear fixes critical router, access point vulnerabilities. Google has released its February Android security updates, including a fix for a high-severity kernel-level vulnerability, which is suspected to be in use by targeted exploits.

Debian-based Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and Debian itself, rely on robust package management systems to install, update, and remove software efficiently. One of the most critical aspects of package management is handling dependencies—ensuring that all required libraries and packages are present for an application to function correctly.

Ardour 8.11 was released today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform digital audio workstation (DAW) for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

Other than being a reliable piece of software, Linux has made some really cool things a reality, be it by powering a coffee maker or running Doom on a terminal. Of course, the tinkerers who dedicate their time and resources to innovate are the real MVPs here.

In addition to the FreeBSD Foundation funding work on s0ix sleep state support as part of their initiative to improve FreeBSD's support for modern laptops, they have also been funding work on a number of other objectives, including better WiFi driver coverage. A milestone now being achieved for 2025 is getting a proof-of-concept Intel 802.11 a/b/g WiFi driver support working for this BSD operating system.

With so many ways to install software on Linux, should you turn to an old-school GUI for the task?

Every so often, we see a wave of activity around cramming something that shouldn't be running in a specific document or app into said document or app. If you (like myself) had the naive thought that PDF files were static, boring documents that can't do things like, I don't know, play Tetris or something, then boy, do we have news for you.

WeAct RP2350B Core Board is a small (41.4×41.1mm) USB-C board exposing all 48 I/Os from the Raspberry Pi RP2350B Cortex-M33/RISC-V microcontroller through two 30-pin headers.

PorteuX 1.9 is out as a new update to this portable Linux distribution based on Slackware and inspired by both Slax and Porteus distros, designed to be small, fast, portable, modular, and immutable.

Linux, renowned for its robustness and security, is a powerful multi-user operating system that allows multiple people to interact with the same system resources without interfering with each other. Proper management of user accounts and permissions is crucial to maintaining the security and efficiency of a Linux system.

Your first Linux distro matters! Here is my advice to avoid frustration and make a more informed switch to this outstanding OS.