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Fedora 40 Released, Here’s What’s New
Powered by Linux kernel 6.8, Fedora 40 ships with a GNOME 46 desktop environment, a refreshed software base, and more.
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[$] Rust for embedded Linux kernels
Security updates for Tuesday
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PhotoPrism’s Latest Update Introduces Two-Factor Authentication
PhotoPrism AI-powered photo app introduces two-factor authentication in its latest update, adds numerous UI enhancements, and more.
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Niri 0.1.5 Wayland Compositor Brings More Than Just Aesthetics
Variable refresh rate support is now available in Niri, enhancing your visual experience with smoother animations.
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The Open Home Foundation launches
We created the Open Home Foundation to fight for the fundamental principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes. And every person who lives in one.
Ahead of today, we've transferred over 240 projects, standards, drivers, and libraries—Home Assistant, ESPHome, Zigpy, Piper, Improv Wi-Fi, Wyoming, and so many more—to the Open Home Foundation. This is all about looking into the future. We've done this to create a bulwark against surveillance capitalism, the risk of buyout, and open-source projects becoming abandonware. To an extent, this protection extends even against our future selves—so that smart home users can continue to benefit for years, if not decades. No matter what comes.
Thunderbird Plans for Rust Integration with Microsoft Exchange Service Native Implementation
Thunderbird’s next major release includes Rust integration for improved Microsoft Exchange support, eliminating the need for third-party add-ons.
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Andreas Tille elected as Debian project leader
Andreas Tille Is the New Debian Project Leader
After democratically held elections, Jonathan Carter stepped down as the Debian project leader, passing the role to Andreas Tille.
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[$] Linus and Dirk chat about AI, XZ, hardware, and more
One of the mainstays of the the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit is the "fireside chat" (sans fire) between Linus Torvalds and Dirk Hohndel to discuss open source and Linux kernel topics of the day. On April 17, at Open Source Summit North America (OSSNA) in Seattle, Washington, they held with tradition and discussed a range of topics including proper whitespace parsing, security, and the current AI craze.
Audacity 3.5 Adds Cloud Projects & Advanced Tempo Detection
Audacity’s latest update brings cloud saving, enhanced beat detection, pitch adjustment, and non-destructive pitch changes.
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Ubuntu 22.04 vs 24.04: What Has Changed?
What are the differences between Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.04? Should you upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04? Find out more here.
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EdgeDB 5.0 Launches with Branching Functionality
EdgeDB 5.0 graph-relational database introduces branching functions to align database and code branches for efficient schema changes.
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Hutterer: udev-hid-bpf: quickstart tooling to fix your HID devices with eBPF
eBPF was originally written for network packet filters but as of kernel v6.3 and thanks to Benjamin, we have BPF in the HID subsystem. HID actually lends itself really well to BPF because, well, we have a byte array and to fix our devices we need to do complicated things like "toggle that bit to zero" or "swap those two values".
See this article for more information on the BPF-HID mechanism.
Security updates for Monday
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Kernel prepatch 6.9-rc5
But if you ignore those oddities, it all looks pretty normal and things appear fairly calm. Which is just as well, since the first part of the week I was on a quick trip to Seattle, and the second part of the week I've been doing a passable imitation of the Fontana di Trevi, except my medium is mucus.
[$] Weighted memory interleaving and new system calls
Gregory Price recently posted a patch set that adds support for weighted memory interleaving — allowing a process's memory to be distributed between non-uniform memory access (NUMA) nodes in a more controlled way. According to his performance measurements, the patch set could provide a significant improvement for computers with network-attached memory. The patch set also introduces new system calls and paves the way for future extensions intended to give processes more control over their own memory.