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KiCad 9.0 Released For Advancing Open-Source EDA

Phoronix - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 13:00
KiCad 9.0 is now available as the newest version of this leading open-source Electronics Design Automation (EDA) suite that can rival some proprietary solutions for designing PCBs and other electronic hardware...

Transitioning Red Hat’s Operational and IT leadership

Red Hat News - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 08:00
Today, we are sharing news that Carolyn Nash, Red Hat’s senior vice president and chief operating officer (COO), will retire after a 35-year career spanning numerous leadership positions and more than eight years with Red Hat. Bobby Leibrock will step into a combined role of senior vice president, chief operating officer and chief financial officer, effective immediately. Carolyn will remain with Red Hat in an advisory capacity through June 2025 to assist with the transition. As part of this move, Marco Bill has been named senior vice president and chief information officer, reporting to Bob

Griot and Grits is preserving Black history through AI

Red Hat News - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 08:00
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quickly paving the way for technological innovation across countless industries and has infiltrated many of our day-to-day activities–especially in education. Educational institutions have increasingly adopted AI technology in the spirit of innovating teaching and learning practices and providing greater access to educational resources. History, for example, is a core subject that can benefit from the use of AI to enrich and synthesize the context of historical events, figures and movements as additional background information and sources are uncovered–and R

Linux 6.14-rc4 Released: The Right Kind Of "Boring"

Phoronix - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 05:49
Linus Torvalds released the Linux 6.14-rc4 kernel a short time ago as this half-way point to Linux 6.14 stable that should be out before the end of March...

GNU Emacs 30.1 Released With Android Support, Emacs Lisp Native Compiler By Default

Phoronix - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 02:15
GNU Emacs 30.1 is out today as the newest version of this extensible text editor...

Valve Snuck The Lenovo Legion Go S Controller Support Into The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sun, 02/23/2025 - 21:53
Valve is supporting Lenovo with the Legion Go S gaming handheld running their Arch Linux based SteamOS. Beyond the fanfare at CES, Valve has been collaborating with Lenovo on engineering resources for ensuring the Legion Go S is running well with SteamOS and in turn the mainline Linux kernel. It turns out from a recent sneaky patch, Valve quietly added support to the Linux kernel for what ended up being the Lenovo Legion Go S controller/input handling...

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