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According to a report this morning from Bloomberg, NVIDIA is communicating to their partners that they face the real possibility their deal to acquire Arm will not come to pass...

Now that Linux 5.17 has prepared DRM privacy screen support, the GNOME 42 is ready with its user-space side support for making use of this new standardized interface...

NXP engineers continue persevering for bringing up a mainline-suitable, open-source kernel driver for their Amphion video encoder/decoder hardware. Out today is their 15th revision to the Amphion driver patches...

Ahead of the Linux-based Steam Deck hopefully shipping around the end of February, Valve announced a new Steamworks feature called Dynamic Cloud Sync...

Microsoft's do-it-all IDE Visual Studio 2022 came out late last year. How good is it really?  The Register

A bug lurking for 12 years gives attackers root on most major Linux distros  Ars Technica

One of the primary functions of computers is to parse data. Some data is easier to parse than other data, and voice input continues to be a work in progress. There have been many improvements in the area in recent years, though, and one of them is in the form of DeepSpeech, a project by Mozilla, the foundation that maintains the Firefox web browser. DeepSpeech is a voice-to-text command and library, making it useful for users who need to transform voice input into text and developers who want to provide voice input for their applications.

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I like the Groovy programming language a lot. I like it because, in the end, I like Java, even though Java sometimes feels clumsy. And because I like Java so much, I don't find many other JVM languages especially attractive. Kotlin, Scala, and Clojure, for example, don't feel much like Java, pursuing their own perspectives on what makes a good programming language.

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Google Chrome 97 media playback pausing randomly on Windows & Linux  PiunikaWeb

How to Download Subtitles of a Movie on Linux  BollyInside

Diversity, equity and inclusion is a key commitment of Red Hat. We aim to reflect it in our people and also want to help improve representation and inclusivity in the tech industry for women, people of color, and other marginalized groups. So given the opportunity to support a new coding movement for girls, we jumped at the chance. What’s extraordinary about this movement is that it’s being led by a London schoolgirl. 

While just one part of the overall equation for a system with open-source firmware, the Framework Laptop has joined the ranks of the Linux-focused laptops these days being backed by open-source firmware for its embedded controller (EC)...

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There’s no doubt that Skype is arguably one of the most popular instant messaging and video calling applications there is out there. Whether it’s keeping in touch with your friends and family or having

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Linux 5.17 Brings Major Performance Improvements For AMD Ryzen CPUs & APUs  Wccftech

Git 2.35 is out today as the newest update to this widely-used, open-source distributed version control system...

Linux Servers at Risk of RCE Due to Critical CWP Bugs  Threatpost

Linux Foundation launches Open Source Software Development, Linux, and Git certification  ZDNet

NZ's Catalyst IT delivers open-source system for uni library  CRN Australia

CWP bugs allow code execution as root on Linux servers, patch now  BleepingComputer

HITMAN 3 Runs Well On Linux With Steam Play - Open-Source Radeon Performance Especially Good  Phoronix