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JEDEC Publishes HBM3 Standard (JESD238)

Phoronix - Fri, 01/28/2022 - 17:51
JEDEC has published the JESD238 HBM3 standard as the next version for High Bandwidth Memory...

Congratulations to the 2022 Opensource.com Community Award recipients

opensource.com - Fri, 01/28/2022 - 16:00

Many journeys into open source start with community interactions. Code is an important contribution, but so is sharing knowledge. The community knowledge base is often a person's first exposure to a project.

I love working with the community of authors here at Opensource.com. I have the privilege of visiting with the members in our Correspondents program weekly and am really looking forward to building relationships with authors and readers alike.


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Software Privacy Day: Use Delta Chat, an open source chat tool

opensource.com - Fri, 01/28/2022 - 16:00

It's Software Privacy Day again, the day meant to encourage users everywhere to spare a thought about where their data actually goes when it's posted on, over, or through the Internet. One of the cottage industries around Internet communication that seems to ebb and flow in popularity is the venerable chat application. People use chat applications for all manner of conversations, and most people don't think about what bots are recording and monitoring what's being said, whether it's to effectively target ads or just to build a profile for future use.


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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Looks To Drop Its Partner Archive In Favor Of The Snap Store

Phoronix - Fri, 01/28/2022 - 14:00
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will likely do away with the Ubuntu/Canonical Partner Archive where their software partners could upload select proprietary/binary-only software for easy access by Ubuntu users...

Reverse Engineering & Open-Source Driver Work Advancing For Arm's Valhall GPU

Phoronix - Fri, 01/28/2022 - 13:00
The Arm Mali Valhall architecture reverse-engineering started last summer and while limited in the reverse engineering capabilities for several months, it looks like by this summer we'll hopefully see a working driver for Arm's newer graphics IP...

OPNsense 22.1 Released With This Open-Source Firewall Now Powered By FreeBSD 13

Phoronix - Fri, 01/28/2022 - 09:15
OPNsense, the FreeBSD-based firewall/router software stack forked from pfSense, is out with its first major release of 2022...

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