Natalie Vock (pixelcluster), a developer who works on low-level Linux code and as an independent contractor for Valve, has published a fix for a VRAM management problem that has been making life difficult for Linux gamers on AMD GPUs with 8GB of
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The Linux kernel project has spent quite some time navigating the use of AI tools, and the response usually has been somewhere between “figure it out yourself” and “we’ll get back to you.” Late last year, at the 2025 Maintainers Summit, Sasha
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If you care about privacy and don’t take too well to governments and Big Tech companies snooping on your messages, then Session has probably come up at some point. It’s a free, open source, end-to-end encrypted messaging app that doesn’t ask for
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France’s national digital directorate, DINUM, has announced (in French) it is moving its workstations from Windows to Linux. The announcement came out of an interministerial seminar held on April 8, organised jointly by the Directorate General for Enterprise (DGE), the National Agency
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With the rise of AI and humanoid robots, the word “Clanker” is being used to describe such solutions, and rightly so. In their current state, these are quite primitive, and while they can act like something resembling human intelligence, they still can’t
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Microsoft has had a complicated relationship with the open source world. VSCode, TypeScript, and .NET are all projects it created, and its acquisition of GitHub put it in charge of the world’s largest code hosting platform. But it is also the same
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Linus Torvalds created two of the most widely used tools in modern computing: the Linux kernel and Git. Git, of course, is a version control system primarily used by programmers. But Theena makes a strong case that Git and plain text are
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