When the U.S. government imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) in early 2025, the consequences were far-reaching yet quickly enforced. The restrictions cut off the ICC chief prosecutor’s access to Microsoft services, including email, followed by a freezing of his
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You get an SBC and start building projects on that. You start with a vision project. Then the next project idea needs audio. Perhaps the next one requires a bunch of sensors. Usually that means a stack of HATs on the GPIO
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The AI doesn’t necessarily run on supercomputers (yet), it runs on clusters of hardware pieced together. This is where SuperPoD comes into picture. A SuperPoD is a tightly coupled scale-up system that connects many compute nodes so software can use resources across
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So far, Canonical has followed a split kernel SRU cycle for Ubuntu, where regular fixes and security patches lived on separate tracks, with a full update every four weeks and a security-focused release at the two-week midpoint for urgent CVE fixes. If
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First thing first. Yesterday, I mistakenly sent the Local AI Weekly newsletter to everyone. That was not supposed to happen. I’ll be more careful in the future. Let’s go with our regular dose of Linux and open source. Snapdragon X2 processor support
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Qualcomm has put out an early developer preview of Linux for Snapdragon X2 Series laptops, asking kernel developers, distro maintainers, and hardware enablement engineers to get on this hardware and start testing. They have been laying the groundwork for this since Snapdragon
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openKylin is China’s homegrown, open source operating system which is developed by a consortium of companies, research institutes, and individual contributors. We have covered openKylin in the past but that was more than two years ago. There is a new major release
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