NVIDIA is investing $1.5 million in the Mozilla Common Voice project. Interest in speech recognition systems stems from the prediction that over the next ten years, voice technology will become one of the main ways people interact with devices ranging from computers and phones to digital assistants and kiosks. The performance of voice systems is highly dependent on [...]
Richard Stallman admitted that he made mistakes that he regrets, called on people not to shift dissatisfaction with his actions to the SPO Foundation, and tried to explain the reasons for his behavior. According to him, since childhood he was not able to catch subtle hints to which other people reacted. Stallman admits that he did not immediately realize that his desire to be straightforward and honest in […]
Announced the formation of a new non-profit organization, the Open-Source FPGA Foundation (OSFPGA), aimed at developing, promoting and creating an environment for the collaborative development of open hardware and software solutions associated with the use of field programmable gate array (FPGA) integrated circuits that allow reprogrammable logic work after chip manufacturing. Key binary operations (AND, NAND, OR, NOR and XOR) in such […]
After eight months of development, the free hypervisor Xen 4.15 has been released. Companies such as Amazon, Arm, Bitdefender, Citrix and EPAM Systems took part in the development of the new release. The release of updates for the Xen 4.15 branch will last until October 8, 2022, and the publication of vulnerability fixes until April 8, 2024. Key changes in Xen 4.15: Xenstored processes […]
The release of the composite manager Sway 1.6 is available, built using the Wayland protocol and fully compatible with the i3 tiling window manager and the i3bar panel. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license. The project is aimed at use on Linux and FreeBSD. i3 compatibility is provided at the command, configuration file and IPC levels, allowing […]
The OpenToonz 1.5 project has been released, continuing the development of the source code of the professional 2D animation package Toonz, which was used in the production of the animated series Futurama and several animated films nominated for an Oscar. In 2016, the Toonz code was open sourced under the BSD license and has continued to develop as a free project since then. OpenToonz also supports connecting plugins [...]
The developers of the LLVM project have published the release of the HPVM 1.0 (Heterogeneous Parallel Virtual Machine) compiler, aimed at simplifying programming for heterogeneous systems and providing tools for generating code for CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs and domain-specific hardware accelerators (support for FGPAs and accelerators was not included in the 1.0 release ). The project code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The main idea of HPVM is to […]
The code base of XWayland, the DDX component (Device-Dependent X) that runs the X.Org Server to run X11 applications in Wayland-based environments, has been updated to enable hardware rendering acceleration on systems with proprietary NVIDIA graphics drivers. Judging by the tests conducted by the developers, after enabling the specified patches, the performance of OpenGL and Vulkan in X applications launched using XWayland is almost the same […]
Hector Martin proposed to include in the Linux kernel the first set of patches prepared by the Asahi Linux project, which is working on adapting Linux for Mac computers equipped with the Apple M1 ARM chip. These patches have already been approved by the maintainer of the Linux SoC branch and accepted into the Linux-next codebase, on the basis of which the functionality of the 5.13 kernel is formed. Technically, Linus Torvalds can block the supply of […]
The FreeBSD developers decided in the new FreeBSD 13 branch, which is expected to be released on April 13, to assign the port for the ARM64 architecture (AArch64) the status of the primary platform (Tier 1). Previously, a similar level of support was provided for 64-bit x86 systems (until recently, the i386 architecture was the primary architecture, but in January it was transferred to the second level of support). First level of support […]
An experimental release of an open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 6.6 - took place. Since the release of version 6.5, 56 bug reports have been closed and 320 changes have been made. The most important changes: The Mono engine has been updated to version 6.1.1 with some updates carried over from the main project. The DWrite and DnsApi libraries have been converted to the PE executable file format. Improved driver support for […]
Theorem proving tool Coq is considering changing its name. Reason: To Anglophones, the words "coq" and "cock" (slang for the male sexual organ) sound similar, and some female users have encountered double-entendre jokes when using the name in spoken language. The very name of the Coq language comes from the name of one of the developers, Thierry Coquand. The similarity between the sounds of Coq and Cock (English […]
