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ZLUDA 6, a standalone implementation of CUDA, has been released.

The latest version of ZLUDA, a compatibility layer for parallel computing on non-Nvidia GPUs, has been released. It aims for full CUDA compatibility. It corresponds to CUDA version 13.1. Currently, only AMD (ROCm version up to 7.2) is supported, with Intel also planned. It is written in Rust. Initial support for the PhysX physics engine and the Blender 3D editor running on top of ZLUDA has been announced. About the name. Cuda in Polish is […]

COSMIC Desktop Environment 1.2.0 Release

System76, a company developing LinuxPop!_OS, the distribution, has released the COSMIC 1.2.0 desktop environment. Packages for COSMIC 1.2.0 are available in Pop!_OS 24.04 and are expected to be available in Fedora, NixOS, and Arch soon. Linux, openSUSE, Aeyrin OS, Redox, and CachyOS. The code is written in Rust and licensed under the GPLv3 (applications) and MPL-2.0 (libraries). COSMIC is being developed as a universal […]

Brain2Qwerty, an AI model for reconstructing keyboard typing based on brain activity recordings

Meta* has released the Brain2Qwerty v2 AI model, which reconstructs user-typed text based on the analysis of electrical brain activity recorded using magnetoencephalography (MEG). The model training and execution toolkit, a framework for processing magnetoencephalography data, and a library for training models on electrical brain activity data are available for download. A dataset is also available for download, […]

The second alpha release of Pidgin 3 messenger

The second alpha release of the Pidgin 3.0 instant messaging client (2.96) has been released. This release is marked as not yet ready for everyday use. Builds have been prepared in Flatpak format and hosted in the beta repository on Flathub. The Pidgin 3 branch has been in development since 2011, and prior to that, it was discussed at the concept and idea level for three years. Pidgin 3 marks the transition […]

VirtualBox 7.2.12 released with fix for host system hang issue

Oracle has released a hotfix release of the VirtualBox 7.2.12 virtualization system, which introduces three changes. The additions to host environments with Linux Fixed an issue that caused a kernel crash Linux with the kernel entering a panic state or the system freezing when starting the virtual machine. The freezing occurs when users are using VirtualBox 7.2.10. Debian 13, Arch Linux, Linux [...]

Go to 2.55

The Git 2.55 release of the distributed source control system has been announced. Key changes include: the inclusion of Rust builds by default, implementation for Linux fsmonitor process, a new strategy for repackaging the incremental MIDX index, the git history fixup command for fixing a commit, optimizations for generating object availability bitmaps, support for parallel hook execution, and the git format-rev command. Git is licensed under the GPLv2+ license. By […]

A new MySQL governance model aimed at community involvement in development

Heather VanCura, Oracle's vice president of community engagement, presented the second phase of the initiative to engage with the community and accelerate MySQL development. While the first phase focused on increasing transparency and involving the community in determining MySQL's development path, the second phase will focus on engaging community representatives in development. Among […]

Release of ZLUDA 6, a general-purpose open source implementation of CUDA technology

Andrzej Janik announced the release of ZLUDA 6, an open-source implementation of CUDA technology. The project aims to enable unmodified CUDA applications to run on non-NVIDIA GPU systems with performance approaching that of natively implemented applications. The project's code is written in Rust and licensed under the MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses. ZLUDA 6 has become […]

Git 2.55 releases with Rust support enabled by default

The Git 2.55 release of the distributed source control system has been announced. Key changes include: the inclusion of Rust builds by default, implementation for Linux fsmonitor process, a new strategy for repackaging the incremental MIDX index, the "git history fixup" command for fixing a commit, optimizations for generating object availability bitmaps, support for parallel hook execution, and the "git format-rev" command. Git code is distributed under the GPLv2+ license. By […]

New versions of Wine 11.12 and Wine-staging 11.12

Wine 11.12, an experimental release of the open source Win32 API implementation, has been released. Since the release of 11.11, 27 bug reports have been closed and 228 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: libswresample (for changing the audio sample rate) and libswscale (for scaling images and converting pixel formats) have been ported from FFmpeg to Wine. Previously ported libraries have been updated to FFmpeg 8.1.1. […]

Froggy-BLC 1.02 (Book Site System, CMS)

The Book-Like CMS "Froggy-BLC" (1.02) has been released. This release features a custom implementation of the "p" tagβ€”"rich-paragraph role=paragraph" (HTML5). This is necessary to support block elements within paragraphs, especially since CKEditor-4 automatically inserts "p" tags everywhere. Four vulnerabilities have been fixed. Work is underway to de-obscure the code, and significant progress has already been made. […]

Microsoft implemented Linux-containers in WSL

Microsoft has announced the start of testing the system for launch Linux-containers in Windows, implemented on the basis of the WSL layer (Windows Subsystem for Linux). The toolkit provides a standard wslc command-line interface and API for creating, deploying, and running containers based on Linux from the entourage Windows, as well as to access running containers from WindowsFunctionality for working with […]

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