How to Not Be Overwhelmed by AI – A Developer’s Guide to Using AI Tools Effectively
If you’re a developer, you’ll likely want to use AI to boost your productivity and help you save time on menial, repetitive tasks. And nearly every...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppCCTZ 0.2.14 on CRAN: New Upstream, Small Edits
A new release 0.2.14 of RcppCCTZ is now on CRAN, in Debian and built for r2u. RcppCCTZ uses Rcpp to bring CCTZ to R. CCTZ is...
Read more[$] SFC v. VIZIO: who can enforce the GPL?
The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) is suing VIZIO over smart TVs that include software licensed under the GPL and LGPL (including the Linux kernel, FFmpeg, systemd,...
Read more[$] GPLv2 and installation requirements
On December 24 2025, Linus Torvalds posted a strongly worded message celebrating a ruling in the ongoing GPL-compliance lawsuit filed against VIZIO by the Software Freedom...
Read moreHow to Optimize React
React makes it easy to build UIs, but building fast React apps is a different skill altogether. We just posted a hands-on, real-world React Performance Optimization...
Read moreBose SoundTouch End of Life Gets Less Painful With Public API Release
The API documentation opens the door for developers to build their own control apps (hopefully open source ones).
Read moreTwo new stable kernels
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.18.4 and 6.12.64 stable kernels. As always, each contains important fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to upgrade.
Read moreAutonomous, Resilient Workflows: How Close Are They to Reality?
As enterprises push deeper into AI-driven automation, the conversation is moving from simple task automation to truly autonomous, resilient workflows. These systems observe, decide, adapt and...
Read moreLinux 6.18 LTS vs. Liquorix Kernel On AMD Ryzen Threadripper Workstation Performance
It’s been a while since running benchmarks of the Liquorix kernel as an enthusiast-tailored downstream version of the Linux kernel focused on responsiveness for gaming, audio/video...
Read moreThe Time Clock Has Stood the Test of Time
No matter the item on my list of childhood occupational dreams, one constant ran throughout: I saw myself using an old-fashioned punch clock with the longish...
Read moreSecurity updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gcc-toolset-14-binutils, gcc-toolset-15-binutils, httpd, kernel, libpng, mariadb, mingw-libpng, poppler, python3.12, and ruby:3.3), Debian (foomuuri and libsodium), Fedora (python-pdfminer and wget2),...
Read moreTrump withdraws US from world’s most important climate treaty
Donald Trump has decided to withdraw the US from the world’s most important climate treaty, as well as from dozens of other international organizations, as the...
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