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LibreOffice questions Euro-Office's commitment to open formats (ODF vs OOXML) for true digital sovereignty. Germany's ODF mandate adds urgency. Euro-Office's silence raises concerns.
An $85 PCB replacement for the Google Home Mini adds ESP32-S3 and XMOS chips for local voice processing, Home Assistant integration, and privacy enhancements.
Ubuntu's Twitter account was compromised, posting a fake AI agent thread with a phishing site targeting crypto wallets. It followed a 5-day DDoS attack.
Discover Yazi, a Rust-based terminal file manager with async support, image previews, and code highlighting. Learn its features, installation, and how it can replace GUI file managers for Linux power users.
FOSS Weekly recap covering Ubuntu DDoS and Twitter hack, Copy Fail exploit, Dutch gov Forgejo, Germany's tech pilot, VS Code Copilot bug, MS-DOS open source, Linux on PS5, and Ubuntu flavor changes.
Google Pixel's context-aware voice typing adds voice editing, formalizing, and rewriting without screen touch, revolutionizing hands-free texting.
Zero-day 'Dirty Frag' flaw in Linux kernel lets attackers escalate privileges after initial compromise. Urgent patching needed across all distributions.
A new analysis declares the Toyota RAV4 the only SUV most families need, combining affordability, reliability, space, and fuel economy.
Amazon rebrands Fire TV to Amazon TV. New name reflects unified ecosystem. Big changes include interface revamp and device consolidation. Background and analysis inside.
Paramount+ introduces three documentary series for May 8-10, offering factual content as a counterpoint to the upcoming Yellowstone spin-off 'Dutton Ranch'.
V8 optimized JetStream2's async-fs benchmark by introducing mutable heap numbers, replacing immutable HeapNumber allocations for seed variables, yielding a 2.5x speedup and better real-world performance.
V8's Turbofan compiler is moving away from Sea of Nodes to a new CFG-based IR called Turboshaft, addressing complexity and improving maintainability.
Chrome's V8 now lets developers mark JavaScript files for eager compilation with a magic comment, reducing startup parse and compile times by up to 630ms on average.
V8 Chrome M137 introduces speculative call_indirect inlining and deoptimization for WebAssembly, boosting WasmGC performance by over 50% in microbenchmarks and 1-8% in large apps.
V8 optimized JSON.stringify with a side-effect-free fast path, iterative serialization, and templatized string handling, resulting in over 2x speed improvement for common data objects.
V8 optimized mutable heap numbers to fix a performance cliff in JetStream2's async-fs benchmark, achieving a 2.5x speedup by reducing HeapNumber allocations during Math.random calls.
V8's shift from Sea of Nodes to Turboshaft: 7 reasons including technical debt, assembly code, control flow, try-catch, performance cliffs, deoptimization loops, and maintainability.
Learn 10 key insights about V8's Explicit Compile Hints feature, which lets developers control eager compilation to speed up JavaScript startup by up to 630ms.
V8's new speculative optimizations for WebAssembly, including call_indirect inlining and deoptimization, boost performance up to 50% on WasmGC programs.
V8's JSON.stringify is now more than twice as fast thanks to five key optimizations: a side-effect-free fast path, iterative architecture, templatized string handling, intelligent fallbacks, and real-world performance gains.