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The GCC compiler and the GNU toolchain ecosystem at large had a great year. From new language front-ends for the likes of Algol 68 and COBOL to maturing support for GCC Rust, new performance optimizations from GCC to Glibc, initial AMD Zen 6 "znver6" support merged for GCC 16, and much more. It's pretty safe to say GCC and the broader GNU ecosystem enjoyed a very successful 2025...
While the Godot Engine receives a lot of attention as a prominent open-source game engine, it's far from the only one in this space. Another open-source game engine capping out 2025 with a new release is the Crown Engine...
OpenCV 4.13 is out this New Year's Eve in providing the latest open-source computer vision (CV) capabilities. OpenCV 4.13 brings a wide variety of enhancements to this widely-used computer vision library...
Shotcut 25.12 video editor introduces full 10-bit CPU video processing, expanding high-quality editing beyond GPU effects with improved transitions and compositing.
Shotcut 25.12 open-source video editor is now available for download with support for the NVIDIA NVENC encoder for screen recording on Linux, as well as other changes. Here's what's new!
A new version of Shotcut video editor is out, rounding out what’s proven to be a bumper month for Linux video editing enthusiasts thanks to big updates to Flowblade, OpenShot and Kdenlive. The headline feature in Shotcut 25.12 is full 10-bit video support in the CPU pipeline. Until now, editing 10-bit clips in this MLT-based tool involved trade-offs: using GPU effects and filters, or opting for basic CPU filters that lack transitions or compositing. Now, you don’t need to. Most CPU filters, transitions, and other editing/blending options have been updated to to handle 10- and 12-bit sources, though a few remain […]
Daniel Stenberg has written a blog post about the decision to ban the use strcpy() in curl: The main challenge with strcpy is that when using it we do not specify the length of the target buffer nor of the source string. [...] To make sure that the size checks cannot be separated from the copy itself we introduced a string copy replacement function the other day that takes the target buffer, target size, source buffer and source string length as arguments and only if the copy can be made and the null terminator also fits there, the operation is done.
December happens to be a busy month for video editor releases in the open-source world. This month there's been the release of Flowblade 2.24, OpenShot 3.4, Kdenlive 25.12, and now there is Shotcut 25.12 before closing out the month and year...
A look back at the Linux and open-source moments of 2025 that influenced development and shaped the direction of the ecosystem.
GNU Wget 2.2.1 open-source program for retrieving content from web servers is now available for download with various improvements and fixes. Here's what's new!
While modern software centers prioritize simplicity, Synaptic stands out for its comprehensive control over package management.
If you're processing a group of files in a single command pipe, the xargs tool just might save you some precious execution time. ß
Every pen test begins with information gathering. Give yourself a head start with the Shodan search engine and its powerful toolkit.
Video codecs help reduce bandwidth and save storage space. We compare AVI and VVC to help you decide which one is right for you.
Linux users bristle at the whole idea of getting "tracked," but pixel tracking is built into the very foundation of the commercial web. We examine the dark art of pixel tracking and tell you about some tools that will keep the trackers at bay.
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