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Microsoft has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN) with the intentions of protecting Linux and open-source software from patent assertions waged by "patent trolls." They are bringing 60,000 issued patents to the organization and hope that their joining will attract others to the...

Mojang has open-sourced parts of the Minecraft code to allow others to optimize or use the code to create their own projects. Mojang has chosen the command engine that the game uses called Brigadier and a converter that takes older game data and converts it into newer up-to-date data that the...

Theo de Raadt, an OpenBSD co-founder has officially announced that the open-source operating system will not utilize Hyper-threading for Intel processors. He complains that Intel isn't telling them about upcoming discovered threats and the steps that an OS developer needs to take to mitigate...

Several months back AMD announced their V-EZ initiative. V-EZ is a cross-platform wrapper that makes it easier for developers to bridge the gap between standard graphics APIs and Vulkan. AMD says this tool isn't hardware specific and should work on non-AMD hardware. Further, in order to get this...

Vulkan has been out for nearly 2 years now and Linux users have been patiently (maybe not so patiently) waiting for open-source drivers. According to Phoronix, AMD is going to release those drivers in the next few days. These drivers are being released under the GPUOpen initiative and will be...