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Canonical Says Qualcomm Has Joined Ubuntu’s ‘Silicon Partner’ Program

Intel, Nvidia, AMD, and Arm are among Canonical’s “silicon partners,” a program that “ensures maximum Ubuntu compatibility and long-term support with certified hardware,” according to Web Pro News. And now Qualcomm is set to be Canonical’s next silicon partner, “giving Qualcomm access to optimized versions of Ubuntu for its processors.” Companies looking to use Ubuntu

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Danish Vintage LRC Meter Reveals Inside

Modern test equipment is great, but there’s something about a big meter with a swinging needle and a mirror for parallax correction that makes a device look like real gear. [Thomas] shows us a Danish LCR meter (or, as it says on the front, an RLC meter). The device passes AC through the component and

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Is PHP Declining In Popularity?

The PHP programming language has sunk to its lowest position ever on the long-running TIOBE index of programming language popularity. It now ranks #17 — lower than Assembly Language, Ruby, Swift, Scratch, and MATLAB. InfoWorld reports: When the Tiobe index started in 2001, PHP was about to become the standard language for building websites, said

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APT Interface ‘Revamped’ For Ubuntu 24.10 and Debian Trixie with Colors and Columns

Ubuntu 24.10 [expected this October] and Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” [expected June-July 2025] “will feature a refined APT command-line interface,” reports 9to5Linux: APT developer and Canonical engineer Julian Andres Klode took to LinkedIn to present the revamped APT interface powered by the upcoming APT 3.0 package manager that looks to give users a more concise

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The BBC Micro, Lovingly Simulated in VR

The BBC Micro was many peoples’ first exposure to home computing, and thanks to [Dominic Pajak], you can fire up this beloved hardware in WebXR. Is it an emulator? Yes, but it’s also much more than that. The machine, the CRT, the keycaps, and even the sounds of the original keypresses are all brought to

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Exclusive: Google Pixel 9 series to get emergency satellite connectivity, new modem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdwN-WKDVec Most people don’t consider the modem when considering buying a new phone, and why should they? Unfortunately, it’s something a lot of Pixel users are increasingly having to learn about. In recent years, connectivity issues have become one of the largest issues with the series. Thankfully, the situation has improved over the generations, and

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Fusion Experiment Demonstrates Cheaper Stellerator Using Creative Magnet Workaround

Popular Science reports that early last week, researchers at the U.S. Energy Department’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory revealed their new “MUSE” stellarator — “a unique fusion reactor that uses off-the-shelf and 3D-printed materials to contain its superheated plasma.” The researchers’ announcement says the technique suggests “a simple way to build future devices for less cost

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