Microsoft on Tuesday released .NET 5.0 as their latest work on unifying their .NET stack and continuing along with support for Linux and other non-Windows platforms.

" .NET 5.0 is the first release in our .NET unification journey. We built .NET 5.0 to enable a much larger group of developers to migrate their .NET Framework code and apps to .NET 5.0. We’ve also done much of the early work in 5.0 so that Xamarin developers can

Last week Valve added Sony PlayStation 5 controller support to SDL2 while today there is launch-day support for the Xbox Series X controller for this cross-platform abstraction layer popular with games.

Sam Lantinga of Valve who leads much of the Simple DirectMedia Library effort provided the Sony PlayStation 5 controller support. Today he committed to the Xbox Series X controller support.

Tweaking a few dozen lines of code with this commit in the HIDAPI SDL2 driver is enough to get the controller working for this latest Microsoft Xbox controller. The

As was widely expected for today's Apple event, the Cupertino company just announced their first three Macs powered by Apple Silicon .

Apple announced new MacBook Air, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro models featuring the M1 -- their first family of desktop/notebook-class chips designed by Apple and based on the ARM architecture.

The Apple M1 features an 8-core ARM CPU, a 16-core Neural Engine, and in-house integrated graphics. The Apple M1 is fabbed on a 5

As part of Intel's monthly security disclosures the company is today releasing forty new security advisories today.

With these 40 security advisories for November 2020 they are addressing 95 vulnerabilities. There are security advisories relating to the Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME) as well as the Intel Wireless Bluetooth support -- including a "critical" vulnerability that could lead to escalation of privileges via the LAN.

Also being disclosed today is "PLATYPUS" stemming from information leakage with the Intel Running Average Power Limit

Mesa 21.0 will allow running OpenCL and OpenGL on top of Gallium3D for any hardware on Windows 10 supporting Direct3D 12 acceleration.

The Microsoft-backed Direct3D 12 Gallium3D driver has been merged this morning into the recently open Mesa 21.0-devel feature window. This Gallium3D driver isn't about running Direct3D 12 on Linux but rather about running other graphics/compute APIs on top of Direct3D 12 with Windows

Just a year after the Compute Express Link 1.0 and 1.1 interconnect specifications were published, CXL 2.0 is being announced this morning for this high-speed, data center minded specification built atop the PCI Express interface.

Compute Express Link continues to be backed by the likes of Intel, AMD, Dell EMC, Google, HPE, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and other major players. With today's update to this open industry standard interconnect there is support for switching, memory pooling, a standardized fabric

For those on the Qt 5.12 LTS series the Qt 5.12.10 point release is out today with 30 new bug fixes. But for those looking ahead to Qt 6 also out today is Qt 6.0 Beta 4.

Qt 5.12.10 details can be found on Qt.io . Among the changes for this latest point release are various error fixes, a possible heap corruption scenario, an issue with GIFs not playing in some Qt applications, inconsistent XPM

After last week sharing some Intel Tiger Lake benchmarks on Linux 5.10 , the tables have turned and here are some similar tests when running Linux 5.10 on an AMD Ryzen 4000 series "Renoir" notebook.

Using a Lenovo IdeaPad with Ryzen 5 4500U with Ubuntu 20.10, I ran some benchmarks of Linux 5.9 stable against the Linux 5.10 development snapshot of the time.

Via the Phoronix Test Suite dozens of benchmarks were run