Linux Mint Takes To Forking Some APT Components
The Linux Mint project has at times forked various open-source projects to evolve them on their own such as the Cinnamon desktop starting out as forks of several GNOME 3 components. While their software forks and focus has mostly been at the desktop-le...
2024-09-12 07:30
STF Opens Up Maintainer Fellowship Application Process
Last month Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund announced they would be opening a fellowship program for open-source maintainers. The Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) has been providing great investments into open-source projects while this fellowship is around inve...
2024-09-12 07:00
Redis 8.0 Community Edition M1 Released With New Data Structures
For those continuing to make use of the open-source Redis in-memory, key-value database rather than some of the new open-source forks such as Valkey, the first milestone release of Redis 8.0 Community Edition is now available for testing...
2024-09-12 06:52
Mesa PanVK Vulkan Driver Sees Initial Support For Arm Mali 2nd Gen Valhall GPUs
Merged yesterday into the code for Mesa 24.3 is initial support within the PanVK Vulkan driver for Arm Mali v10 graphics hardware. The v10 architecture is for second-gen Valhall GPUs and goes along with the ongoing Linux kernel driver work for the Pant...
2024-09-12 06:45
960GB Kingston A400 SATA Internal SSD is still selling at a great price on Amazon
Amazon US is currently offering the 960GB Kingston A400 SATA 3 Internal SSD at its lowest price in over 9 months, so grab one for yourself while stocks last. Read more...
2024-09-12 06:42
Wine Making Improvements To Its GitLab, Eyes Contributor Covenant For CoC
Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard has recently been devoting some time to enhancing their GitLab deployment with new features and also in welcoming the Mono project to their GitLab instance. In case you missed it, Microsoft recently shifted stewar...
2024-09-12 06:34
WhatsApp may soon let you quickly add someone to a list
WhatsApp Android Beta is spotted developing a feature that will let you add people and group chats to lists easily and quickly, saving you time. Read more...
2024-09-12 06:24
YouTube on TVs reportedly showing ads even when pausing videos to more users
Get ready to be bombarded with ads, as more users watching YouTube on smart TVs are seeing ads even when they pause a video. Read more...
2024-09-12 05:34
T-Mobile and Starlink successfully tested wireless emergency alert (WEA) via satellite
Thanks to Starlink's satellites, T-Mobile users will soon receive emergency alerts on their phones even without cell service. Read more...
2024-09-12 05:08
All iPhone 16 models support up to 45W of USB-C fast charging
According to a new certification from the China Quality Certification Centre, a regulatory body in China, all iPhone 16 models support up to 45W of wired fast charging through the USB-C port. more…
2024-09-12 03:06
iPhone 16 Pro offers significantly faster 5G speeds thanks to new modem
The iPhone 16 Pro features an upgraded modem inside courtesy of Qualcomm, bringing several notable improvements. As detailed by SpeedSmart, the new iPhone 16 Pro offers an up to 26% faster boost in 5G download speeds thanks to its new Qualcomm Snapdrag...
2024-09-11 23:11
iPhone 16 has the same new privacy feature as the M4 iPad Pro
When Apple introduced the earlier this year, the company quietly added a new privacy feature to it, which is called “Secure Exclave.” Now the company is bringing the same new privacy technology to the iPhone 16 models, which are powered by the A18 ...
2024-09-11 22:56
Steam Families is out of beta testing, letting a household share PC games with ease
Valve's Steam Families feature is now out of beta testing, letting everyone try the new method for sharing games.
2024-09-11 22:56
Android applications can now block being sideloaded
It seems Google is hell-bent on removing anything from Android that makes the platform stand apart from iOS. One of the features of Android and the Play Store that users of rooted and/or de-Googled phones will be familiar with is SafetyNet Attestation,...
2024-09-11 22:43
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AirPods 4 tidbits: Secret capacitive button, Vision Pro lossless
Historically, AirPods cases have always had a physical button on the back to initiate pairing with your iPhone. With the announced this week, however, Apple is switching things up. Instead of a physical pairing button, the AirPods 4 case has a hidden c...
2024-09-11 22:24
iOS 18.1 beta with Apple Intelligence now available for iPhone 16 models
Apple this week announced the new iPhone 16, and the new phones will come with iOS 18 installed. The update is also coming to previous iPhone models next week, but this first release doesn’t include Apple Intelligence features. For that, Apple is run...
2024-09-11 22:01
‘Holy smokes, I just released a MiniGolf game for Palm OS in 2024’
This summer, I embarked on a side project to create a brand-new Palm OS game, and after less than two months of intermittent coding, I’m excited to announce that it’s ready to be released to the public! ↫ Captain’s Quarters The game...
2024-09-11 22:01
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