Ubuntu Users Get Easier Access to Cutting-Edge Intel Drivers
Canonical and Intel have announced they’re making it easier for Ubuntu users to get cutting-edge drivers for Intel’s newest discrete GPUs. The effort brings “ray tracing and improved machine learning performance” for Intel Arc B580 and B570 “...
New Package Management Tool Debuts
YQPkg, a promising new package management tool for openSUSE, is preparing to make waves in the Linux community. Designed as a standalone GUI, the software package offers a lightweight, intuitive alternative to traditional tools like YaST for users of o...
New MacBook Air OLED timeline reveals two unfortunate drawbacks
Last week we received word that the MacBook Pro would be getting OLED and lose its notch starting in 2026. That same report also detailed the OLED timeline for Apple’s other products, and it doesn’t look great for the MacBook Air in two key ways. m...
Intel admits it no longer controls the direction of x86
Remember x86S, Intel’s initiative to create a 64bit-only x86 instruction set, with the goal of removing some of the bloat that the venerable architecture accumulated over the decades? Well, this initiative is now dead, and more or less replaced with ...
