F# 9 adds nullable reference types
F# 9, the latest version of Microsoft’s open source functional language, has been released with support for nullable reference types and empty-bodied computation expressions. Standard library improvements also are featured, including random sampling...
DOJ will push Google to sell Chrome to break search monopoly
Speaking of Google, the United States Department of Justice is pushing for Google to sell off Chrome. Top Justice Department antitrust officials have decided to ask a judge to force Alphabet Inc.’s Google to sell off its Chrome browser in what would...
20 years of Firefox: How a community project changed the web
What was browsing the web like in 2004? People said things like “surfing the internet,” for starters. Excessive pop-up ads were annoying but they felt like the norm. The search bar and multiple tabs did not exist, and there seemed to be only one br...
Google is reportedly killing Chrome OS in favour of Android
Mishaal Rahman, who has a history of being right about Google and Android-related matters, is reporting that Google is intending to standardise its consumer operating system efforts onto a single platform: Android. To better compete with the iPad as we...
Akka distributed computing platform adds Java SDK
Akka, formerly known as Lightbend, has released Akka 3, an update to the JVM-based distributed computing platform that adds a Java SDK as well as serverless and “bring your own cloud” deployment options. Akka 3 and the company’s name change were...
You Can Now Download Daily Builds of Ubuntu 25.04
A sure-fire way to tell that development has moved up a gear: Ubuntu 25.04 daily builds are now available to download. Development formally got underway on Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ last month, with the final stable release of Ubuntu 25.04 arriv...
