iOS 18 dark icons: why do some app icons not change color?
With iOS 18, Apple lets you customize the app icons on your iPhone and iPad. You can choose between light mode, dark mode, or tinted style appearance for your icons. However, when you choose dark mode icons, you may notice that not all of your icons ch...
Chrome on the Mac uses less battery than Safari
It’s one of the most pervasive common wisdoms shared all over the web, no matter where you go – it’s one of those things everybody seems to universally agree on: Chrome will absolutely devastate your battery life on the Mac, and you s...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: September 15th, 2024
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for September 15th, 2024, brings news about Linux 6.11, VirtualBox 7.1, Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS, Ardour 8.7, Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9, Juno Tab 3 Linux tablet, KDE Plasma 6.2 beta, new Linux laptop, as well as all the latest dist...
9 hacks for a better nightly build
In the beginning, there was no need to build anything. We manipulated the toggle switches on the front panel of a mainframe, and the code either ran or it didn’t. Creating software was very straightforward. Maybe not easy, but certainly uncomplicate...
When your cloud strategy is ‘it depends’
This past week I spent time with some IT executives at a Fortune 500 company. Despite years of big spending on AWS, the company made a commitment years ago to switch to Microsoft Azure. Today they’re still on AWS… and Azure… and private data cen...
AmpereOne Performance With GCC vs. LLVM Clang Compilers
While having the Supermicro ARS-211M-NR R13SPD server in the lab for AmpereOne benchmarking with the flagship AmpereOne A192-32X processor, I took the opportunity to run some fresh GCC vs. LLVM Clang compiler performance benchmarks on AArch64. Here are...
3 common misconceptions around biometrics and authentication
Scared of flying but don’t think twice about a lengthy road trip? Consider this: NOVA reports that your odds of a fatal car crash are 1 in 5000, but the chance of perishing in a plane is just 1 in 11 million. Despite air travel being 2,200 times saf...
Inviting testers for Git forge usecases
Following @t0xic0der and @humaton’s talk on the Git forge ARC (Advance Reconaissance Crew) investigation during Fedora Linux Release Party 40 and more recently, @humaton’s talk on the topic during Flock To Fedora 2024 – we have opened up our ...
