GNOME Triple Buffering Now Works With Direct Scanout & VRR
It's still not looking like triple buffering will land for GNOME 48 with the feature freeze set for next weekend. But that Mutter dynamic triple buffering support has been improved upon and now at least is working for direct scan-out situations as well...
2025-01-27 08:50
Veteran PM Kim Vorrath reportedly joins Apple’s new AI division to whip “AI and Siri into shape” — amid claims Apple Intelligence is 2 years behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot
Can Apple catch up in AI? A recent leak details how the firm is moving veteran staff around to try and help Siri catch up to ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot.
2025-01-27 08:27
Crucial 4TB X10 Pro external portable SSD selling for the lowest price
Get the Crucial X10 Pro SSD which is down to its lowest price in over six months. The discount applies to the 4TB variant so you'll have plenty of room. Read more...
2025-01-27 07:26
Laptop Improvements & More AMD Driver Features Merged For Linux 6.14
The x86 platform driver updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window. As usual the x86 platform driver updates are predominantly to benefit the many different Intel/AMD laptops out there with various OEM vendor features/functionalit...
2025-01-27 06:58
NAMD Molecular Dynamics Performance Improves Well With NVIDIA Blackwell / RTX 5090
With now having a Linux driver for running GPU compute workloads on the GeForce RTX 5090 (as mentioned, Linux gaming benchmarks will come following the formal R570 Linux driver release in the coming days that is better optimized for gaming), I ran some...
2025-01-27 06:46
Reduced SquashFS Memory Use With The Linux 6.14 Kernel, More NILFS2 Fixes
In addition to all of the exciting "MM" changes for Linux 6.14 that were submitted by Andrew Morton's pull request, he also sent out the set of "non-MM" updates for the Linux 6.14 merge window...
2025-01-27 06:32
Desktop Motherboards Continue Playing Catch-Up For Linux Monitoring Support
The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel. As happens with most kernel releases, there are a number of already-launched desktop motherboards beginning to see working sensor monitoring support under Lin...
2025-01-27 06:20
Perplexity AI proposes a bid that would give the US government 50% ownership of TikTok
PerplexityAI, owned by Indian-origin Aravind Srinivas, has proposed a new plan to give the US government a stake worth $300 billion in TikTok. Read more...
2025-01-27 06:04
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 26th, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for January 26th, 2025, brings news about Wine 10, GNOME 48 alpha, Solus 4.7, Shotcut 25.01, VirtualBox 7.1.6, GNU Linux-libre 6.13 kernel, fwupd 2.0.4, Archinstall 3.0.2, GNOME 47.3, as well as all the latest distro and so...
2025-01-27 02:07
PSA: If you buy a new iPhone in the US, you won’t be able to install TikTok on it
Despite the fact that you can still use the service, TikTok is still very much so banned in the United States. President Trump promised to not fine TikTok and its service providers for continuing to run the services, but that’s just a promise. He als...
2025-01-26 23:46
PSA: If you buy a new iPhone in the US, you can’t use TikTok on it
Despite the fact that you can still use the service, TikTok is still very much so banned in the United States. President Trump promised to not fine TikTok and its service providers for continuing to run the services, but that’s just a promise. He als...
2025-01-26 23:46
SanDisk 1TB microSD memory card is now avialable for half the price
If you want to save on storage upgrades for your phone, tablet, or PC, check out SanDisks's 1TB Ultra microSD card, which is now just half its price. Read more...
2025-01-26 22:16
Microsoft Announces Open-Source DocumentDB NoSQL Database
In a blog post dated for this past Thursday but only being made public on Sunday night, Microsoft issued an announcement open-sourcing their new NoSQL database... Where it gets weirder is that it's named DocumentDB. Amazon also has a database offering ...
2025-01-26 20:41
Linux 6.14 To Switch From SHA1 To SHA512 For Module Signing By Default
While many Linux distribution vendor kernels are already using SHA-512 for signing modules by default rather than the default SHA-1, the upstream Linux 6.14 kernel is also now switching the default over to using SHA-512 for better security...
2025-01-26 20:27
iOS 18.4 is reportedly releasing in April, here are some rumored features
According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is planning on releasing iOS 18.4 in April. Apple hasn’t started the beta cycle for iOS 18.4 quite yet, but there are a handful of things we can likely expect with iOS 18.4 so far. more…
2025-01-26 20:23
Fujifilm to double spending on chip materials as U.S., Japan and South Korea up chip production
Fujifilm, one of a few makers of EUV photoresists, will expand capacities in the U.S., Japan, and South Korea as Intel, TSMC, Samsung, and SK hynix ramp up production.
2025-01-26 18:10
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2025-01-26 18:00
Simplifying Camera Control on iPhone 16 for faster shooting and fewer mistakes
I absolutely love the new Camera Control button on iPhone 16, but the default settings aren’t for me. By default, I find it too slow to activate and too accident prone when taking photos. Fortunately, Apple gives you fairly granular control over Came...
2025-01-26 17:04
Modder creates the Steam Brick — a stripped-down Steam Deck with only a power button and a USB
Someone has stripped down one of the popular Steam Deck handhelds into a minimal form factor and dubbed the result the Steam Brick.
2025-01-26 17:03
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TikTok might not return to app stores anytime soon
While TikTok could temporarily restore its operations in the US, the ByteDance-owned app might not return to Google and Apple app stores anytime soon. Read more...
2025-01-26 17:02