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One piece of good news from the keynote is that the shiny new Camera Control button on the iPhone 16 will also be made available to developers of third-party camera apps. Apple has published its guidelines for developers, which give us some idea of wha...

New research shows generative AI consumes a lot of water — up to 1,408ml to generate 100 words of text — in addition to electricity.

EU has issued a warning to Apple, demanding greater iOS interoperability for third-party devices and app developers. Apple has six months to comply or face potential fines. Read more...

Oracle-backed Ampere is exploring potential sale, Bloomberg says.

I’m one of many eagerly awaiting delivery of my iPhone 16 tomorrow (Pro Max, in my case), and the Camera Control button is the first thing I’m going to try. If you’re in the same position, then an Apple support document provides an opportunity to...

Update: Apple shared this statement to 9to5Mac on today’s developments: “At Apple, we’re proud of the fact that we’ve built over 250,000 APIs that allow developers to build apps that access our operating system and functionalities in a way that...

We may still be waiting for iPhone 16 deliveries tomorrow, but the rumor mill is already busy looking ahead to both the iPhone 17 and iPhone 18. A tweet by supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims to shed light on Apple’s plans for the adoption of sm...

Windows 11 version 24H2 brings a new compression wizard, visual improvements for the context menu, changes for tabs, and some lesser changes, and in this guide, I'll show you everything you need to know.

The European Commission has taken the next step in forcing Apple to comply with the Digital Markets Act. The EC has started two so-called specification proceedings, in which they can more or less order Apple exactly what it needs to do to comply with t...

iOS 18 includes a new feature where you can choose to require Face ID to open an app, or go one step further and hide it from your device altogether. This second option removes the icon from the home screen, and places the app in a specially obscured H...

GitLab has released patches to address a critical flaw impacting Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) that could result in an authentication bypass. The vulnerability is rooted in the ruby-saml library (CVE-2024-45409, CVSS score: 10.0), ...

The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver updates have been submitted and already merged for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel...

Pocketpair, creators of Palworld, have today issued a statement in response to Nintendo filing a lawsuit for patent infringement. The statement states that Pocket Pair regrets the significant time they must allocate to this rather than developing the g...

The core perf subsystem updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel...

The Java platform includes a variety of language features and library types for dealing with exceptions, which are divergences from expected program behavior. In my previous article, you learned about Java’s basic exception handling capabilities. Th...

Microsoft’s journey to today’s Windows App SDK and Win UI as a unified framework for building .NET desktop applications hasn’t been smooth. Today’s platform brings modern tools and designs to familiar frameworks, but it’s hard to update olde...

The Java platform includes a variety of language features and library types for dealing with exceptions, which are divergences from expected program behavior. In my previous article, you learned about Java’s basic exception handling capabilities. Th...

Intel engineers today released OpenVINO 2024.4 as the newest version of their open-source AI toolkit. OpenVINO 2024.4 prepares for upcoming Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" processors, supports newer Gen AI models, now supports Python 3.12, and f...

Microsoft has released a big firmware update for the Surface Laptop 7. It contains multiple improvements and fixes. Read more...