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LibreOffice 25.8 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, This Is What’s New
LibreOffice 25.8 open-source office suite is now available for download with numerous new features and improvements. Here's what's new! The post LibreOffice 25.8 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, This Is What’s New appeared first on 9to5...
2025-08-20 10:58
Microsoft explains every type of update Windows Insiders receive
If you are confused about the number of updates your PC receives, especially in the Insider program, Microsoft has a clear answer for you. Read more...
2025-08-20 10:56
Seven years later, people still haven’t changed how they use Siri
It’s proving a very long wait for the new Siri, but perhaps it doesn’t matter so much after all. A new survey shows that most people are using Siri and other voice assistants in exactly the same way they did way back in 2018. While some new capabil...
2025-08-20 10:54
Mesa 25.2.1 Released: Restores NVK On Kepler, Additional Intel Battlemage ID
Following the release of Mesa 25.2 from two weeks ago, Mesa 25.2.1 is out now as the first point release. Mesa 25.2.1 is quite heavy on bug fixes and some other notable back-ports from Mesa 25.3-devel...
2025-08-20 10:38
MoltenVK 1.4 Released For Bringing Vulkan 1.4 To macOS Atop Metal
MoltenVK 1.4 is available today for this Vulkan portability implementation that layers the Vulkan API atop Apple's Metal graphics drivers for allowing Vulkan games/apps to run across macOS, iOS, and tvOS devices...
2025-08-20 10:21
Asus' latest OLED gaming monitor can hit 720 Hz at HD resolution — dual refresh modes also allow 540 Hz at QHD
Asus has announced three high-speed OLED gaming monitors at Gamescom 2025.
2025-08-20 10:00
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Ubuntu 25.10 ARM64 Desktop ISO Aims For Better Hardware Experience With "Stubble"
With the Ubuntu 25.10 release in October they are aiming to have a better ARM64 experience with their generic desktop ISO thanks to a new improvement they have been working on called Stubble...
2025-08-20 09:51
DOJ Charges 22-Year-Old for Running RapperBot Botnet Behind 370,000 DDoS Attacks
A 22-year-old man from the U.S. state of Oregon has been charged with allegedly developing and overseeing a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)-for-hire botnet called RapperBot. Ethan Foltz of Eugene, Oregon, has been identified as the administrator o...
2025-08-20 09:49
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AWS blames bug for Kiro pricing glitch that drained developer limits
AWS has blamed a bug for all usage and pricing-related issues that developers have been facing on Kiro, its new agentic AI-driven integrated development environment (IDE), since it introduced a revised pricing structure last week. “As we have dug in...
2025-08-20 09:42
95% of generative AI implementations in enterprise 'have no measurable impact on P&L', says MIT — flawed integration cited as why AI projects underperform
A new study conducted by MIT purports to demonstrate that most generative AI implementations in business settings fail.
2025-08-20 09:34
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Meet the Eclipse SDV Committers: Michael Engel from Eclipse BlueChi
Meet the Eclipse SDV Committers: Michael Engel from Eclipse BlueChi With a passion for open source and a drive to shape the future of automotive software, Michael Engel, Project Lead of Eclipse BlueChi, has become an active leader in the open source co...
2025-08-20 09:28
What's next for Windows 11? — Microsoft readies big feature updates for next month and beyond
The company is preparing to drop its next big feature drop for Windows 11 users in the coming weeks, as detailed in the latest Release Preview drop. Plus, more to come as we head into fall.
2025-08-20 09:09
Microsoft preps major Windows 11 feature drop for September — here’s what’s inside
The company is preparing to drop its next big feature drop for Windows 11 users in the coming weeks, as detailed in the latest Release Preview drop. Plus, more to come as we head into fall.
2025-08-20 09:09
PyApp: An easy way to package Python apps as executables
Every developer knows how hard it is to redistribute a Python program as a self-contained, click-and-run package. There are third-party solutions, but they all have drawbacks. PyInstaller, the oldest and best-known tool for this job, is crotchety to w...
2025-08-20 09:00
Is the generative AI bubble about to burst?
One way to measure the scope of the generative AI boom is financially, and another is in terms of public awareness. Both are nearly unprecedented, even in the realm of high tech. Data center buildouts in support of AI expansion are expected to be in t...
2025-08-20 09:00
Your code is more strongly coupled than you think
In previous articles I introduced connascence—the idea that code coupling can be described and quantified—and discussed five kinds of static connascence. In this article, we’ll wrap up our tour of connascence with a discussion of the deeper kin...
2025-08-20 09:00
Microsoft’s August 2025 security updates are breaking recovery tools on Windows 10 and Windows 11 PCs
Microsoft admits its latest security updates break Windows recovery tools like "Reset this PC" and "Fix problems using Windows Update" on multiple Windows versions.
2025-08-20 09:00
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Asus ROG reveals jaw-dropping OLED monitor with a 720Hz refresh rate
Asus has unveiled three ROG monitors recently, going up from a "standard" 240Hz, all the way up to an eye-watering 720Hz. Read more...
2025-08-20 08:54
Firefox CRLite boosts security and privacy without compromise
Mozilla released Firefox 142 yesterday, bringing with it a new feature called CRLite. This is able to efficiently handle certificate revocations securely and privately, all offline. Read more...
2025-08-20 08:38