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After China, Apple also removing VPN apps from App Store in India
The Chinese government forced Apple to remove VPN apps from the App Store there way back in 2017, and the company is now having to do the same in India. So far, a small number of VPN apps have been removed to comply with an anti-privacy law barring ano...
2025-01-03 11:57
Apple to Pay Siri Users $20 Per Device in Settlement Over Accidental Siri Privacy Violations
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a proposed class action lawsuit that accused the iPhone maker of invading users' privacy using its voice-activated Siri assistant. The development was first reported by Reuters. The settlement applies to U....
2025-01-03 11:13
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Google CEO wants to re-embrace "scrappy" tactics as ChatGPT becomes synonymous with AI, just as Google did with Search
Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently highlighted the company's 2025 plans centered on AI including building and shipping faster, though it might be "scrappy."
2025-01-03 10:53
Kingston NV3 1 TB PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe SSD: 6,000MB/s Read, 4,000MB/s Write, 3D NAND, now $59.99
Get the Kingston NV3 1 TB SSD on Amazon now for its lowest-ever price of just $59.99. At this price, you're saving 25%. Read more...
2025-01-03 10:36
Cloudflare Talks Up Multi-Path TCP But Dings Linux's Less Than Ideal Support
The folks at Cloudflare have published another great engineering blog post with this time covering Multi-Path TCP (MPTCP) as a very interesting addition to the TCP spec. But there they acknowledge the less than ideal Linux support especially on the cli...
2025-01-03 10:25
Intel releases new GPU driver with Core N-series support and fixes for B-series GPUs
Intel has a new graphics driver with support and optimizations for the refreshed Core Processor N-series chips and fixes for the B-series graphics cards. Read more...
2025-01-03 10:20
LibreOffice 25.2 RC1 Brings Many Open-Source Office Suite Improvements
LibreOffice 25.2 Release Candidate 1 is out for testing today ahead of the stable release of this free software office suite around the start of February...
2025-01-03 10:05
Write Python like it’s 2025
It’s a new year, and we feel fine! 2024 was a breakout year for our favorite programming language, and we have a feeling 2025 will be even bigger. For this first Python report of the year, we’re offering our lineup of the most helpful, newsworthy,...
2025-01-03 09:00
The cloud architecture renaissance of 2025
The perfect storm is coming that will force enterprises to rethink their cloud strategy. Cloud architecture will take center stage during 2025. This isn’t just another hype cycle. First, we need to talk about the elephant in the room: generative AI....
2025-01-03 09:00
systemd Saw A Record Number Of Commits In 2024
While systemd has been around for a decade and a half, it's showing no signs of slowing down for driving new innovations to Linux for this system and service manager...
2025-01-03 08:48
ESET recommends installing Linux if your unsupported Windows 11 PC can't update from 10
ESET has suggested that users who are unable to update to Windows 11 due to unsupported hardware can try switching to Linux. Read more...
2025-01-03 07:26
Canonical Experimented With Rebuilding Its Ubuntu 25.04 Packages Under LLVM/Clang
This morning the first test rebuild results of the "Plucky Puffin" for Ubuntu 25.04 were shared on the mailing list... While typically not interesting to outsiders, one interesting bit is that as a "bonus" they rebuilt the main components of Ubuntu 25....
2025-01-03 07:09
GNU C Library glibc 2.41 Release Coming Soon With Many New Features
The GNU C Library "glibc" 2.41 release should be out around the very end of January or start of February. With glibc 2.41 there are many new features coming to this widely-used libc implementation by Linux systems and elsewhere...
2025-01-03 06:41
Intel Battlemage, Raspberry Pi 500 & Linux 6.13 Excited Linux Users In December
While there was the year-end holidays, daily activity on Phoronix doesn't let up and over the course of December there were 256 original news articles around Linux/open-source on the site along with 24 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page bench...
2025-01-03 06:31
KDE Internet of Things "Kiot" Started To Provide Nice Home Assistant Integration
Longtime KDE developer David Edmundson has recently been cleaning up some scripts he's been using personally for a few years to enhance the integration between the KDE desktop and Home Assistant for open-source home automation. This work has evolved in...
2025-01-03 06:16
Samsung, Google take on Dolby Atmos with new 'Eclipsa Audio'
Samsung has integrated 'Eclipse Audio' 3D sound technology it developed in collaboration with Google to its 2025 TVs and soundbars. Read more...
2025-01-03 06:08
Meta replaces policy chief Nick Clegg with Joel Kaplan amid Trump's return to power
Before Trump takes the President's office, Meta replaced its police exec Nick Clegg with prominent Republican Joel Kaplan. Read more...
2025-01-03 05:52
Apple adds Watch Series 4 and 2019 15-inch MacBook Pro to the vintage products list
Apple wasted no time adding the Apple Watch Series 4, and the last 15-inch MacBook Pro released by Apple in 2019, to the vintage products list. Read more...
2025-01-03 04:34
Samsung launches Galaxy A16 5G and Galaxy Fit3 in the US
Samsung expands its Galaxy lineup in the US with the budget-friendly A16 5G smartphone and the Galaxy Fit3 fitness tracker. Read more...
2025-01-03 04:18