Operating Systems

PlayStation's Wolverine creative director moves over to Xbox's Perfect Dark
Following a leadership shakeup, the creative director behind Insomniac's Wolverine game is now with The Initiative, working on the upcoming Perfect Dark reboot. Read more...
2024-10-31 09:44
Watch: Hands-on with M4 MacBook Pro, iMac and the new Mac mini
YouTuber Brian Tong brings us a nice video of Apple’s Los Angeles hands-on showroom event on Wednesday, which let creators get their first hands on with the new M4-powered Mac product lineup. You can see size comparisons with the next to the old Mac ...
2024-10-31 09:21
Fedora Stakeholders Debate Idea Of "-O3" Optimized Packages
Following the announcement yesterday that Ubuntu 25.04 will default to the -O3 optimization level with GCC for its Debian package builds, Fedora stakeholders have begun debating the merits of switching to the -O3 optimization level or not instead of th...
2024-10-31 09:00
Microsoft Edge Dev 132 is out with profile improvements and fixes for various crashes
This week's Microsoft Edge Dev update is now available with profile improvements, fixes for various crashes, and more. Read more...
2024-10-31 08:50
TECH_BARGAINS 10/31: AMD Ryzen 9950X/9900X 16 and 12-core CPUs and more
In today's TECH_BARGAINS, we cover some of the best deals of the day, including AMD's Ryzen 9000 series desktop CPUs and many more. Read more...
2024-10-31 08:20
Getting hands-on with AI in automotive
From cloud to edge, hardware-agnostic AI/ML In January Canonical will reconfirm its presence at CES 2025; here we will be showing a cutting-edge AI/ML demo that showcases how AI models can be trained, deployed, and updated seamlessly across various har...
2024-10-31 08:12
"A very discourteous fellow." Intel's CEO made comments that blew a huge discount deal on TSMC chips, wiping the firm's profit margins according to this damning report.
Reuters is reporting that comments made by Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger blew up a long standing deal with chip manufacturer TSMC, obliterating Intel's margins in the process.
2024-10-31 08:09
How to rebase to Fedora Linux 41 on Silverblue
Fedora Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such as being able to roll back in case of any problems. If y...
2024-10-31 08:00
Visual Studio Code 1.95 generates Python Docstring templates and more
Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.95. It brings plenty of updates related to Copilot, multiple GitHub accounts support, and gives the ability to generate Python Docstring templates. Read more...
2024-10-31 07:56
After an alarm clock, Nintendo has launched a Music app for Android and iOS
Nintendo has launched a Music app for Android and iOS that will let users enjoy a nearly 40-year vault of video game music. Read more...
2024-10-31 07:40
Linus Torvalds Lands A 2.6% Performance Improvement With Minor Linux Kernel Patch
Linus Torvalds merged a patch on Wednesday that he authored that with reworking a few lines of code is able to score a 2.6% improvement within Intel's well-exercise "will it scale" per-thread-ops benchmark test case...
2024-10-31 07:10
Apple brings Vision Pro headset to two more countries
After launching in the US in February, Apple has launched its mixed reality Vision Pro headset in two more countries. Read more...
2024-10-31 07:06
Upcoming changes to the App Store Receipt Signing Intermediate Certificate
As part of ongoing efforts to improve security and privacy on Apple platforms, the App Store receipt signing intermediate certificate is being updated to use the SHA-256 cryptographic algorithm. This certificate is used to sign App Store receipts, wh...
AMX-FP8 Support Upstreamed Into LLVM For Intel Diamond Rapids
Intel compiler engineer Feng Zou has upstreamed AMX-FP8 support into the LLVM compiler stack. This FP8 extension to the Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) is coming with next-gen Diamond Rapids processors alongside other new ISA extensions...
2024-10-31 06:43
SUSE's Agama Installer Adds QR Code To The Console & Other Improvements
SUSE's Agama OS installer 10 was recently released as the newest feature iteration for this next-gen OS installer for SUSE/openSUSE...
2024-10-31 06:33
SVT-AV1 2.3 Brings More Performance Improvements: AVX-512 & LTO By Default, More Tuning
SVT-AV1 2.3 is now available as the newest feature release to this leading open-source AV1 encoder. With SVT-AV1 2.3 there are yet more performance improvements...
2024-10-31 06:20
Check out all the new features in Samsung's One UI 7 update
The Samsung One UI 7 update is expected to bring a Homework Help feature that will help users solve math and physics problems. Read more...
2024-10-31 06:18
AMDVLK 2024.Q4.1 Adds A Few More Vulkan Extensions
One month has passed since the AMDVLK 2024.Q3.3 driver release while today has brought the AMDVLK 2024.Q4.1 release with a few new Vulkan API extensions...
2024-10-31 06:03
Latest Xbox system update OS version 10.0.26100.2499 enables Natural Language Search
Microsoft has released OS version 10.0.26100.2499 for Xbox systems enabling a cool new feature called Natural Language Search, improving game discoverability. Read more...
2024-10-31 03:00
Apple announces Vision Pro international expansion in two more countries
Following an exclusive launch in the US in February, Apple began the international expansion of Vision Pro in June. Now the company is ready to bring Apple Vision Pro to even more countries, as the company has just announced another expansion for next ...
2024-10-31 02:14