Operating Systems

STF Opens Up Maintainer Fellowship Application Process
Last month Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund announced they would be opening a fellowship program for open-source maintainers. The Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) has been providing great investments into open-source projects while this fellowship is around inve...
2024-09-12 07:00
Redis 8.0 Community Edition M1 Released With New Data Structures
For those continuing to make use of the open-source Redis in-memory, key-value database rather than some of the new open-source forks such as Valkey, the first milestone release of Redis 8.0 Community Edition is now available for testing...
2024-09-12 06:52
Mesa PanVK Vulkan Driver Sees Initial Support For Arm Mali 2nd Gen Valhall GPUs
Merged yesterday into the code for Mesa 24.3 is initial support within the PanVK Vulkan driver for Arm Mali v10 graphics hardware. The v10 architecture is for second-gen Valhall GPUs and goes along with the ongoing Linux kernel driver work for the Pant...
2024-09-12 06:45
960GB Kingston A400 SATA Internal SSD is still selling at a great price on Amazon
Amazon US is currently offering the 960GB Kingston A400 SATA 3 Internal SSD at its lowest price in over 9 months, so grab one for yourself while stocks last. Read more...
2024-09-12 06:42
Wine Making Improvements To Its GitLab, Eyes Contributor Covenant For CoC
Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard has recently been devoting some time to enhancing their GitLab deployment with new features and also in welcoming the Mono project to their GitLab instance. In case you missed it, Microsoft recently shifted stewar...
2024-09-12 06:34
WhatsApp may soon let you quickly add someone to a list
WhatsApp Android Beta is spotted developing a feature that will let you add people and group chats to lists easily and quickly, saving you time. Read more...
2024-09-12 06:24
YouTube on TVs reportedly showing ads even when pausing videos to more users
Get ready to be bombarded with ads, as more users watching YouTube on smart TVs are seeing ads even when they pause a video. Read more...
2024-09-12 05:34
T-Mobile and Starlink successfully tested wireless emergency alert (WEA) via satellite
Thanks to Starlink's satellites, T-Mobile users will soon receive emergency alerts on their phones even without cell service. Read more...
2024-09-12 05:08
All iPhone 16 models support up to 45W of USB-C fast charging
According to a new certification from the China Quality Certification Centre, a regulatory body in China, all iPhone 16 models support up to 45W of wired fast charging through the USB-C port. more…
2024-09-12 03:06
iPhone 16 Pro offers significantly faster 5G speeds thanks to new modem
The iPhone 16 Pro features an upgraded modem inside courtesy of Qualcomm, bringing several notable improvements. As detailed by SpeedSmart, the new iPhone 16 Pro offers an up to 26% faster boost in 5G download speeds thanks to its new Qualcomm Snapdrag...
2024-09-11 23:11
iPhone 16 has the same new privacy feature as the M4 iPad Pro
When Apple introduced the earlier this year, the company quietly added a new privacy feature to it, which is called “Secure Exclave.” Now the company is bringing the same new privacy technology to the iPhone 16 models, which are powered by the A18 ...
2024-09-11 22:56
Steam Families is out of beta testing, letting a household share PC games with ease
Valve's Steam Families feature is now out of beta testing, letting everyone try the new method for sharing games.
2024-09-11 22:56
AirPods 4 tidbits: Secret capacitive button, Vision Pro lossless
Historically, AirPods cases have always had a physical button on the back to initiate pairing with your iPhone. With the announced this week, however, Apple is switching things up. Instead of a physical pairing button, the AirPods 4 case has a hidden c...
2024-09-11 22:24
iOS 18.1 beta with Apple Intelligence now available for iPhone 16 models
Apple this week announced the new iPhone 16, and the new phones will come with iOS 18 installed. The update is also coming to previous iPhone models next week, but this first release doesn’t include Apple Intelligence features. For that, Apple is run...
2024-09-11 22:01
Gentoo Linux Touts Better MIPS & Alpha Platform Support
While Gentoo Linux recently ended their support for Itanium (IA-64) hardware, this popular source-based Linux distribution continues to support other aging platforms... Today they sent out an announcement highlighting their improved support for MIPS an...
2024-09-11 20:55
What's the best app in the Microsoft Store? Microsoft wants to know!
Microsoft has opened nominations for the 2024 Microsoft Store App Awards. Developers with winning apps will win a limited edition Surface Pro and access to "cutting-edge technology" from Microsoft.
2024-09-11 20:07
The iPhone 16 event surprises that left me frustrated
An Apple event is always full of potential. Even though rumors and leaks tend to leave very little ‘new’ remaining for event day, Apple still tends to offer some surprises. Maybe a new feature that no one knew about. Or a unique angle that a rumor ...
2024-09-11 19:50
Parallels 20 for Mac Released with Ubuntu 24.04 VM Support
Parallels Desktop 20 has been released for macOS. The virtualisation software introduces a number of buffs for Linux VMs running on macOS. The headline change in Parallels Desktop 20 is support for macOS Sequoia, both as host OS and as a guest — impo...
2024-09-11 19:44
Apple says new iPhone 16 design makes battery replacements easier
The iPhone 16 features a new internal design that comes with a big benefit to repairability. Apple says the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus have been “reengineered” to make battery service easier and offer improved performance and thermals. more…
2024-09-11 19:44
Faster USB 3 remains exclusive to Pro models in the iPhone 16 lineup
Apple last year finally ditched its proprietary Lightning connector in favor of the more modern and universal USB-C. However, only the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max benefited from the faster USB 3, while the non-Pro models still have USB 2 speeds. Unfor...
2024-09-11 19:30