Operating Systems

Rockstar trolls everyone with a new trailer, but it's not GTA 6 — you probably wouldn't guess in a thousand years what it was for
Someone at Rockstar Games is enjoying making us suffer, and posting a trailer that ISN'T GTA 6 is living proof.
2025-03-07 10:26
GCC 15 Now Enables AArch64 Early Scheduling For -O3/-Ofast Modes
The GCC "-fschedule-insns" option allows for reordering of instructions to eliminate execution stalls when required data is unavailable. This early scheduling option can be beneficial for systems with slow floating point performance or costly memory lo...
2025-03-07 10:13
Would you pay $20,000/month for OpenAI’s specialized AI agents with "PhD-level" intelligence? "I will wait for DeepSeek to distill it and give it to me for free"
OpenAI is in discussions to raise the cost of its advanced AI models, charging up to $20,000/month for an AI agent that can support “PhD-level research.”
2025-03-07 09:42
$20,000/month for OpenAI’s specialized AI agents with "PhD-level" intelligence? "I will wait for DeepSeek to distill it and give it to me for free"
OpenAI is in discussions to raise the cost of its advanced AI models, charging up to $20,000/month for an AI agent that can support “PhD-level research.”
2025-03-07 09:42
Google might have deleted uBlock Origin from the Web Store, leaving 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads — but turning it off and on again will give you an extra buffer...for now
Google Chrome might have removed uBlock Origin from its Web Store, but you can keep using it (at least for now) by turning it on again.
2025-03-07 09:33
Microsoft adds ability to edit display names in Teams meetings for Preview users
Participants of Microsoft Teams meetings can now change their display name for the duration of the call thanks to a new preview feature. Read more...
2025-03-07 09:28
Apple Music enlists the King as a special radio DJ
Apple Music has partnered with His Majesty for The King’s Music Room, a special radio playlist set to celebrate this year’s Commonwealth’s Day. During the show, King Charles will share personal anecdotes amidst his curated playlist of songs rangi...
2025-03-07 09:17
Unofficial ROCm SDK Builder Expanded To Support More GPUs
The community-based ROCm SDK Builder is an unofficial project leveraging the open-source AMD ROCm code and making it easy to build machine learning and GPU compute software across a range of environments and helping ensure proper integration with other...
2025-03-07 08:40
Ubuntu 24.04 Update Fixes Several Touchscreen Quirks
An update to the Mutter display manager is primed to begin rolling out to users of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS — with much-needed touchscreen fixes in tow. I don’t know how many of you use Ubuntu desktop on a touch-enabled device—not many, I’d wager. I do...
2025-03-07 08:13
How to install MediaWiki on Fedora, Centos, and RHEL servers.
Introduction Ready to run your own Wikipedia-style knowledge repository on Fedora, Centos or RHEL? Hold on tight! We are about to walk you through the steps for installing MediaWiki on the most innovative Linux distro out there. Whether you are a Linux...
2025-03-07 08:00
Microsoft invests in South Africa to boost infrastructure footprint and boost education 
Microsoft has announced a big investment in South Africa to boost the country's AI infrastructure and skill up the country's workforce. Read more...
2025-03-07 07:58
Google Meet improves AI backgrounds with new preset styles
Google Meet's AI-powered background image generator is being upgraded to improve quality and visual appeal. Read more...
2025-03-07 06:56
Intel Xe Driver Introducing SVM, EU Stall Sampling & Other New Features For Linux 6.15
Intel engineers today sent out their final drm-xe-next feature pull request to DRM-Next of the remaining features they are ready to land for the modern Intel Xe kernel graphics driver with the upcoming Linux 6.15 cycle. It's a big one...
2025-03-07 06:55
1Password now lets you add location to your passwords
1Passwords has rolled out a new feature that makes it faster to get your stored passwords when you need them. Read more...
2025-03-07 06:40
New Round Of Driver Optimizations For AMD RadeonSI In Mesa 25.1
Well known AMD Mesa driver developer Marek Olšák has been at it again working on some further performance optimizations to the open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code...
2025-03-07 06:30
Microsoft updates support page with alternatives to the soon-to-be-retired Publisher
Microsoft has updated its support article to reiterate that Publisher is going away next year and has provided alternatives for common Publisher tasks. Read more...
2025-03-07 06:26
Mesa Lands A Shader Statistics Framework For More Unification Across Drivers
The latest bit of increased driver code unification and decreasing code duplication among Mesa's OpenGL and Vulkan drivers is finally introducing a common shader statistic framework...
2025-03-07 06:19
Intel VSEC Driver Preps For Diamond Rapids In Linux 6.14
Sent out today was a batch of platform-drivers-x86 fixes for the ongoing Linux 6.14 kernel cycle. Notable among these fixes is introducing Intel Xeon "Diamond Rapids" support to the Intel VSEC driver...
2025-03-07 06:14
M3 Ultra on par with M4 Max in CPU performance based on benchmark test
Apple this week announced a new generation of Mac Studio, and surprisingly it is available with two different chip families: M3 Ultra and M4 Max. While the company claims that the M3 Ultra is up to twice as fast as the M4 Max in some workloads, benchma...
2025-03-07 05:23
Microsoft Copilot users get free, unlimited access to o3-mini-high model
Microsoft has upgraded its Copilot "Think Deeper" feature to use OpenAI's o3-mini-high model, providing all users with access to advanced reasoning capabilities. Read more...
2025-03-07 03:26