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Major Philips Hue launch turns bulbs into motion sensors, adds smart doorbell, more

We’ve known for some time that there was major news on the way from Philips Hue, and the company has now announced all of the details. One of the headline features is a new Bridge Pro which turns your existing smart bulbs into motion sensors. Bulbs a...

2025-09-04 11:20

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HP and Dell say half of today's PCs still run Windows 10 — Microsoft's cutoff nears, and Windows 11 upgrades may stretch into 2026

HP and Dell recently reported that up to 50% of PCs still run Windows 10, suggesting a shift to Windows 11 will be more gradual and likely extend into 2026.

2025-09-04 11:05

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HP and Dell predict shift to Windows 11 may extend into 2026 amid Windows 10 cutoff

HP and Dell recently reported that up to 50% of PCs still run Windows 10, suggesting a shift to Windows 11 will be more gradual and likely extend into 2026.

2025-09-04 11:05

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Half of today’s PCs still run Windows 10, say HP and Dell

HP and Dell recently reported that up to 50% of PCs still run Windows 10, suggesting a shift to Windows 11 will be more gradual and likely extend into 2026.

2025-09-04 11:05

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Linux 6.17 With EXT4 Showing Some Nice Performance Improvements

With the Linux 6.17 kernel there are some block allocation scalability improvements for EXT4 on top of other file-system enhancements with this new kernel and other new features. Linux 6.17 performance has been looking good and when drilling down to th...

2025-09-04 10:00

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HIP-RT Update For Blender 5.0 To Deliver Improved Ray-Tracing On RDNA4 GPUs

AMD engineers have submitted a HIP-RT update for Blender developers ahead of the big Blender 5.0 release to enhance the RDNA4 ray-tracing performance...

2025-09-04 09:38

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Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” released!

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara”. Linux Mint 22.2 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2029. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop...

2025-09-04 09:35

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How to upgrade to Linux Mint 22.2

It is now possible to upgrade Linux Mint 22 and 22.1 to version 22.2. If you’ve been waiting for this we’d like to thank you for your patience. 1. Create a system snapshot You can use Timeshift to make a system snapshot before the upgrade. If anyth...

2025-09-04 09:31

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NVIDIA Posts Initial Linux Patches For Extended GPU Memory "EGM" Virtualization

NVIDIA engineer Ankit Agrawal today posted a request for comments (RFC) patch series working on Linux virtualization support for Extended GPU Memory (EGM)...

2025-09-04 09:10

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Mozilla extends Firefox support on Windows 7 once again

This happened before, and it happened again: Mozilla gives Windows 7 users a few more months of Firefox updates. Read more...

2025-09-04 08:38

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Microsoft simplifies Azure VM security, here's how

Microsoft has released Trusted Launch in-place upgrade support for Azure VMs to boost security for customers. Read more...

2025-09-04 08:22

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Ubuntu 25.10 Proceeding With Its Rust Coreutils Transition

Following sudo-rs becoming the default sudo implementation in Ubuntu 25.10 as of a few days ago, Canonical is also proceeding with its transition of using the Rust version of Coreutils for this next Ubuntu Linux release...

2025-09-04 08:11

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GNOME 49 Release Candidate Re-Enables X11 Support by Default in GDM

GNOME 49 Release Candidate (RC) is now available for public testing ahead of the final release on September 17th, 2025. Here's what's new! The post GNOME 49 Release Candidate Re-Enables X11 Support by Default in GDM appeared first on 9to5Linux - do no...

2025-09-04 06:48

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Miracle-WM 0.7 Brings Mouse/Keyboard Configuration, Enhances Sway IPC Compatibility

Miracle-WM is the Wayland compositor built atop Canonical's Mir project with a focus on tiling and inspired by Sway/i3. Miracle-WM 0.7 is now available for advancing this Mir-powered Wayland experience with additional functionality now in place...

2025-09-04 06:44

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KB5063878: Microsoft confirms bug breaks Windows 11, 10, Server app installs for many users

Microsoft has confirmed another major bug that is caused by the KB5063878 Windows 11 24H2 update. However, this issue isn't limited to just this version of Windows. Read more...

2025-09-04 06:38

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Fedora 44 Change Proposal Aims To Ensure A Nice Wine/Proton + NTSYNC Experience

A change proposal filed for next year's Fedora 44 release wants to aim for a nice experience when running Wine or the Proton variants supporting the Linux kernel's NTSYNC driver for better emulating the Microsoft Windows NT synchronization primitives...

2025-09-04 06:34

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Microsoft Building Out Its "OS Guard" Functionality For Azure Linux

A new feature Microsoft has been working on for its Azure Linux operating system is OS Guard as a container-host platform that enforces immutability, code integrity, mandatory access control, and other features. Microsoft quietly revealed more about OS...

2025-09-04 06:21

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Linux Mint 22.2 Officially Released With Fingwit, UI Tweaks

Linux Mint 22.2 is officially out today as the newest version of this popular desktop Linux distribution built atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package base...

2025-09-04 06:08

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Intel Releases OpenVINO 2025.3 With More GenAI Enhancements & Arc Pro B-Series Support

On the same day as beginning to ship the Intel Arc Pro B50 ~$349 USD workstation graphics card, Intel also shipped OpenVINO 2025.3 as the newest feature release for this open-source AI toolkit...

2025-09-04 05:55

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WhatsApp's unified call menu streamlines conversations on iOS

WhatsApp for iOS has a new unified call menu to improve group and business conversations. The redesign brings together the voice and video call buttons into a single button. Read more...

2025-09-04 05:42

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