Operating Systems

Conversational Siri has to be spectacularly good if we won’t get it until 2027
One of the odder aspects of Apple’s history is that the company has gone in 14 years from one of the leaders in intelligent assistants to one of the biggest laggards. We’ve gone from the futuristic-feeling Siri way back in 2011 to a painfully inade...
2025-03-03 13:41
Experiment Tracking with MLFlow in Canonical’s Data Science Stack
Welcome back, data scientists! In my previous post, we explored how easy it is to set up a machine learning environment with Canonical’s Data Science Stack (DSS) and run your first model using Hugging Face’s Smol Course. Today, let’s take it a st...
2025-03-03 13:21
Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 Released with VoLTE Support for Volla Phone Users
Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 is now rolling out to all supported devices with various improvements and fixes. Here’s what’s new! The post Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 Released with VoLTE Support for Volla Phone Users appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not reproduce this...
2025-03-03 12:32
Godot 4.4 Open-Source Game Engine Released With Many Improvements
Godot 4.4 is out as stable today for serving as the newest feature release to this leading open-source, cross-platform 2D/3D game engine...
2025-03-03 12:18
GNOME Mutter 48.rc Released With Wayland Color Management, Dynamic Triple Buffering
Ahead of the GNOME 48 stable release due out later this month, tagged now is the Mutter "48.rc" release candidate milestone. While the feature freeze passed last month, there has been a lot of last minute improvements merged for Mutter to squeeze into ...
2025-03-03 12:07
Major investigation launched into child protection measures on TikTok, Reddit, and Imgur
The UK’s privacy watchdog has announced a “major investigation” into the child protection measures of three popular apps: TikTok, Reddit, and Imgur. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said that it has previously succeeded in bringing a...
2025-03-03 12:02
Anthropic CEO predicts AI will surpass human smarts by 2027, echoing Bill Gates' claim it will replace humans for most things — but Sam Altman said AGI would whoosh by with "surprisingly little" societal impact
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicts AI will become smarter than humans by 2027, echoing Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates' previous comment about the technology replacing humans for most things in the future.
2025-03-03 11:59
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 2nd, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for March 2nd, 2025, brings news about NVIDIA 570, NetworkManager 1.52, Framework Desktop and Framework Laptop 12, Armbian 25.2, KDE Plasma 6.3.2, LibreOffice 25.2.1, as well as all the latest distro and software updates. T...
2025-03-03 11:55
Firefox 136 Available With AMD GPU Linux Video Acceleration, AArch64 Linux Binaries
Mozilla Firefox 136.0 release binaries are now available online ahead of tomorrow's official release announcement. Particularly on the Linux side, Firefox 136 is one of the more exciting updates in recent times...
2025-03-03 11:46
Steam concurrent numbers reach 40 million online users, setting new record
The PC gaming boom seen on Valve's Steam platform is not slowing down. It's latest concurrent record is 40 million online users, which arrives as players flock to Monster Hunter Wilds on the platform. Read more...
2025-03-03 11:38
How The Ubuntu Linux Performance Has Evolved For SiFive RISC-V Over The Last Four Years
SiFive recently sent over their new HiFive Premier P550 developer board and as part of that fresh RISC-V CPU testing I've also been re-testing the prior SiFive HiFive Unmatched developer board from 2020~2021 for reference. Out of curiosity, I've carrie...
2025-03-03 11:12
Windows Central Podcast: Panos left Microsoft for THIS?
Daniel and Zac discuss Amazon's new Alexa+ service, Windows 365 Link, Framework's 12-inch laptop, free Office, and more.
2025-03-03 10:41
Happy Monday! Microsoft services, including Xbox, appear to be down in some locations to start the week
What a way to start the week, with multiple Microsoft services, notably Xbox, experiencing an outage in the UK.
2025-03-03 10:22
AMD Broadcast TLB Invalidation "INVLPGB" Support Appears Ready For The Linux Kernel
Back in December Linux kernel patches were posted by a Meta engineer for making use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction found with Zen 3 and newer processors. The Linux kernel would use INVLPGB for invalidating TLB entries for a range of pages with broadcas...
2025-03-03 10:00
HONOR shows off MagicBook Pro 14, Pad V9, Watch 5 Ultra, Earbuds Open at MWC 2025
At MWC 2025, HONOR has unveiled a range of new devices, powered by AI. They include the HONOR MagicBook Pro 14, HONOR Pad V9, HONOR Watch 5 Ultra, and the HONOR Earbuds Open. Read more...
2025-03-03 08:50
Raspberry Pi CM4 Now Available With "Extended Temperature" Variants
Raspberry Pi has been on a spree lately with many new product launches such as the Raspberry Pi 500, Raspberry Pi Monitor, Raspberry Pi 5 16GB, and Compute Module 5 in the past few months. Today the company announced an expansion of their offerings in ...
2025-03-03 08:45
Rustup 1.28 Adds New Windows AArch64 & LoongArch Platform Support
Rustup 1.28 is out today as the newest version of this official tool that is the Rust project's recommended means of installing the Rust programming language support...
2025-03-03 08:32
Transcend 2TB ESD380C rugged external SSD drops to its lowest price ever
You can buy the Transcend 2TB ESD380C SSD with silicone covering for its lowest price ever on Amazon. Read more...
2025-03-03 07:46
Apple Intelligence-powered Siri update might take a while to arrive
Fresh reports suggest that Apple is struggling with bugs, which is putting a hold on Siri's Apple Intelligence enhancements. Read more...
2025-03-03 07:30
Here is what Apple demands from Trump in return for its $500 billion investment 
Apple has reportedly put forward a list of demands from the Trump administration in return for its massive investment in the US. Read more...
2025-03-03 07:14