Operating Systems

Bill Gates says he'd "hide from the press" if former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer traded "the new and hot OS" for Windows 10
In a recent interview with Bill Gates, Mark Cuban compared The Mavericks trading Luka Doncic to Microsoft trading Windows 11 for Windows 10.
2025-02-10 12:00
Sam Altman doubts he'll be smarter than GPT-5 after promising the model would outperform the "mildly embarrassing" GPT-4 with "high scientific certainty"
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently revealed his doubts about being smarter GPT-5. The model is expected to enhance ChatGPT's user experience.
2025-02-10 12:00
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 developer claims Witcher 4 development is slow, blasts open-world games on Unreal Engine 5
Co-founder of Warhorse Studios, Daniel Vávra, says using Unreal Engine for open-world games is a bad idea.
2025-02-10 12:00
I play ROG Ally handhelds connected to my TV like a console, and it's easy to set up
I love playing my ROG Ally and ROG Ally X while they're connected to my TV. Getting it all set up is really easy too. Here's how to do it.
2025-02-10 12:00
Seriously, more people need to be talking about this upcoming Xbox exclusive
Mecha BREAK is like Armored Core at a much faster pace, packaged as a free-to-play multiplayer mech shooter.
2025-02-10 12:00
How your feedback shapes the way we support open source software
Over the past year, we’ve been busy gathering  your feedback on the redesign of our support portal. We want to make sure the portal meets your evolving needs, and delivers the best possible support experience for your open source software. Your insi...
2025-02-10 11:00
GIMP 3.0 RC3 Released For A Final Round Of Testing
GIMP 3.0 RC3 is out today as what is hopefully the last release candidate before the long-awaited stable release of GIMP 3.0 as this long in development free software alternative to the likes of Adobe Photoshop...
2025-02-10 10:51
Microsoft is finally making Windows 11's Start menu more convenient
Microsoft is working on a much-needed improvement to Windows 11's Start menu that will allow users to access their apps with fewer clicks. Read more...
2025-02-10 10:50
PlayStation Network's outage over the weekend should serve as a reminder to Microsoft and Xbox on what can happen if you "put all your eggs into one basket"
All networks have downtime, but Microsoft is historically uniquely keen to rely on other networks to reach customers. PSN's prolific downtime this weekend is exactly why having your own ecosystem is important.
2025-02-10 10:18
Review: SwitchBot Wallet Finder is an incredibly useful accessory to track your wallet with iPhone Find My
I have an on my keychain to keep track of my keys, but obviously an AirTag is too big and bulky to fit inside a wallet. That’s what the SwitchBot Wallet Finder is for. Disguised inside a thin, credit-card form factor, the SwitchBot Wallet Finder conn...
2025-02-10 09:57
Python 3.14 Lands A New Interpreter With 3~30% Faster Python Code
Merged last week for Python 3.14 is a new tail-call intepreter that aims to offer significantly better performance with around 10% faster performance in PyPerformance or around a 40% speed-up in Python-heavy benchmarks. This tail-call interpeter can ev...
2025-02-10 09:02
Union Hopes To Address KDE's Fragmented Ways Of Styling Apps
KDE/Qt apps can be styled many different ways with Qt widgets, SVG-based styling, Qt Quick, and other routes for styling of applications. That fragmentation of different ways to styling KDE apps can probe problematic for UI designs and lead to a less c...
2025-02-10 08:51
The world's thinnest foldable OPPO Find N5 to launch globally on February 20
OPPO is cutting down the wait time by launching the world's thinnest foldable, the Find N5, globally and in China on February 20. Read more...
2025-02-10 08:34
Formerly Known As YQPkg, Myrlyn Package Manager GUI Adds Repository Configuration
You may recall the YQPkg package management tool announced last year that's been talked up by openSUSE developers as a Qt-based package manager GUI and alternative to YaST. It's now known as Myrlyn and has added repository configuration as its newest f...
2025-02-10 08:28
T-Mobile Starlink beta program kicks off, AT&T and Verizon users can also try it for free
T-Mobile, in collaboration with Starlink, has launched its satellite connectivity beta program. AT&T and Verizon users can also try the service without switching carriers. Read more...
2025-02-10 08:18
The state of the Location permission on Fedora Linux in 2025
This article will discuss the state of finding your current geographical location in the Fedora Linux environment. Background For many mobile devices it is useful to get the current location. This is usually done using a GPS sensor, where the coordinat...
2025-02-10 08:00
New Proposal To Raise The Linux Kernel's Default Timer Frequency To 1000Hz
A patch sent out on Sunday by Google engineer Qais Yousef is proposing to raise the Linux kernel's default timer frequency from 250Hz to 1000Hz...
2025-02-10 06:43
RADV Vulkan Video Adds Low Latency Encoding Support
Adding to the Vulkan Video support for Mesa's Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver is honoring of the low latency encoding options...
2025-02-10 06:31
Microsoft Continues Enhancing Its Azure Linux 3.0 Distribution With February Update
Microsoft engineers released Azure Linux 3.0.20250206 overnight as the newest monthly update to this in-house Microsoft Linux distribution that is used within their Azure cloud infrastructure and a variety of other purposes at the Redmond company...
2025-02-10 06:07
T-Mobile Starlink beta free through July (and not just for T-Mobile customers)
T-Mobile made news during the Super Bowl this year when it announced availability and pricing details for its T-Mobile Starlink service. It turns out the service won’t actually require being a T-Mobile customer. more…
2025-02-10 03:57