Operating Systems

TSMC predicted to report 58% leap in fourth-quarter profits this week
The Taiwanese semiconductor firm, TSMC, is expected to report a 58% increase in Q4 profits compared to the same period in 2023. This is being driven by AI. Read more...
2025-01-13 10:36
Linux Attack Vector Controls Updated To More Easily Controlling CPU Security Mitigations
Last year an AMD engineer proposed the notion of "Attack Vector Controls" for the Linux kernel to re-think how the CPU security mitigation handling is done and making it easier for system administrators/users to toggle the mitigations they are concerne...
2025-01-13 10:16
Salesforce is "seriously debating" software engineer hires in 2025 due to the "incredible productivity gains" from agentic AIs
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff might not hire software engineers in 2025 because of the transformative productivity gains of AI agents while Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella foresees a swarm of AI agents at the disposal of knowledge workers through Copilot Stu...
2025-01-13 10:07
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says Microsoft "repackaged OpenAI and dropped it into Excel" — Customers barely use Copilot, and that's when they don't have a ChatGPT license
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff throws another lethal jab at Microsoft, stating it has repackaged OpenAI and dropped it into Excel. He further claimed customers barely use Copilot, and that's when they don't have a ChatGPT license.
2025-01-13 09:53
Starfield once had a gore system similar to Skyrim and Fallout, but it was removed for thematic reasons
Alongside the technical debt it would require to implement, it just didn't make sense given the vision the game had.
2025-01-13 09:31
'Starfield' once had a gore system similar to Fallout — a former Bethesda developer explains why it was removed
Alongside the technical debt it would require to implement, it just didn't make sense given the vision the game had.
2025-01-13 09:31
LXQt Wayland support is now here
With the release of LXQt 2.1, we are pleased to announce the availability of Wayland compatibility for LXQt within Tumbleweed. This support is to be considered experimental at this point, and for most users, is likely not ready for daily driving. LXQt,...
2025-01-13 09:00
A happy Linus Torvalds is offering to build a guitar pedal for one lucky Linux dev
Linus Torvalds is quite happy this holiday season with how things have been going in his personal and professional life. As such, he has offered to build a guitar pedal for one lucky developer. Read more...
2025-01-13 08:52
A Microsoft-Contributed Change To Linux 6.13 Is Causing A Last Minute Ruckus
A change to the Linux 6.13 kernel contributed by a Microsoft engineer ended up changing Linux x86_64 code without proper authorization and in turn causing troubles for users and now set to be disabled ahead of the Linux 6.13 stable release expected nex...
2025-01-13 08:40
Running Stable Diffusion with AUTOMATIC1111 locally
Generative AI continues to make strides, enabling developers and enthusiasts to create everything from realistic images to intricate artworks using AI models. Stable Diffusion, one of the leading image generation models, allows users to generate high-q...
2025-01-13 08:00
Samsung launches 'Galaxy Easy Compensation' program to promote recycling
Samsung has launched the "Galaxy Easy Compensation" program that is aimed to promote recycling and help reduce e-waste. Read more...
2025-01-13 07:32
Alibaba Engineers Work To Address Suspend/Resume Bugs With The AMD Graphics Driver
Alibaba engineers have recently been working through some AMD Linux kernel graphics driver bugs uncovered during suspend-and-resume testing with AMD graphics cards...
2025-01-13 07:00
Intel Gigabit Ethernet Driver To Speed-Up With AF_XDP Zero-Copy For Linux 6.14
Queued up into the networking subsystem's "net-next" branch last week ahead of the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle is AF_XDP zero-copy support for the common Intel Gigabit Ethernet "IGB" driver. With this the AF_XDP performance improvements can be quite dramat...
2025-01-13 06:36
AMD Broadcast TLB Invalidation Linux Patches Reworked In 4th Spin
A nice Christmas surprise for 2024 was Meta engineer Rik van Riel posting Linux kernel patches for making use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction found since Zen 3 processors for broadcast TLB invalidation...
2025-01-13 06:20
Hyprland Wayland Compositor Lands HDR / Color Management Support
Hyprland is now the latest Wayland compositor supporting the color management protocols and allowing High Dynamic Range (HDR) color support with capable displays...
2025-01-13 06:05
4TB SanDisk Professional rugged waterproof PRO-G40 Thunderbolt SSD selling for lowest price
The IP68 dust—and water-resistant SanDisk Professional PRO-G40 4TB external SSD is now available at a 17% discount on its usual price. Read more...
2025-01-13 05:54
GCC 15 Compiler Enters Its Final Stage Of Development
Richard Biener of SUSE announced today that the GCC 15 compiler has entered its stage four of development, which is the last stage focused only on regression fixes and documentation updates...
2025-01-13 05:51
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 12th, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for January 12th, 2025, brings news about Firefox 134, Debian 12.9, Raspberry Pi 5 16GB, KDE Plasma 6.3 beta, Calibre 7.24, Flatpak 1.16, Sigil 2.4, Tails 6.11, Scribus 1.6.3, COSMIC Alpha 5, Budgie 10.10, as well as all th...
2025-01-13 04:24
These three improvements could turn M4 MacBook Air into my dream laptop
While the MacBook Pro is the place to go for the latest and greatest tech, I’ve always been drawn to the for one key reason: portability. There’s just something really nice about the thinness and lightness of the MacBook Air, one that makes me will...
2025-01-13 03:23
Tiling Shell’s Newest Feature Speeds Up Window Snapping
Window snapping GNOME extension Tiling Shell —not that you need an introduction to it by now— adds a nifty new feature in its latest update. Tiling Shell v16 introduces Windows Suggestions, a feature the add-on’s author described as being able to...
2025-01-13 02:43