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Valve reveals Steam Awards 2024 winners following community vote
The 2024 Steam Awards winners have been unveiled in categories such as Best Game You Suck At, Labor of Love, and more. Read more...
2025-01-01 12:46
NETGEAR Nighthawk Dual-Band Wi-Fi 7 Router (RS200) has dropped to its lowest price
The NETGEAR Nighthawk Dual-Band Wi-Fi 7 Router (RS200) is currently selling at its lowest price on Amazon US. Read more...
2025-01-01 12:16
Top 10 must-have apps for new Linux users in 2025
If you are new to Linux, this guide is for you! I list some of the key apps (and services) that you'll want to use to make your Linux transition more comfortable. Read more...
2025-01-01 12:00
X.Org Server Development Hit A Decade High For The Number Of Commits In 2024
To much surprise, the X.Org Server Git tree saw the most commits in 2024 going all the way back to 2014... While there were many more commits than in years prior, it's not a sign of resurgence for the X.Org Server with Wayland continuing to become the ...
2025-01-01 11:53
Statcounter: Microsoft Edge has 13.21%, Chrome is getting even more popular
In December 2024, Chrome became even harder to catch up with, leaving all the other desktop browsers way behind. Read more...
2025-01-01 11:34
When and how to play the Squid Game event in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Red light? Green light. Suit up and join the Squid Game x Black Ops 6 collaboration to kick off the new year on January 3.
2025-01-01 11:09
Windows 11 market share drops again, Windows 10 climbs
Windows 11 begins 2025 with another decline. According to the latest stats, Windows 11 again lost a chunk of users to Windows 10. Read more...
2025-01-01 08:46
Huge win for California parents as Judge allows ban on "addictive feeds"
Federal Judge lets California's SB 976 ban on addictive social media feeds for minors move forward, despite tech industry pushback. Read more...
2025-01-01 08:30
Managing IPv4 Address Conflict Detection with NetworkManager
This article describes address conflict detection with NetworkManager, providing examples to demonstrate the new features. Detecting any potential address conflict in IP networks is paramount to avoid issues such as: The mechanisms to avoid IP address ...
2025-01-01 08:00
GCC Patches Posted For Half-Century Old ALGOL 68 Programming Language
Mere hours into 2025 and some news I didn't expect to be writing about... An Oracle engineer has posted a set of patches implementing an ALGOL 68 programming language front-end for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). These are work-in-progress patches f...
2025-01-01 07:14
The Most Popular Linux & Open-Source News Of 2024
During the course of 2024 there were 3,021 original news articles written on Phoronix around Linux and open-source topics... Fresh content each and every day, 99% of which was written by your's truly. It was quite an eventful year with a lot of excitem...
2025-01-01 06:56
Linux "hid-universal-pidff" Driver Proposed For Fixing More Quirky Devices
The hid-pidff driver exists within the Linux kernel for enabling force feedback "FF" support on various USB HID PID (Physical Interface Device) compliant devices. With a new set of patches posted yesterday, that hid-pidff driver is extended to "hid-uni...
2025-01-01 06:45
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7 FE may feature an old display to keep the price down
Samsung's affordable flip phone, the Galaxy Z Flip7 FE, tipped to launch this year, could borrow last year's Galaxy Z Flip6 display. Read more...
2025-01-01 06:38
Zlib-ng 2.2.3 Rings In The New Year With ~17.8% Faster Inflate For AVX2
Zlib-ng 2.2.3 is out as the "next gen" Zlib replacement led by Hans Kristian Rosbach that retains a Zlib-compatible API while also offering a modernized API, modern C11 syntax, support for more CPU intrinsics, and other leading-edge features compared t...
2025-01-01 06:33
RISC-V Made Nice Software Progress In 2024 While Interesting Hardware Still Rare
RISC-V on the software front made very nice progress over the past year with a lot of Linux kernel and toolchain improvements, new targets being enabled, and new instructions being supported along with other additions for improving the overall RISC-V s...
2025-01-01 06:22
Half-Life's 'G-Man' actor Mike Shapiro drops a cryptic post that's begging to be Half-Life 3
He did the exact same style of post prior to the announcement of Half-Life: Alyx
2025-01-01 01:07
Sifu is free to claim on the Epic Games Store
The Epic Games Store's new year giveaway has been revealed to be copies of Sifu, the Sloclap-developed martial arts action game. Read more...
2025-01-01 00:26
10 Cool Changes Ubuntu Received in 2024
As another year transitions from present to past, I want1 to recap the notable new features, changes, updates and innovations Ubuntu saw over the past 12 months. And there was a fair bit: we got a noble new long-term support release in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS...
2024-12-31 23:22
Windows 11 24H2 crashes Assassin’s Creed Origins, Steam ratings drop as users rage
In an unexpected turn of events, Windows 11 24H2 problems are causing famous Assassin's Creed Origins ratings to fall on Steam. That's because users blame Ubisoft and Steam for the mess. The post Windows 11 24H2 crashes Assassin’s Creed Origins, Stea...
2024-12-31 22:49
These are some of the best camera and photo editing apps for your iPhone
If you just got a new iPhone, there are lots of things you can do to make the most of the great cameras you now have in your pocket. I’ve selected some of the best camera and photo editing apps to help you enhance your shots from your iPhone. And eve...
2024-12-31 21:40