Operating Systems

Transcend 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB compact USB-C SSDs are available at their lowest price
Transcend's ultra-compact USB-C portable SSDs are available at their lowest prices with capacities from 512 GB to 2 TB. Read more...
2024-12-31 14:58
Razer, of all companies, made the best value Thunderbolt docking station — and you don't even need Thunderbolt
The Razer USB4 Dock boasts all the capabilities of a full-fledged Thunderbolt 4 docking station, but with a lower price and wider compatibility with more devices.
2024-12-31 14:00
Passkeys were supposed to be secure and simple; here’s how they fail
I’ve been arguing that passwords are horrible for the best part of a decade now, and was an enthusiastic early adopter of the far better approach of passkeys. Passkeys were supposed to achieve the holy grail of an approach which is both more secure t...
2024-12-31 13:47
Call of Duty continues to dominate the charts as the most-played game on Xbox and PlayStation after a free trial weekend
The holidays have graced many of us with more free time than usual, but it hasn't helped other games dethrone Call of Duty as the most played game for the week of December 21.
2024-12-31 13:36
US Army soldier arrested over data breach extortion of AT&T and Verizon
A US Army soldier has been arrested on suspicion of extorting money from AT&T and Verizon, following data breaches which saw a massive amount of customer data obtained. The 20-year-old was arrested near the Army base in Fort Hood, Texas, on suspicion o...
2024-12-31 13:00
CarPlay 2 deadline arrives with no announcement; is the project dead? [Poll]
CarPlay 2, aka next-generation CarPlay, was announced way back in the summer of 2022. At the time, Apple said that a list of supporting cars would be available in 2023, and two brands were later said to be launching in 2024. Today is the last chance to...
2024-12-31 12:24
Intel prepares new "Twin Lake" low-powered N processors (basically an Alder Lake refresh)
Intel's upcoming N-series low-powered processors leaked in all their spec glory ahead of the official announcement. Read more...
2024-12-31 11:36
Debian Installer Trixie Alpha 1 Brings RISC-V & Drops i386 Installer
In working toward the Debian 13 "Trixie" stable release in 2025, as a lovely New Year's Eve surprise today is the first alpha release of the Debian Installer for Trixie...
2024-12-31 11:20
Apple @ Work Podcast: DDM, Wi-Fi, and you
Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & pro...
2024-12-31 11:00
ZLUDA v4 Released For Initial CUDA Support On Non-NVIDIA GPUs
One of the unexpected twists this year was after several years of AMD quietly funding the ZLUDA developer for enabling unmodified CUDA applications to run on AMD GPUs at near-native performance, the ZLUDA atop AMD HIP code was made available and open-s...
2024-12-31 10:40
Samsung Galaxy S20 & S9 With Exynos 9810 Support Coming To Linux 6.14
The Samsung ARM device updates are in the process of being queued up to the SoC tree ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.14 merge window in January...
2024-12-31 10:23
Samsung increases share in Rainbow Robotics in aim to boost humanoid robot development
According to a press release, Samsung's share in Rainbow Robotics will be 35%, with plans to advance robotic technology and improve automation systems. Read more...
2024-12-31 10:18
Microsoft Continued With Many Linux & Open-Source Announcements In 2024
This year was another interesting year for Microsoft with continuing to make more of their software projects open-source, adding more Unix/Linux-like features to Windows, continuing to advance Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), keeping up with maintena...
2024-12-31 09:50
Corsair MP600 PRO XT 8TB SSD with heatsink: Massive price drop - 18% off! (Lowest ever)
If you're upgrading your PC, get the Corsair MP600 PRO XT 8TB SSD at its lowest-ever price on Amazon at just $773.49. In recent days it saw its biggest ever price drop. Read more...
2024-12-31 08:50
Wayland's Wild 2024 With Better KDE Plasma Support, NVIDIA Maturity & More Desktops
It was a mighty fine year for the Wayland ecosystem on the Linux desktop with KDE Plasma 6 having brought much more polished Wayland support and now at parity to its X11 session, the NVIDIA driver stack seeing much better Wayland support with its lates...
2024-12-31 07:20
AMD INVLPGB Linux Patches Updated For Broadcast TLB Invalidation
Right before Christmas Mesa engineer Rik van Riel posted Linux kernel patches to make use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction for broadcast TLB invalidation. INVLPGB is present in AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors since Zen 3 and early data showed by Rik indica...
2024-12-31 07:01
Mesa Saw Fewer Patches This Year But Valve's Contributions Took The Top Spot
While the Mesa 3D graphics drivers saw many new features and improvements land in 2024, on a Git commit basis it's actually at a several year low in terms of new commits. Here are the numbers as well as a look at the most active contributors to Mesa, i...
2024-12-31 06:48
Clang 20 Compiler Adds Support For Xtensa CPU Target
Back in early 2023 an Xtensa back-end was added to LLVM for the Cadence Tensilica Xtensa IP. Xtensa is used for DSPs, micro-controllers, and this 32-bit RISC architecture is also used for other hardware like data processing engines. Two years after the...
2024-12-31 06:33
FreeBSD Collaborating With AMD, NetBSD 10.0 Release & Other BSD Highlights Of 2024
While predominantly covering Linux-related news and Linux benchmarking at Phoronix, the BSDs hold a special spot. Here's a look back at some of the most exciting BSD milestones and FreeBSD / NetBSD / OpenBSD / DragonFlyBSD project news of 2024...
2024-12-31 06:15
The WD_Black SN850X 4TB NVMe SSD with Heatsink is available for its lowest price on Amazon
Enjoy top-tier gaming performance with the Western Digital Black SN850X 4TB NVMe SSD with Heatsink, available now at its all-time lowest price on Amazon. Read more...
2024-12-31 05:04