Operating Systems

Fedora COSMIC Desktop Spin Proposed For Fedora 42
A new "Fedora COSMIC" spin of Fedora Linux has been proposed that would feature the Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment currently being developed by Linux PC vendor System76...
2024-12-12 10:48
How to launch other apps with the Copilot key on Windows 11
On Windows 11, if you don't have a use for the Copilot key on the keyboard, you can change it to launch other apps, and in this guide, I will explain how to complete this process.
2024-12-12 10:38
What is vulnerability management?
Vulnerability management is the holistic process of identifying and handling security risks in an organization’s networks, systems and devices. Vulnerability management serves an overarching strategy that describes and outlines the many individual ef...
2024-12-12 10:37
KDE Gear 24.12 Officially Released, Finally Ports Dolphin to Mobile Devices
KDE Gear 24.12 open-source software suite for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and the Linux ecosystem is now available with many new features and improvements for your favorite KDE apps. Here's what's new! The post KDE Gear 24.12 Officially Released...
2024-12-12 10:36
Microsoft is killing another handy Windows 11 feature
Windows 11's "suggested actions" menu will be removed in a future update.
2024-12-12 10:32
Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” – BETA Release
This is the BETA release for Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia”. Linux Mint 22.1 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2029. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfor...
2024-12-12 09:25
Google Maps rolling out new teal accent color on Android, iOS
Like other first-party apps that lack Dynamic Color theming, Google Maps currently uses a blue accent for buttons and other UI elements, but that looks to be changing to teal.  more…
2024-12-12 09:13
Microsoft Edge to use Windows 11’s OCR to extract text from PDF (scanned or images)
Microsoft Edge keeps getting better, and we've spotted yet another interesting feature being tested internally. The new feature is called "OCR for PDF". This feature uses Windows 11's OCR engine. The post Microsoft Edge to use Windows 11’s OCR to ext...
2024-12-12 09:12
Intel Arc B580 Graphics Open-Source Driver Linux Gaming Performance
Last week Intel announced the Arc B-Series Battlemage graphics cards as their first Xe2 discrete GPUs. Ahead of the Arc B580 graphics card hitting Internet retailers tomorrow, today the review embargo lifts on the Intel Arc B580. Here is what to expect...
2024-12-12 09:00
Intel Arc B580 Delivers Promising Linux GPU Compute Potential For Battlemage
Now that the initial Intel Arc B580 graphics card gaming review on Linux is out, for productivity-minded users you may be more curious about the GPU compute potential... Here are some initial OpenCL and Level Zero results for the Intel Arc B580 graphic...
2024-12-12 09:00
Linux Developers Consider Ending 32-bit KVM Host Virtualization Support`
Earlier this month as part of patches for cleaning up x86 32-bit kernel code for x86_64 systems, there was a patch to drop support for 32-bit x86 KVM host support. That patch has now been split off into its own patch series with also now raising the pr...
2024-12-12 08:29
Holiday Deal Hub: Exclusive offers on the best accessories and apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more [Updated]
Welcome to the 2024 9to5Mac Holiday Deal Hub. We have once again secured readers a load of exclusive deals on some of our favorite Apple gear accessory brands ahead of the holidays. Whether you’re looking to get a new leather or stainless steel Apple...
2024-12-12 08:01
Australia to make tech giants pay for using news content from local media publishers
The Australian government wants to make tech giants like Google and Meta continue to pay local news publishers for using their content. Read more...
2024-12-12 07:34
Intel Begins Readying Graphics Driver Changes For The Linux 6.14 Kernel
While the Linux 6.13 merge window only recently ended and that kernel won't be out until around the end of January followed by the start of the Linux 6.14 merge window, Intel software engineers on Wednesday sent out their first two pull requests to DRM...
2024-12-12 07:00
AMD GFX 11.5.3 Graphics Support Added To Mesa 25.0
AMD has added support for another RDNA 3.5 refresh variant to the Mesa graphics driver code for Linux systems...
2024-12-12 06:38
KDE Gear 24.12 Released With Many Improvements To KDE Apps
Right ahead of the holidays, KDE Gear 24.12 is out to deliver four months worth of refinements to the KDE desktop applications...
2024-12-12 06:13
The DoJ wants to ban TikTok before Donald Trump takes office in January
TikTok's parent ByteDance has a deadline of January 19 to either divest its social media app or face a ban. Read more...
2024-12-12 05:50
Linux Mint 22.1 Beta Released With Cinnamon 6.4 Desktop, Updated Apt Code
The beta release of Linux Mint 22.1 "Xia" is now available for testing of this desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu LTS releases and known for its Cinnamon desktop environment...
2024-12-12 05:49
The FCC just made your upcoming wearables, WiFi, and other gadgets better
The FCC has opened up the entire 6 GHz band for very low-power (VLP) devices and here's how it will affect your next gadget. Read more...
2024-12-12 05:34
PanVK Advertises "Broken" Vulkan 1.1 Support With Mesa 25.0-devel
The PanVK open-source Vulkan API driver for Arm Mali graphics hardware within Mesa is now advertising Vulkan 1.1 support rather than Vulkan 1.0. But it's known to be "broken" so don't be too excited about it yet...
2024-12-12 05:21