Operating Systems

Here are five Apple Invites features you might have missed
Apple Invites is a brand new iPhone app that just launched yesterday. After a day of testing it out, here are five features in the Invites app that you might have missed. more…
2025-02-05 16:20
Hugging Face makes big progress on open-source Deep Research rival
Hugging Face has shared progress on Open Deep Research, which aims to replicate the functionality of ChatGPT's new Deep Research feature. It's also going to make an open-source Operator rival. Read more...
2025-02-05 15:22
Microsoft just confirmed the dates for Build 2025 — expect a heavy dose of AI
Microsoft will hold its developer-focused Build conference from May 19 to May 2022 in Seattle, Washington.
2025-02-05 15:09
Disney teases ESPN streaming service with new details, ‘early fall’ launch
Disney has long been planning to launch a new flagship ESPN streaming service—separate from the existing ESPN+ streamer—and its fall launch is fast approaching. Today during Disney’s quarterly earnings report, CEO Bob Iger teased what to expect f...
2025-02-05 14:48
AMD's "early March" RDNA 4 GPU launch is confirmed, and it could make or break the company's struggling PC gaming division
Revealed in an earnings call, AMD's gaming branch is losing money fast. That should change when it launches new RDNA 4 GPUs, now confirmed for "early March."
2025-02-05 14:40
macOS 15.3 fixes backup bugs affecting multiple apps
Update: SuperDuper developer Dave Nanian reports that Apple has fixed the issue in macOS 15.3. One or more backup bugs in macOS 15.2 Sequoia is affecting Apple’s own Time Machine utility, as well as third-party apps SuperDuper and CarbonCopyCloner. I...
2025-02-05 14:05
NVIDIA Engineer Talks Up sched_ext Linux Scheduler Possibilities At FOSDEM
Merged last year for the Linux 6.12 kernel was sched_ext for allowing extensible scheduler possibilities by allowing schedulers to be implemented as eBPF code and dynamically loaded into the kernel. This allows for rapidly developing new schedulers as ...
2025-02-05 14:00
Mac malware after your passwords and credit cards will get much worse this year
So-called macOS Stealers – malware that seeks to extract personal data like passwords and credit card numbers from your machine – is expected to be significantly more prevalent this year. A new annual report on the state of malware says that Mac ow...
2025-02-05 13:58
Microsoft AI CEO headhunted 3 former colleagues from Google DeepMind to bolster advances in a new AI division
Google just lost three more AI experts to Microsoft. The former DeepMind employees will help found a new AI office in Zurich, Switzerland and focus on audio and vision capabilities.
2025-02-05 13:27
M5 chip enters mass production, ready for MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, Vision Pro
We’re expecting to see an M5 chip powering this year’s MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Vision Pro. That chip has now entered mass production, according to a new supply-chain report. Not much is known about it for sure, though it is expected to have enha...
2025-02-05 13:23
What’s coming next in Windows 11 24H2: Taskbar, Start menu, multitasking features
Windows 11 KB5050103 is now available for testers in the Dev channel. This build comes with several new features and improvements in Windows 11 24H2. The post What’s coming next in Windows 11 24H2: Taskbar, Start menu, multitasking features appeared ...
2025-02-05 13:16
WSL 2 will soon get support for another popular, and legendary Linux distro
Saying you use Arch Linux became a meme, but it'll soon apply to Windows 11 users too, thanks to WSL 2.
2025-02-05 13:02
WSL 2 will soon get support for another popular, and legendary, Linux distro
Saying you use Arch Linux became a meme, but it'll soon apply to Windows 11 users too, thanks to WSL 2.
2025-02-05 13:02
Monster Hunter Wilds has received updated PC Spec requirements and a new PC Benchmark program to help players test them out
A new PC Benchmark program has been released by Capcom for players to see if their PC systems can handle running Monster Hunter Wilds. Here's where you can download it.
2025-02-05 12:59
Apple products could get more expensive in US as Trump imposes 10% import tariffs
Most Apple products sold in the US could see price raises, after Trump imposed 10% import tariffs on all imports from China. While Apple has been working on diversifying its supply chain, the majority of its products are still assembled in China. Trump...
2025-02-05 12:43
China considering antitrust investigation into Apple, likely as leverage in trade war
China is considering opening an antitrust investigation into Apple’s App Store commissions, mirroring those already carried out in the US, EU, and elsewhere. However, it’s likely that the Chinese government is simply raising the possibility as a fo...
2025-02-05 12:11
OpenAI's new "Deep Research" blows ChatGPT o3-mini and DeepSeek out of the water with 26.6% accuracy in the world's hardest "AI exam" — but it skipped the line
Deep Research holds a significant lead ahead of ChatGPT o3-mini and DeepSeek's R1 V3-powered model in the world's hardest AI exam, with a 26.6% accuracy score.
2025-02-05 12:00
Salesforce will reportedly lay off 1,000 employees while hiring extra AI marketing roles to bolster agentic product sales
Salesforce is reportedly set to lay off up to 1,000 employees from its workforce. However, it is recruiting in its market division to bolster AI product sales.
2025-02-05 12:00
AMD Announces Open-Source "Schola" Library For Reinforcement Learning
AMD announced today the release of Schola 1.0 as an open-source reinforcement learning library that is being made available under an MIT license and as part of their GPUOpen software collection for helping game developers...
2025-02-05 11:57
Linux 6.14 Features Include The AMDXDNA Ryzen AI Driver, NTSYNC, Uncached Buffered I/O & Much More
Now that the Linux 6.14 merge window wrapped up this past weekend with the release of Linux 6.14-rc1, here is a recap of all the great new features, hardware enablement, and other improvements to find with this kernel.
2025-02-05 11:30