Operating Systems

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
Windows 11 KB5050094 has major issues, including spinning cursor on Windows 11 24H2
Windows 11 KB5050094 has its own share of issues, including a bug where the cursor behaves weirdly. Explorer is also slow. The post Windows 11 KB5050094 has major issues, including spinning cursor on Windows 11 24H2 appeared first on Windows Latest
2025-02-05 11:01
Microsoft wants to add incoming call notifications to Edge and is seeking your feedback
Microsoft is seeking feedback on a proposal to enhance the Notifications API by introducing support for incoming call notifications. Read more...
2025-02-05 11:00
Edge 134 Dev gets 'Browser Essential' and tab actions menu improvements
This week's Microsoft Edge Dev update brings improvements to the "Browser Essentials" and tab actions menu. Read more...
2025-02-05 10:34
AMD Broadcast TLB Invalidation Patches For Linux Updated, Intel RAR Eyed Next
One of the set of patches for the Linux kernel that we have been looking forward to but that wasn't wrapped up in time for the recent Linux v6.14 merge window was the work enabling use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction on Zen 3 CPUs and newer for broadcas...
2025-02-05 10:29
Intel releases new Wi-Fi driver with hotspot improvements and slowdown fixes
Intel has released a new Wi-Fi driver for supported network cards with fixes for performance slowdowns and mobile hotspot improvements. Read more...
2025-02-05 10:18
Linux Foundation Announces The SEAPATH 1.0 Hypervisor
The Linux Foundation by way of their LF Energy initiative announced today the release of SEAPATH 1.0, a security-hardened real-time hypervisor...
2025-02-05 10:05
Why have I wasted time flashing USB drives to install Windows (and Linux) on PCs when I could have been doing this all along?
Never flash a USB drive again to install Windows or Linux, just use Ventoy. It's so easy, why didn't I know about it before now?
2025-02-05 09:31
Red Hat Developing "F-UKI" For Handling Firmware With Confidential VMs
Red Hat engineer Anirban Sinha presented at FOSDEM 2025 last weekend in Brussels on F-UKI, a new project being worked on at Red Hat as part of the confidential computing push for loading guest firmware within a Unified Kernel Image (UKI) for confidenti...
2025-02-05 08:55
Red Hat Developing "F-UKI" As Their Newest Open-Source Project
Red Hat engineer Anirban Sinha presented at FOSDEM 2025 last weekend in Brussels on F-UKI, a new project being worked on at Red Hat as part of the confidential computing push for loading guest firmware within a Unified Kernel Image (UKI) for confidenti...
2025-02-05 08:55
Sundar Pichai shares Google's vision for the next evolution of Search
During Alphabet's earnings call, CEO Sundar Pichai outlined the company's vision for the future of Search, which prominently features AI. Read more...
2025-02-05 08:36
New Linux Patches Yield Up To 3.3x Faster AES-CTR Performance On AMD Zen 5 CPUs
Google engineer Eric Biggers is known for some of his great crypto performance optimization patches to benefit the Linux kernel and his most recent patch series is yielding some very tantalizing results for AMD Zen 5 processors whether it be the Ryzen ...
2025-02-05 06:52
cURL 8.12 Released With Its Rust Hyper Backend Removed
Back in December was word that cURL would be dropping its "Hyper" Rust HTTP back-end due to little demand and lack of developer interest for that experimental code. The cURL 8.12 release is out today with Hyper stripped out...
2025-02-05 06:36
GNOME Mutter 48 Beta Released With HDR Bits, Gdctl Utility
The GNOME Mutter 48 compositor beta is now available for testing as part of this week's GNOME 48 beta milestone...
2025-02-05 06:22
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is 2025's GOTY frontrunner, and it can be yours for less with these deals
2025's best new game so far is Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and you can get it for less thanks to these sweet discounts.
2025-02-05 02:04
Cardiobot health app gets new Activity Coaching and interactive charts
CardioBot is a health companion app for iPhone and Apple Watch that shows users how they can live a healthier life. The app has now been updated with new features, including “Activity Coaching” and fully interactive graphics. Read on as we detail e...
2025-02-05 01:27