Operating Systems

Alpine Linux In An Infrastructure Crisis With Equinix Metal Sunsetting
Last week I wrote about the crisis plaguing X.Org / FreeDesktop.org with losing out on their cloud/server infrastructure due to losing out on their free server resources provided by Equinix at the end of April. It's not only FreeDesktop.org and all tho...
2025-02-03 13:00
7 essential plugins for the Steam Deck to make the best handheld even better
The Steam Deck is incredible, but thanks to Decky Loader plugins, it can be even better. Here are the 7 I recommend the most.
2025-02-03 12:59
DeepSeek will help you make a bomb and hack government databases
Tests by security researchers revealed that DeepSeek failed literally every single safeguard requirement for a generative AI system, being fooled by even the most basic of jailbreak techniques. This means that it can trivially be tricked into answering...
2025-02-03 12:35
Apple makes Swift Build open source; Swift Playgrounds slightly renamed
Over the weekend, Apple announced that it is making Swift Build open source. This is the build engine used by both Xcode and for the company’s internal projects. Apple has also made a tiny name change to Swift Playgrounds, the app that helps people l...
2025-02-03 11:54
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2025-02-03 11:42
Faux Bus Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Better Deal With Simple Devices
Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman is proposing "Faux Bus" as a new "fake" bus solution for simple devices...
2025-02-03 11:20
Everything we know about the Apple iPhone SE 4 so far
Here's a roundup of all rumors and speculations about the Apple iPhone SE 4 prior to its potential launch in April 2025. Read more...
2025-02-03 11:10
Firefox 135 Published With Safeguards To Prevent Overwhelming The Back History
Mozilla Firefox 135 release binaries are now available for those wanting to grab the latest browser release right away...
2025-02-03 10:32
How to reduce data storage costs by up to 50% with Ceph
Canonical Ceph with IntelⓇ Quick Assist Technology (QAT) In our last blog post we talked about how you can use Intel® QAT with Canonical Ceph, today we’ll cover why this technology is important from a business perspective – in other words, we’...
2025-02-03 10:32
Red Hat Hiring To Continue Advancing The Linux Desktop In 2025
Christian Schaller as Red Hat's Director of Software Engineering outlined in a blog post today some of the areas they will be focusing on this year with Fedora Workstation development. Additionally, they will be hiring at least two more Linux desktop e...
2025-02-03 10:00
Microsoft shares updated Windows 10 paid extended support program details
Microsoft has provided updated documentation on the upcoming Windows 10 extended support ESU program. Read more...
2025-02-03 09:38
FreeBSD Working On S0ix Sleep State Support For Newer Laptops
FreeBSD is working on S0ix standby power state support for better handling modern Intel and AMD laptops running this popular BSD operating system...
2025-02-03 08:45
Fwupd 2.0.5 Brings Support For More ELAN Fingerprint Readers & Fixes
Fwupd 2.0.5 is out today as the newest update to this open-source solution for system and peripheral/device firmware updating under Linux...
2025-02-03 08:33
Apply for the Swift Student Challenge now through February 23
Submissions for the Swift Student Challenge 2025 are now open through February 23. You have three more weeks to design, test, refine, and submit your app playground for consideration to be named one of 350 winners.What to know: The Challenge is fr...
Windows 11 gains 2% share, thousands quit Windows 10 as end-of-support looms
Windows 11 has gained nearly 2.53% market share as more and more users are realizing that Windows 10 is now less than 7 months away from reaching the end-of-life period. On October 14, 2025, Windows 10 support will end, and you’ll need to switch to W...
2025-02-03 06:57
Sound Open Firmware 2.12 Adds NXP iMX95 Support, Zephyr RTOS For AMD ACP 6.0
Sound Open Firmware 2.12 is now available to succeed the SOF 2.11 release from last September. Sound Open Firmware as a reminder is an open-source audio DSP firmware solution and related SDK/tooling. SOF started out as an open-source Intel project and ...
2025-02-03 06:50
Intel NPU Driver 1.13 Released For Core Ultra Linux Systems
Intel on Friday released an updated user-space driver for their Neural Processing Unit (NPU) found with Core Ultra SoCs. This user-space driver code works with the IVPU accelerator kernel driver for opening up the Intel NPU for helping speed-up AI work...
2025-02-03 06:36
Red Hat Releases Tuned 2.25 Daemon For Linux Adaptive Performance Tuning & Monitoring
Red Hat engineers have released Tuned 2.25 as the newest version of their alternative to power-profiles-daemon and similar for adaptive performance tuning and monitoring. Tuned ships with various profiles and different capabilities for tuning Linux sys...
2025-02-03 06:26
Turbostat Preps For Intel Clearwater Forest & Panther Lake
Yesterday just prior to the Linux 6.14-rc1 release were some last minute changes to the Turbostat utility that lives within the Linux kernel source tree...
2025-02-03 06:20
Windows 11 hits a new market share milestone as Windows 10's death looms on the horizon
Global market share data suggests that Windows 11 hit 36.65% overall OS version market share in January 2025, as Microsoft starts warning users of Windows 10's imminent "demise."
2025-02-03 03:45