Operating Systems

Fire HD 10 kids tablet bundle slashed to $139.99 from $233.98 or 40% off
This bundle includes the Fire HD 10 Kid Pro Tablet and a Kids Keyboard for $139.99, down from $233.98, perfect for keeping kids entertained this holiday season. Read more...
2024-10-01 11:40
"If you aren't on Xbox, we'd love to know why." Microsoft Research has opened its program targeting game developers to learn how to improve Xbox's systems
Microsoft Research is one of the firm's most prolific divisions, contributing to some of Microsoft's most profitable innovations. Typically focused on consumers, Microsoft Research has now built a program to focus on game developers, to learn more abou...
2024-10-01 11:25
Microsoft may have just teased Windows 11 24H2 release date and it could be very soon
Microsoft may have just put up a small teaser on when Windows 11 version 24H2 could be released to users. Read more...
2024-10-01 11:24
Om Malik provides an inside view of the iPhone 16 launch event
If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to attend an iPhone launch event in the Steve Jobs Theater, Om Malik has shared a series of photos intended to give an inside view of Glowtime, together with his thoughts on what it’s like to be there. The w...
2024-10-01 11:23
Kernel Recipes 2024 Slides & Videos Posted
Taking place last week in Paris was the annual Kernel Recipes conference devoted to a variety of Linux topics and sponsored by Meta, Dell, Arm, AMD, and other organizations. The slides and videos from the different Linux/open-source talks are now onlin...
2024-10-01 11:20
Hurricane Helene takes out 370 cell towers; 103 on backup power
Apple’s Messages via satellite service is likely to be in demand for some time, to help people check in on friends and family in the wake of Hurricane Helene. Some 370 cell towers in North Carolina are completely out of action, with a further 103 ope...
2024-10-01 11:02
Grounded on Steam no longer needs a Microsoft account for multiplayer
Obsidian Entertainment has quietly removed the Microsoft account requirement for Steam multiplayer from its survival game Grounded. Cross-play and shared worlds still needs the account though. Read more...
2024-10-01 10:48
Supermicro ARS-211M-NR AmpereOne Server With R13SPD Motherboard
One of the interesting highlights of September was finally having our hands on an AmpereOne server! After years of being eager to test Ampere Computing's next-generation AArch64 server processors, Ampere sent over their 192-core flagship server process...
2024-10-01 10:34
Apple @ Work Podcast: Hacker Rangers
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 &...
2024-10-01 10:00
Busd Taking Shape As A D-Bus Broker Written In Rust
Open-source developer Zeeshan Ali Khan presented at last week's systemd "All Systems Go" developer conference on busd as a new D-Bus broker written in the Rust programming language...
2024-10-01 10:00
AMD Announces EPYC Embedded 8004 Series
Building off last year's release of the EPYC 8004 "Siena" processors featuring up to sixty-four Zen 4C cores, AMD today announced the EPYC Embedded 8004 series...
2024-10-01 09:52
Firefox 131 Released With Tab Preview & CHIPS Support
Firefox 131 is out today with a few improvements worth mentioning for Mozilla's web browser...
2024-10-01 09:44
Windows 11 is "finally definitely" fast with 24H2 on PC that's not officially supported
A user has claimed that Windows 11 in its latest form, version 24H2, is finally "definitely" fast even on an old CPU that is not officially supported. Read more...
2024-10-01 09:00
Meta to start manufacturing Quest 3s headsets in Vietnam starting 2025
Meta's latest VR headsets, the Quest 3s, will be manufactured in Vietnam starting next year according to an announcement made earlier today. Read more...
2024-10-01 09:00
Mozilla Firefox 131 Brings Tab Hover Previews, URL Fragments + More
Mozilla Firefox 131 is now available to download with a small set of improvements in tow. The first change I noticed when opening Firefox 131 is the new icon for the ‘all tabs’ feature1. Previously a small downward pointing arrow, this new—more o...
2024-10-01 09:00
GIGABYTE unveils X870E/X870 motherboards for the AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors
GIGABYTE has launched its new X870E/X870 motherboards, featuring AI-powered performance, DDR5, Wi-Fi 7, advanced cooling, and more. Read more...
2024-10-01 08:52
uBlock Origin Lite maker ends Firefox store support, slams Mozilla for hostile reviews
The maker of the uBlock Origin Lite extension has ended its support in the Firefox Add-ons Store, citing a "nonsensical and hostile" review process. Read more...
2024-10-01 07:00
Reverse PRIME Now Works Nicely On Ubuntu 24.10
For those making use of "reverse PRIME" setups where you have a primary NVIDIA discrete GPU while monitors are connected to Intel integrated graphics as the secondary GPU, such configurations should be working nicely with the upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 rele...
2024-10-01 06:50
Linux 6.13 To Bring Big/Super Pages For The Raspberry Pi Graphics Driver - Better Performance
While the Linux 6.12 merge window only ended this weekend and won't be out until November, already code is beginning to accumulate for DRM-Next of graphics driver improvements targeting the Linux 6.13 cycle that in turn will be the first major Linux ke...
2024-10-01 06:25
WebKitGTK 2.46 Uses Skia Rather Than Cairo, More CPU/GPU Optimizations To Come
Igalia open-source developer Carlos Garcia Campos has written a new blog post to outline recent graphics improvements found in WebKitGTK 2.46 and WPEWebKit 2.46. Most notable with the new stable release is using the Skia library rather than Cairo as th...
2024-10-01 06:17