Operating Systems

Back in late August, The Browser Company – the company behind the popular Mac browser Arc, became aware of a serious security vulnerability in the browser, one that could allow for remote code execution on other users computer with no direct interact...

Following AMD and FreeBSD Foundation collaborations and the Sovereign Tech Fund making a big investment into FreeBSD, the FreeBSD Foundation and Quantum Leap Research have announced a $750,000 USD commitment to improve laptop support on this BSD operat...

File-systems in user-space continue to become more robust with the latest FUSE updates merged for Linux 6.12...

Oracle has released a new update for VirtualBox. Version 7.1 is now available with fixes for black screens in Windows VMs and more. Read more...

It's been a busy week for Valve Linux graphics software engineer Mike Blumenkrantz. Besides hacking on Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation, this week his latest target was working to help accelerate the pace of Wayland protocol developme...

This weekend's PC game deals include bundles full of Myst and Jurassic Park building titles, an indie freebie to claim, a free event for milsim fans, DRM-free Autumn sales, and much more. Read more...

Microsoft has released new versions of its Terminal app, bringing users various bug fixes and small changes. Read more...

The LoongArch architecture support for these Chinese processors continue seeing better support with the upstream Linux kernel...

Ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window wrapping up this weekend with the Linux 6.12-rc1 release, merged on Friday were all of the Compute Express Link (CXL) updates for the new kernel...

United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket will undertake its second flight this Friday, featuring a mass simulator, experiments, and a double-engine Centaur upper stage. Read more...

Here's how you can delete long videos from your iPhone's iCloud Photos storage. Old lengthy videos in the Photos app might consume tens of GBs of valuable storage space on your account. Read more...

KDE developers remain very busy landing bug and crash fixes ahead of the upcoming Plasma 6.2 desktop release...

Users should be glad that Windows 11 24H2 did not preview this week as Microsoft has confirmed that the latest KB5043145 update has major issues and is breaking PCs. Read more...

Valve's SteamOS is built atop Arch Linux and now the company is further helping the upstream Linux distribution by collaborating with resources to help with build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave...

Microsoft has made the Phi-3.5-MoE model available through Serverless API in Azure AI Studio and GitHub. This lightweight model outperforms many open models. Read more...

OpenAI is experiencing rapid growth, with monthly active users reaching 350 million. The company projects significant revenue increases. Read more...

Multiple reports confirm that VIVO has already started rolling out the Android 15 stable update to its flagship devices ahead of Google and Samsung. Read more...

Samsung is expected to tweak the design and the internals of next year's Galaxy S25 Ultra, with the latest leak revealing an alleged 100% confirmed info. Read more...

Apple is no longer planning to invest in OpenAI, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. This comes as OpenAI plans to close a $6.5 billion funding round next week, with investments possible from both Microsoft and Nvidia. more…

Apple announced the iPhone 16 earlier this year, and the new phones hit stores in more than 50 countries, including the US, Canada and Japan last Friday, September 20. Now Apple is bringing iPhone 16 to 21 additional countries starting this Friday. mor...