Operating Systems

In between Linus Torvalds' busy week being in Vienna for the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit and related Linux Foundation events as well as managing the Linux 6.12 merge window with landing new features like sched_ext and real-time PREEMPT_RT, he also m...

Valve's Steam PC game store and service blew away its concurrent player record once again today, with over 38 million players online for the first time. Read more...

WhatsApp for Android beta is pushing a new update that adds the option to block messages from unknown contacts. Read more...

The perf tooling changes were merged today for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel. Notable on the perf tools side is supporting some features found in newer Intel processors...

Linus Torvalds has accepted Microsoft's Hyper-V upgrade which should lead to Linux booting up faster than before in the very near future. Read more...

Images of the alleged cover of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra have been leaked online revealing the camera arrangements. Read more...

There’s one feature in the Nautilus file manager I use daily: the Recent files shortcut. One-click gives me access to my most recently downloaded, modified, and newly created files together, regardless of the folder they’re in. I find it de...

According to Mark Gurman’s latest Power On newsletter, the completely rebuilt Siri with Apple Intelligence might be released to users sooner than we initially thought. It might not be the entire experience, but we could start to see some features rol...

In this week's look at new entries on the Microsoft 365 roadmap site, the company will launch a new calendar for Teams in November. Read more...

Here's the official list of every aircraft included in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.

Former Apple design chief Jony Ive and OpenAI's Sam Altman are teaming up to create AI-powered hardware. Ive confirmed that they have hired a small team to build a device with a new form factor. Read more...

The ASUS RT-AX5400 Dual Band Wi-Fi 6 Extendable Router is available at a 28% discount off its original MSRP once again on Amazon US. Read more...

Xbox is preparing to celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2026. Microsoft is planning a special celebration to mark this milestone and the 25th anniversary of Halo and Xbox. Read more...

Catch up with the latest stories from the world of Microsoft in this week's Microsoft Weekly news recap. Read more...

The HP Chromebook 14 (14a-nf0009nr) is now just $219.99 on Amazon with a 24 percent discount. This affordable laptop is perfect for media, documents, and emails. Read more...

Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet has submitted all of the Bcachefs file-system feature patches for the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window. In his pull request he also lays out his ambitions to remove the "EXPERIMENTAL" flag from Bcachefs within the ...

The PCI changes for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel add support for Native PCIe Enclosure Management "NPEM" as a code contribution by Intel for implementing the PCIe spec to standardize storage LEDs...

Microsoft's Windows Dev Kit 2023 also known as "Project Volterra" was an early effor to improve the Windows on ARM support by developers via having a nice small form factor ARM PC to run Windows 11. With pending DeviceTree patches there would be mainli...

The Razer Kaira X PC and Xbox wired headset is available now for its lowest price ever at just $35.99, or $24 off its MSRP. Read more...

If you bought a new iPhone this week, you might’ve noticed that iPhone Mirroring still defaults to your old iPhone (presuming you haven’t yet reset it). However, there’s a quick toggle in macOS settings that allows you to fix it. more…