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GTK On Android & macOS Seeing Improvements
In addition to Friday's very exciting GNOME 48 release candidate with some last minute features, there have also been some other GNOME-related changes this week to call out...
2025-03-08 07:07
Mesa's Venus Driver Adds Vulkan Ray-Tracing Support For VMs
Mesa's Venus driver that allows for 3D graphics acceleration within virtual machines is now able to make use of the Vulkan ray-tracing extensions when using Mesa 25.1-devel along with updated Venus Protocol and Virglrenderer code...
2025-03-08 06:50
Wine-Staging 10.3 Adds Patch For A 15 Year Old Bug
Building off yesterday's release of Wine 10.3 is now Wine-Staging 10.3 for this more experimental version of Wine that is presently shipping 347 experimental/testing patches atop the upstream state...
2025-03-08 06:38
KDE This Week Took Care Of "A Very Large Number Of Bugs"
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with the newest issue of This Week in Plasma to highlight all of the interesting KDE Plasma improvements merged for the week...
2025-03-08 06:22
Apple pulls ad that showed Siri being useful after delaying feature that could make Siri useful
Since last fall, Apple has been marketing the iPhone 16 and Apple Intelligence with an unreleased Siri feature. After confirming today that the more personal version of Siri isn’t coming anytime soon, Apple has pulled the ad in question. more…
2025-03-08 03:31
Apple pulls iPhone 16 ad over Apple Intelligence mishap
Since last fall, Apple has been marketing the iPhone 16 and Apple Intelligence with an unreleased Siri feature. After confirming today that the more personal version of Siri isn’t coming anytime soon, Apple has pulled the ad in question. more…
2025-03-08 03:31
Report: Microsoft's in-house AI models now rival OpenAI and Anthropic
Microsoft is also developing its own AI models, which are reportedly competitive with those from OpenAI and Anthropic. Read more...
2025-03-08 02:46
9to5Rewards: Enter to win a MacBook Pro from Chargeasap [Giveaway]
There’s still time to enter to win Apple’s latest MacBook Pro courtesy of our friends at Chargeasap. This month, the company has launched its new Flash Pro Ultra, the world’s first dual OLED 275W powerbank. Head below the fold to enter the giveaw...
2025-03-08 00:17
The best Skyrim modpack is kicking my butt right now, but I'm having a helluva good time, too
LoreRim is one of the biggest modlists for Skyrim, and after playing it for a week, I think it might be the best one, too.
2025-03-08 00:02
Here’s how much faster the M3 Ultra’s GPU is compared to M4 Max
Following the announcement of the new generation Mac Studio this week, the first Geekbench test results with the new M3 Ultra chip have been floating around the web. The difference between the CPU of the M3 Ultra and M4 Max chips isn’t huge, but what...
2025-03-07 23:09
Game Assist for Xbox Game Bar now supports Avowed, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 — oh, and ad blockers
The handy mini-browser to pin when you're playing games now has support for a slate of new games and will respect your Edge extensions, such as adblockers.
2025-03-07 22:38
The Xbox Design Lab is currently offline, Microsoft explains why
The Xbox Design Lab is temporarily closed, with Microsoft explaining that it is changing its payment platform, resulting in the downtime.
2025-03-07 22:31
Microsoft reportedly struggling to build its own reasoning models to rival OpenAI
Microsoft may be “all in” with AI, but its efforts to produce homegrown products to feed its ambitions have so far been lagging and its reliance on OpenAI prevails. However, recent events may augur change. The company has reportedly finally comple...
2025-03-07 22:29
Microsoft releases Edge 134 with faster settings, better link handling, and more
Microsoft has released Edge 134 for all users in the Stable Channel with optimized settings, better link handling, and more. Read more...
2025-03-07 22:12
Six months with Apple Watch Series 10: Fantastic hardware under-utilized
Time flies, and somehow Apple’s last fall launches happened a whole six months ago. That means I’ve been using an Apple Watch Series 10 for half a year. Here’s how the new Watch has measured up in that time, and why its hardware is being held bac...
2025-03-07 21:33
Someone already modded Jack Black into Minecraft before the movie is even out
It was inevitable, but the first mod adding Jack Black's voice into Minecraft has already been built.
2025-03-07 21:27
GNOME 48 RC Adds Dynamic Triple Buffering, Wayland Color Management Protocol
GNOME 48 Release Candidate (RC) is now available for public testing ahead of the final release on March 19th, 2025. Here's what's new! The post GNOME 48 RC Adds Dynamic Triple Buffering, Wayland Color Management Protocol appeared first on 9to5Linux - d...
2025-03-07 21:17
JFrog unveils JFrog ML for MLOps
JFrog has released JFrog ML, an MLOps solution designed to bring devops best practices to building, deploying, managing, and monitoring AI/ML workflows. The company said that by pairing practices for developing machine learning models with traditional...
2025-03-07 21:04
Google Maps for iPhone gets sheet & directions redesign, improves reachability 
Following Android back in July, Google Maps is now rolling out a sheet-based redesign that replaces most fullscreen UIs in the iPhone app. more…
2025-03-07 21:04
Apple’s new MacBook Air line removes the cosmetic problem that recently plagued it
Before Apple introduced the , there was another new color that made headlines for all the wrong reasons. more…
2025-03-07 21:02