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Users are flocking to another Chinese social media app as the TikTok ban looms
With TikTok facing a potential ban on January 19, 2025, due to its ties to China, this looming threat has sparked the rise of another Chinese social media app among Americans. Read more...
2025-01-14 07:44
Microsoft's KB5048239 Windows 10 update won't stop installing, possible workaround available
The troublesome KB5048239 update is back again and it is causing issues on Windows 10 PCs. According to reports, the update won't stop installing. Read more...
2025-01-14 07:28
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands More Performance Optimizations Ahead Of The B570
It's not only the Intel GPU compute stack seeing some nice improvements recently but over with the Mesa 25.0-devel code for the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver there have been some new performance optimizations arriving this week...
2025-01-14 06:55
Google Classroom has just added a new feature to lighten teachers' workloads
Google has added a nifty grading feature to Google Classroom. It should save teachers that use this software a fair bit of time. Read more...
2025-01-14 06:48
Haiku OS Gets The Iceweasel Web Browser Up & Running
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system has published their latest monthly development report. During December they worked on a number of features and fixes as well as getting a modern web browser up and running...
2025-01-14 06:36
Samsung bets big on social media influencers to make Galaxy S25 event a grand success
Samsung has reportedly completed the recruiting of relevant influencers for its exclusive networking event soon after the Galaxy S25 launch. Read more...
2025-01-14 06:32
JUring: Experimental IO_uring For Java With Big Performance Gains
For those looking toward better I/O performance with Java, there is JUring for making use of IO_uring and the reported performance benefits are very enticing...
2025-01-14 06:23
Intel's Open Image Denoise Begins Preparing For Panther Lake Xe3 Graphics
Open Image Denoise 2.3.2 was released by Intel on Monday. Contrary to being a point release, it's actually an exciting update...
2025-01-14 06:09
Report: TikTok denies claims of possible sale to Elon Musk
January 19 is rapidly approaching for TikTok, and the company has denied reports from Bloomberg that it is planning to sell its U.S. operations to Elon Musk. Read more...
2025-01-14 05:22
Meta starts implementing 'Community Notes' on Threads
While the official rollout is a few months away, Meta has started implementing the 'Community Notes' feature on its Threads website. Read more...
2025-01-14 05:06
Mai Shiranui is headed to Street Fighter 6 with a new gameplay reveal — here's when you can play her
Fatal Fury's Mai Shiranui is headed to Street Fighter 6 in February 2025, with a new gameplay reveal showing off her moves.
2025-01-14 02:48
The Blood of Dawnwalker is a new vampire RPG and 'narrative sandbox' from former Witcher and Cyberpunk developers
Rebel Wolves, a team founded by former CD Projekt RED developers, is working on The Blood of Dawnwalker, a vampire RPG being built in Unreal Engine 5.
2025-01-14 01:49
Enlightenment 0.27 Released with Bug Fixes, New Modules
Enlightenment 0.27, released this week, brings a wealth of incremental improvements to users of this unique desktop environment. Though not as well known or widely used as GNOME, Xfce, KDE Plasma, et al, Enlightenment (often abbreviated as just ‘E’...
2025-01-14 01:30
OpenZFS 2.3 Is Out with Linux 6.12 Support, RAIDZ Expansion, Fast Dedup, and More
OpenZFS 2.3 file system and volume manager is now available for download with support for Linux kernel 6.12 LTS and several new features. Here's what's new! The post OpenZFS 2.3 Is Out with Linux 6.12 Support, RAIDZ Expansion, Fast Dedup, and More appe...
2025-01-14 00:38
Meta is already working on adding Community Notes to Threads
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently shared a video in which he announced a series of changes coming to the company’s platform policies such as Instagram and Threads. Among them, the executive revealed that it will switch from fact-checking to a Communi...
2025-01-14 00:11
Let’s talk about bias
When someone says you’re biased against them because you object to their stated goal of removing you from society, they’re not actually asking for fairness — they’re demanding complicity. It’s the political equivalent of asking why the ga...
2025-01-13 23:31
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Enlightenment 0.27.0 released
Enlightenment 0.27.0 has been released, and we’ve got some highly informative release notes. This is the latest release of Enlightenment. This has a lot of fixes mostly with some new features. ↫ Carsten Haitzler That’s it. That’s the release no...
2025-01-13 23:30
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Haiku Activity & Contract Report, December 2024 (ft. Iceweasel)
This report covers hrev58369 through hrev58486. Iceweasel The biggest piece of news from last month is the arrival of “Iceweasel”, a web browser built from Mozilla Firefox source code but without any official branding or registered trademarks, in t...
2025-01-13 23:30
Chinese social networking app tops US App Store ranking amid potential TikTok ban
TikTok risks being banned from the US in the coming days as a bill signed by President Biden requires its parent company ByteDance to divest from the app. Amid the risk of a potential ban, users are already looking for alternatives – and another Chin...
2025-01-13 23:11