Operating Systems

Another giant collection of Apple gear on sale this weekend: MacBooks, iPad, AirPods, more
Another sizable lineup of week’s end Apple deals are at the ready folks. Last week we featured a series of massive Apple sales at retailers like Amazon, Best Buy, and B&H, and since that time, just about all of the best deals have carried through to ...
2025-08-15 12:04
Another giant collection of Apple gear on sale this weekend: MacBooks, iPad, AirPods, more
Another sizable lineup of week’s end Apple deals are at the ready folks. Last week we featured a series of massive Apple sales at retailers like Amazon, Best Buy, and B&H, and since that time, just about all of the best deals have carried through to ...
2025-08-15 12:04
Get a 'Legion Go S' alternative to the Steam Deck for $499.99 with Windows — Honestly, it should have launched at this price anyway
Lenovo's Legion Go S, a Windows-based handheld alternative to the Steam Deck, has dropped to a far more sensible $499.99 for a limited time, revitalizing its appeal.
2025-08-15 11:11
OpenAI's GPT-5 is a powerful but energy-hungry model compared to its predecessors — reportedly consuming enough electricity to power 1.5 million US households daily
A new report suggests GPT-5 is a power guzzler compared to its predecessors, consuming 40 watt-hours of electricity to generate a medium-length response of about 1,000 tokens.
2025-08-15 11:02
Apple MacBook notch flaw makes many games render blurry, but there's a workaround
Apple has been called upon to fix its gaming APIs as many games aren't able to get the correct resolution due to a badly written API. Read more...
2025-08-15 09:40
Microsoft shares details on a new Teams mandatory security requirement update
A Microsoft Teams feature is getting a mandatory security update very soon. Microsoft shares details about how to proceed. Read more...
2025-08-15 08:48
Apple TV+ premieres the first Snoopy musical special in 37 years
As part of its exclusive deal with Peanuts, Apple TV+ today premieres Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical. This is the latest original Snoopy special to air on the platform, and this one stands out as it is a song-filled musical. The last time Peanuts pr...
2025-08-15 08:26
Apple TV+ premieres the first new Snoopy musical special in 37 years
As part of its exclusive deal with Peanuts, Apple TV+ today premieres Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical. This is the latest original Snoopy special to air on the platform, and this one stands out as it is a song-filled musical. The last time Peanuts pr...
2025-08-15 08:26
Intel FRED Suffers A Late "Incompatible Change" To The Architecture
Intel FRED has been seeing Linux software enablement going on for the past three years. FRED is the Flexible Return Event Delivery that overhauls CPU transitions between privilege levels with a goal of lower ring transition latency and more robust soft...
2025-08-15 08:24
DM-PCACHE Poised For Linux 6.18 As High Throughput, Low Latency DAX Cache
Barring any issues from coming up in the near future, it looks like DM-PCACHE will be submitted for the Linux 6.18 cycle later in the year as a high throughput, low latency cache for DAX-capable persistent memory devices...
2025-08-15 08:01
UK government to use AI to predict crime locations by 2030
The UK government has launched a challenge for the development of a map that uses AI to predict where crimes will occur. It'll couple this with 13,000 more law enforcers. Read more...
2025-08-15 06:42
Generic VFIO Platform Driver To Be Marked As Deprecated For Removal
Some old and unmaintained drivers for Linux's Virtual Function I/O (VFIO) support are being marked as deprecated for eventual removal, including the generic VFIO platform driver...
2025-08-15 06:34
AMD Posts 11th Iteration Of Color Pipeline API For Advanced Color Management On Linux
One of the Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) patch series that has long been in the works is on a standardized Color Pipeline API. This is for improving advanced color management handling on Linux and aligns with what Valve and Igalia engineers have...
2025-08-15 06:21
Ubuntu 25.10 Enters Its Feature Freeze Period
As of today the Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" is now under a feature freeze ahead of the stable release due out in October...
2025-08-15 06:06
Report: Trump admin considering stake in Intel
About a week after President Trump urged Intel's CEO to resign, a new report claims his administration is in direct talks to take a stake in the company. Read more...
2025-08-15 04:06
WhatsApp beta will show recent status viewers and privacy quicker
WhatsApp is working on a new feature that will make it quicker to view recent status viewers and check the privacy setting for those statuses. Read more...
2025-08-15 03:50
Ghostty Terminal Rewrites its GTK Build to Fix Linux Issues
Ghostty terminal has undergone a GTK rewrite, embracing the GObject type system. The result: new features, better memory management, and improved stability. You're reading Ghostty Terminal Rewrites its GTK Build to Fix Linux Issues, a blog post from OM...
2025-08-15 02:09
Ghostty Terminal Rewrites GTK Build to Fix Linux Issues
Ghostty terminal has undergone a GTK rewrite, embracing the GObject type system. The result: new features, better memory management, and improved stability. You're reading Ghostty Terminal Rewrites GTK Build to Fix Linux Issues, a blog post from OMG! U...
2025-08-15 02:09
Apple trained an LLM to teach itself good interface design in SwiftUI
In a new study, a group of Apple researchers describe a very interesting approach they took to, basically, get an open-source model to teach itself how to build good interfaces in SwiftUI. Here’s how they did it more…
2025-08-15 00:21
Apple trained an LLM to teach itself good UI code in SwiftUI
In a new study, a group of Apple researchers describe a very interesting approach they took to, basically, get an open-source model to teach itself how to build good user interface code in SwiftUI. Here’s how they did it. more…
2025-08-15 00:21