Operating Systems

KDE is removing all of the colorful third-party app icons from its Breeze icon theme
The latest "This Week in Plasma" update from KDE focuses less on new features and more on fixes, performance tweaks, and the removal of colorful third-party app icons from Breeze. Read more...
2025-08-16 11:30
Apple @ Work: Apple won’t fix enterprise macOS backups, but Backblaze will
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2025-08-16 10:00
Weekend PC Game Deals: 4X to strategize, bundled action hits, and indie freebies
This weekend's PC game deals include a couple of fresh bundles to peruse, two freebies to claim, genre-specific specials, and much more. Read more...
2025-08-16 09:30
Linux 6.16.1 Fixes A Large Intel GPU Driver Performance Regression - Up To 30%
Released on Friday were the Linux 6.16.1 and Linux 6.15.10 stable kernel point releases. Notable there is an Intel i915 kernel graphics driver performance regression fix with some users having reported as much as a 30% performance hit on prior Linux ke...
2025-08-16 08:53
OpenAI employees to sell $6 billion in shares to investors
Current and former OpenAI employees are in talks with a group of investors to sell $6 billion worth of their shares. Read more...
2025-08-16 08:22
GNOME Disks Continues Being Ported To Rust
In addition to yesterday's GNOME 49 beta release marking the 28th birthday of GNOME, a lot of other exciting GNOME developments materialized this week...
2025-08-16 06:45
UK to trial AI agents for public services, starting in 2027
The UK is looking to use agentic AI to make people's live easier. It envisions AI filling out forms for you, and helping you with your career. Read more...
2025-08-16 06:32
Wine-Staging 10.13 Adds Patch For 13 Year Old Bug
Building off yesterday's Wine 10.13 release following the month-long summer release hiatus, Wine-Staging 10.13 is out today with some 300 patches atop the upstream codebase...
2025-08-16 06:21
KDE Breeze Drops Colorful Third-Party App Icons, Plasma Adds Plug-In Device Notification
KDE Plasma developers this week focused a lot on improving performance, fixing bugs, and enhancing the user interface. KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly report to highlight all of these interesting Plasma changes for the week...
2025-08-16 06:05
Deadline Extended Call for Host openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026
Deadline Extended: Call for Host – openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 The openSUSE.Asia Summit Organizing Committee has extended the deadline for the Call for Host to submit proposals for the 2026 Summit. Communities now have until August 20, 2025 to apply. T...
2025-08-16 05:00
Kiro (Agentic AI) Limits Downloads, Introduces Paid Tiers
Usage tiers have been announced for Kiro, the ‘agentic’ AI IDE built on Code by a team at Amazon AWS — and bad news if you use it: they’re now in effect. I spotlighted the preview release of Kiro in mid-july, since the launch of an Amazon-backe...
2025-08-16 02:54
Kiro (Agentic AI IDE) Tightens Free Access, Adds Paid Tiers
Kiro, an IDE with AI-powered agentic features, has announced pricing tiers with usage limits and restricted new downloads by implementing a waitlist. You're reading Kiro (Agentic AI IDE) Tightens Free Access, Adds Paid Tiers, a blog post from OMG! Ubun...
2025-08-16 02:54
You can now grab 3D holograms with your bare hands for real, there is no trickery
Science researchers develop floating 3D holographic visuals you can see and physically interact with, and it is completely real. Read more...
2025-08-15 23:46
I can't believe my eyes — Microsoft might finally fix dark mode on Windows 11
The latest Windows 11 preview builds include an early glimpse at renewed work to add dark mode in more areas of the system, starting with File Explorer.
2025-08-15 23:44
"Why abandon your game's identity?" — A vocal minority is trashing Battlefield 6, but I'm having a blast with the open beta
Battlefield 6 kicked off its second open beta weekend on Thursday, August 14, and some of the hype I saw during the first weekend has died down. Despite the game being trashed by a vocal minority, I'm having a ton of fun.
2025-08-15 23:08
Deal too good to be true? Samsung Neo QLED 2025 4K HDR+ Dolby Atmos TV is massive $1000 off
Samsung's 75-inch Neo QLED smart TV that is packed with great features like Dolby Atmos, HDR+ and more, is a massive $1000 off. Read more...
2025-08-15 23:00
Popular car brand wants you to pay monthly to unlock more horsepower
Monthly subscriptions are everywhere these days, and now one major car brand wants you to pay for a plan that unlocks extra horsepower in certain models. Read more...
2025-08-15 22:44
Morgan Stanley says Apple stock could be ‘turning the corner’ on strong iPhone demand
Despite a recent 15% bump, following positive Q3 2025 results and a stunt that brought it tariff relief, Apple’s stock is still 5% in the red for the year. But in a recently published investor note, Morgan Stanley says it believes momentum will keep ...
2025-08-15 22:29
9to5Mac Daily: August 15, 2025 – iOS 16 animations, Apple chip leak
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by ...
2025-08-15 22:20
9to5Mac Daily: August 15, 2025 – iOS 26 animations, Apple chip leak
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by ...
2025-08-15 22:20