Operating Systems

System76 Thelio Astra Reviewed: High-End ARM64 Developer Desktop
System76 is announcing one of their most innovative and interesting products going back to their Launch Configurable Keyboard and HP Dev One collaboration: the System76 Thelio Astra. The Thelio Astra is a high-end ARM64 desktop system geared for develo...
2024-10-22 11:00
Meta testing Face ID-like video selfie to recover your Instagram or Facebook account
Meta is testing facial recognition as a way of letting you instantly recover your Instagram or Facebook account if you find yourself locked out. The process of submitting a video selfie looks much the same as that used to register for Face ID, requirin...
2024-10-22 10:53
Qualcomm teases what performance we might expect from its 2nd Gen Snapdragon X Elite, and it looks like we're in for a treat
Qualcomm has made some early claims about the performance of its next Snapdragon X Elite for Windows laptops, and it's looking pretty incredible.
2024-10-22 10:41
Qualcomm teases its 2nd Gen Snapdragon X Elite performance, and it looks like we're in for a treat
Qualcomm has made some early claims about the performance of its next Snapdragon X Elite for Windows laptops, and it's looking pretty incredible.
2024-10-22 10:41
Meta suspends user accounts on Instagram and Threads that track celebrity private jets
Users who run these accounts have found that they have been suspended on Instagram and Threads today. Read more...
2024-10-22 10:40
Apple @ Work Podcast: JNUC recap
Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & pro...
2024-10-22 10:04
Sea of Thieves' new crouching and disguise features disabled as Rare fights rising bugs
Season 14 of Sea of Thieves is not off to a great start, as Rare has announced even more features are being disabled to tackle bugs. Read more...
2024-10-22 09:40
NVIDIA R565 Linux Driver Beta Brings Improvements For Wayland, DMA-BUF & VKD3D
The first NVIDIA R565 series Linux driver beta was released this morning in the form of the NVIDIA 565.57.01 driver release...
2024-10-22 09:30
Netflix shuts down its AAA game studio in California that had God of War, Halo talent
The team that Netflix was putting together to build a multi-platform AAA game has been shut down, according to a report. It had members from Halo, God of War, and Overwatch spaces. Read more...
2024-10-22 09:06
Will Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 have a Zombies mode?
Treyarch Studios has announced that Zombies will once again be a part of Call of Duty, and shared new details on the return of the round-based cooperative mode.
2024-10-22 08:56
AMD releases new Windows 11/10 chipset driver for Ryzen 9000, 8000, 7000, 5000, 3000, more
AMD has released a new chipset driver for Ryzen and it brings support for an important hardware security feature. Read more...
2024-10-22 08:14
Intel Preps GCC Compiler For New AMX & ISA Features Ahead Of Diamond Rapids
Intel's compiler engineers today posted a number of feature patches for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for enabling new ISA features to be found with next-generation Xeon "Diamond Rapids" processors. Excitingly a number of new Advanced Matrix Extens...
2024-10-22 08:00
Gemini could soon let you make calls and send texts while the phone is locked
Google is working on a new feature that will allow Gemini users to make calls and send texts even if the phone is locked. Read more...
2024-10-22 07:30
Find My Device app now gives you a biometric login option for quicker access
With the latest update to the Find My Device app, Google has added the option to use biometrics for quicker and more secure access. Read more...
2024-10-22 06:56
Intel Compute Runtime 24.39.31294.12 Fixes Lunar Lake OpenCL, Disables Ice Lake & Older
Intel Compute Runtime 24.39.31294.12 was released on Monday as the newest update to this open-source Intel integrated/discrete graphics compute stack for providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support for their hardware on Windows and Linux...
2024-10-22 06:46
Meta is cracking down on celebrity morphed fraud ads with facial recognition tech
Meta is combating fraud ads that exploit celebrity images and mislead users into clicking on links that might lead to scams by bringing back facial recognition technology on its platforms. Read more...
2024-10-22 06:40
Suggestion Raised For Using PGO + LLVM BOLT To Optimize More Fedora Packages
Outside of the likes of the Arch Linux based CachyOS and Intel's Clear Linux there aren't too many distributions that widely rely on aggressive compiler optimizations in the name of bettering the system performance. A suggestion was raised recently tho...
2024-10-22 06:33
Foursquare announces that its shutting its city guide app, focusing on Swarm
Location check-in app Swarm will be its main focus beyond 2024, with the original app sunsetting in December. Read more...
2024-10-22 06:26
Wasmer 5.0-rc1 Adds Experimental Support For WASM, Interpreter Mode Support
For those interested in the prospects of WebAssembly for being able to write "universal apps" that can run anywhere, Wasmer as one of the leading WASM runtimes is closing in on its v5.0 feature release...
2024-10-22 06:16
Wasmer 5.0-rc1 Adds Experimental Support For WASMI, Interpreter Mode Support
For those interested in the prospects of WebAssembly for being able to write "universal apps" that can run anywhere, Wasmer as one of the leading WASM runtimes is closing in on its v5.0 feature release...
2024-10-22 06:16