Oracle releases experimental next-gen kernel build
UEK-next is bleeding edge – unlike most CentOS-alikes
OSes05 Jul 2024 | 12
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Experimental Mir-based tiling WM is winning acceptance outside Ubuntopia
Miracle-WM takes several more steps forward
OSes04 Jul 2024 | 15
Linux Mint 22 beta sprinkles Cinnamon desktop on Ubuntu
Taste at your own risk
OSes03 Jul 2024 | 7
FreeDOS and FreeBSD prove old code never dies, just gets nifty updates
Anniversary time and both are going strong into their 30s
OSes02 Jul 2024 | 52
Windows: Insecure by design
Opinion Get your hands off my computer, Microsoft!
OSes28 Jun 2024 | 206
Apple crippled watchOS to corner heart-tracking market, doctors say
Normally it's the iGiant's prices that give the ol' ticker a hard time
Personal Tech28 Jun 2024 | 13
Microsoft yanks Windows 11 update after boot loop blunder
Tour of recovery options not supposed to be part of KB5039302
OSes27 Jun 2024 | 34
SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 to receive support right up to end of Unix epoch
And there's a special offer on the CentOS-compatible Liberty Linux
OSes26 Jun 2024 | 10
Apple tells emulator developers it's OK with retro games – not entire OSes
Updated We sure hope this won't upset European regulators given how great their relationship is with Apple right now
OSes26 Jun 2024 | 21
Andrew Tanenbaum honored for pioneering MINIX, the OS hiding in a lot of computers
Software System Award recognises his contributions to education
OSes25 Jun 2024 | 49
Linux geeks cheer as Arm wrestles x86
AlmaLinux and upstream kernel support for Raspberry Pi 5, plus a forthcoming high-performance Arm64 Tuxedo laptop
OSes24 Jun 2024 | 23
It's desktop refresh season in the land of the Windowsalikes
Those with curious disposition spoilt for choice as KDE 6.1, Cinnamon 6.2, and IceWM 3.5 all arrive
OSes24 Jun 2024 | 22
Apple Intelligence won't be available in Europe because Tim's terrified of watchdogs
These privacy rules might harm privacy! No, really, that's totally why we're doing this
AI + ML21 Jun 2024 | 65
Valkey gains momentum with broadening band of backers
AlmaLinux and Broadcom added to list of partners for open source Redis fork
OSes19 Jun 2024 |
Microsoft admits to problems upgrading Windows 11 Pro to Enterprise
Recent patches have broken the update path
OSes19 Jun 2024 | 12
GPU-accelerated VMs on Proxmox, XCP-ng? Here's what you need to know
Hands on Go ahead, toss that old gaming card in your box and boost your AI applications — you know you want to
AI + ML19 Jun 2024 | 14
That PowerShell 'fix' for your root cert 'problem' is a malware loader in disguise
Control-C, Control-V, Enter ... Hell
Research19 Jun 2024 | 18
CentOS 7 holdouts thrown a support lifeline by SUSE
Liberty Linux Lite to keep the updates coming for a few more years ... for a fee
OSes18 Jun 2024 | 12
Ada and Zangemann: Fancy reading your kids a book about FOSS?
Devconf.cz It's not every tech conference that has story-reading sessions… but maybe they should
OSes18 Jun 2024 | 10
Arm security defense shattered by speculative execution 95% of the time
'TikTag' security folks find anti-exploit mechanism rather fragile
Research18 Jun 2024 | 27
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Ransomware scum who hit Indonesian government apologizes, hands over encryption key
Brain Cipher was never getting the $8 million it demanded anyway
ITER delays first plasma for world's biggest fusion power rig by a decade
Who could have guessed that giant magnets capable of constraining mini-suns would be hard to build?
Europol says mobile roaming tech is making its job too hard
Privacy measures apparently helping criminals evade capture
Db2 is a story worth telling, even if IBM won't
Opinion Promise of AI features, but Big Blue won't reveal much more about next steps of its highly regarded relational database
Europol nukes nearly 600 IP addresses in Cobalt Strike crackdown
Private sector helped out with week-long operation – but didn't touch China
Innocent techie jailed for taking hours to fix storage
On Call Hello, hello … what have we here? One very dangerous storage admin, if I'm not mistaken
Experimental Mir-based tiling WM is winning acceptance outside Ubuntopia
Miracle-WM takes several more steps forward
Australia to build Top Secret cloud in AWS for military and spooky users
Interoperability with US infrastructure a big selling point
Row erupts over data sharing function in UK doctor software
Union advises members to turn off features government introduced to allow third parties to update records
Latest Ghostscript vulnerability haunts experts as the next big breach enabler
There's also chatter about whether medium severity scare is actually code red nightmare
STORIES
Microsoft resumes rollout of Windows 11 24H2 to Insiders
Everything is fine, despite Recall setting fire to the house that Gates built
OSes17 Jun 2024 | 15
Microsoft answered Congress' questions on security. Now the White House needs to act
Feature Business as usual needs a real change
Public Sector15 Jun 2024 | 45
Microsoft cancels universal Recall release in favor of Windows Insider preview
Wider release coming real soon – promise – after the Windows faithful give it a thrashing
OSes14 Jun 2024 | 52
Google borrows from Android to make ChromeOS better
'Large portions' of droid tech stack going into laptop OS plumbing
OSes12 Jun 2024 | 7
At Apple, AI stands for 'Apple Intelligence' – and it's coming to everything
WWDC Cupertino promises private smarts, on-device or in the cloud
AI + ML10 Jun 2024 | 53
Microsoft pulls Windows 11 24H2 from Insider Release Preview Channel
Recall controversies, performance problems, apps freezing as some call it 'disastrous'
OSes10 Jun 2024 | 58
Disenchanted Windows user? Pop open a fresh can of Linux Lite
Version 7.0 has landed – the Ubuntu Noble based one
OSes10 Jun 2024 | 78
Defiant Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial Recall – tho as an opt-in
Windows maker acknowledges 'clear signal' from everyone, then mostly ignores it
OSes07 Jun 2024 | 82
Microsoft updates accessibility feature Voice Access to auto-restart
How do you say something's crash-prone without saying it's crash-prone ...
OSes07 Jun 2024 | 6
Real-time and Core editions of Ubuntu arrive
And it's time to upgrade any Mantic Minotaurs you have lying around
OSes07 Jun 2024 | 7
Lansweeper finds a lot of CentOS Linux out there
Network scan reveals 26 percent of Linux boxes are CentOS 7, EOL later this month. What happens next?
OSes06 Jun 2024 | 42
Microsoft Research chief scientist has no issue with Windows Recall
As tool emerges to probe OS feature's SQLite-based store of user activities
OSes06 Jun 2024 | 114
Microsoft revives Windows 10 Beta Channel even though OS doesn't have long left
Windows Insiders set to get first hands on feature updates
OSes05 Jun 2024 | 13
Windows 11 and Linux gain ground among Steam gamers
Windows 10 still king of the hill for now
OSes04 Jun 2024 | 14
Analysts join the call for Microsoft to recall Recall
'Does any of this add real value for users or enterprises?'
OSes04 Jun 2024 | 55
Windows 11 tries to escape Windows 10's shadow with AI muscle
Edge cements its number two position for desktop browsers
OSes04 Jun 2024 | 62
Court accepts Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim's insider trading settlement
Billionaire Arista chief architect to pay inconsequential sum via SEC
Networks03 Jun 2024 | 7
Windows 11's Recall feature is on by default on Copilot+ PCs
Disabling the AI snapshotter requires a trip into Settings for ordinary users
OSes03 Jun 2024 | 43
Windows Subsystem for Linux gets enterprise friendly and plans a settings interface
Scared of editing a config file? There'll soon be a GUI for that
OSes31 May 2024 | 26
Endless OS 6: How desktop Linux may look, one day
An extra-robust, novice-friendly distro, with local apps, that's not ChromeOS
OSes31 May 2024 | 75
Windows 11 24H2 might call time on that old NAS under the stairs
Avoidance of evil intent means required SMB signing and no more guest fallback
OSes30 May 2024 | 76
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AlmaLinux 8.10 released as end of the RHEL 8 line looms
Some derivatives haven't got there yet, but it's time to get a move on...
OSes29 May 2024 | 8
Fancy climbing the peaks of Alpine Linux? 3.20 is out
Tiny, powerful, uncluttered: not easy, but a lot to like
OSes29 May 2024 | 14
Not even Chromebooks can escape AI PC craze: Google to inject Plus laptops with LLM juice
New models will come with a year of Gemini Advanced, too
Personal Tech28 May 2024 | 5
Microsoft's Recall preview doesn't need a Copilot+ PC to run
Just because you could doesn't mean you should
OSes28 May 2024 | 55
Was there no one at Microsoft who looked at Recall and said: This really, really sucks
Kettle Our vultures weigh in on the week that was more 'what we Built' than 'what you can Build'
OSes25 May 2024 | 75
Ubuntu 24.04 upgrades available – to Mantic users
Enjoy some Noble Numbat novelty now – but excluding GNOME 46.1
OSes24 May 2024 | 15
Microsoft fixes the fix for the Windows Server 2019 NTLM problem
Installation problems with non-English language systems resolved
OSes24 May 2024 | 10
Manjaro 24 is Arch Linux for the rest of us
Because not everyone has time to be a tech guru
OSes24 May 2024 | 42
Here's yet more ransomware using BitLocker against Microsoft's own users
Updated ShrinkLocker throws steel and vaccine makers into the hurt locker
Malware Month23 May 2024 | 4
Microsoft gives Windows admins a break and MFA a hard push
Updates now optional, but Azure security is not
Software23 May 2024 | 5
VBScript nudged nearer to the grave with next big Windows 11 update
The writing's on the wall for veteran scripting language
OSes23 May 2024 | 30
GNU Compiler Collection 15 ushers Xeon Phi and Solaris 11.3 to silicon heaven
Remember Intel's 'Larrabee' many-core Pentium-based GPU? GCC doesn't
OSes23 May 2024 | 5
In Debian, APT 3 gains features – but KeepassXC loses them
'Sid' is looking a little sickly of late, but it will pass
OSes22 May 2024 | 27
MX Linux updates Libretto, belts out 23.3, based on Debian 12.5
Includes a Raspberry Pi version, which works well on the Pi 5
OSes21 May 2024 | 10
Long-term supported distros' kernel policies are all wrong
Comment Or so says CIQ, which coincidentally has issues obtaining RHEL's kernel sources
OSes21 May 2024 | 36
Put Rescuezilla 2.5 on a bootable key – before you need it
Sort of a FOSS Norton Ghost, now updated to Ubuntu 24.04 base
OSes16 May 2024 | 25
With Asmi 24.04, Ubuntu's never looked so snappy (without the Snaps)
Distro formerly known as Zinc cuts the fat, rather than just replacing it
OSes15 May 2024 | 28
Google, Apple gear to raise tracking tag stalker alarm
After years of people being victimized, it's about time
Personal Tech14 May 2024 | 28
Nix forked, but over politics instead of progress
Comment Aux.computer fragments the community – but doesn't fix the technological objections
OSes14 May 2024 | 43
Brit publishers beg Apple not to hurt online ad revenue
Breaking news, perhaps literally: AI content blocking tool in Safari for iOS
Personal Tech14 May 2024 | 38
Linux 6.9 arrives, plus Torvalds indicates Arm64 will get a bit more love
And the windows are opened to 6.10 in September or so
OSes13 May 2024 | 20
The end is nigh for Windows 10 21H2
Time for 22H2, the LTSC version, or perhaps something completely different?
OSes13 May 2024 | 21
Fedora Asahi Remix 40 served on Apple Silicon
First big update of the go-to Linux for newer Macs
OSes10 May 2024 | 16
Experimental remix finally brings the former Unity 8 back to Ubuntu
Ubuntu Unity 24.04 arrives along with new little sibling, Ubuntu Lomiri
OSes09 May 2024 | 14
Windows Insiders to fly solo while Copilot rollout frozen
Perhaps just make sure the stuff that is already there works properly?
OSes07 May 2024 | 15
First 9front release of the year is called DO NOT INSTALL
Possibly its most helpful codename yet
OSes07 May 2024 | 18
Has Windows 11 really lost marketshare to Windows 10?
Users continue to give Microsoft's latest and greatest a wide berth
OSes06 May 2024 | 115
RHEL stays fresh with 9.4 while CentOS 7 gets a Rocky retirement plan
Meanwhile, Alma Linux gets into supercomputers
OSes03 May 2024 | 17
Windows users left to fend for themselves after BitLocker patch bungle
Need a bigger partition for the update? You'll be manually resizing it then
OSes03 May 2024 | 70
Dozens of vulnerabilities fixed in Xiaomi, Google Android flavors … slowly
Oversecure details bugs spotted and stamped since private disclosure
OSes02 May 2024 | 2
Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, literally, something else
V5.30 arrives – with RPi Wi-Fi support
OSes02 May 2024 | 93
Microsoft confesses April Windows update breaks some VPN connections
Connection failures reported following installation
OSes01 May 2024 | 39
Xubuntu 24.04: A minimal install that does what it says on the tin
This nearly Snap-free Ubuntu remix may be about about to win friends and influence people
OSes30 Apr 2024 | 14
Google blocked 2.3M apps from Play Store last year for breaking the G law
Third of a million developer accounts kiboshed, too
OSes29 Apr 2024 | 6
Apple's pleas ineffective: iPadOS on EU's gatekeeper list
iFought the law, but the law wasn't particularly interested in my line of reasoning
OSes29 Apr 2024 | 6
Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 40, EndeavourOS, and TrueNAS 24.04 all arrive at once
FOSS round-up Sometimes Linux releases are like buses… frequently clustered together, and rarely as reliable as you might ideally want
OSes29 Apr 2024 | 15
Now all Windows 11 users are getting adverts to 'make the Start menu great again'
And you thought the Bing begging was annoying
OSes24 Apr 2024 | 106
Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs
Even tighter requirements, so it's time to put old hardware out to pasture... or find an alternative OS
OSes23 Apr 2024 | 255
Huawei wants to take homegrown HarmonyOS phone platform worldwide
Chinese tech juggernaut eyes global expansion despite US tech restrictions
OSes22 Apr 2024 | 35
Tiny11 Builder trims Windows 11 fat with PowerShell script
The Reg accepts no responsibility for borked installations
OSes22 Apr 2024 | 9
Fedora 40 is just around the corner with more spins and flavors than ever
KDE edition has the most conspicuous changes, and could become future flagship
OSes22 Apr 2024 | 4
Copilot auto-launch bug now takes flight in multiple Windows Insider channels
Clippy 2024 is something else
OSes22 Apr 2024 | 11
Rarest, strangest, form of Windows saved techie from moment of security madness
Who, Me? For once, Redmond's finest saved the day – by being rubbish in unexpectedly useful ways
Security22 Apr 2024 | 93
Lightweight LXQt 2.0.0 updates to same toolkit as KDE Plasma 6
4-letter survivor's move to Qt 6 means that, love it or hate it, Wayland is looming
OSes20 Apr 2024 | 18
Qt Ubuntu 24.04 betas show that there's room to innovate
Hot on the heels of Ubuntu Noble beta come the betas of the Qt-based remixes, with some interesting differences
OSes19 Apr 2024 | 38
Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color, squishes ancient bug
2.9 gives a taste of what's to come
OSes18 Apr 2024 | 39
AlmaLinux 9.4 beta prepares to tread where RHEL dares not
CIQ also has an alternative approach to compatible kernels with RockyLinux
OSes17 Apr 2024 | 6
NetBSD 10 proves old tech can still kick apps and take names three decades later
FOSDEM 2024 Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types
OSes17 Apr 2024 | 40
Gentoo Linux tells AI-generated code contributions to fork off
A good PR move opines community member
OSes16 Apr 2024 | 22
Torvalds intentionally complicates his use of indentation in Linux Kconfig
Paramount penguin forces more robust whitespace handling
OSes16 Apr 2024 | 90
Microsoft lifts years-old compatibility hold for Windows 11
It probably wasn't only sound driver problems that kept users away
OSes15 Apr 2024 | 13
Microsoft to use Windows 11 Start menu as a billboard with app ads for Insiders
This wasn't what most had in mind when Redmond promised to make the feature 'great again'
OSes15 Apr 2024 | 111
After delay due to xz, Ubuntu 24.04 'Noble Numbat' belatedly hits beta
Kernel 6.8, GNOME 46, and more apps in Snap packages
OSes15 Apr 2024 | 30
MIT breakthrough means there's no material too weird for 3D printing
Thanks to sensors and math, machines can 'learn' to adapt to new mediums
OSes15 Apr 2024 | 18
OpenBSD 7.5 locks down with improved disk encryption support and syscall limitations
The most secure Unix-like OS to date?
OSes12 Apr 2024 | 51
PumpkinOS carves out a FOSS PalmOS-compatible runtime environment
And rePalm may yet bring real PalmOS to new hardware … even the Raspberry Pi
OSes11 Apr 2024 | 13
It's 2024 and Intel silicon is still haunted by data-spilling Spectre
Go, go InSpectre Gadget
Research10 Apr 2024 | 23
A cheeky intern nearly turned MS-DOS into NSFW-DOS
Easter egg in test build could have scrambled Microsoft's reputation
OSes08 Apr 2024 | 48
Windows 95 support chap skipped a step and sent user into Micro-hell
Who, Me? Every byte, and executable, counted when trying to fix Redmond's finest
OSes08 Apr 2024 | 79
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