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Would you trust Google to remain committed to Android on laptops and desktops?, Posted on: 09/25/2025
The idea of /usr/sbin has failed in practice, Posted on: 09/19/2025
The idea of /usr/sbin has failed in practice, Posted on: 09/16/2025
Windows/386’s check for buggy 386 chips survived until Windows 8.1, Posted on: 09/11/2025
It turns out Nokia’s legendary font makes for a great general user interface font, Posted on: 08/30/2025
The EU needs a corporate “open source contribution tax” to fund open source maintainers, Posted on: 08/28/2025
“Why I prefer human-readable file formats”, Posted on: 08/09/2025
Age verification: what’s the harm?, Posted on: 08/09/2025
Age verification: what’s the harm?, Posted on: 08/08/2025
Asterinas: a new Linux-compatible kernel project, Posted on: 06/24/2025
Cosmoe, BeOS/Haiku on Linux, returns from 18 year hiatus, Posted on: 06/21/2025
“AI” coding chatbot funded by Microsoft were Actually Indians, Posted on: 06/04/2025
Apple said to switch to year to identify releases of its operating systems, Posted on: 05/29/2025
With how user-hostile Windows and macOS are, is it any wonder people long for computers from the ’80s and ’90s?, Posted on: 05/19/2025
Accessibility on Linux sucks, but GNOME and KDE are making progress, Posted on: 05/15/2025
GTK markup language Blueprint becomes part of GNOME, Posted on: 05/05/2025
EU fines TikTok token amount of €530 million for gross privacy violations, Posted on: 05/03/2025
ActiveX disabled by default in Microsoft 365, Posted on: 04/17/2025
The captchas have become sentient: we’re working on fixing the captcha issue, Posted on: 04/16/2025
Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU kernel deep dive, Posted on: 04/08/2025
Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU kernel deep dive, Posted on: 04/08/2025
Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU kernel deep dive, Posted on: 04/07/2025
The seL4 microkernel: an introduction, Posted on: 03/26/2025
SoftBank acquires Ampere Computing, Posted on: 03/22/2025
Pebble unveils new devices, and strongly suggests you dump iOS for Android, Posted on: 03/18/2025
Pebble unveils new devices, and strongly suggests you dump iOS for Android, Posted on: 03/18/2025
Made O’Meter helps you easily and quickly avoid American products, Posted on: 03/07/2025
Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026, Posted on: 03/06/2025
Sailfish OS 5.0 released for all supported devices, Posted on: 02/24/2025
Humane is shutting down the AI Pin and selling its remnants to HP, Posted on: 02/19/2025
TuxTape: a kernel livepatching solution, Posted on: 02/06/2025
Run Linux inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator, Posted on: 02/03/2025
Building a (T1D) smartwatch from scratch, Posted on: 02/01/2025
Linux 6.14 with Rust: “We are almost at the ‘write a real driver in Rust’ stage now”, Posted on: 01/30/2025
Google announces it’s going to intentionally violate EU law, Posted on: 01/18/2025
The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM, Posted on: 01/05/2025
Apple Vision Pro may now be out of production, Posted on: 01/05/2025
The Moxie child support robot gets new lease on life through open source, Posted on: 12/24/2024
Intel admits it no longer controls the direction of x86, Posted on: 12/20/2024
There’s a market out there for a modern X11/Motif-based desktop distribution, Posted on: 12/16/2024
Google unveils Android XR for headsets and glasses, Posted on: 12/14/2024
A twenty-five year old curl bug, Posted on: 12/12/2024
Maker of emotional supports robots for kids abruptly shuts down, kills all the robots in the process, Posted on: 12/10/2024
Mozilla announces massive rebrand that mentions Firefox exactly once, Posted on: 12/06/2024
Convert NTFS to Btrfs and boot Windows off Btrfs, Posted on: 12/03/2024
Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% of its employees, ends advocacy for open web, privacy, and more, Posted on: 11/10/2024
From Proxmox to FreeBSD: story of a migration, Posted on: 11/06/2024
From Proxmox to FreeBSD: story of a migration, Posted on: 11/05/2024
Huawei’s Android-free ‘HarmonyOS NEXT’ will go live next week, Posted on: 10/17/2024
Google is killing its one-click app to run Chrome OS in a VM on Android devices, Posted on: 10/04/2024
Qualcomm wants to buy Intel, Posted on: 09/21/2024
Why Apple uses JPEG XL in the iPhone 16 and what it means for your photos, Posted on: 09/20/2024
A brief history of QuickTime, Posted on: 09/18/2024
Releasing Windows as open source is the only viable way forward for Microsoft, and it’s going happen, Posted on: 09/18/2024
Android applications can now block being sideloaded, Posted on: 09/12/2024
Redox 0.9.0 released, Posted on: 09/10/2024
A Windows Control Panel retrospective amidst a concerning UX shift, Posted on: 09/07/2024
What it takes to run The Witcher 3 on RISC-V, Posted on: 08/28/2024
What it takes to run The Witcher 3 on RISC-V, Posted on: 08/28/2024
Google to websites: let us train our AI on your content, or we’ll remove you from Google Search, Posted on: 08/21/2024
Windows can now create 2TB FAT32 file systems, Posted on: 08/17/2024
New Samsung phones block sideloading by default, Posted on: 07/24/2024
Managing Classic Mac OS resources in ResEdit, Posted on: 07/21/2024
Google is bringing Fuchsia OS to Android devices, but not in the way you’d think, Posted on: 07/08/2024
Google is bringing Fuchsia OS to Android devices, but not in the way you’d think, Posted on: 07/06/2024
Google is bringing Fuchsia OS to Android devices, but not in the way you’d think, Posted on: 07/06/2024
How dot matrix printers created text, Posted on: 07/03/2024
Looking ahead to 30 years of FreeDOS, Posted on: 06/25/2024
Mozilla acquires ad analytics company, for some reason, Posted on: 06/23/2024
The ExectOS operating system, Posted on: 06/21/2024
KDE Plasma 6.1 released, Posted on: 06/18/2024
Can you blow a PC speaker with a Linux kernel module?, Posted on: 06/15/2024
Canonical and DeepComputing announce new RISC-V laptop shipping with Ubuntu, Posted on: 06/14/2024
Servo sees another month full of improvements, Posted on: 05/31/2024
Help identify these obscure operating systems and vendors, Posted on: 05/31/2024
Google is killing off the messaging service inside Google Maps, Posted on: 05/31/2024
Google is killing off the messaging service inside Google Maps, Posted on: 05/29/2024
Writing a Unix clone in about a month, Posted on: 05/24/2024
Xeon Phi support removed in GCC 15 compiler, Posted on: 05/21/2024
Haiku isn’t a BeOS successor anymore, Posted on: 05/11/2024
Haiku isn’t a BeOS successor anymore, Posted on: 05/11/2024
The only viable Android and iOS competitor intends to leave China and go global, Posted on: 04/26/2024
Linus Torvalds really prefers tabs, Posted on: 04/18/2024
Linus Torvalds really prefers tabs, Posted on: 04/18/2024
Linux 6.10 to merge NTSYNC driver for emulating Windows NT synchronization primitives, Posted on: 04/14/2024
Google launches new Find My Device network on Android, Posted on: 04/09/2024
Google launches new Find My Device network on Android, Posted on: 04/09/2024
Google launches new Find My Device network on Android, Posted on: 04/09/2024
Floorp Firefox fork makes its modifications closed source due to forks, Posted on: 03/26/2024
“Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11, Posted on: 03/26/2024
HDMI Forum rejects open-source HDMI 2.1 driver support sought by AMD, Posted on: 03/02/2024
New Wear OS devices run two operating systems, Posted on: 03/02/2024
Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO, Posted on: 02/21/2024
Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO, Posted on: 02/20/2024
WoWMIPS: MIPS emulator for Windows, Posted on: 02/16/2024
The state of X.org and Wayland in one paragraph, Posted on: 02/12/2024
Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired, Posted on: 02/03/2024
Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired, Posted on: 02/02/2024
In loving memory of square checkbox, Posted on: 01/30/2024
Chrome for Windows and macOS gets experimentel “AI” features, Posted on: 01/25/2024