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Google further guts the Android Open Source Project by deprecating the dialer and messaging apps
Itâs no secret that the Android Open Source Project has been languishing compared to the distributions (?) of Android that are actually being used by Google itself (on their Pixel phones) and OEMs such as Samsung, Sony, and others. Now, it seems Google has taken a pretty substantial step in further gutting AOSP â it has deprecated both the ⌠â Read more
Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
Edge has a built-in image enhancement tool that, according to Microsoft, can use âsuper-resolution to improve clarity, sharpness, lighting, and contrast in images on the web.â Although the feature sounds exciting, recent Microsoft Edge Canary updates have provided more information on how image enhancement works. The browser now warns that it sends image links to Microsoft instead of performing on-device enhancements. The biggest problem w ⌠â Read more
Debian GNU/Hurd 2023 released
It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2023. This is a snapshot of Debian âsidâ at the time of the stable Debian âbookwormâ release (June 2023), so it is mostly based on the same sources. It is not an official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release. Debian GNU/Hurd is probably the easiest, most accessible way to try out Hurd. â Read more
Debian 12 released
After 1 year, 9 months, and 28 days of development, the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 12 (code name bookworm). The biggest change conceptually is that Debian now includes a non-free-firmware package area, and the Debian project from here on out will allow non-free firmware to be included on installation media. For the rest, a new Debian release is exactly as youâd expect â all the latest versions of packages, and it will serve as the base for an immense number of po ⌠â Read more
Windows 11âs latest endearing mess rigorously and wrongly enforces Britishisms
For those of you a little confused about what a postcode is, itâs effectively the same as a US zip code; a way of distilling a postal address down to but a few characters. Hence why some rogue auto-translate function in Windows 11 is occasionally switching âzipâ to âpostcodeâ in the UKâs Windows menus. As a translator myself, this is easy enough to explain. Either weâre lookin ⌠â Read more
Chrome gets new mid-tier compiler: Maglev
Weâre bringing a new mid-tier compiler to Chrome. Maglev is a just-in-time compiler that can quickly generate performant machine code for all relevant functions within the first one-hundredth of a second. It reduces overall CPU time to compile code while also saving battery life. Our measurements show Maglev has provided a 7.5 percent improvement on Jetstream and a 5 percent improvement in Speedometer. Maglev will start rolling out in Chrome version ⌠â Read more
Appleâs Game Porting Toolkit is Wine
From CrossOverâs blog: Apple revealed their new Game Porting Toolkit today at WWDC. This Toolkit is designed to allow Windows game developers a way to easily and quickly determine how well their game could run on macOS, with the ultimate goal of facilitating the creation of Mac game ports. We are ecstatic that Apple chose to use CrossOverâs source code as their emulation solution for the Game Porting Toolkit. We have decades of experience creating ports with ⌠â Read more
Linux on the 7th generation of consoles: the Xbox 360
Back in March I came home for spring break and quickly found myself motivated to do something dumb with Linux but there was an issue, all of my stuff was back in my dorm. The only thing I really had was a hard modded Xbox 360, an old monitor, and an even older keyboard. I knew what I had to do. Of course. â Read more
Apple reveals Vision Pro, available for $3,499 âearly next yearâ
After years of speculation, leaks, rumors, setbacks, and rumblings of amazing behind-the-scenes demos, Apple has made its plans for a mixed reality platform and headset public. Vision Pro is âthe first Apple Product you look through, not at,â Appleâs Tim Cook said, a ânew AR platform with a new productâ that augments reality by seamlessly blending the real world with the digital world. The headset will start ⌠â Read more
Apple unveils macOS Sonoma
Apple today announced macOS Sonoma, the latest version of its Mac operating system. Launching this fall, macOS Sonoma includes several new features, including desktop widgets, Apple TV-like aerial screensavers, enhancements to apps like Messages and Safari, a new Game mode that prioritizes CPU and GPU performance for gaming, and more. Apple also showed off iOS 17, watchOS 10, and iPadOS 17. âiOS 17â features personalized contact posters with photos, Memojis, and eye-catching ty ⌠â Read more
This is the new Apple Silicon Mac Pro
The Mac Pro might not look different from its predecessor on the outside, but on the inside, Intelâs Xeon CPU and AMDâs Radeon Pro graphics are gone, and in their place we have a new chip called the M2 Ultra. This is the same chip in the new Mac Studio; it has a 24-core CPU and an up to 76-core GPU, and it starts with twice the memory and SSD storage of the old Mac Pro. Apple promises it will be â3x fasterâ than the Intel Mac Pro. Memory tops out at 192GB. ⌠â Read more
Windows 11âs redesigned File Explorer leaks online, hereâs our closer look
At Build 2023 developer conference, Microsoft finally teased the all-new modern File Explorer refresh. Itâs unclear when the update is coming out, but we have accessed an early and unreleased version of the new File Explorer that mirrors what was teased at the conference. This definitely looks like a marked improvement over the aging current File Explorer, which isnât very hard to do. I ⌠â Read more
Red Hat stops packaging LibreOffice as RPM for RHEL and Fedora, suggests Flatpak instead
The tradeoff is that we are pivoting away from work we had been doing on desktop applications and will cease shipping LibreOffice as part of RHEL starting in a future RHEL version. This also limits our ability to maintain it in future versions of Fedora. We will continue to maintain LibreOffice in currently supported versions of RHEL (RHEL 7, 8 and 9) with ⌠â Read more
IceWM 3.4.0 released
IceWM 3.4.0 might as well be called the Keybinding Update, since virtually all changes are related to them in some way. This release adds support for keybindings to literal Latin-1 characters, all UTF-8 code points in keybindings, and more. â Read more