The PCI/PCIe subsystem improvements have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.4 merge window...... Read more »

Vulkan 1.4.366 is out and representing the past two weeks of specification fixes, clarifications, and one new Vulkan API extension...... Read more »

The release dance is underway for FFmpeg 9.1 as the newest feature release for this widely-used open-source multimedia library...... Read more »

The HID subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel that included a few new drivers...... Read more »

LibreSSL 4.4 released on Thursday as the newest release of this decade-old OpenSSL fork maintained by OpenBSD developers...... Read more »

As a follow-up to the article in September about a Linux patch for fixing under-reported AMD Zen 5 TLB sizes, that work is now merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel...... Read more »

Adding to all the exciting performance optimizations and other improvements for Linux 7.4 is an exciting workqueue improvement. It's not too often getting to talk about "10 to 100 times faster" software improvements...... Read more »

Fedora 45 wasn't released this week as its ideal early release target due to not having a release candidate build in time for last week's Go/No-Go meeting. At today's Go/No-Go meeting, Fedora 45 was delayed by at least one more week due to open blocker bugs...... Read more »

A request for comments (RFC) was sent out last night on the Linux kernel mailing list in seeking to clean-up the AMD Zen microarchitecture detection within the kernel. This is for enhancing the kernel where there are code paths specific to a certain generation of AMD Zen processors or select... Read more »

Back in August Modular's Mojo language was open-sourced following the acquisition of Chris Lattner's company by Qualcomm. The latest achievement now out of the company is their MAX software being fully opened up with the entire source tree available...... Read more »

The scheduler updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 7.4 kernel to deliver several nice scheduling enhancements...... Read more »

Linux user-space for several years had shadow stack support for hardware-enforced control-flow enforcement in defending against return oriented programming (ROP) attacks. Intel Tigerlake and newer CPUs or AMD Zen 3 and newer have the necessary hardware shadow stacks support. Shadow stacks have been effective for helping user-space software fend ROP... Read more »

The Mesa 3D graphics driver project has loosened its rules laid out in their AGENTS.md for AI agents to permit AI/LLM assistance in generating code comments and commit/patch messages, as long as a human is ultimately reviewing/editing it in the end...... Read more »

Myrlyn, the package manager GUI that began as YQPkg during a SUSE Hack Week and has evolved quite well, is out with version 1.1 as the first new feature update since the beginning of the year...... Read more »

Cisco differentiates with AI permeating every layer of the Cisco Webex platform and by owning the components supporting its products.... Read more »

HPE has announced a series of updates to its HPE AI Factory with Nvidia portfolio, aiming to support enterprises in deploying increasingly autonomous AI in hybrid and highly regulated environments.... Read more »

CoreWeave launched its Zero Trust AI Framework, a set of security controls designed to let customers oversee access to their own AI models.... Read more »

A New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay $25bn after a jury found the company misled consumers about data privacy.... Read more »

Salesforce has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Braze, a US-based company, in a transaction valued at approximately $5.66bn.... Read more »

Cognizant and Google Cloud have launched Gemini Frontier Capability Group to accelerate enterprise agentic AI adoption.... Read more »

Martyn Ditchburn, Zscaler CTO in residence says agentic SecOps offers a more scalable response in the AI era.... Read more »

US CSPs are digging deep for the AI boom, racing to build more fibre. Will AI deliver, or will some investors be left digging for profit?... Read more »

SOCRadar has introduced a new API suite designed to allow MSSPs more flexibility in how they access and deliver cyber threat intelligence.... Read more »

Huawei scheduled the presentation of the Enjoy 100 series and flagship Pura 90 Plus for October 28.... Read more »

The tab you've tapped at the bottom since 2017 is moving, and a new "+" button builds custom feeds from a text prompt. The feeds start in the US only.... Read more »

Xiaomi's Redmi brand promises 20-hour battery life from a 72Wh pack, but has said nothing about prices or sales outside China.... Read more »

Job listings reveal Elsewhere Entertainment's first game: a third-person open-world RPG where NPCs remember what you do.... Read more »

Factory-refurbished flagships start at $489 in the US, with a new battery and a one-year warranty. Buyers in the UK and Europe can't get them there yet.... Read more »

4A Games adds 4K textures, better lighting and DLSS support to both 2014 remasters. PC players have it now, and PS5 and Xbox Series owners follow on October 29.... Read more »

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 launched on October 23 for $69.99 or £59.99, with strong reviews and familiar multiplayer complaints. It isn't on Game Pass.... Read more »

A French leaker says Europe gets the Xiaomi 18 Pro and Pro Max with less battery and memory than China, at prices well above last year's.... Read more »

Counterpoint expects a 27% drop in Q4. Cheaper laptops are the first thing to disappear.... Read more »

A New Mexico judge sided with the only state that took the Cambridge Analytica case to trial. Meta says it will appeal.... Read more »

An Xbox source tells Kotaku the budget topped half a billion dollars, before marketing. Analysts estimate $37M in week-one sales.... Read more »

A polished trailer for the next Mass Effect surfaced hours after EA shut BioWare, and it ends with the words "coming soon".... Read more »

A new creator-only layout puts the button behind a menu. Viewers keep it where it is, YouTube told The Verge.... Read more »

Emails and IP addresses leaked, not card data. Expect phishing emails that pretend to come from Capcom.... Read more »

AMD has officially ported over the AMD Overclocking Driver (AOD) used by the popular AMD Ryzen Master Software to Linux, but it's not a complete port of Ryzen Master's feature set just yet. Currently, the initial version of the AMD AOD Linux... Read more »

DRAM is fundamentally different from logic. Logic cells are like those in your processor, and in that form, they're all the same sort of thing: switching transistors. DRAM is different because each cell is made up of a transistor and a capacitor,... Read more »

The gaming industry has been hit by wave after wave of layoffs and closures over the last few years, with little regard for their history. The latest on the chopping block is BioWare, which has released some of the most iconic video games of... Read more »

The Nintendo Switch 2 has just been jailbroken with arbitrary code execution via the software exploit called "ns2jb" that was developed by Sammy Hajhamid, aka @pepsipu on X/Twitter. While arbitrary code execution is present, ns2jb is still limited... Read more »

A PSA to management everywhere: the release of Grand Theft Auto VI on November 19 could cause a spike in employee time-offs or sick days, with some analysts warning that work absentees could cost the US economy $1 billion in lost productivity... Read more »

Apple’s entry into the foldable market with the $2,000 passport-style iPhone Duo is undoubtedly a big deal for the category, but early adopters might have to face a possible issue regarding the display's long-term durability and potential out-of-pocket... Read more »

If you're looking to get into PC gaming on a tight budget, Best Buy has a deal that is worth a look. Best Buy's 'Deal of the Day' has a cheap HP Victus gaming laptop that could fit the bill, provided you keep your expectations in check. It's... Read more »

Bose has acquired Skullcandy. Let that sink in for a minute—its sounds like an odd pairing, but it's actually not a bad idea. With Bose traditionally known as grandpa's headphone brand, the Farmington-based audio giant has been reinventing itself... Read more »

Shopping for a Samsung Galaxy phone doesn't necessarily mean paying flagship prices or rolling the dice on a used handset from a sketchy marketplace seller. In fact, it just got markedly easier. How so? Samsung is expanding the reach of its... Read more »

Some of Capcom's biggest games support cross-platform multiplayer, and those services have been underpinned by Capcom ID. If you play Exoprimal, Street Fighter 6, or a handful of other games, you should be aware that the company's services have... Read more »

Microsoft is giving Xbox Cloud Gaming users a way to stream games without a Game Pass subscription. Now rolling out in preview to Xbox Insiders, new "Cloud Playtime" packs introduce a prepaid, pay-as-you-go option that lets players purchase... Read more »

In a blog post and accompanying YouTube video, AMD has just revealed that it has finally brought its ML-powered upscaling technology, FSR 4.1, to Radeon RX 6000-series GPUs, Xbox Series X|S consoles, and to integrated graphics, including the... Read more »

CD Projekt Red is readying a new content drop based on the newly released season of the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime. Meanwhile, modders continue to do their thing as well, and a new project, spotted by PCGamesN, brings a taste of Grand Theft... Read more »

Sony just released system firmware 14.20 for its PlayStation 5 consoles, following reports that system firmware version 14.10 had already been cracked. While Sony's official patch note for the update is "We've improved the messages and usability... Read more »

If you went looking for Docker on your Synology NAS and couldn’t find it, nothing was removed. Synology renamed the package to Container Manager in DSM 7.2, and that rename is responsible for most of the confusion around this topic. Container Manager is Docker: it runs the same containers, it... Read more »

For about a decade, the answer to “what NAS should I buy for Plex” was simple: get an Intel Synology and let Quick Sync do the work. That answer died in 2025, when Synology moved its Plus lineup to AMD processors with no integrated GPU and took hardware transcoding with... Read more »

A year ago this wasn’t much of a debate. Synology DSM won on software, you paid a premium for it, and that was the end of the conversation. Since then UGOS Pro has had a full year of updates, Synology has made a few decisions that pushed people away, and... Read more »

UniFi runs my entire network, and I’ve been running UniFi’s NAS line since the original UNAS Pro launched. Right now I’m running the UNAS Pro 8 in parallel with a TrueNAS box, plus a Synology and a UGREEN unit I use for off-site backups. The UNAS is what I keep... Read more »

UGREEN went from “the charging cable company” to one of the most interesting NAS brands in about two years, and I’ve had NASync units in my own setup for most of that time. Two of them handle my actual backups: a DXP4800 Plus that turns on at 2 a.m. every... Read more »

Pi-hole runs on almost anything, which is good news and bad news. The good news is that you can install it on a Raspberry Pi, an Ubuntu server, a Proxmox LXC, in Docker, or on a NAS. The bad news is that the variety of installation methods makes it hard... Read more »

The UniFi Dream Machine Beast (UDMB) is Ubiquiti’s newest and most capable gateway in the Dream Machine lineup, priced at $1,499, and I just got my hands on it for a first look. It sits above the Dream Machine Pro Max ($599, which I’ve been running for close to two... Read more »

I’ve been running Synology NAS devices for over seven years, across the DS1019+, DS1821+, and DS923+. The place people get stuck before anything else even starts is finding the box on the network. You plug it in, the drive lights come on, and then nothing tells you what IP address... Read more »

HACS (Home Assistant Community Store) is what most people install right after getting Home Assistant running. It gives you access to community-built integrations, themes, and cards that aren’t in the official store. I run Home Assistant OS in a Proxmox VM, but the process is the same whether you’re on... Read more »

On October 23, 2026, Dockhand switched from version 1.0.54 to the new 1.0.55 version. Dockhand fixes the following issues and adds new options: New – Start and stop a container on a schedule New – The interface language is kept on the server, so it survives a browser that clears... Read more »

On October 22, 2026, the Portainer team released the third maintenance update to the current Long Term Support line, moving from 2.45.2 LTS to 2.45.3 LTS. This is a classic LTS patch release: focused on security hardening, dependency updates, and small stability improvements rather than big new features. For anyone... Read more »

Hey everyone, if you’re running a Synology NAS and host your website from home and just saw the sudden wave of posts on the web about two critical PHP vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, better known as PHP2Shell), take a deep breath because you’re in the right place at mariushosting. These... Read more »

Layerling is a free, open-source browser-based 3D CAD tool aimed at 3D printing enthusiasts who want functional parts without learning complex software or creating an account. It works much like Tinkercad: drag shapes onto a virtual build plate, turn some into holes, group them, and export. Layerling adds practical features... Read more »

Layerling is a free, open-source browser-based 3D CAD tool aimed at 3D printing enthusiasts who want functional parts without learning complex software or creating an account. It works much like Tinkercad: drag shapes onto a virtual build plate, turn some into holes, group them, and export. Layerling adds practical features... Read more »