While the Bcachefs feature changes for Linux 6.13 were already submitted even before the Linux 6.12 stable kernel was released, merging these changes are supposedly on hold due to the kernel's Code of Conduct (CoC) board...... Read more »

Linux 6.13 has merged support for the Secure Digital Ultra Capacity "SDUC" standard for 2TB to 128TB storage capacity SD cards...... Read more »

Andrew Morton on Monday submitted all the memory management "MM" related patches for the Linux 6.13 merge window. As usual there's a lot of interesting performance optimizations and other low-level refinements...... Read more »

The abundance of networking subsystem updates have been mailed in for the Linux 6.13 kernel from wired and wireless driver enhancements to core networking code improvements...... Read more »

As I wrote about last week within the Supermicro H13SSL-N EPYC Turin motherboard review, one of the factors leading me to purchasing that EPYC 9005 series motherboard was that this board offered support for full 12 channel DDR5-6000 memory performance compared to some of the other lower-cost Socket SP5 motherboards... Read more »

Following the initial Raspberry Pi 5 upstream support in Linux 6.12 providing basic support, an exciting Raspberry Pi addition with the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel is introducing a Raspberry Pi Camera Front-End "CFE" driver...... Read more »

The in-development Linux 6.13 kernel is bringing a lot of exciting improvements for AMD Linux customers...... Read more »

Intel's open-source software developers released today OpenVINO 2024.5 as the newest major feature release for this cross-platform AI toolkit...... Read more »

The crypto subsystem updates were merged yesterday for the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel. Among other crypto improvements are new optimizations for some algorithms when running on Intel and AMD x86_64 processors...... Read more »

Merged last year for Linux 6.6 was multi-grain(ed) timestamps to address the current coarse-grained timestamps when updating creation time and modification time that a lot of I/O activity can happen in the once-per-jiffy timestamp. Just a few weeks in the Linux 6.6 kernel, multi-grain timestamps were removed due to bugs.... Read more »

The HID subsystem updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle...... Read more »

All of the scheduler feature changes were merged today for the Linux 6.13 kernel, including the introduction of the lazy preemption model...... Read more »

FLTK 1.4 is out as the newest version of the Fast Light Toolkit that has been around since the late 90's...... Read more »

While most users frown upon the increasing number of CPU security mitigations in part due to the additional overhead commonly introduced, a new Linux kernel patch by a Google engineer would allow users/developers to opt-in to forcing CPU bugs and their mitigations even if the system in use isn't known... Read more »

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One of the best mobile DACs I've reviewed, the iFi GO bar Kensei is a masterclass in build quality, and quality features, with audiophile-grade pricing... Read more »

Have audiophile aspirations and a "beer wallet?" Fiio's KA11 delivers without breaking the bank if you have a solid pair of headphones or IEMs.... Read more »

A wealth of features, a speedy pan and tilt motor, and smart security features make the Tapo TC73 the best on the market right now.... Read more »

Aqara gets a lot right with their Smart Video Doorbell G4, including pricing and features. However, if your porch is tight, its aspect ratio may leave you a bit in the blind.... Read more »

Smart privacy features, Wi-Fi 6, f/2.0 lens, and wallet-friendly pricing make the Aqara Camera E1 tough to beat.... Read more »

This mobile Bluetooth DAC has it all! Beautiful design, highly functional features, and excellent sound quality make this my top pick right now.... Read more »

Who says your indoor security camera needs to be all business to be effective? The Aqara Camera Hub G3 is long on features and fun!... Read more »

This smooth DAC from iFi is a solid performer for those wanting to level up their desktop audio experience.... Read more »

A new report from Capgemini found that 97% of organisations experienced at least one security breach related to Gen AI in the past year.... Read more »

Apple issued emergency patches for two zero-day vulnerabilities that were actively exploited in attacks targeting Intel-based Mac systems.... Read more »

The UK CMA has announced that it will not investigate the partnership between Google’s parent company, Alphabet, and Anthropic.... Read more »

A new survey by Vodafone Business reveals that most UK businesses are unprepared for the rapid rise in AI-driven phishing attacks.... Read more »

Businesses around the world face a major identity security challenge. Many find themselves ill-equipped for the fight.... Read more »

Palo Alto Networks issued crucial security updates for two zero-day vulnerabilities in NGFW, both of which have been actively exploited.... Read more »

Shares of Supermicro rose 37% following the announcement of significant steps to address its financial reporting and compliance issues.... Read more »

Digital forgeries surged by 244% in 2024, with deepfake attacks occurring every five minutes, reflecting growing use of AI in identity fraud.... Read more »

DoJ to request Google’s antitrust trial judge to mandate the divestiture of Alphabet’s Chrome browser as part of a broader antitrust case.... Read more »

Samsung Photo Editor is the easiest and most convenient way to make a phone using this best editing feature. Edit images using the ‘Edit’ feature on the single photo view screen in the ‘Samsung Gallery app. According to the official information, Samsung has now started rolling out the November 2024... Read more »

Samsung has started rolling out the new update to its Galaxy Watch 6 Plugin. This application is software for syncing the Galaxy Watch 6 and does not operate on its own. The Galaxy Wearable application must be installed first for it to operate normally. As per the latest information, the... Read more »

Samsung is expected to introduce its next Galaxy S25 lineup in January 2025. We have been hearing several leaks and rumours about the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S25 series. In a new leak, the global launch date for the Galaxy S25 series has been leaked by a Samsung Survey which states... Read more »

Samsung Internet Browser is now getting a new app update. The all-new app update is listed with the September 2024 Beta version 27.0.0.63. As per the latest changelog, the update supports Internet settings search. Samsung Internet Browser latest update changelog: 2024 v27.0.0.63 * Supports Internet settings search * Enhanced protection... Read more »

Samsung Theme Park app lets you make a theme and install it quickly and easily. The South Korean tech giant has now started rolling out the new update with the version 1.0.09.73. Samsung Theme Park 1.0.09.73 update changelog -Improved visibility error after applying keyboard themes -Enhanced app stability – Customizable... Read more »

Samsung Cloud App is a well-known app to keep your data safe across all Samsung devices. Use it to set up and check the following features. Samsung has now started rolling out the new update to its Cloud App. below. The latest 5.5.06.23 version brings a Google Play update. Easier... Read more »

Samsung introduced the Deco Pic app for Galaxy users. Various Galaxy smartphone owners awakened to a new Samsung app that evidently got installed on their handsets overnight. This app helps you to make photos and videos fun with live stickers. Now, Samsung has started sending a new update to its... Read more »

Samsung Gallery allows you to edit your photos conveniently on a large screen using the Galaxy Book. (Crop, rotate, color, filter, sticker, text, draw, style, etc.). Try playing the various effects shot on your Galaxy Phone camera (Single take, Super Slow-mo, Motion photo, etc.) on your PC. A smart search... Read more »

Samsung is continuously improving the Good Lock 2023 tool library for a better app experience. Recently, the Good Lock modules have been updated to the latest One UI 5 support which includes the new Camera Assistant App, OHO+, Theme Park, Home Up, Nice Shot, MultiStar, and Lockstar. Now, the Samsung... Read more »

Meta has announced new features for Messenger, including HD video calls, AI background effects, and other improvements.... Read more »

Amazon has announced the release of new Echo Show devices with large screens.... Read more »

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Xiaomi has announced the international launch of the Magnetic Power Bank 5000, which was previously released in China.... Read more »

Xiaomi has introduced Smart Band 9 Pro to the European market. The smartwatch is already available for purchase in Italy, Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands.... Read more »

Vivo will soon unveil a new compact smartphone, the X200 Pro Mini, which promises to be one of the world's smallest Android devices with a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip.... Read more »

Apple is planning significant changes to the design of the iPhone 17, including the transition to a single central camera on the back.... Read more »

Garmin has announced the 12.21 beta version of its Fenix 8, Fenix E, and Enduro 3 smartwatches.... Read more »

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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, took part in a phone call between Donald Trump and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. This call took place after Trump won the presidential election on 5 November.... Read more »

We are just a few months away from the release of the new Samsung Galaxy S25 phones and more and more information about the devices is emerging. Social network X user @Jukanlosreve showed images of Galaxy S25 Ultra mockups that show the rounded corners of the device.... Read more »

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Sony has released the first major operating system update for the Xperia 1 VI smartphone, which was announced in mid-May 2024.... Read more »

AMD is a company that is certainly no stranger to building semi-custom processors. Indeed, the semi-custom unit of the company basically kept it afloat for a couple of years before the launch of Ryzen by supplying SoCs to Sony and Microsoft for their 8th-generation game consoles. We haven't seen so... Read more »

Fans eagerly anticipating taking to the skies with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 are finding themselves grounded instead, as launch day issues are plentiful in what turns out to be a repeat scenario of the previous game’s launch in 2020. This has led to a backlash from irritated gamers who have... Read more »

A little over a year after debuting the PlayStation Portable, Sony is delivering a massive upgrade through an update that will make the niche device a whole lot more versatile. When it originally launched, the PlayStation Portable was only capable of streaming from a PlayStation 5 located on a local... Read more »

Asus revealed its latest gaming phone today, the predictably named ROG Phone 9 and ROG Phone 9 Pro. These devices are the first retail devices to run the brand-new Snapdragon 8 Elite processor, and you can eke every bit of performance from that chip with the performance-tuned ROG Phone 9.... Read more »

One-Netbook OneXGPU 2: MSRP - $999 One-Netbook's second generation OneXGPU 2 eGPU features a more-powerful AMD Radeon RX 7800M for gaming, but the new device is larger and more expensive than its predecessor. The First Radeon RX 7800M eGPU Well Built And Attractive Design USB 4 and OcuLink Support Relatively Portable... Read more »

With its latest rebranding video, Jaguar has leaped into the mouths of netizens (plus the general public) in a big way, but probably not in the way the car company had envisioned. After the haloed brand exited stage left from selling internal combustion cars and taking a one year hiatus,... Read more »

Apple confirmed it has issued an emergency patch for two actively-exploited zero-day threats on macOS, iPadOS, iOS, visionOS, and its Safari web browser. The Cupertino-based company remarked the emergency patch addresses CVE-2024-44308 and CVE-2024-44309 with improved checks and improved state management, respectively. While the two zero-day... Read more »

Fans of older Samsung Galaxy Watches are shouting a collective hurrah because Samsung is finally rolling out One UI 6 (a.k.a. Wear OS 5) to their devices as we speak. The update will begin over the coming weeks with the Galaxy Watch 6, then eventually down to the Galaxy Watch... Read more »

The early Black Friday deals continue to pour in, as what used to be a day (and then weekend) of savings has turned into a month-long sales extravaganza at many retailers. Need a new MacBook at below MSRP? There are deals to be had. Same goes for games like NBA... Read more »

The paint on the fresh new Android 15 hasn't even dried yet, yet that hasn't stopped Google from dropping an early holiday gift in the form of an Android 16 Developer Preview build. If you're an app developer or a brave enough to try this very early (and presumably bug... Read more »

A group of USC Viterbi School of Engineering students have broken the international altitude record for a rocket, reaching further into space than any non-governmental and non-commercial group have ever flown before. The previous record of 380,000 feet stood for 20 years, before falling to the student-run group USC Rocket... Read more »

You could easily spend well over a grand upgrading your home network to support the Wi-Fi 7 protocol, part of which is the result of a so-called early adopter tax on cutting-edge hardware. Pricing on Wi-Fi 7 gear will inevitably come down in time, and in fact it already has... Read more »

Sony has recently released its PlayStation 5 Pro, which is a modest bump in graphics performance and certainly not a next-generation upgrade. While console releases are typically few and far between, early murmurs of the next PlayStation are already starting to crop up. Supposedly to be named the PlayStation 6,... Read more »

Fans of Rockstar's popular Grand Theft Auto series are chomping at the bit (technically champing, for you grammar purists) for any details they can get regarding the highly-anticipated next installment, Grand Theft Auto VI. The first and still only official trailer for the next installment in the franchise series was released less... Read more »

In this article, we’ll look at how to configure UniFi Firewall Rules so that you can build a secure, home or small business network. There are various options we’ll look at, from the source and the destination, to the type (LAN In, LAN Out, LAN Local, etc). This is arguably... Read more »

In this article, we’re going to look at the best SSD for NAS devices. In general, NAS devices normally use mechanical hard drives due to their longevity (check out our list of the best NAS hard drives), price, and reliable performance. A lot of NAS devices also have 1GbE NICs,... Read more »

This article will be supplementary to the video below, which highlights how to add Docker and Jellyfin to the UNAS Pro using a Mini PC. This allows you to utilize the UNAS Pro for Snapshots and Backups, but leave the heavy lifting to the Mini PC. Disclosure: Some links on this... Read more »

Ubiquiti released a new NAS device, the UNAS Pro, which is a seven-bay, 2U rackmount NAS that supports 10Gb and more. It bridges the gap by adding a new tool to its UniFi Site Manager called UniFi Drive. Learn everything you need to know about the easy-to-use, UNAS Pro by... Read more »

Today is Amazon’s Prime Big Day Deals, and we’ll be looking at some of the best Prime Day Big Deals of 2024. This list will focus on home lab equipment, meaning NAS devices, networking (routers & switches), hard drives, Mini PCs, and more. Disclosure: Some links below are Amazon affiliate links... Read more »

In this tutorial, we will look at how to set up GPU Passthrough on Proxmox so that you can pass a GPU to a virtual machine, which can be done using GPU passthrough. This means that the entire PCI device is passed through to the virtual machine and it will... Read more »

In this article, we’re going to look at TrueNAS Core vs Scale and compare both solutions for home lab and enterprise environments. TrueNAS Core and Scale are two NAS operating systems designed and developed by iXsystems. While both, TrueNAS Core and Scale are similar, they differ in architecture, functionality, and... Read more »

When looking at Synology NAS security, most people are generally looking to harden the NAS itself. While that’s important, securing everything around the NAS is equally important, and potentially better. Disclosure: Some links below are affiliate links which means that I earn a percentage of each sale at no cost to... Read more »

If you’ve ever configured Pi-hole, you’ll know just how well it works when it comes to blocking ads. However, did you know that you could add Unbound to Pi-hole to function as a recursive DNS server? This allows you to use Unbound to directly reach out to the authoritative servers,... Read more »

Font Compare is an easy way to dynamically compare locally hosted fonts on your server. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install Font Compare on your Synology NAS using Docker & Portainer. STEP 1 Please Support My work by Making a Donation. STEP 2 Install Portainer... Read more »

In November 2024, there have been major updates to several Docker containers. Because I always like to stay on top of things and make sure you get updated versions of my Docker tutorials, below is a list of Docker containers that have had important changes come out, which I have... Read more »

qBittorrent is a safe torrent client. The qBittorrent project aims to provide an open-source software alternative to µTorrent. Since its release, qBittorrent has received numerous feedback and positive reviews as being reliable and very lightweight software. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install qBittorrent on your UGREEN... Read more »

WikiDocs is an Open Source, databaseless, markdown, flat-file wiki engine. It’s designed to be simple yet powerful, making it a great tool for creating and managing wikis without the complexity of a database. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install WikiDocs on your Synology NAS... Read more »

PlaylistDL is a self-hosted web application for downloading songs, albums, or playlists from Spotify and YouTube as MP3 files. The application provides a web interface for users to input links, which are then downloaded as audio files using spotdl (for Spotify) or yt-dlp (for YouTube). In this step by step... Read more »