Ahead of GNOME 47's imminent release, Matthias Clasen has released GTK 4.16 as the newest exciting update to this toolkit powering GNOME software. Notable with GTK 4.16 is the GSK renderer defaulting to its Vulkan back-end when running on Wayland...... Read more »

We are just a week or two out from the start of the Linux 6.12 merge window and AMD has submitted a final round of feature updates to DRM-Next of kernel graphics driver changes they want to round out AMDGPU/AMDKFD for this next cycle...... Read more »

Cairo 1.18.2 released this week nearly one year after Cairo 1.18's debut for this cross-platform 2D vector graphics library -- in turn that was the project's first stable release in five years. Cairo is important for the GTK toolkit, Mozilla's Gecko engine, and dozens of other software projects. With Cairo... Read more »

Wine 9.17 is out today as quite an exciting update for this open-source software that allows Windows games and applications to run on Linux systems and other platforms...... Read more »

Intel has submitted more kernel graphics driver changes for the upcoming Linux 6.12 cycle. Following the pull requests to DRM-Next last week to enable Lunar Lake Xe2 graphics and Battlemage by default, some more lingering feature patches were merged today. Most exciting with this last round of patches before Linux... Read more »

One of the security changes with AMD Zen 5 processors that I haven't seen AMD publicly mention at least not prominently is that the new cores are not vulnerable to Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO). Unlike Zen 4 and prior, under Linux I noticed that Zen 5 is no longer... Read more »

Back in 2022 were a set of patches that allowed compiling the ARM64 Linux kernel from Apple macOS hosts. The intent was for developers just wanting to do some build/smoke testing from under an Apple Silicon device running macOS to see at least any kernel changes are successfully compiling on... Read more »

With this week's announcement of the Intel Core Ultra 200V Series "Lunar Lake" processors, I've been very eager to try out the Meteor Lake successor for Linux testing. As sadly is usually the case, for delivering Linux support details and performance benchmarks around launch-time I'm typically left buying a laptop... Read more »

We're very close to the finish line for the mainline Linux kernel being able to enable real-time "PREEMPT_RT" kernel support...... Read more »

Sent out today were the DRM fixes for 6.11-rc7 ahead of the Linux 6.11-rc7 kernel being released on Sunday. As usual most of the changes revolve around the AMDGPU and Intel i915/Xe drivers plus random fixes to the smaller drivers. There is one change though with the AMD Radeon graphics... Read more »

It's taken until now to add FreeBSD to the X.Org Continuous Integration (CI) automated testing so that all proposed changes to the X.Org Server can now be build-tested on FreeBSD rather than just Linux...... Read more »

FEX 2409 has been released for this open-source project that's known for allowing x86_64 Linux binaries -- including both games and applications -- to run rather well on AArch64. It's also been working on enabling x86_64 programs on RISC-V but there due to architectural differences it's more of a challenge... Read more »

Back in 2018 Oracle introduced Libresource as a standardized API for accessing system resource information around memory / network / device statistics and other metrics. Libresource v2 was announced this week as largely a rewrite of the project...... Read more »

Following the recently covered patches on Phoronix that enabled Intel Xe2 graphics out-of-the-box / by-default for Lunar Lake and Battlemage with the Mesa 24.3-devel Git code, Mesa 24.2.2 is out today in stable form that back-ports these Xe2 support changes...... Read more »

A new report has reportedly leaked every iPhone 16 event announcement just days beforehand, including Apple Watch X, Apple Watch SE, and budget AirPods.... Read more »

Prolific accessory maker UGREEN announces a bunch of charging accessories to help keep your iPhone juiced up.... Read more »

A new 'Ask Photos' feature lets you search for photos with everyday language, instead of using key words.... Read more »

TIME has unveiled a list of the 100 most influential people in AI, and Apple's absence is telling.... Read more »

In a video, Beats by Dre gave us a first look at its upcoming Powerbeats Pro 2.... Read more »

Apple Mall of Scandinavia opens on September 20th, indicating that is when the iPhone 16 will launch.... Read more »

We finally have a release date!... Read more »

Microsoft’s latest Arm-based Copilot+ PCs are struggling to run games at a good framerate, while others are failing to run at all.... Read more »

Slow Horses is back for season four, and it's got absolutely rave reviews from critics.... Read more »

Broadcom reported a net income loss of $1.87bn for Q3 FY24, primarily due to a one-time discrete non-cash tax provision of $4.5bn.... Read more »

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Microsoft-backed American AI company OpenAI has announced it has surpassed one million paid business users for its enterprise services.... Read more »

Qualcomm has reportedly considered acquiring segments of Intel's chip design business, according to an exclusive Reuters report.... Read more »

Salesforce to acquire Own in an all-cash deal worth around $1.9bn to strengthen data security, privacy, and compliance across the platform.... Read more »

Council of Europe introduced first legally binding international treaty on AI to ensure use aligns with human rights, democracy, rule of law.... Read more »

The Australian government has unveiled new measures aimed at improving the safe use of AI, making a significant step in AI regulation.... Read more »

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Nvidia has firmly denied reports suggesting it received a subpoena from the US DoJ in connection with an ongoing investigation.... Read more »

Samsung is getting ready to launch the Galaxy S24 FE, and we’ve been hearing a lot about it in recent weeks. A new leak gives us a comprehensive look at the upcoming phone through renders depicting it in four different colorways: blue, Graphite, green, and yellow. The side bezels will... Read more »

Samsung is expected to unveil the latest version of its custom Android skin, One UI 7, bringing a fresh news of excitement to Galaxy device users worldwide. Building on the success of its predecessors, One UI 7 is expected to introduce a host of new features and refinements that promise... Read more »

Samsung published a new article related to the Internet and the title is “Your privacy is secure wherever you go online with Samsung Internet”. “Most of us spend hours every day using the internet for work or play. Whether we’re researching our next purchase or working on an important document,... Read more »

Samsung Electronics and Media-Saturn Germany announce their partnership to offer Samsung customers a wide network of local repair centers. The collaboration gives customers convenient access to repair services according to Samsung standards at the MSD Smartbars. By expanding MSD insurance for Samsung smartphones, customers receive an additional service offering. “The... Read more »

Samsung presents the update of its operating system One UI 6.1.1. The current version brings the latest Galaxy AI functions to even more Samsung Galaxy devices. With the rollout from September, AI functions that users of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6 and Galaxy Z Flip6 already have access to will... Read more »

As per the Director of TSMC’s Ecosystem and Alliance Management Department,  the company is working with Samsung Electronics to develop unbuffered HBM4 memory. This is also the first time that Samsung Electronics and TSMC, two semiconductor companies that compete in the fields of advanced process and packaging, have publicly announced... Read more »

Samsung One UI Home is the official system launcher from Samsung on its Galaxy devices. Samsung One UI Home is a system tool for Samsung devices that you can use to customize the home screen. According to the official information, the August 2024 update for the One UI Home is... Read more »

Samsung SmartThings app lets you connect and control your smart home devices easily and organized. It allows you to control all of your smart home gadgets in one place, including your Samsung Smart TV and smart home appliances. Samsung SmartThings Wear OS App is now getting a September 2024 update... Read more »

The Galaxy S24 FE is on the way. The Fan Edition model of the Galaxy S24 series is expected to launch soon, and new leaks have now revealed important details of the device ahead of its debut. Alleged certification hints the Samsung Galaxy S24 FE details The Galaxy S24 FE... Read more »

The first Macs with M4-series chips are also expected, including the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro, Mac mini and iMac.... Read more »

The gadget has got a motorised hinge that also rotates the screen left and right.... Read more »

Oukitel is prepping a new, ruggedised RT3 Pro tablet for release next month.... Read more »

The base console edition of Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 includes the Warships DLC... Read more »

The screens show the visual style and interface of the failed game... Read more »

Samsung is preparing to announce the Galaxy S25 Ultra early next year, but some of its specs are already being revealed.... Read more »

An add-on for Dragon's Dogma 2 is likely to be unveiled at Tokyo Game Show... Read more »

Eurogamer is 25 years old!... Read more »

Social network X, formerly known as Twitter, continues to lose advertisers, which could lead to an even bigger drop in revenue next year.... Read more »

It is a 370g wide-brimmed hat with solar panels built into it. The hat acts as a power bank and can charge smartphones and other mobile devices.... Read more »

Such displays can be freely stretched, folded and twisted.... Read more »

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On 6 September, one of the most anticipated releases of the autumn took place - the PlayStation 5 exclusive Astro Bot, which also became the most highly rated game of 2024. Journalist Jason Schreier spoke with Nicolas Doucet, director of Astro Bot, and in this article, we have selected the... Read more »

On Friday, 6 September, Spanish Defence Minister Margarita Robles said that her country would provide Ukraine with a complete HAWK battery with six missile launchers.... Read more »

It's Friday, friends! Did you just get paid today, and do you have a pocket full of change? Time to splurge on some PC parts! Not that pocket change will get you very far, really, but it'll get you further today than it would last week thanks to some killer... Read more »

Google is looking to make it easier for users to find pictures in ever growing photo libraries with some nifty upgrades to its Google Photos service. It will now be possible to use “descriptive queries” when searching for a picture. Moreover, the company is bringing AI enhancements with a new... Read more »

Technically, the summer season runs another couple of weeks. Fall is undeniably in the air, however, and the back-to-school season has begun in earnest in many parts of the country. Before we fully embrace the colorful changing of the leaves, crisp and refreshing air, and cool temps that are headed... Read more »

Normally at this time of year, discrete graphics card shipments tend to decline, with Jon Peddie Research citing a 10-year average of a 7% drop. That gets chalked up to seasonality. In the second quarter of 2024, however, discrete GPU shipments bucked that trend and actually grew 1.8% compared to... Read more »

AMD's Ryzen 5 7600X3D is finally starting to appear in the wild, and we are already starting to see some benchmarks. First reports are looking quite promising as far as gaming is concerned, thanks to its onboard 3D V-Cache. Unfortunately productivity performance isn't amazing due to the Zen 4-based 7600X3D only... Read more »

Gamers are always on the look out for that next bump up in GPU performance, and NVIDIA is usually there to provide it. The GeForce RTX 50 series is slated for release soon, with the design reportedly being finalized during this month. That does not mean that a release is... Read more »

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon has confirmed that the company is working with Google and Samsung on a pair of mixed reality glasses linked to a smartphone. The news of the trio of tech giants working together on a pair of XR glasses was teased at the end of Samsung’s Unpacked... Read more »

If you can remember playing games on the original PlayStation 1 console released way back in the day, here's hoping the ibuprofen alleviates your back pain (no worries, I date back to the Atari 2600 era, as it relates to consoles). The PS1 will have released 30 years ago this... Read more »

NASA and Boeing are preparing to bring the Starliner spacecraft back to Earth, albeit uncrewed. Starliner will depart from the International Space Station (ISS) later today for a rendezvous back on Earth at one of several possible landing sites. Early in the mission, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams... Read more »

Intel has done a fair bit of talking recently over successes from its 18A process node, which rather brings up the question, "why bother with 20A at all, if 18A is already yielding well?" Apparently someone at Intel had the same thought, as the company has announced today that it is... Read more »

DJI just unveiled its newest drone, the compact, lightweight and affordable Neo. The DJI Neo weighs less than 5 ounces (135g), delivers crisp 4K footage, and can take off and land from the palm of a hand. DJI is perhaps the most well-known and popular drone brand around the world,... Read more »

For years the internet has been filled with stories about users that think someone is listening in on them, as ads appear to be eerily similar to things being discussed near thier devices. It’s an uncomfortable thought to suspect devices people rely on for modern life are just spies for... Read more »

Ubisoft’s Star Wars Outlaws was a highly anticipated release for fans of the franchise, and was expected to be one of the company’s hit releases for 2024. After encountering some bugs during the early access period, the game released to the general public and received a mixed reception from reviewers.... Read more »

The last time Panasonic sold TVs in the United States around a decade ago, not long after it ceased production of plasma models. It's a far different landscape these days, both in terms of display technologies and features (as well as pricing), and now Panasonic is teaming up with Amazon... 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 »

In this article, we’re going to look at how to set up and configure a Synology router. Synology Routers run an operating system called Synology Router Manager (SRM). If you’ve ever used a Synology NAS, it’s very similar to the DSM operating system but has a few key differences. However,... Read more »

One of the first things that I wanted to do as soon as my home lab started growing was to configure a self-hosted dashboard. It makes accessing your services quick and easy and quite honestly, keeps everything that you may access throughout the day directly in front of you. There... Read more »

I’ve tested various network-attached storage (NAS) devices from many manufacturers, NAS operating systems, and if you’ve followed me for any length of time, you’ll know that I always fall back to Synology as the best overall brand. From an investment perspective, as well as a feature and functionality perspective, Synology... Read more »

If you start adding more services to your home lab, the inevitable scenario you’ll find yourself in is forgetting IP addresses and ports. If you happen to remember the IP and port, you’ll find yourself constantly clicking through “Not Secure” errors since the service(s) use self-signed certificates that aren’t trusted.... Read more »

If you’ve been waiting for Synology to release a new device, we might not be that far from seeing it. User ministry on the r/synology subreddit found an image on Synology’s website with what appears to be a new entry to the lineup – the Synology DS1825+. It doesn’t have... Read more »

The video above displays how to set up a Cloudflare Tunnel using Docker for a complete Zero Trust Network. Cloudflare Tunnels require no port forwarding and allow you to expose multiple services safely and securely. Cloudflare Tunnel Docker Compose Example Add your token below or customize this generic Docker Compose... Read more »

This article will look at the difference between split tunnel vs. full tunnel VPNs. When you configure a VPN, you’ll have two options for VPN types that you can configure and use: split tunnel or full tunnel. The way that these two VPN types operate is drastically different and it’s... Read more »

TubeTube is a simple YouTube downloader alternative to MeTube. TubeTube support simultaneous downloads. It’s minimal, lightweight and efficient. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install TubeTube on your Synology NAS using Docker and Portainer. STEP 1 Please Support My work by Making a Donation. STEP 2... Read more »

Discourse is an open source Internet forum system. Features include threading, categorization and tagging of discussions, configurable access control, live updates, expanding link previews, infinite scrolling, and real-time notifications. It is customizable via its plugin architecture and its theming system. Use it as a mailing list, discussion forum, long-form chat... Read more »

Haptic is a new local-first & privacy-focused, open-source home for your markdown notes. It’s minimal, lightweight, efficient, and aims to have all you need and nothing you don’t. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install Haptic on your Synology NAS using Docker and Portainer. STEP 1... Read more »

Enclosed is a minimalistic web application designed for sending private and secure notes. All notes are end-to-end encrypted, ensuring that the server and storage have zero knowledge of the content. Users can set a password, define an expiration period (TTL), and choose to have the note self-destruct after being read.... Read more »

Amid the growing number of global data security incidents, the importance of enterprise data protection has become increasingly prominent. To address this challenge, TerraMaster, a professional brand focusing on providing innovative storage products for families and businesses, officially launched its BBS integrated backup solution, offering comprehensive data backup solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises.... Read more »