Wayland merges new screen capture protocols
Nearly three years in the making, the ext-image-capture-source-v1 and ext-image-copy-capture-v1 protocols have been merged into the Wayland Protocols repository for vastly improving screen capture...
View ArticleVerso: a browser using Servo
I regularly report on the progress made by the Servo project, the Rust-based browser engine that was spun out of Mozilla into its own project. Servo has its own reference browser implementation, too,...
View ArticleAlmost entire Nova Launcher team laid off
About two years ago, the very popular and full-featured Android launcher Nova Launcher was acquired by mobile links and analytics company Branch. This obviously caused quite the stir, and ever since,...
View ArticleMicrosoft deprecates Paint 3D
Way back in the early before time, Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to brand Windows 10 entirely around the label “creators”, and one distinctly odd consequence of that was an application...
View ArticleHaiku gets tentative Firefox port
Haiku, the platform grossing in ported browsers while its native WebPositive browser languishes, has added another notch to its belt – and this time, it’s a big one. Firefox has been tentatively...
View ArticleApple forces Patreon to charge Patreons 30% tax, or have its iOS application...
I have no contracts, agreements, or business with Apple, I do not use any Apple products, I do not rely on any Apple services, and none of my work requires the use of any of Apple’s tools. Yet, I’m...
View ArticleChrome iOS browser on Blink
Earlier this year, under pressure from the European Union, Apple was finally forced to open up iOS and allow alternative browser engines, at least in the EU. Up until then, Apple only allowed its own...
View ArticleSerena: an experimental operating system for 32bit Amiga computers
Serena is an experimental operating system based on modern design principles with support for pervasive preemptive concurrency and multiple users. The kernel is object-oriented and designed to be...
View ArticleSpecOS: an x86_64 OS kernel from scratch
It’s been busy in the world of hobby and teaching/learning operating systems these past few months, and today we’ve got another one – SpecOS. SpecOS is a 64 bit operating system kernel for x86-64...
View ArticleHaiku gets tons of performance fixes, new FAT driver from FreeBSD, and a lot...
There’s a new Haiku activity report, and it’s a big one. A lot of bottlenecks and performance issues were addressed recently, and the list is too long and detailed for me to cover everything. Haiku...
View ArticleGentoo Linux drops IA-64 (Itanium) support
Following the removal of IA-64 (Itanium) support in the Linux kernel and glibc, and subsequent discussions on our mailing list, as well as a vote by the Gentoo Council, Gentoo will discontinue all...
View ArticleValve confirms it’ll support the ROG Ally with its Steam Deck operating system
Way back, Valve had the intention of making gaming on Linux a reality by allowing anyone to make PCs running SteamOS, with the goal of making Steam less dependent on the whims of Windows. This effort...
View ArticleUS said to consider a breakup of Google to address search monopoly
While a US judge ruled last week that Google is a monopoly, and hat it has abused its monopoly position, potential remedies were not part of the case up until this point. Now, though, the US...
View ArticleUS judge says he’ll ‘tear the barriers down’ on Google’s app store monopoly
Last week wasn’t the first time Google was declared a monopoly – eight months ago, in the Epic vs. Google case, Google’s control over the Play Store was also declared monopolistic. The judge, Google,...
View ArticleCartridge software for the Psion Series 3
Similar to less popular handheld of the era, the Gameboy, the Psion used a proprietary cartridge format for distributing commercial software. Psion sold blank cartridges, flashing hardware and...
View ArticleWindows can now create 2TB FAT32 file systems
Even though FAT32 supports disk sizes of up to 2TB, and even though Windows can read FAT32 file systems of up to 2TB, Windows can’t actually create them. The maximum file system limit Windows can...
View ArticleThe Apple IIGS megahertz myth
A story you hear all the time about the Apple IIGS is that Apple purposefully underclocked or limited its processor in some way to protect the nascent Macintosh, and ensure the IIGS, which could build...
View ArticlePopular AI “nudify” sites sued amid shocking rise in victims globally
San Francisco’s city attorney David Chiu is suing to shut down 16 of the most popular websites and apps allowing users to “nudify” or “undress” photos of mostly women and girls who have been...
View ArticleSingle-command Windows 11 system requirements bypass trick for unsupported...
In October last year, we covered a very simple bypass trick that involved just a single command when running the Windows 11 Setup. While this passthrough got popular in the tech community during this...
View ArticleGoogle threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel
The tech review world has been full of murky deals between companies and influencers for years, but it appears Google finally crossed a line with the Pixel 9. The company’s invite-only Team Pixel...
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