Samsung will provide seven years of free Tizen OS upgrades for its AI TVs
If you are looking to upgrade your TV and want a long-lasting option, you may consider getting a Samsung AI TV powered by Tizen OS. The reason is that Samsung announced plans to offer seven years of...
View ArticleHow de-Googled is Lineage OS?
On the whole, I’m satisfied that Lineage OS, as I use it, is preventing nearly all of Google’s data collection. I don’t install or use any Google services, I don’t enable A-GPS, I don’t use Chromium...
View ArticleEmulating the early Macintosh floppy drive
I have been working on an emulator for early (Motorola 68000-powered) Macintosh computers. While implementing the disk drive, I noticed documentation was scattered and hard to find. Now that I have a...
View Articlefreebsd-rustdate: updating FreeBSD, but a lot faster
This is freebsd-rustdate, a reimplementation of freebsd-update. It’s primarily written because of how slow freebsd-update is, and is written in rust because I felt like it. In usage, it’s expected to...
View ArticleMicrosoft hands over Mono to the Wine project
Microsoft is handing over the Mono project to WineHQ, which came as a bit of a surprise announcement today. We are happy to announce that the WineHQ organization will be taking over as the stewards of...
View ArticleWhat it takes to run The Witcher 3 on RISC-V
The Box64 project, which allows you to run Linux x86-64 binaries on non-x86 architectures like ARM and RISC-V, has achieved a major milestone with its RISC-V backend. It’s been over a year since our...
View ArticleAMD branch prediction optimization for Ryzen 9000 and 7000 CPUs now available...
The Windows patch that’s supposed to improve Windows’ performance on AMD’s new Ryzen 9000 chips has been backported from Windows 11 24H2 to Windows 11 23H2. Now, AMD has confirmed that it’s bringing...
View ArticleThe journey of an internet packet: exploring networks with traceroute
The internet is a complex network of routers, switches, and computers, and when we try to connect to a server, our packets go through many routers before reaching the destination. If one of these...
View ArticleWhen EV startups shut down, will their cars still work?
When one of China’s once-popular electric vehicle startups went bust, car owners encountered an unexpected problem: Their vehicles went “offline.” Richard Qian didn’t know what to expect when he heard...
View ArticleGNU Screen 5.0 released
I don’t use GNU Screen so I don’t have much to say here, but I do know it’s a popular tool among the kind of people who read OSNews, so a new major release should be covered here. In case you’re not...
View ArticleJapan’s real first console? Bandai’s TV Jack 5000
The Epoch Cassette Vision is often reported as the first Japanese cartridge-based game console. But reality is always a bit more complicated. In 1978, years before the Cassette Vision, two Japanese...
View ArticleMake your own CDN with OpenBSD base and just 2 packages
The internet today relies TOO MUCH on just a few big players. When one of them stops working, half the world is impacted because too many services, in my opinion, depend on them. “Too big to fail,”...
View ArticleCan you convert a video to pure CSS?
He regularly shares cool examples of fancy css animations. At the time of writing his focus has been on css scroll animations. I guess there are some new properties that allow playing a css animation...
View ArticleEnd of the road: an AnandTech farewell
I hate this timeline. It is with great sadness that I find myself penning the hardest news post I’ve ever needed to write here at AnandTech. After over 27 years of covering the wide – and wild – word...
View ArticleNSA releases copy of internal lecture delivered by computing giant Rear Adm....
In one of the more unique public proactive transparency record releases for the National Security Agency (NSA) to date, NSA has released a digital copy of a lecture that then-Capt. Grace Hopper gave...
View ArticleMicrosoft quietly makes controversial Recall feature uninstallable
After spending a few months in complete radio silence about Recall, Microsoft finally emerged with a statement that its controversial feature will make a comeback later this year, in October, to be...
View ArticleHere’s 22 examples of Google employees trying to avoid creating evidence for...
In its antitrust case against Google, the Federal Government filed a list of chats it had obtained that show Google employees explicitly asking each other to turn off a chat history feature to discuss...
View ArticleServo gets tabbed browsing, Windows improvements, and more
If you’re reading this, you did a good job surviving another month, and that means we’ve got another monthly update from the Servo project, the Rust-based browser engine originally started by Mozilla....
View ArticleHeliography in darkness
Telegram doesn’t hold up to the promise of being private, nor secure. The end-to-end encryption is opt-in, only applies to one-on-one conversations and uses a controversial ‘homebrewn’ encryption...
View ArticleMicrosoft says its Recall uninstall option in Windows 11 is just a bug
Despite reports to the contrary, Microsoft has stated that Recall will not be uninstallable after all. The feature did show up in the Windows Features dialog, but apparently, that was a bug. “We are...
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