11+ hour, 35+ min ago  (715+ words) The KDE team released KDE Plasma 6. 7 today, and with it comes a long list of improvements, new features, bug fixes, new old themes, and so much more. A new feature that is sure to please those among us who use…...

12+ hour, 22+ min ago  (462+ words) A week or so ago, Apple announced a bunch of features for the App Store on i OS, including personalised recommendations based on your activity and usage of i OS. It turns out this includes a keylogger (taplogger?) in the…...

17+ hour, 6+ min ago  (111+ words) Another story from the good old days from Raymond Chen. During an exchange of war stories, a colleague of mine told one from back in the days when Windows included a processor emulator for x86-32 on systems that natively ran some…...

18+ hour, 7+ min ago  (169+ words) Speaking of Free BSD, the project released version 15. 1 of their operating system today. As it's a point release, it's not full of massive changes, but it still brings the Linux KPI-based wireless drivers up to Linux 7. 0, support for the C23 version…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (323+ words) It's been a while since we've had a new operating system project written in Rust, so let's look at Zinnia. The kernel is written in (almost) 100% Rust and attempts to avoid unsafe code where possible. It implements a big range…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (231+ words) We're a little deep into June already, but it's only now that Haiku published its monthly progress report for May. There's a bunch of fixes for drag-and-drop behaviour in Tracker, AVX512 support can now be enabled thanks to changes to the…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (204+ words) Tribblix, the Illumos distribution focused on giving you a classic UNIX-style experience, has been updated with the release of Milestone 40. This version has some major component updates. Perl in now 5. 42 instead of 5. 34, and the default Python is now 3. 13. The GCC…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (281+ words) An infuriating story about something most of us don't really stop to think about: e-books and the rendering engines companies and software use to display them. It's the year 2026. Thanks to the horrendous [Adobe] RMSDK which Kobo decided to use…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (459+ words) How far can you get, application development-wise, by using only the original APIs from Windows 1. 0, and only whatever came included by default with Windows 1. 0? I finally decided to write an application for the very first version of Windows and see…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (311+ words) True Type is a widely used vector font standard for rendering text in web pages, PDFs, operating systems, and applications. Familiar fonts like Helvetica, Garamond, and Monaco are all built on True Type outlines. The format specifies a hinting interpreter…...