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- Linux boots in 4.76 days on the Intel 4004arstechnica.com Linux boots in 4.76 days on the Intel 4004
Historic 4-bit microprocessor from 1971 can execute Linux commands over days or weeks.
- Social Web Foundation launches, supported by Vivaldivivaldi.com Social Web Foundation launches, supported by Vivaldi | Vivaldi Browser
We’re proud to support the launch of the Social Web Foundation. We love the Fediverse!
- Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows appsarstechnica.com Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps
Windows App replaces Microsoft Remote Desktop on macOS, iOS, and Android.
- This week in Plasma: polishing like madpointieststick.com This week in Plasma: polishing like mad
The core Plasma team has entered full-on bug-fixing mode until Plasma 6.2.1, and what a week of bug-fixes it was! We’re nailing regressions reported in the beta release as they appear, as wel…
- Vivaldi Browser Launches on the Snap Storewww.omgubuntu.co.uk Vivaldi Browser Launches on the Snap Store
Vivaldi web browser has arrived on the Canonical Snap Store – officially. This closed-source, Chromium-based web browser has been available on Linux since
- This week in Plasma: 6.2 beta release!pointieststick.com This week in Plasma: 6.2 beta release!
Technically Akademy isn’t part of Plasma, but most of KDE’s movers and shakers were here in Würzburg for Akademy 2024 this week, so the list of technical work merged was understandably …
- Android apps are blocking sideloading and forcing Google Play versions insteadarstechnica.com Android apps are blocking sideloading and forcing Google Play versions instead
"Select Play Partners" can block unofficial installation of their apps.
- Ubuntu's New Prompting Client Makes Snap Apps Saferwww.omgubuntu.co.uk Ubuntu's New Prompting Client Makes Snap Apps Safer
Prompting Client is the latest security effort for snap software, and acts as a companion to the new desktop Security Center app. As you may have read in
- Rogue WHOIS server gives researcher superpowers no one should ever havearstechnica.com Rogue WHOIS server gives researcher superpowers no one should ever have
.mobi top-level-domain managers changed the location of its WHOIS server. No one got the memo.
- Chrome is making it easier to keep track of browser tabswww.theverge.com Chrome is making it easier to keep track of browser tabs
Tab groups will soon sync webpages across devices.
- The creator of Lutris has joined up with Playtron for PlaytronOSwww.gamingonlinux.com The creator of Lutris has joined up with Playtron for PlaytronOS
The Playtron team working on PlaytronOS has grown recently, with the creator of the popular app Lutris joining up.
- This week in Plasma: Stabilization for 6.2pointieststick.com This week in Plasma: Stabilization for 6.2
This week I and many other major Plasma contributors are at Akademy, planning the future and having many fruitful in-person discussions! As a result, probably next week’s post will be a bit l…
- ChromeOS just copied one of Windows 11’s best featureswww.theverge.com ChromeOS just copied one of Windows 11’s best features
Snap Groups is basically Snap Layouts for Chromebooks.
- YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channelarstechnica.com YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channel
Sophisticated attack breaks security assurances of the most popular FIDO key.
- Mozilla Firefox 130 Released with Labs, Overscroll & Web Codecs APIwww.omgubuntu.co.uk Mozilla Firefox 130 Released with Labs, Overscroll & Web Codecs API - OMG! Ubuntu
Mozilla Firefox 130 is out with a variety of changes that make this phenomenally popular open-source web browser a touch more productive. On Linux,
- This week in Plasma: inhibiting inhibitions and more!pointieststick.com This week in Plasma: inhibiting inhibitions and more!
This is a big one, folks. Plasma 6.2’s soft feature freeze is now in effect, which means the last few features have just been merged! Now we’ll have six weeks of heavy bug-fixing before…
- AnandTech, mainstay of computer hardware reviews, closes after 27 yearsarstechnica.com AnandTech, mainstay of computer hardware reviews, closes after 27 years
Site was founded by a 14-year-old Anand Lal Shimpi in 1997.
- Asking for Donations in Plasmapointieststick.com Asking for donations in Plasma
Why do we ask for donations so often? Because it’s important! As KDE becomes more successful and an increasing number of people use our software, our costs grow as well: Web and server hostin…
- Microsoft Hands Mono Over to the Wine Projectwww.omgubuntu.co.uk Microsoft Hands Mono Over to the Wine Project - OMG! Ubuntu
Microsoft has handed Mono, the open-source .NET framework, over to the Wine project — a move that's surprising if only as a reminder that Mono still
- COSMIC Alpha Released! Here’s what people are saying.blog.system76.com COSMIC Alpha Released! Here’s what people are saying.
How to install, first impressions, and what makes it ready.
- How Telegram's Founder Pavel Durov Became a Culture War Martyrwww.404media.co How Telegram's Founder Pavel Durov Became a Culture War Martyr
Conservatives have spent months championing Telegram as an app that more closely aligns with their values than Signal.
- Chrome is Entrenching Third-Party Cookies For Some Sites In A Way That Will Predictably, Inevitably Mislead Usersbrave.com Chrome is Entrenching Third-Party Cookies For Some Sites In A Way That Will Predictably, Inevitably Mislead Users | Brave
Related Website Sets is a user-hostile weakening of the Web's privacy model, plainly designed to benefit websites and advertisers, to the detriment of user privacy.
