Two new open source projects launched in the past few weeks take a different route: they copy the Photoshop workflow itself. PhotoCraft is a cross-platform editor written in Rust, while Compositor is a native Mac app written in Swift....
GitHub says it is rebuilding the Git infrastructure behind its platform, without downtime, to cope with developers and AI agents working concurrently in the same repositories....
Qualcomm has committed to officially supporting Linux on its Snapdragon X2 laptop chips, with Canonical preparing a certified Ubuntu image for them...
From that date, any certificate issued or renewed through the default "classic" ACME profile will be valid for 64 days. A second reduction to 45 days is scheduled for February 16, 2028....
Why the United States cannot simply restrict RISC-V?
Which operating systems already run on RISC-V?
Linux's kernel, system libraries and core tools are open source. A fully open system, however, also needs open firmware, open boot code and, ideally, open hardware.....
A Google support page for enterprise and education administrators states that ChromeOS will keep getting regular updates and security patches through mid-2034.
A new scheduler feature called the Steal Governor has been queued in the kernel's scheduler development branch and is expected to be submitted during the Linux 7.4 merge window in October.
Google has confirmed that a number of existing Chromebooks will be able to move to Googlebook OS, its new laptop operating system.
Fujifilm's 40TB LTO Ultrium 10 cartridge, which holds up to 100TB with compression, is now appearing at retail for roughly $494. The cartridge is aimed at enterprise archives and backups rather than everyday PCs...
A familiar argument among kernel engineers has resurfaced, and this time artificial intelligence is the reason
Hard Drive Shortage Fears Grow as Floods Threaten Thailand's Factories....
FreeCORE describes itself as “TrueNAS CORE — continued.” It is an independently maintained fork of TrueNAS CORE 13.3 that keeps the same foundations, FreeBSD and OpenZFS, and traces its lineage back through CORE to FreeNAS.
Insider Experimental Preview Build 26340.9502, released on September 18, 2026, lets the tool erase a PC's drives through the storage hardware and lets IT administrators start a rebuild remotely.
The refreshed installation images fold in all updates through Debian 13.7 “Trixie,” bring new kernels for newer hardware, and add a utility that checks the digital signatures of ISO files, including those from other popular Linux distributions.
H.266 was built to cut bitrate by roughly half compared with HEVC (H.265) at the same perceived quality, and it is widely regarded as the most efficient standardized codec available.
A redundant stream-initialization step is being removed from the kernel's Zstd code, cutting decompression time by up to 35% in virtual machines — not through a new algorithm, but by simply not doing work that was never needed.
Apple has released iOS 27, the latest version of its iPhone operating system, with the update rolling out to compatible devices on Monday, September 14, 2026. iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, tvOS 27, and visionOS 27 are being released the same day.
CachyOS, an Arch-based, performance-tuned distribution launched in late 2022, has climbed to the top of DistroWatch's Page Hit Ranking — displacing Linux Mint, which itself had only recently taken the top spot from MX Linux...