Controlling Vintage Mac OS With AI
Classic Mac OS was prized for its clean, accessible GUI when it first hit the scene in the 1980s. Back then, developers hadn’t even conceived of...
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Meta exec hopes VR teens will stick around
Free-to-play titles like GorillaTag are popular with young teens with little disposable income. | Image: Another Axiom Inc. This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter...
Read moreValve compares its loot boxes to Labubus in lawsuit defense
Last month, the New York Attorney General (NYAG) brought a lawsuit against Valve accusing the company of promoting “illegal gambling” through its randomized in-game loot boxes....
Read moreRivian reveals pricing and trim details for its R2 SUV
Between the antics particular to a certain car company and the industrial chaos that was set off by COVID (then compounded by the invasion of Ukraine)...
Read more[$] Practical uses for a null filesystem
One of the first changes merged for the upcoming 7.0 release was nullfs, an empty filesystem that cannot actually contain any files. One might logically wonder...
Read moreSSH Escape Sequences Guide: Fix Frozen SSH Sessions Instantly
Stuck SSH session? Press Enter, type ~. to close frozen SSH instantly. Learn all SSH escape sequences most users never discover. The post SSH Escape Sequences...
Read moreWe study pandemics, and the resurgence of measles is a grim sign of what’s coming
In the three decades between 1993 and 2024, measles in the US was relatively rare—a few hundred cases each year, at most. But suddenly, the disease...
Read moreFOSS Weekly #26.11: SUSE for Sale, Firefox Redesign, New-ish Terminal, i3 Customization and More
If rumors and Reuters are to be believed, SUSE Linux us up for sale again. Again because it has changed owners several times in the past....
Read moreAMD HDR/Color Improvement For Their Linux Driver & KDE – Co-Developed By Claude Code
Introduced with Linux 6.19 was the long in development DRM Color Pipeline API while it’s not the end of the road yet on enhancing the Linux...
Read morePokemon Go Had Players Capturing More Than They Realized
Released in 2016, Pokemon Go quickly became a worldwide phenomenon. Even folks who weren’t traditionally interested in the monster-taming franchise were wandering around with their smartphones...
Read moreAMD, NVIDIA, OpenAI & Others Form An Optical Scale-up Consortium
AMD, Broadcom, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI jointly announced today the formation of the Optical Compute Interconnect (OCI) Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) optical scale-up consortium…
Read moreTwo stable kernels for Thursday
Sasha Levin has announced the release of the 6.19.7 and 6.18.17 stable kernels. As usual, each contains important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised to...
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