Installing this month’s Windows Server security update has knocked some enterprise domain controllers into continuous reboot cycles.
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After months of fierce debate, Linus Torvalds and the Linux kernel maintainers have laid down the law on AI-generated code.
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Dave Plummer used several clever techniques to ensure that Windows Task Manager will always run while cutting the performance hit on your hardware when when it’s opened.
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The Linux 7.0 kernel has merged support for three new keycodes intended for a coming wave of laptops with dedicated AI agent keys.
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Natalie Vock, a dev on Valve’s Linux graphics driver team has introduced new fixes that optimize VRAM usage for games in Linux. Previously, any background task could make the OS evict game data from VRAM and throw it into …
Microsoft’s Clippy was put out to pasture a quarter century ago. This hapless, and some would add ‘irritating,’ productivity assistant would no longer be enabled by default in Office, starting April 11, 2001.
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Microsoft is simplifying the Windows Insider program with fewer channels, making it easier to switch between them and enable the latest features.
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France is accelerating its digital sovereignty plans. In an official press release this week, the country’s DINUM announced its “exit from Windows in favor of workstations running on the Linux operating system.”
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The macOS networking stack has a bug that creates a 49.7-day-long countdown to disaster that currently requires a reboot to fix, as discovered by AI service provider Photon.
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Linux kernel developers appear to have started to dismantle support for the legendary Intel 486 CPU.