Google slips built-in terminal, Debian Linux VM into Android 15 March feature drop
Try it out now on Pixel phones for some penguin on penguin fun
OSes13 Mar 2025 | 31
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Printers start speaking in tongues after Windows 11 update
Who still uses a printer anyway? Oh ... quite a lot of you, it seems
OSes12 Mar 2025 | 30
Free95 claims to be a GPL 3 Windows clone, but it's giving vaporware vibes
Don't, don't, DON'T believe the hype
OSes12 Mar 2025 | 57
Apple has locked me in the same monopolistic cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users
Column Vendors just don't want machines to live double lives
Personal Tech12 Mar 2025 | 165
Choose your own Patch Tuesday adventure: Start with six zero-day fixes, or six critical flaws
Patch Tuesday Microsoft tackles 50-plus security blunders, Adobe splats 3D bugs, and Apple deals with a doozy
Patches12 Mar 2025 | 22
Microsoft adds another Copilot hotkey – this time for AI voice chat
Hold Alt + Spacebar for two seconds, and Clippy 2.0 is all ears
OSes11 Mar 2025 | 32
Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement
Windows App the way ahead as support pulled from May 27
OSes11 Mar 2025 | 72
Fresh Wine-flavored version of Mono released
First new version in about five years, but it's who did it that matters more
OSes11 Mar 2025 | 24
Strap in, get ready for more Rust drivers in Linux kernel
Likening memory safety bugs to smallpox may not soothe sensitive C coders
OSes10 Mar 2025 | 68
eBPF. It doesn't stand for anything. But it might mean bank
Meta says it cut CPU usage by 20% through kernel-level profiling. Just FYI
OSes09 Mar 2025 | 23
We call this kernel saunters: How Apple rearranged its XNU core with exclaves
iPhone giant compartmentalizes OS for the sake of security
Research08 Mar 2025 | 18
The Badbox botnet is back, powered by up to a million backdoored Androids
Best not to buy cheap hardware and use third-party app stores if you want to stay clear of this vast ad fraud effort
Cyber-crime07 Mar 2025 | 10
Microsoft goes native with Copilot. Again
This time we mean it for the Windows chatbot
AI + ML06 Mar 2025 | 42
Firefox 136 finally brings the features that fans wanted
Vertical tabs, native Arm64 Linux version, and AMD GPU-accelerated video playback
OSes04 Mar 2025 | 38
Windows 11 adoption picking up speed, but older sibling still ahead
Microsoft Copilot reckons that it didn't have to be like this
OSes03 Mar 2025 | 14
Windows 7 lives! How to keep your favorite fossil running
You probably shouldn't, but if you must, you can
OSes01 Mar 2025 | 67
Windows 11 24H2 goes back to the drawing board over AutoCAD 2022 glitch
Safeguard hold applied after designer darling borked by problematic update
OSes26 Feb 2025 | 20
Microsoft's updated Windows battery indicator rollout runs out of juice
How hard can it be to add colors and percentages?
OSes26 Feb 2025 | 96
Murena kicks Google out of the Pixel Tablet
Privacy-centric Android makes more sense on this form factor than a phone
Personal Tech26 Feb 2025 | 36
OBS-tacle course: Fedora and Flathub's Flatpak fiasco sparks repo rumble
Dispute settled, but not the causes
OSes25 Feb 2025 | 23
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Google begs owners of crippled Chromecasts not to hit factory reset
Updated Expired security cert kerfuffle leaves second-gen, Audio gadgets useless
DOGE helps Veterans Affairs end IT contract run by service-disabled entrepreneurs
Project dubbed 'wasteful' – Musk's lot says under-pressure VA must do it 'in-house'
Apple has locked me in the same monopolistic cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users
Column Vendors just don't want machines to live double lives
Google says it's rolling out fix for stricken Chromecasts
It'll take a few days, give or take your situation
CISA pen-tester says 100-strong red team binned after DOGE canceled contract
Updated Election infosec advisory center also shuttered
Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement
Windows App the way ahead as support pulled from May 27
Get off that old Firefox by Friday or you'll be sorry, says Moz
Root cert expiry may bring breakage or worse for add-ons, media playback, and more
Allstate Insurance sued for delivering personal info on a platter, in plaintext, to anyone who went looking for it
Crooks built bots to exploit astoundingly bad quotation website and made off with data on thousands
As Chromecast outage drags on, fix could be days to weeks away
Updated Google apologizes but won’t say what went wrong nor when it will make things right
ASML will open Beijing facility despite US sanctions on China
Updated Center will reuse and recondition systems returned from field
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Microsoft trims more CPUs from Windows 11 compatibility list
Updated OEMs blowing dust from the processor stock cupboard, beware
OSes24 Feb 2025 | 127
How's that open source licensing coming along? That well, huh?
State Of Open When a vendor and a community stop loving each other, things can get very forked up
OSes24 Feb 2025 | 14
Beta of Unix version 2 restored to life
What is dead may never die
OSes24 Feb 2025 | 37
Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code, says its rise is inevitable
Final update Nobody wants memory bugs. Penguinistas continue debate on how to squish 'em
OSes21 Feb 2025 | 178
KDE Plasma 6.3 released – and 6.3.1 is already here
A year on from the big overhaul of Plasma 6, more functionality appears
OSes19 Feb 2025 | 13
Microsoft declutters Windows 11 File Explorer in the name of Euro privacy
Also hammers another nail into Cortana's coffin with the end of Location History
OSes19 Feb 2025 | 27
Snake Keylogger slithers into Windows, evades detection with AutoIt-compiled payload
Because stealing your credentials, banking info, and IP just wasn’t enough
Research18 Feb 2025 | 8
GNOME 48 beta is another nail in X11's coffin
Our first look at the default desktop for Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 'Plucky Puffin'
OSes18 Feb 2025 | 73
Even Linus Torvalds can have trouble with autocycle … autocracy… AUTOCOMPLETE!
Penguin Emperor's weekly State Of The Kernel post went astray
OSes18 Feb 2025 | 38
Why did the Windows 95 setup use Windows 3.1?
If MS-DOS could play Doom, surely a battleship gray button was a possibility?
OSes17 Feb 2025 | 136
After clash over Rust in Linux, now Asahi lead quits distro, slams Linus' kernel leadership
I fought the Torv and ... the Torv won
OSes13 Feb 2025 | 158
Murena boss says customers about to wake up from its cloud storage nightmare
Interview Four months since cloud drive kicked the bucket, but resolution comes today... hopefully
Storage12 Feb 2025 | 16
'Key kernel maintainers' still back Rust in the Linux kernel, despite the doubters
Rustaceans could just wait for unwelcoming C coders to slowly SIGQUIT...
OSes11 Feb 2025 | 44
CentOS Connect conference announces return of Firefox
FOSDEM 2025 OKD project also has its own immutable CentOS image, which could be fun
OSes10 Feb 2025 | 12
Microsoft makes sweet, sweet music with Windows MIDI Services
Preview arrives in Canary Channel, release planned for Windows 10 and 11
OSes06 Feb 2025 | 34
Agent P waxes lyrical about 14 years of systemd
FOSDEM 2025 Lennart Poettering gave packed-out keynote talk. Jack Dorsey … didn't
OSes06 Feb 2025 | 121
Remember it'll cost ya to keep the lights on for Windows 10
At $61 per device, doubling each year, security updates from November are going to add up quickly
OSes05 Feb 2025 | 44
Microsoft quietly erases Windows 11 TPM 2.0 bypass workaround from help page
updated You'll upgrade that aging piece of kit and you'll like it
OSes05 Feb 2025 | 49
Why users still couldn't care less about Windows 11
Comment No reason to upgrade other than the looming end of Windows 10
OSes04 Feb 2025 | 272
Google patches odd Android kernel security bug amid signs of targeted exploitation
Also, Netgear fixes critical router, access point vulnerabilities
Patches04 Feb 2025 | 5
Windows 11 stages a comeback – still miles behind older sibling
Microsoft's latest OS claws back market share from Windows 10, but the finish line is a long way off
OSes01 Feb 2025 | 65
You're going to do what to the feature? Microsoft defines what it means by 'deprecation'
Self-deprecation much less fun if you're not joking... or if nobody knows what the heck you mean
OSes31 Jan 2025 | 71
Tiny Linux kernel tweak could cut datacenter power use by 30%, boffins say
Not bad for 30 lines of code
Systems29 Jan 2025 | 66
Ubuntu upgrade had our old Nvidia GPU begging for a downgrade
If you need legacy drivers, you might want to keep your older OS version – possibly indefinitely
Personal Tech29 Jan 2025 | 41
Microsoft admits January's Windows Update broke USB Digital to Audio Convertor
In Redmond, no one can hear the audiophiles scream
OSes28 Jan 2025 | 27
Meta blocked Distrowatch links on Facebook while running Linux servers
Popular community site became unmentionable – the irony is thick enough to compile
Personal Tech28 Jan 2025 | 58
Windows 10's demise nears, but Linux is forever
Opinion If you want a desktop that's secure and reliable, forget about Microsoft
OSes28 Jan 2025 | 346
Linux rolls out the welcome mat for Microsoft's Copilot key
But what the heck should it do?
OSes24 Jan 2025 | 147
Don't want your Kubernetes Windows nodes hijacked? Patch this hole now
SYSTEM-level command injection via API parameter *chef's kiss*
Patches24 Jan 2025 | 4
WINE 10 is still not an emulator, but Windows apps won't know the difference
New double-digit vintage goes well with all sorts of things
OSes24 Jan 2025 | 76
Better power management, security, and scheduling in Linux kernel 6.13
But no changes to bcachefs
OSes22 Jan 2025 | 6
Linux Mint 22.1 Xia arrives fashionably late
Both the Ubuntu and Debian-based editions get Cinnamon 6.4 and other goodies
OSes20 Jan 2025 | 59
Microsoft to force Windows 11 24H2 on Home and Pro users
Ready or not, here I come
OSes20 Jan 2025 | 118
Windows Insiders can now turn on Administrator Protection from settings
Security feature widens out to more Windows 11 users, including those at home
OSes18 Jan 2025 | 24
How Windows got to version 3 – an illustrated history
Opinion With added manga and snark. What's not to like?
OSes18 Jan 2025 | 122
Copilot invades Microsoft 365 Personal and Family for an extra three bucks a month
Updated For those of you tearing your hair out, we have a way to disable AI assistant in Word
AI + ML17 Jan 2025 | 80
Apple solves broken news alerts by turning off the AI
Summaries will return when Apple Intelligence has 'improved'
AI + ML17 Jan 2025 | 48
Debian 12.9 arrives, quickly followed by MX Linux 23.5
The eighth point-release of Bookworm – yes, you read that right – and the latest MX with new Xfce
OSes16 Jan 2025 | 37
Parallels brings back the magic that was waiting seven minutes for Windows to boot
In a preview of x86_64 VMs running on Apple silicon, so it’s excusable for now
Virtualization16 Jan 2025 | 32
Windows Patch Tuesday hits snag with Citrix software, workarounds published
Microsoft starts 2025 as it hopefully doesn't mean to go on
Patches15 Jan 2025 | 8
Microsoft fixes under-attack privilege-escalation holes in Hyper-V
Patch Tuesday Plus: Excel hell, angst for Adobe fans, and life's too Snort for Cisco
Patches15 Jan 2025 | 7
Intel, AMD engineers rush to save Linux 6.13 after dodgy Microsoft code change
'Let's not do this again please'... days before release date
OSes14 Jan 2025 | 44
Absolute Linux has reached the end – where to next?
Analysis Linux distros that don't exist, but we wish did
OSes14 Jan 2025 | 53
Azure, Microsoft 365 MFA outage locks out users across regions
It's fixed, mostly, after Europeans had a manic Monday
Security13 Jan 2025 | 10
Linus Torvalds offers to build guitar effects pedal for kernel developer
‘I'm a software person with a soldering iron’, he warns alongside release of Linux 6.13-rc7
Personal Tech13 Jan 2025 | 62
New Outlook marches onto Windows 10 for what little time it has left
Users of doomed operating system to receive unloved app via an update
OSes10 Jan 2025 | 68
Microsoft preps for a year of enterprise-impacting M365 retirements
Hey administrators – buckle up. 2025 is going to be a wild ride
OSes09 Jan 2025 | 8
Windows 11 24H2 can run – sort of – in 184MB
Do you really need a new PC for Microsoft's latest and greatest?
OSes07 Jan 2025 | 36
Microsoft declares 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh'
CES Slumping market share, unwanted features ... no, it's the consumers who are wrong!
Software06 Jan 2025 | 175
Tired of begging, Microsoft now trying to trick users into thinking Bing is Google
If you can't beat 'em, just imitate their branding, hide yours and hope they don't notice
Personal Tech06 Jan 2025 | 79
How the OS/2 flop went on to shape modern software
Opinion Even Microsoft's lead architect misunderstood the failure
OSes05 Jan 2025 | 195
Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks
Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking
Personal Tech03 Jan 2025 | 73
With 10 months of support remaining, Windows 10 still dominates
Statcounter figures show Windows 11 losing user love
OSes02 Jan 2025 | 70
A New Year's gift from Microsoft: Surprise, your scanners don't work
Canon confirms multifunction devices struggling with Windows 11 24H2
OSes02 Jan 2025 | 80
Microsoft adds another problem to the Windows 11 24H2 naughty list
Santa Satya pops one more issue into his sack just in time for Christmas
OSes27 Dec 2024 | 86
The winner of last year's Windows Ugly Sweater is ...
Register readers have spoken
Bootnotes25 Dec 2024 | 14
SvarDOS: DR-DOS is reborn as an open source operating system
Updated A #DOScember surprise: fits on a single floppy, but has a network-capable package manager
OSes23 Dec 2024 | 86
Adélie Linux 1.0 – small, fast, but not quite grown up
Remarkably compact, remarkably cross-platform, remarkably long beta period
OSes20 Dec 2024 | 31
Fedora Asahi Remix 41 for Apple Macs is out
New shiny if you run Linux on an M1 or M2
OSes20 Dec 2024 | 40
Microsoft coughs up yet more Windows 11 24H2 headaches
Users report the sound of silence from operating system update
OSes19 Dec 2024 | 76
Xfce 4.20 is out: Wayland support lands, but some pieces are still missing
Comment The Unixi-est of desktops gets a wide-ranging update
OSes18 Dec 2024 | 51
Alpine Linux 3.21: Lean, mean, and LoongArch-ready
A cool mountain breeze blowing in after the new LTS kernel
OSes17 Dec 2024 | 16
Suggested Actions fails to suggest its own survival as Windows 11 feature killed
Final curtain call for weird wingman
OSes14 Dec 2024 | 34
'Tis the season to test the RHEL and AlmaLinux 10 betas
And the kernel team's patience?
OSes13 Dec 2024 | 23
systemd begrudgingly drops a safety net while a challenger appears, GNU Shepherd 1.0
Holidays come early for distro builders with two init systems to choose from
OSes13 Dec 2024 | 149
Good news! You'll soon be able to send faxes again with Windows 11 24H2
Microsoft squashes eSCL bug
OSes11 Dec 2024 | 22
Microsoft hijacks keyboard shortcut to bring Copilot to your attention
AI assistant goes native – sort of – for Windows Insiders
AI + ML11 Dec 2024 | 108
Linux 6.12 is the new long term supported kernel
Mid-November release will be maintained for 'several years'
OSes11 Dec 2024 | 17
South Korean web giant Naver creates its own Linux distro
'Navix' follows OpenELA rules, comes with ten years support, and is already used in production at scale
OSes10 Dec 2024 | 14
Windows 11 24H2 strikes again – Outlook might not start with Google Workspace Sync running
Meanwhile, 365 Enterprise users have a date for new Outlook rollout
OSes09 Dec 2024 | 26
Micropatchers share 1-instruction fix for NTLM hash leak flaw in Windows 7+
Updated Microsoft's OS sure loves throwing your creds at remote systems
Patches06 Dec 2024 | 11
Veteran Microsoft engineer shares some enterprise support tips
How to tell a customer they're an idiot without telling them they're an idiot
OSes06 Dec 2024 | 44
Windows 11 24H2 rolls out to more devices – with a growing list of known issues
Compatibility holds persist as gamers face black screens
Software05 Dec 2024 | 68
FreeBSD 14.2 wants to woo Docker fans, but still struggles with Wi-Fi
Another buzzword box ticked: OCI-compliant containers
OSes05 Dec 2024 | 22
Wubuntu: The lovechild of Windows and Linux nobody asked for
A third-party Kubuntu remix with a severe identity crisis
OSes05 Dec 2024 | 85
Microsoft confirms there will be no U-turn on Windows 11 hardware requirements
TPM 2.0 'non-negotiable' for latest OS, says software giant
OSes04 Dec 2024 | 104
Elementary OS 8 'Circe' conjures Wayland magic
Based on Ubuntu 24.04, more accessibility, still looks great
OSes04 Dec 2024 | 21
Fresh releases of Xfce, Mint, Cinnamon desktops out in time for the holidays
Cinnamon 6.4 is already out and Xfce 4.20 is very nearly ready
OSes04 Dec 2024 | 14
£1B lawsuit targets Microsoft for allegedly overcharging Windows customers on other clouds
Yes, we've been over this before - several times, in fact
Legal04 Dec 2024 | 9
AWS says AI could disrupt everything – and hopes it will do just that to Windows
re:Invent Cloud colossus reckons it can clarify hallucinations, get your apps off Microsoft's OS at pleasing speed
AI + ML04 Dec 2024 | 36
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