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EU flag in binary code illustrating digital sovereignty.

KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund backs the desktop project while public sector interest in homegrown alternatives grows

UK begins antitrust inquiry into Microsoft's business software ecosystem

Brit regulator has 'heard' customers can't always 'effectively combine software from Microsoft with that of other providers'

Binary digits arranged into a bug shape on a black background.

Mystery Microsoft bug leaker keeps the zero-days coming

Security pros warn YellowKey claim could make stolen laptops a much bigger problem

Microsoft aims to speed Windows with 'leap forward' in WinUI 3 perf

Bittersweet post tells devs what they already knew: The framework is too slow

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Close-up of two keyboard keys labeled Ctrl and Z on a yellow background with a cable attached.

Microsoft gives Windows Update a Ctrl-Z for bad drivers

Cloud-powered undo will roll back dodgy code without users or hardware partners lifting a finger

Colorful vintage pinball machine illuminated in a bar arcade setting with flashing lights and metal ramps.

Linux gains more critical Windows apps: 3D Movie Maker and Space Cadet Pinball

Further demonstrating its role as industry default OS the versatility of modern porting tools

A blue Windows update screen displayed on a monitor inside a post office.

Windows update prompt joins the Post Office queue

Customers left staring at restart plea with no keyboard, mouse, or hope

Red Hat blasts RHEL 10.1 into orbit aboard Voyager's micro datacenter

Orbital compute platform, which launched on a mission to the ISS last year, gets an immutable upgrade alongside refreshed container images

Debian 14 cracks down on unreproducible packages

Dull but important … so, a bit like Debian itself, really

Gtk2-NG, next generation of Gtk 2, comes back to life

Debian 14 plans to ax Gtk2 – and hard pruning stimulates fresh growth

Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail and Dirty Frag chaos

Instead of waiting for patch cycles, admins could simply shut down vulnerable functions before attackers get there

Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support – soon

Furores are fermenting in the forums

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A raspberry tart on a glass plate with a jar of jam, red berries, and green leaves on a white surface.

Raspberry Pi wants Windows admins to Connect – or it might pull the plug

Remote access software could bring mixed fleets under one roof, assuming enough people ask for it

'Dirty Frag' Linux flaw one-ups CopyFail with no patches and public root exploit

Broken disclosure embargo left admins facing a fresh root-level flaw with no CVE

GNOME may rule Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon, but X.org isn't roadkill yet

Seven official flavors offer alternatives to the default Wayland-only desktop – and Xfce looks like the leanest

Attackers are cashing in on fresh 'CopyFail' Linux flaw

Researchers dropped a reliable root exploit and it didn’t sit idle for long

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Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area

Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bags

Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof

If you can't bother to keep GitHub running, why should we bother with you?

Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner

Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges

Microsoft's turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better

Windows is a mess, GitHub keeps wobbling, Copilot draws flak - what’s wrong at Redmond?

Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans'

Lots of fixes, some performance tweaks. Fingers crossed there's no out-of-band patch to follow

Windows error appearing on a portrait of a girl after a ghost train ride

Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright?

Things that go bork in the night

Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans'

But why did those fans go away in the first place, Satya?

Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root

Patches land for authencesn flaw enabling local privilege escalation

Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it

New sealed bootable container images and Stratis storage, too

Microsoft opens door to the past by releasing 86-DOS and PC-DOS 1.00

Back to a time when source repositories were printouts and commits were hand-written notes

Microsoft updates the Windows Update Experience: You can hit pause now

Keep the patches away for as long as you like

Go straight to sell! Windows second-chance setup hawks Microsoft services at IT's expense

The OS trying to upsell you subscriptions is more than just an annoyance

Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon spits out Xorg, but still lets you run X11 apps

New LTS is here, with more tooling for GPGPU and AI workloads

More ancient Linux device support faces the chop

One way to deal with bug hunting LLMs: ditch the old drivers

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Microsoft beefs up Remote Desktop security with ... hard-to-read messages

Ailing scaling blamed by Windows-maker for unreadable missives

Linux may get a hall pass from one state age-check bill, but Congress plays hall monitor

Colorado amendments could exempt open source OSes, code repos, and containers

Microsoft Windows and 'Tux' Linux logos next to each

You can now run WSL on Windows 95, in case you're crazy, too

'I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time,' says dev behind unholy abomination

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Zorin OS 18.1 released - and the Lite edition reappears

Plus news from its Dublin neighbors, Linux Mint

Task Manager's CPU meter is an obituary for the recent past, says the engineer who built it

Spoiler: There's no magic value. Just a timer, some kernel calls, and too much coffee

Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver

Good news for those working with Windows, bad news for Paragon Software

Microsoft releases Windows Server update fix to fix its April update fixes

Out-of-band or out of control?

Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager

Kamila Szewczyk prefers old software, as back then people understood something could actually be finished

Raspberry Pi OS ends open-door policy for sudo

Command prefix will require password by default

You can finally control serial devices from Firefox

Long languishing API gets love from Mozilla

Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs

Microsoft punishes you for updating infrequently

Notepad sheds Copilot from toolbar as Microsoft gives subtlety a try

AI gubbins still there, just tucked under 'Writing Tools'

Microsoft attempts to untangle 'confusing' Windows Insider program

Controlled Feature Rollouts headed for the trash among other changes

Adobe finally patches PDF pest after months of abuse

Reader and Acrobat flaw let booby-trapped documents profile targets and hijack machines

France’s digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead

Après ça, le déluge, as plans call for move away from plenty more American software and hardware

Linux 7.0 debuts as Linus Torvalds ponders AI's bug-finding powers

Makes Rust support official, adds code for ancient Alpha and SPARC CPUs

Red Hat RHELocates its Chinese engineering team to India

Hundreds of layoffs, but this smells of geopolitics, not downsizing

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Apple's chips are the core of a new landscape, but its biggest win is Windows

Walled gardens make more sense when it's an AI-lligator infested swamp outside

An Intel 486 (80486) SX processor on a red motherboard

Patch to end i486 support hits Linux kernel merge queue

After a year of patchwork, maintainers look ready to start retiring 486-class CPUs

Windows asks a networking question on a Stratford billboard

Glue and paper wouldn't have cared about discoverability

When a billboard survives the wind, but not the boot

This GRUB is not an advert for some tasty fried food

Microsoft veteran says some 'broken by update' PCs were already doomed

Patch Tuesday often gets blamed when a reboot merely exposes damage already done, according to Chen

SystemRescue 13 has a bunch of handy tools – and a full manual built right in

SystemRescue 13 lands with Linux 6.18 and bcachefs support

And other handy tools that could save your data in a crisis

Leaked memo suggests Red Hat's chugging the AI Kool-Aid

Sounds like an excellent time to start honing your Debian skills

Microsoft reaches for yet another out-of-band patch to deal with latest update issue

Weren't these supposed to be 'atypical'?

Ubuntu's Resolute GNOME – note that sudo turns the Ptyxis terminal window's top bar red, and now it shows asterisks rea

Ubuntu 26.04 beta arrives packing GNOME 50, which no longer supports Google Drive

Yep, you read that right. And there's no official Linux client from Google

Microsoft yanks Windows 11 preview update after install failures

KB5079391 pulled after some devices hit errors, adding to recent quality woes

Microsoft tells crusty old kernel drivers to get with the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program

Cross-signed code gets the cold shoulder as Redmond tightens trust

AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says Linux kernel czar

Greg Kroah-Hartman can't explain the inflection point, but it's not slowing down or going away

Windows 95 let installers trash its files then fixed the mess behind their backs

I'll just clear up that up, shall I?

Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field

Flatpak may be next, and the lobbying behind it is raising eyebrows

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Systemd-free antiX Linux 26: Debian 13, in bonsai form

Plus: Still supports 32-bit hardware or VMs

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Windows boss promises to heal the operating system's self-inflicted wounds

Sorry seems to be the hardest word at Microsoft

Avalonia bolts Linux and WebAssembly onto .NET MAUI

Broader platform coverage lands, if developers can tolerate the rough edges

Microsoft fixes broken Windows update days after vowing fewer broken updates

The era of reliability begins... right after this out-of-band patch

Microsoft: Removing some Copilots will improve Windows 11

'Doze boss admits quality is down, promises smaller memory footprint and fixes for many well-known issues

WSL graphics driver update brings better GPU support for Linux apps

Meanwhile, WINE and OpenGL tweaks speed Windows apps on 64-bit hosts

Microsoft breaks Microsoft account sign-ins in Windows 11 with latest update

OneDrive, Office, Teams Free users greeted with phantom 'no internet' errors, restart may help if you're lucky

Sashiko: AI code review system for the Linux kernel spots bugs humans miss

Beats getting roasted on the mailing list

GNOME 50 debuts with X11 axed, Wayland front and center

Most Ubuntu desktop users will be looking at this until at least 2028