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Phone makers keep searching for ways to add features without bulking up devices. The latest efforts center on magnetic attachments that snap onto the back. One brand just tur...

Sway 1.12 Brings HDR10 and Window Capture to Tiling Wayland Users

Sway 1.12 arrived on May 25, 2026. The i3-inspired tiling compositor for Wayland now delivers HDR10 output through its Vulkan renderer. It also adds the ability to capture in...

Linus Torvalds Draws Line at AI-Fueled Churn as Linux 7.1-rc5 Swells Past Tradition

Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.1-rc5 on May 24. The candidate arrived bigger than past rc5 releases. He voiced clear displeasure with the volume of changes this late in the...

California Backs Off Linux Mandate: Amendment Shields Open Source From Age-Verification Rules

California lawmakers have moved swiftly to exempt most Linux distributions from a sweeping age-verification mandate after an intense backlash exposed the law's impractical re...

Samsung Gallery Parts Ways With OneDrive: What the 2026 Shift Means for Galaxy Users

Samsung and Microsoft built a partnership around photo backups that millions of Galaxy owners came to rely on. That arrangement ends soon. Starting September 30, 2026, the Sa...

Apple Opens iOS 27 to Google Cast as EU Rules Force AirPlay Alternatives

Apple stands on the verge of a significant shift in how iPhones handle media streaming. Reports indicate the company will build native support for third-party protocols such...

Amazon’s $200 Billion AI Buildout: How the Cloud Giant Aims to Outpace Rivals and Monetize Capacity Fast

Amazon is pouring roughly $200 billion into capital expenditures this year. The bulk of that sum targets data centers, chips, networking gear and power systems to feed explod...

Decades of Ambition, Still No Finish Line: Why Some Open Source Projects Refuse to Ship

ReactOS has chased binary compatibility with Windows for 27 years. Haiku OS has lingered in beta since 2018 after its first alpha in 2009. Apache OpenOffice froze its major d...

Apple’s genai.apple.com Signals Aggressive AI Push as WWDC 2026 Looms

Apple has quietly registered the subdomain genai.apple.com. The move comes just weeks before its Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off on June 8. Industry observers see i...

Apple Overhauls AirPods Controls in iOS 27 to Tackle Longstanding User Gripes

Users have grumbled for years about AirPods controls. Squeeze the stem too hard and the earbud shifts. Swipe for volume and miss the spot. Hunt through buried settings for ba...

Mozilla Brings Web Serial API to Firefox for Hardware Projects

Mozilla has announced support for the Web Serial API in its Firefox browser, marking a significant step forward for hardware developers and makers who rely on direct serial comm...

Ubuntu Pastebin’s Quiet Exit: 18 Years of Logs and Links Face Sudden End

Canonical will shut down its long-running paste service at the end of this month. The move, announced with little fanfare on May 22, caught many in the Ubuntu community off g...

FreeBSD on a Framework Laptop: What the Foundation Director Learned as a Daily Driver

Deb Goodkin installed FreeBSD on a modern Framework laptop last year and made it her primary machine. The executive director of the FreeBSD Foundation stood before an audienc...

Microsoft Surfaces the Genesis of DOS: 45-Year-Old 86-DOS Code Comes to GitHub

Tim Paterson kept the printouts in his garage. Yellowed dot matrix paper. Stacks of it. Handwritten notes in the margins. Decades old. Now those pages form the backbone of a...

Why Samsung Loyalists Still Resist the Pixel Temptation

Google keeps improving its Pixel phones. Cameras deliver magic. Software arrives first. Yet Samsung holds its massive user base with remarkable grip. One writer spent a full...

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