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Polar has introduced its latest wearable device, the Street X, marking a significant addition to the company's lineup of fitness and health tracking tools. This new smartwatch a...

SenseTime Turns Profitable at the Operating Level — And It Tells a Bigger Story About China’s AI Ambitions

SenseTime Group Inc., the Hong Kong-listed Chinese artificial intelligence company once blacklisted by the United States, has reported its first positive operating margin. Ev...

Google’s Quiet Crackdown: How Android’s New App Verification System Is Reshaping the Sideloading Debate

Google is tightening the screws on Android sideloading — and the effects are already rippling through markets where alternative app distribution has long been the norm....

Samsung’s Budget Phones Are Finally Getting the One Feature That Actually Matters

For years, buying a budget Samsung phone meant accepting a trade-off that no spec sheet could disguise: fewer software updates, shorter support windows, and an expiration dat...

The Square Phone That Wants You to Stop Scrolling: Inside Meadow’s Bet Against the Smartphone Industrial Complex

A small team of designers and engineers is building a phone shaped like a square. Not a rectangle. Not a slab of glass optimized for infinite scroll. A square — roughly the s...

Krita 5.3.0 Lands With a Rewritten Animation System and the Weight of Open-Source Ambition Behind It

The open-source digital painting application Krita shipped version 5.3.0 on July 15, 2025, marking what its development team calls the largest release in the project's histor...

Pop!_OS 24.04 vs. Ubuntu 24.04: System76’s COSMIC Desktop Gamble Is Starting to Pay Off

For the better part of three years, System76 has been building something audacious: an entirely new desktop environment written from scratch in Rust. The company, best known...

GNOME Foundation Bets Its Future on a New Fellowship Program — and the Open Source World Is Watching

The GNOME Foundation, steward of one of the most widely used open-source desktop environments on the planet, just made a move that could reshape how free software projects su...

CIQ and AMD Are Building the Enterprise AI Stack That Doesn’t Need Nvidia — And Wall Street Should Pay Attention

A quiet but significant partnership between CIQ, the enterprise Linux company behind Rocky Linux, and AMD is taking shape — one that could redraw the competitive lines in ent...

Mesa 26.0 Lands in Fedora 44: What Linux Graphics’ Biggest Upgrade in Years Means for Developers and Gamers

The open-source graphics stack that underpins nearly every Linux desktop, workstation, and Steam Deck on the planet is about to get a significant refresh. Mesa 26.0, the next...

Canonical Wants to Strip GRUB Down to Its Bones — and Ubuntu’s Boot Process May Never Be the Same

Canonical is planning to gut one of the most familiar — and bloated — components of the Linux boot chain. The Ubuntu maker has proposed a dramatically slimmed-down version of...

The Quiet Rise of Lemonade: How a Volunteer-Built GPU Driver Became a Serious Contender for Qualcomm Adreno Graphics on Linux

A small, open-source graphics driver just hit a milestone that most of the Linux world didn't notice. But they should.Lemonade 10.0.1, a Vulkan driver targeting Qualco...

FreeCAD 1.1 Arrives: The Open-Source CAD Challenger That Commercial Software Vendors Can No Longer Ignore

Six months after a landmark 1.0 release that signaled the project's maturity, FreeCAD has shipped version 1.1 — and it's the kind of update that makes the open-source paramet...

The Open Source Bill That Could Reshape How Governments Write Software — and Why Some Say It’s Already Broken

A legislative proposal winding through European policy circles aims to mandate that publicly funded software be made publicly available as open source. The idea sounds simple...

Apple Cracks Open the Black Box: App Store Connect’s Biggest Analytics Overhaul Gives Developers What They’ve Demanded for Years

For years, iOS developers have operated with a frustrating handicap. They could build sophisticated apps, run elaborate marketing campaigns, and optimize every pixel of their...

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