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Enlightenment 0.27.1 released
A few months after 0.27.0 was released, we've got a small update for Enlightenment today, version 0.27.1. It's a short list of bugfixes, and one tiny new feature: you can now use the scroll wheel to change the volume when your cursor is hovering over the mixer controls.
That's it. That's the release.
https://www.osnews.com/story/141949/enlightenment-0-27-1-released/
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Ironclad 0.6 released
It's been a while, but there's a new release of Ironclad, the formally verified, hard real-time capable kernel written in SPARK and Ada. Aside from the usual bugfixes, this release moves Ironclad from multiboot to Limine, adds x86_64 ACPI support for poweroff and reboot, improvements to PTY support, the VFS layer, and much more.
The easiest way to try out Ironclad is to download Gloire, a d
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Chimera Linux drops RISC-V support because capable RISC-V hardware doesn’t exist
We've talked about Chimera Linux a few times now on OSNews, so I won't be repeating what makes it unique once more. The project announced today that it will be shuttering its RISC-V architecture support, and considering RISC-V has been supported by Chimera Linux pretty much sin
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The fascist tech bro takeover is here
The future of the United States is no longer decided in Washington. That ship has sailed. It's now dictated in the bunkers, private jets, and compounds of an ideological Silicon Valley, by billionaires and wealth extremists intent on treating democracy as a nuisance that must be swatted away. These men - raised on a rabid press that mythologized their existen
https://www.osnews.com/story/141900/the-fascist-tech-bro-takeover-is-here/
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Exploring the (discontinued) hybrid Debian GNU/kFreeBSD distribution
For decades, Linux and BSD have stood as two dominant yet fundamentally different branches of the Unix-like operating system world. While Linux distributions, such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora, have grown to dominate the open-source ecosystem, BSD-based systems like FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD have re
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Popular “AI” chatbots infected by Russian state propaganda, call Hitler’s Mein Kampf “insightful and intelligent”
Two for the techbro "'AI' cannot be biased" crowd:
A Moscow-based disinformation network named “Pravda” — the Russian word for "truth" — is pursuing an ambitious strategy by deliberately infiltrating th
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Comparing Fuchsia components and Linux containers
Fuchsia is a new (non-Linux) operating system from Google, and one of the key pieces of Fuchsia's design is the component framework. Components on Fuchsia have many similarities with some of the container solutions on Linux (such as Docker): they both fetch content addressed blobs from the network, assemble those blobs into an isolated f
https://www.osnews.com/story/141875/comparing-fuchsia-components-and-linux-containers/
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Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026
In October 2026, Microsoft Publisher will reach its end of life. After that time, it will no longer be included in Microsoft 365 and existing on-premises suites will no longer be supported. Microsoft 365 subscribers will no longer be able to open or edit Publisher files in Publisher. Until then, support f
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Zen and the art of microcode hacking
Now that we have examined the vulnerability that enables arbitrary microcode patches to be installed on all (un-patched) Zen 1 through Zen 4 CPUs, let's discuss how you can use and expand our tools to author your own patches. We have been working on developing a collection of tools combined into a single project we’re calling zentool. The long-term goal is to provide
https://www.osnews.com/story/141867/zen-and-the-art-of-microcode-hacking/
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Mozilla deletes promise not to sell Firefox users’ data
The hits just keep on coming. Mozilla not only changed its Privacy Notice and introduced a Terms of Use for Firefox for the first time with some pretty onerous terms, they also removed a rather specific question and answer pair from their page with frequently asked questions about Firefox, as discovered by David Gerard.
https://www.osnews.com/story/141825/mozilla-deletes-promise-not-to-sell-firefox-users-data/
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zlib-rs is faster than C
I'm sure we can all have a calm, rational discussion about this, so here it goes: zlib-rs, the Rust re-implementation of the zlib library, is now faster than its C counterparts in both decompression and compression.
We've released version 0.4.2 of zlib-rs, featuring a number of substantial performance improvements. We are now (to our knowledge) the fastest api-compatible
https://www.osnews.com/story/141809/zlib-rs-is-faster-than-c/
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Mozilla reaffirms it won’t remove Manifest v2 support from Firefox
Mozilla has officially reiterated that it's going to keep offering support for both Manifest v2 and Manifest v3 extensions in Firefox. Google is removing support for Manifest v2 from Chrome, and with it a feature called blockingWebRequest that is used by ad blockers like uBlock Origin. Google's rep
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12 years of incubating Wayland color management
The Wayland color-management protocol extension has landed on Feb 13th, 2025, in upstream wayland-protocols repository in the staging directory. It was released with wayland-protocols 1.41. The extension enables proper interactions between traditional (sRGB), Wide Color Gamut (WCG), and High Dynamic Range (HDR) image sources and displays onc
https://www.osnews.com/story/141803/12-years-of-incubating-wayland-color-management/
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Trans rights are human rights. This is a non-negotiable fact. No ifs, buts or maybes.
This new page is now linked to very clearly on our front page.
https://www.osnews.com/trans-rights-are-human-rights/
Unlike most other tech media, we will not be wishy-washy or even silent about what's happening to trans people in the US.
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Flathub safety: a layered approach from source to user
About two weeks ago we talked about why Fedora manages its own Flatpak repository, and why that sometimes leads to problems with upstream projects. Most recently, Fedora's own OBS Flatpak was broken, leading to legal threats from the OBS project, demanding Fedora remove any and all branding from its OBS Flatpak. In response, Fedor
https://www.osnews.com/story/141777/flathub-safety-a-layered-approach-from-source-to-user/
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Chromium Ozone/Wayland: the last mile stretch
Lets start with some context, the project consists of implementing, shipping and maintaining native Wayland support in the Chromium project. Our team at Igalia has been leading the effort since it was first merged upstream back in 2016. For more historical context, there are a few blog posts and this amazing talk, by my colleagues Antonio Gomes
https://www.osnews.com/story/141771/chromium-ozone-wayland-the-last-mile-stretch/
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Microsoft is paywalling features in Notepad and Paint
There’s some bad news for Windows users who want to use all of the built-in features of the operating system and its integrated apps. Going forward, Microsoft is restricting features in two iconic apps, which you’ll need to unlock with a paid subscription.
The two apps in question? Notepad and Paint. [...]
Windows Insiders
https://www.osnews.com/story/141773/microsoft-is-paywalling-features-in-notepad-and-paint/
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1972 UNIX V2 “beta” resurrected from old tapes
There's a number of backups of old DECtapes from Dennis Ritchie, which he gave to Warren Toomey in 1997. The tapes were eventually uploaded, and through analysis performed by Yufeng Gao, a lot of additional details, code, and software were recovered from them. A few days ago, Gao came back with the results from their analys of two more tapes, a
https://www.osnews.com/story/141769/1972-unix-v2-beta-resurrected-from-old-tapes/
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ArcaOS 5.1.1 released
It's been two years since the release of ArcaOS 5.1, which was a hugely important release because it brought UEFI support to this continuation of IBM's OS/2, ensuring longevity for the project for years to come. Since I don't think much is known about what, exactly, Arca Noae, and eComStation before it, has access to within the licensing agreement with IBM, it's difficult to ascertain just how mu
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Fedora should not push its users to its own Flatpak repository
Unlike most (all?) other distributions with built-in Flatpak support, Fedora maintains its own repository of Flatpak applications. Everyone else defaults to using Flathub, where developers of applications themselves tend to publish their Flatpaks. Fedora's 'shadow Flathub' sometimes leads to problems, with Fe
https://www.osnews.com/story/141723/fedora-should-not-push-its-users-to-its-own-flatpak-repository/
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