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Parrot 6.2 official release teaser (Image source: Parrot Security)

Debian-based distro Parrot 6.2 intros the Rocket launcher alongside several package updates

Parrot OS is back with multiple improvements and updates, as well as a new launcher. Unleashed yesterday, version 6.2 of this Debian-based distro that targets ethical hackers brings forward Rocket, a launcher for Docker containers...

Codrut Nistor, 24 Oct 2024 16:57

Adobe Fresco can now be used completely free of charge. (Image source: Adobe)

Premium subscription cancelled: Adobe Fresco digital painting app for iPhone, iPad and Windows now completely free

Adobe is launching an offensive against popular illustration app Procreate by making its own rival app free. Adobe Fresco now provides access to thousands of brushes and fonts without a premium subscription, both on the iPad and o...

Hannes Brecher, 24 Oct 2024 04:23

NC State University researchers develop enhanced 3D mapping system for autonomous vehicles (Image source: Waymo)

New MvACon AI system boosts self-driving car perception accuracy

Researchers have developed MvACon, a breakthrough AI enhancement that helps self-driving cars better understand their surroundings through improved 3D object detection. The system seamlessly integrates with existing autonomous veh...

Nathan Ali, 23 Oct 2024 17:13

Nvidia GeForce Game Ready Driver 566.03 downloading in the Nvidia app (Image source: Own)

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Alan Wake 2: The Lake House, and five other titles get optimizations in the latest Nvidia GeForce Game Ready Driver package

In addition to providing full support to no less than seven new games, including Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, the Nvidia GeForce Game Ready Driver package labeled 566.03 is also adding no less than 32 G-Sync Compatible displays to t...

Codrut Nistor, 23 Oct 2024 17:01

Garmin's new update for the Forerunner 265 has a thirteen-strong changelog. (Image source: Garmin)

Garmin introduces over a dozen new features and improvements to mid-range smartwatch with latest software update

Garmin has released a new update for one of its popular smartwatches. Available on its Beta Program as Public Beta Version 21.14, the update is said to make over a dozen changes from the smartwatch's most recent stable update.

Alex Alderson, 23 Oct 2024 14:19

Huawei launches HarmonyOS NEXT as a complete Android replacement

Huawei has launched HarmonyOS NEXT, its latest self-developed operating system, featuring a fresh design and numerous new features. Significantly, it marks a clear departure from Android, establishing itself as a fully independent...

Huzefa Baloch, 22 Oct 2024 22:42

EA has officially burned its Steam Deck player base with the addition of kernel anti-cheat. (Image source: EA / Valve - edited)

Battlefield 1 burns Steam Deck gamers with kernel anti-cheat in new update

A new update to Battlefield 1 has officially removed Steam Deck compatibility from the online FPS, despite the game launching as long ago as 2016. This move comes after a similar decision was made with GTA Online last month. Unlik...

Julian van der Merwe, 22 Oct 2024 19:15

Windows 11 on a very old computer (Image source: Generated using DALL·E 3)

Flyby11 arrives to help you keep updating Windows 11 on older hardware

While there are multiple guides on manually bypassing the TPM, Secure Boot, or processor compatibility checks performed when installing Windows 11, Flyby11 does everything automatically. With the help of this straightforward patch...

Codrut Nistor, 22 Oct 2024 17:02

IBM Granite 3.0 open-source AI models for businesses now available (Image source: IBM)

IBM launches Granite 3.0 open-source AI models for businesses

Covered by the terms of the Apache 2.0 license, the IBM Granite 3.0 family of AI models targets enterprise customers and provides top performance alongside (allegedly) the most comprehensive set of risk and harm detection capabili...

Codrut Nistor, 21 Oct 2024 23:46

Garmin's latest update for the Instinct 2 series implies that software development is slowing for the mid-range smartwatches. (Image source: Garmin)

Garmin brings GPS and Connect activity bug fixes to popular mid-range smartwatches with new update

A new update has landed for several of Garmin's mid-range smartwatches. Distributed through its beta channel for now, the update contains important bug fixes aimed at resolving GPS and Connect activity issues present in earlier so...

Alex Alderson, 21 Oct 2024 22:53

PorteuX 1.7 desktop (Image source: Instalki.pl)

Slackware-based PorteuX 1.7 portable Linux now available with a new kernel, smaller ISOs, updated desktops, and more

Less than two months since the release of version 1.6, PorteuX 1.7 arrives with several fixes, sub-500 MB ISOs, as well as updates to most of the seven desktop environments supported. The seven are GNOME, Cinnamon, KDE, LXDE, LXQt...

Codrut Nistor, 21 Oct 2024 18:03

Unity 6 arrives with faster graphics performance and improved AI model for game development. (Image source: Unity - edited)

Unity launches Unity 6 game development engine with native Windows on Arm support, updated Sentis AI library, and improved graphics performance

Unity has launched the Unity 6 game development engine for Windows, Macs, and Linux computers. The new version adds a native Windows on Arm editor and app compilation, an updated Sentis AI library, and better graphics with improve...

David Chien, 19 Oct 2024 08:12

The long arm of Nintendo's legal team made fast work crushing Ryujinx and Yuzu once they set their mind to it (Image source: Nintendo - edited)

Ryujinx and Yuzu have bitten the dust, and Nintendo was right to shut them down

CheckMag Nintendo has a long history of screwing over its fans, whether it’s releasing underpowered hardware, suing fan projects, shutting down services older consoles rely on, and constantly re-selling its back catalogue of games to peopl...

David Devey, 18 Oct 2024 20:02

The ROG Ally X is in line for two new update packages. (image source: Notebookcheck)

ASUS brings new bug fixes and enhancements to ROG Ally and ROG Ally X with latest updates

ASUS has brought a new set of bug fixes and enhancements to the ROG Ally and ROG Ally X. Introduced globally, the new updates should arrive as Armoury Crate SE and MCU packages that contain various refinements for both gaming hand...

Alex Alderson, 17 Oct 2024 21:42

Mozilla Firefox interface (Image source: Generated using DALL·E 3)

Firefox gets back the option to remove the "List All Tabs" button

Although it has been present in Firefox for ages, the "List all Tabs" button recently got a bigger icon, so it became more visible. However, Firefox 131 came with a minor change, now labeled by Mozilla as a bug, which consisted of...

Codrut Nistor, 17 Oct 2024 17:52

Sony has brought a few new features to its high-end wireless audio products with their new firmware updates. (Image source: Sony)

Sony brings new features to WF-1000XM5, WH-1000XM5 and LinkBuds S with latest updates

Sony has quietly brought a new set of features to several of its recent wireless audio devices. Introduced via firmware updates, the new features make the WF-1000XM5, WH-1000XM5 and LinkBuds S compatible with Google's Find My Devi...

Alex Alderson, 16 Oct 2024 17:39

Baseus Bowie 30 Max Over-ear headphones (image source : Baseus)

Baseus unveils Bowie 30 Max noise-cancelling headphones with 65 hours of battery life

Baseus has launched new Bowie 30 Max headphones with active noise cancellation (ANC). They are rated for up to 65 hours of battery life with ANC off. The new headphones feature Baseus’s in-house head-tracking spatial audio technol...

Abhinav Fating, 16 Oct 2024 12:11

Xfce basic manager in Voyager Live 24.10 (Image source: Voyager)

Ubuntu 24.10-based Voyager Live 24.10 brings together GNOME and Xfce once again

Based on the barely released Ubuntu 24.10, Voyager Live 24.10 comes to add a stylish twist to the live distro paradigm by combining GNOME and Xfce while including out-of-the-box visual elements and Conky widgets. This update inclu...

Codrut Nistor, 16 Oct 2024 10:47

World of Warcraft gets multiple fixes this week (Image source: Generated using DALL·E 3)

World of Warcaft gets a new round of hotfixes which address multiple issues

This month, Blizzard is back with a series of hotfixes for issues that were plaguing The War Within, Cataclysm Classic, Season of Discovery, WoW Classic Era, and Hardcore. In addition to the multiple adjustments across all classes...

Codrut Nistor, 16 Oct 2024 09:11

Lenovo's latest AI debuts at TechWorld 2024. (Image source: Lenovo)

Lenovo unveils AI agent and educational platform for next-gen PCs

The first-ever AI agent for PCs such as the ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Gen 10 has just been introduced at TechWorld 2024 in the form of Lenovo AI Now. Based on an up-to-date form of Meta's Llama LLM, it is rated to help automate PC manage...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 16 Oct 2024 01:00

Firefox 131.0.3 patches several issues, including system crashes for Avast and AVG users

Released yesterday, the third point update for Firefox 131 follows last week's critical security update, which addressed a critical flaw. Now, Firefox 131.0.3 comes to fix no less than five problems, including a crash that occurre...

Codrut Nistor, 15 Oct 2024 14:21

Still from a text-to-video short created using Pyramid Flow (Image source: Pyramid Flow on GitHub)

Open source AI video generator Pyramid Flow now available online

Hailing from China, Pyramid Flow is an open-source AI model capable of creating virtual hi-resolution (768p) videos. According to the team behind it, this model can generate a five-second 384p video in less than a minute. The MIT ...

Codrut Nistor, 15 Oct 2024 09:17

Some Samsung TVs are getting the One UI update. (Image source: Samsung - edited)

Samsung's One UI for TV begins rolling out ahead of schedule

Not long after it revealed its plans to unify all its software under the One UI umbrella, an update that brings One UI has begun rolling out to some Samsung smart TVs. The underlying OS is still Tizen but there are now some design...

Habeeb Onawole, 14 Oct 2024 22:17

The Xperia 1 VI is now one of the few smartphones that supports Wi-Fi 7 connectivity. (Image source: Sony)

Sony Xperia 1 VI receives major connectivity boost with new update

Sony has announced that it has improved the connectivity options of its latest flagship. Specifically, software version 69.0.A.2.44 should bring Wi-Fi 7 connectivity to the Xperia 1 VI, which is now rolling out globally.

Alex Alderson, 14 Oct 2024 14:26

Bluestar Linux 6.11.3 desktop (Image source: Bluestar Linux on SourceForge)

Arch-based Bluestar Linux 6.11.3 now available with multiple updated packages

Hailing from Germany and based on Arch Linux, Bluestar is a distro that comes in three editions (Desktop, Deskpro, and Developer) and has just been updated to version 6.11.3. The list of changes consists mostly of updated packages...

Codrut Nistor, 14 Oct 2024 10:45

MIT demonstates that chatting with a 60-year-old version of oneself in Future You can help improve feelings of well-being. (Image source: MIT)

MIT researchers create Future You AI so young users can chat with 60-year-old versions of themselves to increase motivation and well-being while reducing anxiety and negativity

MIT researchers have created the Future You web service where young users can chat with 60-year-old AI-versions of themselves. Wallowing Gen Zs and Alphas can improve their well-being by talking to themselves, which would have bee...

David Chien, 14 Oct 2024 04:44

Stardock unveils Multiplicity 4 virtual KVM software to help gamers improve rig performance with remote control of offloaded, non-game apps. (Image source: Stardock)

Stardock unveils Multiplicity 4 virtual KVM software to offload apps from gaming rigs for better performance and controlling multiple PCs with one keyboard and mouse

Stardock announces the release of its Multiplicity 4 software KVM to turn spare laptops into monitors and control mutliple PCs with one keyboard and mouse. The software can help improve gaming rig performance by remote-controlling...

David Chien, 13 Oct 2024 23:48

Android 16 will make it easy to run a full Linux VM. (Image Source: @cozy_OSS on X)

Android 16 will include a Terminal and full Linux VM support with GPU acceleration

Google is looking to offer a native Terminal app for Android, possibly with Android 16. The Terminal app will allow installation of a Linux VM with full GUI and GPU acceleration along with other sysadmin features including disk re...

Vaidyanathan Subramaniam, 13 Oct 2024 18:56

You can now wish list the Junk Store app on Steam (Image source: Steam)

Steam Deck to get easy access to free games with Junk Store

The Epic Games Store offers new free games each week, but accessing these titles on the Steam Deck requires a third-party launcher. Installing these third-party tools often requires extra steps, but it seems that will change soon ...

Abid Ahsan Shanto, 13 Oct 2024 08:59

The Snipping Tool to get new ‘Copy as Table’ feature in Windows 11

Microsoft continues to improve Windows 11 by rolling out fresh new features. A notable recent addition that is currently being tested is the "Copy as Table" feature in the Snipping Tool which enhances its existing optical characte...

Huzefa Baloch, 12 Oct 2024 21:25

PoGoskill lets one do location spoofing in Pokémon GO on iOS 18. (Image source: PoGoskill)

PoGoskill adds Pokémon GO GPS location spoofing for iOS 18

The paid PoGoskill app makes it possible to trick Pokémon GO into believing the user is going places without ever leaving their couch, thus eliminating the legwork needed to collect virtual Pokémon.

David Chien, 12 Oct 2024 07:25

A new on-screen keyboard for Windows promises massive UI improvements for the likes of the ROG Ally and Legion Go. (Image source: Notebookcheck)

New Windows gamepad keyboard will soon make typing on Legion Go, Asus ROG Ally more like the Steam Deck

It looks like the popularity of the Lenovo Legion Go, Asus ROG Ally, and their stablemates has finally forces Microsoft to realise that gaming handhelds are here to stay. In the latest Windows Insider Preview, Microsoft has added ...

Julian van der Merwe, 12 Oct 2024 06:01

A large part of what makes GIMP 3.0 such an important release comes down to the improved UI/UX design. (Image source: GIMP)

Revolutionary GIMP 3.0 update draws closer as dev team tackles final bug reports

The excruciatingly long road to the release of GIMP 3.0, along with its revolutionary new non-destructive editing features, is finally drawing to a close. The GIMP development team has announced that it only has eight bugs reports...

Julian van der Merwe, 12 Oct 2024 00:04

GOG has the most in-character response to Valve's new licensing disclosure. (Image source: Valve / GOG - edited)

Steam adds licensing disclaimer, GOG hits back with perfectly sarcastic response

Steam recently updated its store checkout page to clarify that gamers are buying licenses for games, instead of the games themselves — along with all the content removal and malarkey that accompany these distribution strategies. G...

Julian van der Merwe, 11 Oct 2024 23:20

Ubuntu 24.10 "Oracular Oriole" anniversary desktop theme (Image source: Ubuntu)

Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole arrives with the latest kernel, toolchains, GNOME 47, and heightened security

Yesterday, Ubuntu 24.10 finally came out of beta. Codenamed "Oracular Oriole," it sports the latest kernel (version 6.11), expanded toolchains with versioned Rust and Java TCK, tighter security controls via improved permissions pr...

Codrut Nistor, 11 Oct 2024 19:19

Microsoft seems to be leaning hard into Recall and AI-powered features with the latest 24H2 update. (Image source: Microsoft)

Removing Windows Recall breaks File Explorer in latest 24H2 update

It looks like Microsoft's Recall push is back in full swing with Windows 24H2. A recent technical analysis revealed that disabling Recall also disables the modern File Explorer interface. Currently, it is unclear whether this is a...

Julian van der Merwe, 11 Oct 2024 18:43

Garmin continues to slowly resolve outstanding bugs on its recent Forerunner smartwatches. (Image source: Garmin)

Garmin releases new update for all Forerunner smartwatches with fresh bug fix

A new stable update has landed for all of Garmin's recent Forerunner smartwatches. Rolling out now globally, the update is said to resolve one area that could have caused issues in some cases on older software.

Alex Alderson, 11 Oct 2024 13:47

Garmin's new update for its latest high-end smartwatches professes to bring fifty changes to all compatible models. (Image source: Garmin)

Garmin releases long-awaited new Fenix 8 stable update with dozens of new features, improvements and important bug fixes

Garmin has finally released a massive update for the Enduro 3, Fenix E and Fenix 8 that it has been teasing on its Beta Program for weeks. Rolling out now as System Software 11.89, the update contains a whopping fifty changes, inc...

Alex Alderson, 11 Oct 2024 13:02

Ubuntu Budgie 24.10 desktop (Image source: Ubuntu Budgie)

Ubuntu Budgie 24.10 now available with a refined desktop

Released yesterday, Ubuntu Budgie 24.10 will receive nine months of support. This update focuses on refining the Budgie desktop while paving the way for Wayland. Consequently, the developers removed the X11 plank dock, defaulted t...

Codrut Nistor, 11 Oct 2024 11:03

Adobe kills perpetual licenses for Elements software with launch of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements 2025

Adobe has killed perpetual licenses for its Elements software lineup with the launch of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements 2025. After three years of use, users will be blocked from launching and using the Elements 2025 soft...

David Chien, 10 Oct 2024 23:24

OriginOS 5 on the X200. (Image source: Digital Chat Station)

Vivo X200 spotted with new, AI-enhanced, Dynamic Island-baiting Android skin

The X200 series is currently touted to comprise the most modern (as in, most iPhone-like) flagship smartphones released by Vivo to date very soon. Now, the version of Android with which they will hope to take iOS on has been previ...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 10 Oct 2024 19:23

The Forerunner 945 is one of three older Forerunner smartwatches in line for a new update. (Image source: Garmin)

Surprise update for older mid-range Garmin smartwatches now official

In an unusual turn of events, Garmin has started rolling out a fresh batch of updates for some of its older mid-range smartwatches. Arriving as a beta update for now, the same firmware should soon reach all eligible models as a ne...

Alex Alderson, 10 Oct 2024 19:08

Imagen 3 is now available to all Google Gemini users (Image source: Google - edited)

Imagen 3 AI image generator becomes available to all Google Gemini users

Google's Imagen 3 was initially available through the company's AI Test Kitchen in the US, but starting today, all Gemini users can access the text-to-image model. Google says the new AI image generator model can offer more photor...

Abid Ahsan Shanto, 10 Oct 2024 18:25

It seems that Garmin could soon issue a new major stable update for the Enduro 3, Fenix E and Fenix 8. (Image source: Garmin)

Garmin rolls out another update for flagship Fenix 8 ahead of likely new stable release

Garmin's latest smartwatch releases have received another new update. This time, it seems that the company is preparing to issue a more substantial stable update, which will follow on from Beta Version 11.88 if all is well.

Alex Alderson, 10 Oct 2024 16:00

Apple announces Swift Student Challenge 2025 for student programmers to showcase their app ingenuity to win Apple prizes

Apple has announced the Swift Student Challenge 2025 for student programmers to showcase their app ingenuity to win prizes from Apple. Fifty distinguished winners will spend three days at Apple HQ networking with peers and meeting...

David Chien, 10 Oct 2024 08:32

Microsoft Copilot with DALL-E 3 can now be accessed easily through WhatsApp

WhatsApp users looking for an alternative to Meta AI now have the power of Microsoft Copilot at their fingertips that can be harnessed just by typing a query into a WhatsApp chat.

Huzefa Baloch, 09 Oct 2024 23:19

Discord banned in Turkey (Image source: Generated using DALL·E 3)

Discord now banned in Turkey following court order

Turkey has now banned Discord after they denied the authorities' request to share private user information. The court decision was caused by "child sexual abuse and obscenity" suspicions pointing at some users of the platform. The...

Codrut Nistor, 09 Oct 2024 18:54