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Pokemon Legends: Arceus is allegedly able to run natively in Windows. (Image source: Reddit)

Gamer compiles Pokémon Legends: Arceus to run natively on PC, no emulator required

An intrepid user on Reddit posted a screenshot of what appears to be Pokémon Legends: Arceus running natively in Windows. Per the Reddit post, this port comes courtesy of source code present in the massive Game Freak leak earlier ...

Sam Medley, 29 Oct 2024 20:15

TikTok partners with Giphy to upgrade DMs with AI-powered gif-picker

TikTok has announced that it will soon enhance the way users express themselves with .gifs that come up as a result of AI-generated suggestions. The animated images in question will all come courtesy of Giphy thanks to a new agree...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 29 Oct 2024 19:30

A new version of Super Mario Bros. is available for an old handheld. (Image source: Super Mario Bros. Mini gameplay)

New Super Mario Bros. demake available for Game Boy Color, includes Yoshi and more

A homebrew developer has released a new version of the original Super Mario Bros. for the Game Boy Color, complete with all levels, enemies, and power-ups. There's quite a bit of additional content as well, including the titular p...

Sam Medley, 29 Oct 2024 15:54

Xiaomi debuts HyperOS 2.0. (Image Source: Xiaomi)

Xiaomi debuts HyperOS 2.0 and details rollout plans slated for three batches

Xiaomi has now unveiled the newest iteration of its HyperOS software. HyperOS 2.0 is set to ship with most of the company's just-released mobile devices, with the first batch of rollout to begin next month.

Ricci Rox, 29 Oct 2024 15:37

WebStorm and Rider from JetBrains are available for download for non-commercial use. (Image source: JetBrains)

JetBrains WebStorm and Rider now free for non-commercial use

The popular integrated development environments (IDEs) WebStorm and Rider can now be used free of charge for non-commercial purposes. In doing so, JetBrains is making its JavaScript/TypeScript and .NET development environments ava...

Alexander Pensler, 29 Oct 2024 11:49

Raspberry Pi OS 2024-10-22 update (Image source: Raspberry Pi)

Raspberry Pi OS 2024-10-22 now available with Wayland by default and other changes

After using the X Window system for years, Raspberry Pi OS is now moving over to Wayland. In addition to this new windowing technology, the firmware release labeled "2024-10-22" also comes with improved touchscreen support and bet...

Codrut Nistor, 29 Oct 2024 10:59

The Valve Steam Deck now has effectively the same level as support from Ubisoft as its Windows gaming handheld counterparts. (Image source: Notebookcheck / Andreas Osthoff)

Assassin's Creed Mirage update adds built-in Steam Deck support with automatic optimisation

Ubisoft previously guaranteed that Assassin's Creed Mirage would work on the Steam Deck, but as of tomorrow, the game will automatically detect that it is running on the Linux-powered gaming handheld and apply recommended graphics...

Julian van der Merwe, 28 Oct 2024 23:15

Google might be working on an AI agent that controls web browsers

Google is reportedly working on an AI agent that can take control of web browsers to automate mundane tasks. Codenamed Project Jarvis, the function will be part of Google's next-generation Gemini model.

Rohith Bhaskar, 28 Oct 2024 10:13

EasyOS 6 desktop (Image source: It's FOSS News)

EasyOS 6.4 now available with support for Zig, a new kernel, visual elements, and more

Now recompiled in OpenEmbedded, EasyOS 6.4 remains labeled "an experimental Linux distribution" for the time being. This update launches with support for the Zig programming language, the version 6.6.58 kernel, new desktop icon th...

Codrut Nistor, 28 Oct 2024 10:05

Google Gemini 2.0 now in the works, might launch in December (Image source: Generated using DALL·E 3)

Google Gemini 1.5 (previously Google Bard) might get a successor in December

As everyone races for the release of next-gen AI models these days, Google is also getting ready to unleash Gemini 2.0. While the December launch of this flagship AI product is a mere rumor for the time being, an official statemen...

Codrut Nistor, 26 Oct 2024 11:22

Vivaldi 7.0 with tiled tabs (Image source: Own)

Vivaldi 7.0 launches with updated feed reading capabilities, floating tabs, new icons, and a customizable dashboard

Vivaldi 7.0 comes with a completely redesigned interface, which brings together tabs, apps, and tasks into an "all-in-one control center" alongside new icons, themes, and floating tabs. While the feed reader gets separate feed fol...

Codrut Nistor, 26 Oct 2024 10:00

Garmin has issued over 100 bug fixes to the Enduro 3, Fenix E and Fenix 8 since their summer release. (Image source: Garmin)

Garmin previews substantial new stable update for Fenix 8, Fenix E and Enduro 3 with over 70 changes

Garmin has showcased some of the new features, bug fixes and ancillary improvements that it will soon bring to all Enduro 3, Fenix E and Fenix 8 smartwatches. While only a preview of what is to come, Beta Version 12.09 still manag...

Alex Alderson, 25 Oct 2024 20:20

Garmin's new update for the Forerunner 165 lacks some of the features it offers to other Forerunner models. (Image source: Garmin)

Garmin begins testing sizeable new software package for Forerunner 165 smartwatch with first public update

Garmin has commenced a new software development cycle for the Forerunner 165. While all variants are eligible for over half a dozen changes, Garmin has reserved a major new feature for more expensive 'Music' units.

Alex Alderson, 25 Oct 2024 20:14

System Software 11.90 for the Enduro 3, Fenix E and Fenix 8 should address a significant bug that existed in earlier software. (Image source: Garmin)

Garmin rushes out new update for recent high-end smartwatches with system crash fix

Garmin has pushed a significant update for the Enduro 3, Fenix E and Fenix 8 through its Beta Program to its stable software branch in record time. Rolling out now as an over-the-air (OTA) download, System Software 11.90 should pr...

Alex Alderson, 25 Oct 2024 20:10

SteamOS: Coming soon to an Asus ROG Ally near you. (Image source: Notebookcheck / Valve - edited)

SteamOS on the Asus ROG Ally creeps ever closer in latest update to Valve's Linux distribution

The SteamOS 3.6.19 release adds more functionality to the Asus ROG Ally and moves the gyro controller driver into the kernel, outside of Steam's proprietary driver stack, suggesting that support for third-party gaming handhelds is...

Julian van der Merwe, 25 Oct 2024 19:31

OnePlus' OxygenOS 15 features Parallel Processing for smooth animations (Image source: OnePlus)

OnePlus mocks Samsung's One UI for not having fluid animations like OxygenOS

OnePlus has officially introduced the OxygenOS 15, which is based on Android 15. During the presentation, the company took a dig at Samsung's One UI for not having as smooth animations as its new Android skin.

Abid Ahsan Shanto, 25 Oct 2024 19:13

The latest update for the Forerunner 965 should resolve recent Android smart notification bugs too. (Image source: Garmin)

Garmin Forerunner 965 receives meditation and new swimming features with latest update

Garmin has introduced new meditation and swimming features to its most expensive Forerunner smartwatch. Available to download now globally, the update should resolve various bugs while making improvements in other areas, too.

Alex Alderson, 25 Oct 2024 17:15

Gemini to gain lock screen message and call controls on Android (Image source: Google)

Gemini gains lock screen control: Google expands Android AI assistant's capabilities

Google's Gemini is set to become more powerful on Android with upcoming lock screen functionality for messages and calls. The AI assistant is getting a streamlined interface and expanded capabilities, positioning it to potentially...

Nathan Ali, 25 Oct 2024 14:03

DVDFab unveils BookFab AI tool for audiobook creators to quickly convert text-to-audio. (Image source: DVDFab)

DVDFab unveils Bookfab AI AudioBook Creator to tap into top revenue-generating market

DVDFab has unveiled the Bookfab AI AudioBook Creator. The tool allows audiobook creators to quickly convert text to audio with a variety of realistic-sounding voices speaking English or Japanese. In the consumer audio market, audi...

David Chien, 25 Oct 2024 09:02

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