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  • Hackintosh is (almost) dead

    Sun 6:30pm By Thom Holwerda
    It’s true that latest macOS 14 (Sonoma) still supports the latest generations of Intel Macs and it’s very likely that at least one or two major versions will still be compatible. But there’s one particular development that is de-facto killing off the…
  • Google adds “real-time, privacy-preserving URL protection” to Chrome

    Sun 6:23pm By Thom Holwerda
    For more than 15 years, Google Safe Browsing has been protecting users from phishing, malware, unwanted software and more, by identifying and warning users about potentially abusive sites on more than 5 billion devices around the world. As attackers grow more…
  • Fuzzing Ladybird with tools from Google Project Zero

    Sun 9:32am By Thom Holwerda
    While Ladybird does an okay job with well-formed web content, I thought it would be useful to throw some security research tools at it and see what kind of issues it might reveal. So today we’ll be using “Domato”, a DOM fuzzer from Google Project Zero,…
  • An actual look at Microsoft OS/2 2.0

    Sat 9:54am By Thom Holwerda
    This release marks the last time that Microsoft would release an OS/2 beta to developers, instead with the runaway success of Windows 3.0, Microsoft would remove resources from the constrained OS/2, and refocus both on Windows 3.1, and Windows NT. Thanks to…
  • Loongson 3A6000: a star among Chinese CPUs

    Fri 10:56am By Thom Holwerda
    Computing power has emerged as a vital resource for economies around the world. China is no exception, and the country has invested heavily into domestic CPU capabilities. Loongson is at the forefront of that effort. We previously covered the company’s…
  • Secure by design: Google’s perspective on memory safety

    Fri 10:45am By Thom Holwerda
    Google’s Project Zero reports that memory safety vulnerabilities—security defects caused by subtle coding errors related to how a program accesses memory—have been “the standard for attacking software for the last few decades and it’s still how…
  • Nanos: a kernel designed to run one application in a virtualized environment

    Fri 10:35am By Thom Holwerda
    Nanos is a new kernel designed to run one and only one application in a virtualized environment. It has several constraints on it compared to a general purpose operating system such as Windows or Linux – namely it’s a single process system with no support…
  • MNT Reform review: brutalist hardware, familiar software

    Wed 1:01pm By Thom Holwerda
    There’s a channel on YouTube called The Proper People. It’s two guys who travel all over the United States (and in a few cases, elsewhere too) exploring abandoned buildings, and recording both the exteriors and interiors for posterity, since many of these…
  • Intel continues prepping the Linux kernel for X86S

    Wed 11:57am By Thom Holwerda
    Nearly one year ago Intel published the X86S specification (formerly stylized as “X86-S”) for simplifying the Intel architecture by removing support for 16-bit and 32-bit operating systems. X86S is a big step forward with dropping legacy mode, 5-level…
  • European Commission’s use of Microsoft 365 infringes data protection law for EU institutions and…

    Mar 12, 2024, 8:40 am By Thom Holwerda
    Following its investigation, the EDPS has found that the European Commission (Commission) has infringed several key data protection rules when using Microsoft 365. In its decision, the EDPS imposes corrective measures on the Commission. ↫ European Data…
  • Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU66 released

    Mar 12, 2024, 7:10 am By Thom Holwerda
    Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 66 is now available via ‘pkg update’ from the support repository or by downloading the SRU from My Oracle Support Doc ID 2433412.1. Highlights of the changes in this release are given in the release announcement and important…
  • Messy ToS update allegedly locks Roku devices until users give in

    Mar 11, 2024, 7:04 pm By Thom Holwerda
    Roku customers are threatening to stop using, or to even dispose of, their low-priced TVs and streaming gadgets after the company appears to be locking devices for people who don’t conform to the recently updated terms of service (ToS). This month, users on…
  • Image-scraping Midjourney bans rival “AI” firm for scraping images

    Mar 11, 2024, 5:50 pm By Thom Holwerda
    On Wednesday, Midjourney banned all employees from image synthesis rival Stability AI from its service indefinitely after it detected “botnet-like” activity suspected to be a Stability employee attempting to scrape prompt and image pairs in bulk.…
  • Linux Kernel 6.8 released

    Mar 11, 2024, 9:09 am By Thom Holwerda
    Highlights of Linux kernel 6.8 include LAM (Linear Address Masking) virtualization and guest-first memory support for KVM, a basic online filesystem check and repair mechanism for the Bcachefs file system introduced in Linux kernel 6.7, support for the…
  • Better, faster, stronger time zone updates on Android

    Mar 11, 2024, 8:51 am By Thom Holwerda
    From the beginning, time zone rules were a component in Mainline, called Time Zone Data or tzdata module. This integration allowed us to react more quickly to government-mandated time zone changes than before. However until 2023 tzdata updates were still…
  • Accessibility improvements in GTK 4.14

    Mar 10, 2024, 5:59 pm By Thom Holwerda
    GTK 4.14 brings various improvements on the accessibility front, especially for applications showing complex, formatted text; for WebKitGTK; and for notifications. ↫ Emmanuele Bassi Excellent improvements that, if you listen to those that need these…