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Admins finally get the power to uninstall Microsoft Copilot on Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, and EDU versions
One less bloatware on Windows 11.
Dev creates selection of UEFI games you have to beat in order to boot your computer
Dev creates a quintet of UEFI games with the premise of Win -> Boot, Lose -> Shutdown.
Chinese semiconductor outfit has Linux MPP repository on Github disabled after a DMCA takedown request
Leading Chinese fabless semiconductor company Rockchip has had one of its major software repositories taken down in response to a DMCA takedown notice.
Windows 8.1 emerges as the performance winner after six generations of the OS are pitted against each other
More fuel for the Windows 11 hate train.
Microsoft silently kills Windows and Office phone activation and forces online activation with a Microsoft account
Nothing like the good ol' days.
Linux's contemporary filesystem mount API went without documentation for six years
Linux's contemporary filesystem mount API has been missing documentation since 2019,
Recovered Unix v4 tape quickly yields a usable operating system
Nostalgia addicts can now get their Unix v4 fix in a browser
Cinebench 2026 out and ready to hammer CPUs and graphics cards six times as hard
Cinebench 2026 out and ready to hammer CPUs and graphics cards six times as hard
Google is allowing users to change their Gmail address, per official Google support doc
A long-awaited feature.
Microsoft promises to nearly double Windows storage performance after forcing slow software-accelerated BitLocker on Windows
The new BitLocker implementation offloads encryption and decryption to dedicated crypto engines on supported SoCs, delivering faster storage performance and reduced CPU usage.