I really have too many tray icons. You know the ones. They sit on your taskbar, perhaps doing something in the background or, at least, giving you ...

The Linux desktop has continued its slow growth. Linux has been making gains in no small part because of Microsoft Windows' blunders. Users and governments have been losing trust in Windows and ...

Pytest test discovery fails, reporting a missing import. The relevant package exists and is on the PYTHONPATH in my conda environment, but the python extension resets ...

Huawei Technologies Co. is preparing to sharply ramp up production of its most advanced artificial intelligence chips over the next year, aiming to win customers in the world’s biggest semiconductor ...

In a show of confidence in the market, the group, led by Saudi Arabia, said it would begin unwinding a further set of agreed cuts. By Stanley Reed Oil prices rose strongly on Monday even though a ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry ...

OpenAI has begun rolling out GPT-5, the latest iteration of its flagship language model, to all ChatGPT users. The company’s CEO Sam Altman called GPT-5 “a significant step along the path to AGI” ...

Linux Just Hit a Big Milestone in the Desktop OS Race The open-source favorite has scored record adoption among US desktop users, following a just over 5% dip in Windows popularity since December 2024 ...

The gaming sector has played a pivotal role in Linux's rising popularity. Valve's Steam Deck, a handheld gaming device running on Linux-based SteamOS, has introduced a new audience to the capabilities ...

There are gentle migration strategies that can delay the move away from Windows 10, which Microsoft will stop supporting in October 2025. Technically (and maybe even psychologically), the easiest step ...

Attackers can exploit two newly discovered local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities to gain root privileges on systems running major Linux distributions. The first flaw (tracked as ...