Enlarge / NEW YORK, June 17, 2020 – Staff workers serve customers outside an Apple store on Fifth Avenue. Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images For the first time in just a few days shy of a year, all Apple Store retail locations in the United States are open this week, reports 9to5Mac. Apple first […]
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Open source video player VLC will get a new UI this year with 4.0 launch
Enlarge / An orange traffic cone has long been the logo and symbol for VLC media player. News website Protocol ran an extensive piece on the history and status of the popular open source video player VLC, and the story includes new details about the next major version of the software. Among other things, VLC […]
The Linux Foundation takes control of open source Magma wireless ecosystem
How open banking is driving huge innovation Learn how fintechs and forward-thinking FIs are accelerating personalized financial products through data-rich APIs. Register Now The Linux Foundation announced today that an open source Magma platform for building wireless networks will now be managed under its auspices. Originally developed by Facebook, the founding members of the Magma […]
Google’s secretive Fuchsia OS is open for contributions
Here’s what Fuchsia looked like in 2018. This is the home screen in phone mode. Ron Amadeo The home screen in laptop mode. Ron Amadeo Pressing the center Fuchsia button opens up a quick-settings panel. The only control here that actually works is “logout.” Ron Amadeo At the bottom is a “Google” search bar, which […]
IBM has a problem with Google’s Open Usage Commons
Enlarge / Nobody from IBM is proposing any lawsuits over Google’s addition of Istio to its new Open Usage Commons foundation. But they’re not happy about it. Nick Youngson This Wednesday, Google announced a new open source initiative—the Open Usage Commons, a sort of stewardship project for open source trademarks. The move drew immediate criticism […]
Researchers find actively exploited iOS flaws that were open for years
(Reuters) — Apple is planning to fix a flaw that a security firm said may have left more than half a billion iPhones vulnerable to hackers. The bug, which also exists on iPads, was discovered by ZecOps, a San Francisco-based mobile security forensics company, while it was investigating a sophisticated cyberattack against a client that […]
AMD reveals Ryzen 3 chips that open Zen 2 up to budget gaming PCs
AMD’s Zen 2 chips have swept through the desktop PC market with the powerful, efficient, and affordable 3000-series Ryzen 5, Ryzen 7, and Ryzen 9 CPUs. But up until this point, Zen 2 hasn’t had any representation on the low-end of the price spectrum. This has forced people looking to upgrade to turn to less […]
How to open a cryptocurrency trading account in India
The Supreme Court of India has struck down a ban on banks dealing with cryptocurrencies in India, paving the way for users to start trading with renewed vigour in cryptocurrencies. While there was no ban on cryptocurrencies, the Reserve Bank of India in 2018 put a ban on banks from dealing with virtual currencies like […]
The PlayStation 5 will cut your load times and open your wallet
Sony’s reveal of new PlayStation 5 details is straight out of a public relations playbook: The company said only enough to keep people talking. The official name is PlayStation 5 (though that was never in doubt). Ray-tracing support, previously hinted at, will be in hardware. The SSD will be fast. And the controller will have […]
Purism’s Librem 5 phone starts shipping—a fully open GNU/Linux phone
The Purism Librem 5, the first attempt at a Linux phone in a long time, is ready to leave the factory. Purism The phone, up close. It’s got an app drawer, complete with stock Debian icons. Purism The phone, half assembled. Purism Get a load of these crazy internals. M.2 slots?! That many chips? This […]
You can help search for aliens with an open access release of SETI data
SETI The Breakthrough Initiatives, a program founded in 2015 to search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), recently submitted two papers covering the analysis of its first three years of radio telescope data. Using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, the team searched for evidence of technological activity out among the stars such as radio signals […]
Microsoft open sources algorithm that gives Bing some of its smarts
Enlarge / The Eiffel Tower. Pedro Szekely Search engines today are more than just the dumb keyword matchers they used to be. You can ask a question—say, “How tall is the tower in Paris?”—and they’ll tell you that the Eiffel Tower is 324 meters (1,063 feet) tall, about the same as an 81-story building. They […]
Apple might have to open iPhone to other app stores — here’s what that means
If you’re an iPhone user, you get your apps from one place and one place only — the App Store. That, however, could change if an antitrust lawsuit against the App Store ends up succeeding. The Supreme Court has allowed a lawsuit against Apple to move forward, suggesting that App Store rules could be considered […]
Microsoft: The open source company
Enlarge The news from Microsoft’s Build developer conference that surprised me most was that Microsoft will ship a genuine Linux kernel—GPLed, with all patches published—with Windows. That announcement was made with the announcement of Windows Terminal, a new front-end for command-line programs on Windows that will, among other things, support tabs. Microsoft’s increased involvement with […]
Windows 10 will soon ship with a full, open source, GPLed Linux kernel
Enlarge Microsoft Earlier today, we wrote that Microsoft was going to add some big new features to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, including native support for Docker containers. It turns out that that ain’t the half of it. The current Windows Subsystem for Linux uses a Microsoft-authored kernel component that provided the same kernel API […]