You will have observed an absence of latest tales on OSNews the previous week, and that’s as a result of my fiancée and I had our first baby about a week ago. Since I’m making use of my ten workdays of childbirth depart as granted by the Swedish authorities, I’m not allowed to carry out...

After one other 6 months have handed we’re proud to announce the discharge of our 2021.04 snapshot. The pictures can be found on the typical place. As typical we’ve got mechanically obtained all updates which have been built-in into illumos-gate. The foremost modifications are new variations of Firefox and Thunderbird, a number of NVIDIA drivers...

After sixteen main releases, you would possibly assume there’s not a lot left to be added to Parallels Desktop – and for the overwhelming majority of Mac customers who’re nonetheless utilizing Intel CPUs, there isn’t. For them, this replace to the favored virtualisation software program tidies up a number of bugs and provides help for...

OpenBSD 6.9 has been launched. This launch focuses so much on enhancing assist for sure platforms, corresponding to powerpc64 – primarily for contemporary POWER9 programs such because the Blackbird (which we reviewed late final 12 months) and Talos II (which I’ve right here now for evaluate), arm64, and preliminary assist for Apple’s ARM M1 structure....

The European Fee is issuing antitrust expenses in opposition to Apple over issues in regards to the firm’s App Retailer practices. The Fee has discovered that Apple has damaged EU competitors guidelines with its App Retailer insurance policies, following an preliminary grievance from Spotify again in 2019. Particularly, the Fee believes Apple has a “dominant...

The Home windows 10 Could 2021 Replace has been finalized and Construct 19043.928 is prone to be the discharge candidate. Unsurprisingly, Could 2021 Replace will start rolling out to thousands and thousands of customers around the globe in Could, and it’ll ship with a number of minor enhancements, principally for enterprise prospects. Microsoft has formally...

At this time, we’re pivoting in direction of the long run and the brand new Neoverse V1 and Neoverse N2 era of merchandise. Arm had already examined the brand new merchandise final September, teasing a number of traits of the brand new designs, however falling in need of disclosing extra concrete particulars concerning the new...

Linux 5.12 brings Intel Variable Price Refresh (VRR/Adaptive-Sync), Radeon RX 6000 sequence overclocking help, mainline help for the Nintendo 64, the Sony PlayStation 5 DualSense controller driver, CXL 2.0 Kind-3 reminiscence system help, KFENCE, dynamic preemption capabilities, Clang link-time optimizations, laptop computer help enhancements, and rather more. A decently sized launch. My favorite is unquestionably...

I’m linking to The Verge, for the reason that authentic FT article is locked behind a paywall. The European Fee will situation antitrust costs towards Apple over considerations in regards to the firm’s App Retailer practices, in response to a report from the Monetary Instances. The fee has been investigating whether or not Apple has...

iOS 14.5 is a significant replace with an extended listing of recent options, together with the flexibility to unlock an iPhone with an Apple Watch, 5G help for dual-SIM customers, new emoji characters, an choice to pick a most well-liked music service to make use of with Siri, crowd sourced information assortment for Apple Maps...

Microsoft is engaged on a brand-new Retailer app for Home windows 10 that may introduce a contemporary and fluid consumer interface, in addition to carry adjustments to the insurance policies that govern what sort of apps will be submitted to the shop by builders. In line with sources accustomed to the matter, this new Retailer...

It has been just lately introduced that the venerable TenFourFox net browser for PowerPC (PPC) Macs was going to stop common improvement, which rekindled my curiosity in enjoying round with my trusty PowerBook G4, which solely will get occasional use if I’m testing a PowerPC model of a few of my very own software program....