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The Dillo 3.3.0 web browser has been released. The browser features a tabbed graphical interface and supports HTML 4.01, CSS, and HTTPS (no JavaScript support). Dillo's functionality can be extended via plugins, such as plugins for the IPFS and Gemini protocols. When opening the start page, Dillo uses 12 MB of RAM, and the deb installation package takes up about 600 KB. The graphical interface is built […]
At the Festival of Power event in Podington, Bedfordshire, England, a unique steam-powered motorcycle called Force of Nature achieved a stunning result on the Santa Pod straight-line acceleration track, becoming the second-fastest bike in the world over a quarter-mile (400 m). This unique piece, which […]
D7VK 1.8, a project that develops the implementation of the Direct3D 3, 5, 6, and 7 graphics APIs proposed by Microsoft in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999, has been released. D7VK works by translating calls to the Vulkan API and allows you to run retro games based on the Direct3D 3, 5, 6, and 7 APIs on Linux using Wine. The project code was written […]
Linus Torvalds has accepted a set of patches into the Linux 7.1 kernel, expected to be released in mid-June, removing the Ethernet drivers previously recommended for removal by Andrew Lunn, the Linux kernel network driver maintainer. In addition to the initially proposed Ethernet drivers, the kernel also removes the ISDN subsystem, AX.25, CAIF, and Bluetooth CMTP (Common ISDN Application Programming Interface) protocol implementations.
A YouTuber named Bits und Bolts discovered a flaw in an old S3 Virge DX 4MB graphics card: black was actually displayed as dark gray, a deliberate decision by the manufacturer. After considerable effort, the enthusiast managed to edit the VBIOS and fix the error. S3 artificially brightened the blacks when displaying images so that dark areas of the image were not […]
Canonical announced an initiative to modernize Launchpad, the service used in Ubuntu development for code collaboration, bug tracking, reviewing changes, building, and hosting packages. The first to be stripped of the legacy interface are the Ubuntu release summary pages. For example, on the Ubuntu 26.04 page, you can track known issues and bug fix progress, and get information about […]
Google Android has a built-in feature called "Bubbles" or "Chat Heads"—a little-known system notification format that appeared in recent versions of the operating system. Support for this format was discovered in the beta version of WhatsApp, as WABetaInfo noted. Facebook Messenger began promoting this format on Android many years ago: when an incoming message arrives, a […]
The latest KDE weekly development report has been published, presenting changes for KDE Plasma 6.7, which is expected to be released in June. Among the recently introduced changes: On systems with i915 and Intel XE drivers for Intel GPUs, KWin now supports hardware overlay planes, allowing content to be displayed directly without going through compositing. This change improves performance […]
Robots' first attempts at playing soccer are, to put it mildly, clumsy. Hockey is much more dynamic and complex—sliding adds unpredictability and requires unique reactions. It's all the more astonishing to watch the Unitree G1 humanoid robot freely gliding across the field, first on wheels, then on roller skates, and finally on ice skates. Before the Winter Olympics, robots […]
Carl Richell, founder and CEO of System76, the developer of the Pop!_OS distribution and the COSMIC desktop environment, has secured amendments to Colorado Senate Bill 51 (CO SB51), a bill that would require age verification for operating systems. The bill adds an exception that exempts distributions and applications supplied by […]
Nim 2.2.10, a systems programming language, is released. Nim is a statically typed, compiled programming language with Python-inspired syntax and Lisp-like metaprogramming capabilities. The language compiles to C, C++, and JavaScript, delivering C-level performance with the expressiveness of high-level languages. The project's code is licensed under the MIT license. Nim's features include a macro system that operates on the AST in […]
The Tesseract-based optical character recognition (OCR) program dpScreenOCR 1.5.1 has been released. Using a global hotkey and the mouse, dpScreenOCR allows you to capture an arbitrary area of the screen for text recognition. Depending on the user's selection, the program can copy the recognized text to the clipboard, add it to the history, or send it to an external program. Ready-to-use builds are available for Linux […]