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Analyzing the Monoprice Blackbird HDCP 2.2 to 1.4 down converterI got my hands on a Monoprice Blackbird 4K Pro HDCP 2.2 to 1.4 Converter. According to the marketing copy it “is the definitive solution...
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New Chinese Loongsoon chip matches Intel’s 14600K in IPC testsChinese chip designer Loongson has finally launched its loong teased "next-generation" 3A6000-series processors based on the LoongArch...
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Microsoft contributes Azure RTOS to open sourceWe’re pleased to share an important update regarding Azure RTOS – an embedded development suite with the ThreadX real-time operating system that has been...
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Windows NT: peeking into the cradleReading the story of how Windows NT came to be was entertaining, as it is a story of the system itself and the dynamics between Dave Cutler, the original designer and...
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Evaluating M3 Pro CPU cores: general performanceEvaluating the performance of CPUs with identical cores is relatively straightforward, and they’re easy to compare using single- and multi-core...
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This month in Servo: better floats, :has(), color-mix(), and more!Our nightly example browser, servoshell, is now easier to navigate, accepting URLs without http:// or https:// both in the location bar...
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How Huawei made a cutting-edge chip in China and surprised the USThis ambition to escape dependence on foreign technology rests on the shoulders of Huawei and SMIC. The successful launch of the Kirin...
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Cinnamon 6.0 arrives with initial Wayland supportCinnamon, the desktop environment mostly associated with Linux Mint, has released its sixth version.It also adds support for AVIF images, a new option...
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First bits of a Haiku compatibility layer for NetBSDDoes anyone here remember Cosmoe? Cosmoe was an attempt to combine Haiku's API with the Linux kernel and related tools, started in the early 2000s....
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My long quest to revive a ’90s Windows gaming cult classicAs 2023 draws to a close—and as we start to finalize our Game of the Year contenders—I really should be catching up on the embarrassingly long...
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Google researchers’ attack prompts ChatGPT to reveal its training dataA team of researchers primarily from Google’s DeepMind systematically convinced ChatGPT to reveal snippets of the data it was...
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Microsoft soliciting feedback about an “Windows Advanced Settings” panelCurrently, there are many settings/registry keys that developers desire to tweak that are either not accessible via the Windows...
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Windows-as-an-app is comingWindows App, which is still in beta, will let you connect to Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365, Microsoft Dev Box, Remote Desktop Services, and remote PCs from, well, pretty...
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Fuchsia version 14 rolling out to Nest Hub Preview ProgramAccording to Google’s official support page listing the current firmware versions of its speakers and smart displays, version 14.20230831.4.72...
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The Unix V6 shell and how control flow worked in itOn Unix, 'test' and '[' are two names for (almost) the same program and shell builtin. Although today people mostly use it under its '[' name, when it...
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Everything you ever wanted to know about HP’s 9000 Series 300Hewlett-Packard's 9000 Series 300 (HP300) was a range of technical workstations based on Motorola 680x0 microprocessors. Superbly engineered...
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The world depends on 60-year-old code no one knows anymoreThe problem is that very few people are interested in learning COBOL these days. Coding it is cumbersome, it reads like an English lesson (too...
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Porting Hare to OpenBSDI was always very interested in OpenBSD and a few months ago, I decided to give it a try. I’ve quickly fallen in love with it! There is, however, a big problem: Hare does not...
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Finally: proper attributionYou may have noticed that starting today, I've been adding a dedicated link to the main story in every post on OSNews. Our old-fashioned 2001 method of "biggest link is main...
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Launching brand new BeOS, Mac OS X, and MS-DOS T-shirts in the OSNews Merch Store!The holidays are coming, there's a chill in the air (literally for me, I live in the Arctic), so it's time for a few...
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