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  1. 30 years later, FreeDOS is still keeping the dream of the command prompt alive

    Project's creator talks to Ars about where FreeDOS has been, where it's going.

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  2. Apple’s Vision Pro goes on sale outside the US for the first time

    Since February, the headset has only been available in the United States.

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  3. Researchers craft smiling robot face from living human skin cells

    Human cells isolated from juvenile foreskin are flexible enough to grin when moved.

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  4. Google Translate just nearly doubled its number of supported languages

    This includes common languages like Cantonese and lesser-known ones like Manx.

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  5. Apple’s “Longevity, by Design” argues its huge scale affects its repair polices

    Apple must consider volume, but also the world outside its closed loop.

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  6. Patent document showcases the cloud-only streaming Xbox console that never was

    Microsoft couldn't get the price of its streaming Xbox low enough to release it.

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  7. OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all users

    It supports pretty much everything but API calls.

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  8. iOS 18’s drive-formatting option shows how far iPhones have come for power users

    The beta's Files app lets you format external drives in APFS, exFat, and FAT.

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  9. Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11

    But most Microsoft account sign-in workarounds for Windows 11 continue to work.

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  10. Larry Finger made Linux wireless work and brought others along to learn

    Remembering Finger, 84, who learned as he went and left his mark on many.

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  11. iFixit says new Arm Surface hardware “puts repair front and center”

    Both devices make it relatively easy to get at the battery and SSD.

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  12. $200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on the Windows 3.1 era

    Pocket 386 supports external accessories and will just barely run Windows 95.

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  1. Citing national security, US will ban Kaspersky anti-virus software in July

    Kaspersky blames the "present geopolitical climate and theoretical concerns."

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  2. 40 years later, X Window System is far more relevant than anyone could guess

    One astrophysics professor's memories of writing X11 code in the 1980s.

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  3. Apple Intelligence and other features won’t launch in the EU this year

    iPhone Mirroring and SharePlay screen sharing will also skip the EU for now.

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  4. Win+C, Windows’ most cursed keyboard shortcut, is getting retired again

    Win+C has been assigned to some of Windows' least successful features.

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  5. Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”

    Workers stayed remote even when told they could no longer be promoted.

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  6. Reports: Apple is halting its next high-end Vision in favor of something cheaper

    Finding a lower-price replacement for its high-end displays could be difficult.

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  7. Windows 11 24H2 is released to the public but only on Copilot+ PCs (for now)

    The rest of the Windows 11 ecosystem will get the new update this fall.

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  8. MacBook Air gets hosed, other models hold steady in macOS 15 as Intel support fades

    Sequoia is both more and less generous to Intel Macs, depending on the model.

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  9. Proton is taking its privacy-first apps to a nonprofit foundation model

    Because of Swiss laws, there are no shareholders, and only one mission.

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  10. After a few years of embracing thickness, Apple reportedly plans thinner devices

    Thinness is good, as long as it doesn't come at the expense of other things.

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  11. TDK claims insane energy density in solid-state battery breakthrough

    Apple supplier says new tech has 100 times the capacity of its current batteries.

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  12. Retired engineer discovers 55-year-old bug in Lunar Lander computer game code

    A physics simulation flaw in text-based 1969 computer game went unnoticed until today.

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  1. Give yourself a day to tackle all your recommendation and subscription guilt

    Opinion: It never ends, but you can triage and help out your favorite creators.

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  2. Microsoft delays Recall again, won’t debut it with new Copilot+ PCs after all

    Recall will go through Windows Insider pipeline like any other Windows feature.

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  3. “Simulation of keyboard activity” leads to firing of Wells Fargo employees

    With worker surveillance on the rise, vendors sell devices to fake keyboard and mouse movement.

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  4. Roku owners face the grimmest indignity yet: Stuck-on motion smoothing

    Software updates strike again, leaving interpolated frames in unwanted places.

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  5. Starlink user terminal now costs just $300 in 28 states, $500 in rest of US

    The $600 standard price was replaced with regional pricing of $500 or $300.

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  6. Google’s abuse of Fitbit continues with web app shutdown

    Users say the app, which is now the only Fitbit interface, lacks matching features.

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  7. My favorite macOS Sequoia feature so far might be the old-timey Mac wallpaper

    Combo wallpaper-screen saver is a walk down memory lane for classic Mac users.

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  8. Apple quietly improves Mac virtualization in macOS 15 Sequoia

    It only works for macOS 15 guests on macOS 15 hosts, but it’s a big improvement.

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  9. Google’s Pixel 8 series gets USB-C to DisplayPort; desktop mode rumors heat up

    Grab a USB-C to DisplayPort cable and newer Pixels can be viewed from your TV or monitor.

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  10. The Google Pay app is dead

    Google Wallet takes over app duties, but it looks like Google is quitting P2P payments.

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  11. These are all the devices compatible with iOS 18 and iPadOS 18

    Luckily for owners of current devices, only a handful of iPads get dropped.

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  12. Apple integrates ChatGPT into Siri, iOS, and macOS

    ChatGPT is treated like a search engine for Siri, and generates text and images for apps.

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