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SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth(zdnet.com)

283 points by CrankyBear 3 months ago | 1039 comments

Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0(zdnet.com)

22 points by CrankyBear 5 months ago | 8 comments

AI has suddenly become more useful to open-source developers(zdnet.com)

42 points by CrankyBear 6 months ago | 36 comments

I use Samsung's Wi-Fi menu to seriously improve my connectivity(zdnet.com)

13 points by CrankyBear 9 months ago | 1 comments

People keep flocking to Linux, not just to escape Windows(zdnet.com)

131 points by breve 10 months ago | 102 comments

The weirdest tool I own is also one of the most useful(zdnet.com)

26 points by fcpguru 11 months ago | 1 comments

Another European agency shifts off US Tech as digital sovereignty gains steam(zdnet.com)

190 points by CrankyBear 1 year ago | 99 comments

German state replaces Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with open-source email(zdnet.com)

15 points by CrankyBear 1 year ago | 2 comments

Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos(zdnet.com)

467 points by mdhb 1 year ago | 222 comments

ZDNET article explaining that Facebook settings may let Meta analyze and retain photos from users' phone camera rolls, and how to check and disable them.

Win10 users looking for a new OS? Apple $599 MacBook can't come at a better time(zdnet.com)

16 points by walterbell 1 year ago | 9 comments

Debian 13 arrives with major updates for Linux users – what's new in 'Trixie'(zdnet.com)

84 points by CrankyBear 1 year ago | 82 comments

Lyon Is Replacing Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and OnlyOffice(zdnet.com)

48 points by doener 1 year ago | 7 comments

Linux 6.16: faster file systems, improved confidential memory, more Rust support(zdnet.com)

122 points by CrankyBear 1 year ago | 36 comments

Hacker slips malicious 'wiping' command into Amazon's Q AI coding assistant(zdnet.com)

42 points by CrankyBear 1 year ago | 11 comments

SUSE launches new European digital sovereignty service to meet surging demand(zdnet.com)

105 points by saubeidl 1 year ago | 42 comments

400 million Windows PCs vanished in 3 years. Where did they all go?(zdnet.com)

4 points by breve 1 year ago | 0 comments

Cloud outage knocks out internet services across the globe(zdnet.com)

28 points by CrankyBear 1 year ago | 3 comments

Data breach exposes 184M passwords, likely captured by malware(zdnet.com)

113 points by taubek 1 year ago | 69 comments

Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility(zdnet.com)

149 points by CrankyBear 1 year ago | 91 comments

Android phone will run Debian Linux soon (like some Pixels can)(zdnet.com)

30 points by amrrs 1 year ago | 14 comments

The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster(zdnet.com)

503 points by belter 1 year ago | 485 comments

ZDNET opinion piece by Ed Bott criticizing Microsoft's rebranding of Microsoft 365 to include Copilot and the accompanying price increase.

Thanks to Nvidia, there's a new generation of PCs coming and they'll run Linux(zdnet.com)

13 points by CrankyBear 1 year ago | 2 comments

AI agents may soon surpass people as primary application users(zdnet.com)

27 points by msolujic 1 year ago | 30 comments

Ink Pen Records Handwriting and Creates Digital Copies(zdnet.com)

8 points by marctuinier 1 year ago | 3 comments

If ChatGPT produces AI-generated code for your app, who does it belong to?(zdnet.com)

21 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 28 comments

The end of ChromeOS is a new dawn for cheap Android laptops(zdnet.com)

34 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 35 comments

Google turns Android into a desktop OS in 5 steps(zdnet.com)

5 points by thesuperbigfrog 1 year ago | 3 comments

How to migrate from X to Bluesky without losing your followers(zdnet.com)

31 points by ohjeez 1 year ago | 16 comments

Perplexity AI's new tool for researching the stock market(zdnet.com)

49 points by CrankyBear 2 years ago | 28 comments

How ham radio endures(zdnet.com)

117 points by CrankyBear 2 years ago | 47 comments

Linus Torvalds muses about maintainer gray hairs and the next 'King of Linux'(zdnet.com)

118 points by CrankyBear 2 years ago | 62 comments

Why OpenStack and Kata Containers are both seeing a resurgence of adoption(zdnet.com)

69 points by CrankyBear 2 years ago | 36 comments

Linus Torvalds talks AI, Rust, & why Linux is the only thing that matters(zdnet.com)

52 points by CrankyBear 2 years ago | 30 comments

DOJ may want to break up Google(zdnet.com)

45 points by CrankyBear 2 years ago | 37 comments

Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source(zdnet.com)

81 points by speckx 2 years ago | 14 comments

Canonical's 'distroless' Linux images are a game-changer for enterprises(zdnet.com)

49 points by CrankyBear 2 years ago | 57 comments

If my mother-in-law can use Ubuntu Linux, anyone can (2012)(zdnet.com)

28 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 34 comments

SUSE upgrades its distros with 19 years of support – no other Linux comes close(zdnet.com)

52 points by CrankyBear 2 years ago | 17 comments

Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024(zdnet.com)

349 points by drx 2 years ago | 619 comments

ZDNet article reporting Apple's announcement at WWDC 2024 of a first-party Passwords manager app built on iCloud Keychain.

Google to shut down Google One VPN on June 20(zdnet.com)

94 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 95 comments

The NSA advises you to turn your phone off and back on once a week(zdnet.com)

42 points by wslh 2 years ago | 34 comments

Where are floppy disks today? Planes, trains, and all these other places(zdnet.com)

6 points by elorant 2 years ago | 0 comments

IBM open-sources its Granite AI models – and they mean business(zdnet.com)

54 points by CrankyBear 2 years ago | 5 comments

German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice(zdnet.com)

353 points by CrankyBear 2 years ago | 246 comments

ZDNet article reporting that a German state is replacing Microsoft Windows and Office with Linux and LibreOffice across its government systems.

My new System76 Thelio is hands-down the best desktop PC I've ever tested(zdnet.com)

14 points by Rinzler89 2 years ago | 4 comments

How to lock away sensitive information on Linux with KDE Vaults(zdnet.com)

4 points by jrepinc 2 years ago | 0 comments

Roku TV will be unusable if you don't agree to the company's new terms(zdnet.com)

9 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 2 comments

KDE Neon shows that the Plasma 6 Linux distro is something special(zdnet.com)

11 points by jrepinc 2 years ago | 2 comments

Wyze camera breach let 13,000 strangers look into other people's homes(zdnet.com)

21 points by azov 2 years ago | 5 comments

The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance(zdnet.com)

36 points by CrankyBear 2 years ago | 37 comments

Meta will enforce ban on AI-powered political ads in every nation, no exceptions(zdnet.com)

57 points by jnord 2 years ago | 15 comments

Tuning the Linux kernel with AI, according to ByteDance(zdnet.com)

10 points by CrankyBear 2 years ago | 1 comments

Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years (2019)(zdnet.com)

209 points by hashhar 2 years ago | 60 comments

YouTube's ban leads to a record number of users uninstalling their ad-blockers(zdnet.com)

14 points by goplayoutside 3 years ago | 16 comments

Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops(zdnet.com)

94 points by CrankyBear 3 years ago | 72 comments

AlmaLinux stays Red Hat Enterprise Linux compatible without Red Hat code(zdnet.com)

28 points by CrankyBear 3 years ago | 1 comments

Facebook denies cookie tracking allegations (2011)(zdnet.com)

29 points by malikNF 3 years ago | 6 comments

Meta stops ordering new parts for Quest Pro(zdnet.com)

71 points by miiiiiike 3 years ago | 48 comments

Meta to release open-source commercial AI model(zdnet.com)

131 points by maskil 3 years ago | 112 comments

A mysterious grey-hat is patching people's outdated MikroTik routers (2018)(zdnet.com)

67 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 22 comments

AI's true goal may no longer be intelligence(zdnet.com)

14 points by YeGoblynQueenne 3 years ago | 12 comments

Ubuntu 23.04 – 'Lunar Lobster'(zdnet.com)

29 points by elorant 3 years ago | 31 comments

New technology could blow away GPT-4 and everything like it(zdnet.com)

24 points by andy_threos_io 3 years ago | 5 comments

Intel won't back down on chip ID feature (1999)(zdnet.com)

101 points by 1970-01-01 3 years ago | 80 comments

Pop_OS has a complicated name but it makes using Linux so easy(zdnet.com)

64 points by AndroidKitKat 3 years ago | 51 comments