Operating Systems – Kernel Sesias

25 Maggio 2026Tecnologia

California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages — amendment proposed by the same lawmaker who wrote the original law

California lawmakers may be backing away from a controversial age-verification requirement bill that alarmed Linux and open-source developers earlier this year, after […]

14 Maggio 2026Tecnologia

Microsoft is working on a fix to downgraded GPU drivers in Windows Update — new system uses multiple IDs

Microsoft is finally looking into fixing automatic GPU driver downgrades on Windows 11 that have plagued users since the OS’s launch in […]

12 Maggio 2026Tecnologia

Microsoft staunchly defends its new ‘Low Latency Profile’ for Windows 11 after community backlash — says every other OS already boosts CPU speeds for quicker load times

Last week, news of Microsoft working on a new “Low Latency Profile” for Windows 11 was leaked by Windows Central. When enabled, […]

8 Maggio 2026Tecnologia

Microsoft CTO confesses that 30-year-old code from the mid-90s still forms the bedrock of Windows 11 — ancient Win32 API still the backbone, but CTO says it’s ‘more relevant than ever in 2026’

A top Microsoft exec has admitted that Windows 11 still relies on a bunch of old code from the 1990s. It is […]

2 Maggio 2026Tecnologia

45 years later, earliest DOS source code transcribed from a stack of old printouts found in a garage — code was open-sourced to mark 86-DOS 1.00’s anniversary

Microsoft continues to make some of the earliest chapters of its operating system history open-source and freely available. Earlier this week, it […]

25 Aprile 2026Tecnologia

Microsoft will allow users to indefinitely pause updates in Windows 11 — first change in over a decade to the mandatory update policy

Microsoft announced in a blog post yesterday that it would allow users to pause updates in Windows 11 indefinitely. This would be […]

22 Aprile 2026Tecnologia

Linux may be ending support for older network drivers due to influx of false AI-generated bug reports — maintenance has become too burdensome for old largely-unused systems

The Linux kernel community is currently debating a significant proposal that could see countless legacy network drivers purged from the mainline source […]

11 Aprile 2026Tecnologia

Clippy, Microsoft’s hapless Office assistant, was retired 25 years ago today — its irritating spirit lives on in 100+ Copilots

Microsoft’s Clippy was put out to pasture a quarter century ago. This hapless, and some would say ‘irritating,’ productivity assistant would no […]

8 Aprile 2026Tecnologia

macOS has a 49.7-day networking time bomb built in that only a reboot fixes — comparison operation on unreliable time value stops machines dead in their tracks

Speaking from personal experience, using a Mac as a server or server-like contraption is quite an interesting proposition, as despite its Unix […]

30 Marzo 2026Tecnologia

Latest Windows 11 update is broken, refuses to install — Microsoft pulls latest update over missing files error

Microsoft‘s tenacity in imposing AI across its product stack has cornered Windows into a tough spot. Mac and Linux are catching up […]