Apple's iPhone Duo Is Real: What the $1,999 Foldable Actually Delivers
Apple shipped its first foldable smartphone on October 23rd. Stores sold out within hours, and the industry is already taking notes. »
Flathub Drops Its AI App Ban, Requires Disclosure Instead
Flathub has reversed its blanket ban on AI-generated apps, replacing it with a disclosure requirement—a compromise that pleases neither AI supporters nor critics entirely. »
Block's Dessa Learned to Talk Without Reading a Single Word — Here's Why That Matters
Block's AI research lab unveiled Dessa on October 23, a full-duplex speech model trained entirely from raw human conversation recordings, with no text in its training pipeline. »
KDE Plasma 6.8 Ships on Its 30th Birthday and Retires X11 — Here's What Wayland-Only Means for You
On October 14, KDE marked three decades with Plasma 6.8, ending the X11 session after 30 years. Wayland is now the only supported desktop protocol. »
OpenBSD 8.0 Drops: 64-vCPU VMs, Intel Arc Graphics, and a 512 GB Kernel Leap
The security-focused BSD operating system hits a major milestone with its 61st release, bringing enterprise-grade virtualization, modern GPU support, and a dramatically expanded kernel address space. »