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2023-05-15T13:07:12Z	**IBM PC 8088 replaced with a Motorola 68000**
I was wondering what the IBM Personal Computer would have been like if they had chosen the Motorola 68000 instead of the Intel 8088, so I used my MCL86+ to emulate the 68000 and find out! The MCL86+ is a board which uses a Teensy 4.1 to emulate a microprocessor in C code as well as use its GPIOs to emulate the local bus of the Intel 8088. It can be used as a drop-in replacement for the Intel 8088 and can be cycle accurate as well as run in accele ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136137/ibm-pc-8088-replaced-with-a-motorola-68000/)
2023-05-15T21:33:24Z	**Microsoft wants Firefox to ditch Google, switch to Bing**
The rumour, by way of The Information, claims senior Microsoft execs hope to seal a deal with Mozilla to make Bing the default search engine as soon as this year, as the browser’s existing big-bucks deal with Google is coming up for renewal. Now, Firefox making a search engine switch isn’t new. Mozilla tested Microsoft’s Bing as Firefox’s default search engine back back in 2021; and those with longer memories may just rem ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136139/microsoft-wants-firefox-to-ditch-google-switch-to-bing/)
2023-05-15T22:52:54Z	**KDE Plasma 6: “better defaults”**
The KDE project just finished up its 2023 developer sprint, and with Plasma 6 development being in full swing – which encompasses moving to Qt 6 – there’s some major announcements here. As a result, we advanced a number of topics that had been stuck for a while. A major area of my focus in this respect became “Better default settings”. The 5 -> 6 transition is the perfect time to make significant changes to the default settings in a way that improve the UX out of the box ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136142/kde-plasma-6-better-defaults/)
2023-05-16T23:03:30Z	**Windows 2000 64-bit for Alpha AXP**
Recently, hinted by people on Discord, Neozeed found a Win64 compiler for AXP64 / ALPHA64, that came in as part of Platform SDK from 1999. This was to let Windows developers test compile their programs to make sure they are “64bit ready”, before the hardware was even available. However, as this was a cross-compiler from IA32 to IA64 and AXP32 to AXP64, there was no actual way of running any of the binaries. Until Itanium finally came out, after long delays. Sadly, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136145/windows-2000-64-bit-for-alpha-axp/)
2023-05-17T20:37:20Z	**Apple introduces new accessibility features**
Apple today previewed software features for cognitive, vision, hearing, and mobility accessibility, along with innovative tools for individuals who are nonspeaking or at risk of losing their ability to speak. These updates draw on advances in hardware and software, include on-device machine learning to ensure user privacy, and expand on Apple’s long-standing commitment to making products for everyone. These are all good, truly helpful features. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136148/apple-introduces-new-accessibility-features/)
2023-05-20T20:06:06Z	**Tee Earth and Grass Operating System**
This project’s vision is to help every college student read all the code of an operating system. With only 2000 lines of code, egos-2000 implements every component of an operating system for education. It can run on a RISC-V board and also the QEMU software emulator. Exactly what it says on the tin. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136153/tee-earth-and-grass-operating-system/)
2023-05-20T20:48:50Z	**Envisioning a simplified Intel x86 architecture**
This whitepaper details the architectural enhancements and modifications that Intel is currently investigating for a 64-bit mode-only architecture referred to as x86S (for simplification). Intel is publishing this paper to solicit feedback from the ecosystem while exploring the benefits of extending the ISA transition to a 64-bit mode-only solution. This seems like a very good idea – and it does seem like the time is ripe to remove some ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136155/envisioning-a-simplified-intel-x86-architecture/)
2023-05-20T20:59:18Z	**Windows XP activation: game over**
It’s finally over. In a post last year on the Windows XP subreddit (Windows XP web activation is finally dead…), retroreviewyt shared xp\_activate32.exe4, which calculates the Installation ID then generates and optionally applies the corresponding Confirmation ID to activate Windows XP, all offline. Wiping the system and reinstalling Windows XP results in the same Installation ID being assigned by Windows (assuming no change in hardware or product key), thus the same ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136160/windows-xp-activation-game-over/)
2023-05-20T20:55:37Z	**axle OS: an open source x86_64 OS**
axle OS is a hobby microkernel and userspace. I started the project in early 2016, and have had stints of working on it heavily since then. axle OS’s first incarnation was a multitasking monolithic kernel, with little support for IPC, user-mode or process loading. The current incarnation is a microkernel built around variable-length IPC messaging. All applications, including the desktop environment and device drivers, are ELF executables running in userspace. We re ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136158/axle-os-an-open-source-x86_64-os/)
2023-05-23T21:04:04Z	**Social media can be a ‘profound risk’ to youth, surgeon general warns**
The United States surgeon general, Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, issued a public advisory on Tuesday warning of the risks of social media use to young people. In a 19-page report, Dr. Murthy noted that although the effects of social media on adolescent mental health were not fully understood, and that social media can be beneficial to some users, “there are ample indicators that social media can also have ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136162/social-media-can-be-a-profound-risk-to-youth-surgeon-general-warns/)
2023-05-24T21:16:37Z	**Microsoft announces Windows 11 “Moment 3” update**
The time has arrived for Windows 11 users to prepare to download the latest feature drop for the operating system. After months of testing in the Windows Insider program, Windows 11 “Moment 3” update is ready for its public release on May 24, 2023. The latest feature update for Windows 11 has no official name (so much for hating silly names, such as “Fall Creators Update“), so enthusiasts call it “Moment 3,” according to the leaked stor ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136166/microsoft-announces-windows-11-moment-3-update/)
2023-05-24T21:28:13Z	**Windows 11 to get more archive format support**
There’s more coming to Windows 11 at some point during this year, and three of them are of particular interest to the type of people who read OSNews. First, Windows is finally getting support for more archive file formats. Microsoft has finally added native support for more archive formats, allowing you to open tar, 7-zip, rar, gz, and other files. In addition, Windows 11 users will benefit from improved compression performance when zipping ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136170/windows-11-to-get-more-archive-format-support/)
2023-05-24T21:24:44Z	**Built-in ChatGPT-driven Copilot comes to Windows 11 starting in June**
Ars Technica: A couple of months ago, Microsoft added generative AI features to Windows 11 in the form of a taskbar-mounted version of the Bing chatbot. Starting this summer, the company will be going even further, adding a new ChatGPT-driven Copilot feature that can be used alongside your other Windows apps. The company announced the change at its Build developer conference alongside another ne ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136168/built-in-chatgpt-driven-copilot-comes-to-windows-11-starting-in-june/)
2023-05-27T23:09:42Z	**HP has found an exciting new way to DRM your printer**
The Verge: First introduced in 2020 at the height of the pandemic, HP Plus was built around FOMO right from the start. You get just seven days to claim your free ink, starting the moment you plug a new printer into the wall. Act now, and it’ll also extend your warranty a full year, give you an “Advanced HP Smart app,” and plant trees on your behalf. Because why wouldn’t you want to save the forest? Here’s one reason, as detail ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136172/hp-has-found-an-exciting-new-way-to-drm-your-printer/)
2023-05-28T22:29:22Z	**MINIX is dead**
Way back in 2006, to celebrate the introdiction of MINIX 3, Andy Tanenbaum, the operating system’s legendary creator, published an introduction article to the new version here on OSNews. I’ve followed along with development ever since, with the last item we ever posted dating from 2015. Over the weekend, a link to the MINIX 3 git repository made the rounds, noting that the last change is dated 14 November, 2018. It seems like MINIX 3 has pretty much stalled, and digging through the Google Groups group i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136174/minix-is-dead/)
2023-05-28T22:29:07Z	**IRIX community proposes to reverse-engineer the last 32 bit IRIX kernel**
The IRIX Network, the primary community for SGI and IRIX enthousiasts, has announced a fundraising effort to reverse-engineer the last 32 bit version of the IRIX kernel. IRIX-32, so named for its basis on kernel and APIs of the last 32-bit compatible IRIX (5.3) is a proposed reverse engineering project to be conducted by a team of developers in the US and the EU. Purpose: We will reverse e ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136178/irix-community-proposes-to-reverse-engineer-the-last-32-bit-irix-kernel/)
2023-05-30T21:49:53Z	**Molly White tracks crypto scams. It’s going just great**
As cryptocurrencies rise and fall, there’s one number that just keeps going up. Whenever somebody loses money to a crypto scam or hack, the Grift Counter on Molly White’s blog, Web3 Is Going Just Great, spins higher and higher. Recently it ticked over $12 billion. White started the blog in December 2021 out of frustration with the mainstream coverage of crypto, which she says paid too much attention to rags-to-riches tales a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136189/molly-white-tracks-crypto-scams-its-going-just-great/)
2023-05-30T21:47:08Z	**US federal judge makes history in holding that border searches of cell phones require a warrant**
With United States v. Smith (S.D.N.Y. May 11, 2023), a district court judge in New York made history by being the first court to rule that a warrant is required for a cell phone search at the border, “absent exigent circumstances” (although other district courts have wanted to do so). EFF is thrilled about this decision, given that we have be ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136187/us-federal-judge-makes-history-in-holding-that-border-searches-of-cell-phones-require-a-warrant/)
2023-05-30T21:54:21Z	**All-Snap Ubuntu Desktop coming next year**
According to Canonical’s Oliver Grawert, the next long-term support release of Ubuntu will be available to download in 2 versions: a classic, deb-based version (default) and, for the first time, an immutable, snap-based build. This makes sense, and was inevitable. I wonder how long they’re going to keep the .deb-based version around; I doubt they’d pull it any time soon. Still, competition is good, and it’s been clear for a while now that immutabilit ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136191/all-snap-ubuntu-desktop-coming-next-year/)
2023-05-31T21:04:31Z	**A developer says Reddit could charge him $20 million a year to keep his app working**
Apollo, the popular Reddit app for iOS, could face millions of dollars in fees as a result of Reddit’s new paid API model. According to an update posted by developer Christian Selig, Reddit could charge Apollo roughly $20 million per year if it continues operating at its current scale. Reddit announced changes to its API policy in April, which allows the platform to  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136196/a-developer-says-reddit-could-charge-him-20-million-a-year-to-keep-his-app-working/)
2023-05-31T21:01:04Z	**The solid legal theory behind Nintendo’s new emulator takedown effort**
Ars Technica: This weekend saw an exception to that rule, though, as Nintendo’s lawyers formally asked Valve to cut off the planned Steam release of Wii and Gamecube emulator Dolphin. In a letter addressed to the Valve Legal Department (a copy of which was provided to Ars by the Dolphin Team), an attorney representing Nintendo of America requests that Valve take down Dolphin’s “coming soon” Ste ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136194/the-solid-legal-theory-behind-nintendos-new-emulator-takedown-effort/)
2023-06-02T21:20:58Z	**Windows 11’s Get Help support app is showing ads as well now**
Windows 11 users who open the official Get Help support application of the operating system may be greeted with an advertisement for Microsoft’s Teams application now. The ad is not the first for Microsoft Teams in Windows 11. Back in late 2021, a Microsoft Teams advertisement was causing freezes on Windows 11 systems it was displayed on. Another day, another ad. Fun times to be a Windows user. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136199/windows-11s-get-help-support-app-is-showing-ads-as-well-now/)
2023-06-02T21:24:28Z	**DESKTOP2: a graphical user interface for DOS**
DESKTOP is a graphical user interface for DOS, which ones used to be a commercial shell like MS-Windows 3.0 or GEOS. However, due to the dominance of MS-Windows 95, we were forced to stop publishing the program, so it’s free now… I’ve done a lot of digging into these alternative shells for both MS-DOS and Windows 3.x/9x, but I had somehow never heard of this one. It’s freely available, and has some neat and interesting features, like copy and  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136201/desktop2-a-graphical-user-interface-for-dos/)
2023-06-02T21:27:14Z	**ArcaOS 5.0.8 released**
ArcaOS 5.0.8 includes refreshed driver content, updated kernel and included software, as well as installation boot fixes since 5.0.7 was released at the end of 2021. It also rolls in a few fixes that come from our 5.1.0 development work. ArcaOS 5.0.8 can be used for new installs or to update any prior version of ArcaOS 5. If you have experienced difficulty installing previous releases of ArcaOS on your hardware, 5.0.8 may address your issue(s). This is a small point release in the run-up ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136203/arcaos-5-0-8-released/)
2023-06-05T14:36:05Z	**IceWM 3.4.0 released**
IceWM 3.4.0 might as well be called the Keybinding Update, since virtually all changes are related to them in some way. This release adds support for keybindings to literal Latin-1 characters, all UTF-8 code points in keybindings, and more. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136207/icewm-3-4-0-released/)
2023-06-05T14:46:21Z	**Windows 11’s redesigned File Explorer leaks online, here’s our closer look**
At Build 2023 developer conference, Microsoft finally teased the all-new modern File Explorer refresh. It’s unclear when the update is coming out, but we have accessed an early and unreleased version of the new File Explorer that mirrors what was teased at the conference. This definitely looks like a marked improvement over the aging current File Explorer, which isn’t very hard to do. I ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136211/windows-11s-redesigned-file-explorer-leaks-online-heres-our-closer-look/)
2023-06-05T14:44:30Z	**Red Hat stops packaging LibreOffice as RPM for RHEL and Fedora, suggests Flatpak instead**
The tradeoff is that we are pivoting away from work we had been doing on desktop applications and will cease shipping LibreOffice as part of RHEL starting in a future RHEL version. This also limits our ability to maintain it in future versions of Fedora. We will continue to maintain LibreOffice in currently supported versions of RHEL (RHEL 7, 8 and 9) with  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136209/red-hat-stops-packaging-libreoffice-as-rpm-for-rhel-and-fedora-suggests-flatpak-instead/)
2023-06-05T21:17:30Z	**Apple unveils macOS Sonoma**
Apple today announced macOS Sonoma, the latest version of its Mac operating system. Launching this fall, macOS Sonoma includes several new features, including desktop widgets, Apple TV-like aerial screensavers, enhancements to apps like Messages and Safari, a new Game mode that prioritizes CPU and GPU performance for gaming, and more. Apple also showed off iOS 17, watchOS 10, and iPadOS 17. ‌iOS 17‌ features personalized contact posters with photos, Memojis, and eye-catching ty ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136215/apple-unveils-macos-sonoma/)
2023-06-05T21:10:58Z	**This is the new Apple Silicon Mac Pro**
The Mac Pro might not look different from its predecessor on the outside, but on the inside, Intel’s Xeon CPU and AMD’s Radeon Pro graphics are gone, and in their place we have a new chip called the M2 Ultra. This is the same chip in the new Mac Studio; it has a 24-core CPU and an up to 76-core GPU, and it starts with twice the memory and SSD storage of the old Mac Pro. Apple promises it will be “3x faster” than the Intel Mac Pro. Memory tops out at 192GB. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136213/this-is-the-new-apple-silicon-mac-pro/)
2023-06-05T21:33:57Z	**Apple reveals Vision Pro, available for $3,499 “early next year”**
After years of speculation, leaks, rumors, setbacks, and rumblings of amazing behind-the-scenes demos, Apple has made its plans for a mixed reality platform and headset public. Vision Pro is “the first Apple Product you look through, not at,” Apple’s Tim Cook said, a “new AR platform with a new product” that augments reality by seamlessly blending the real world with the digital world. The headset will start ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136217/apple-reveals-vision-pro-available-for-3499-early-next-year/)
2023-06-06T23:13:37Z	**Chrome gets new mid-tier compiler: Maglev**
We’re bringing a new mid-tier compiler to Chrome. Maglev is a just-in-time compiler that can quickly generate performant machine code for all relevant functions within the first one-hundredth of a second. It reduces overall CPU time to compile code while also saving battery life. Our measurements show Maglev has provided a 7.5 percent improvement on Jetstream and a 5 percent improvement in Speedometer. Maglev will start rolling out in Chrome version ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136225/chrome-gets-new-mid-tier-compiler-maglev/)
2023-06-06T23:10:56Z	**Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit is Wine**
From CrossOver’s blog: Apple revealed their new Game Porting Toolkit today at WWDC. This Toolkit is designed to allow Windows game developers a way to easily and quickly determine how well their game could run on macOS, with the ultimate goal of facilitating the creation of Mac game ports. We are ecstatic that Apple chose to use CrossOver’s source code as their emulation solution for the Game Porting Toolkit. We have decades of experience creating ports with  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136223/apples-game-porting-toolkit-is-wine/)
2023-06-06T23:00:57Z	**Linux on the 7th generation of consoles: the Xbox 360**
Back in March I came home for spring break and quickly found myself motivated to do something dumb with Linux but there was an issue, all of my stuff was back in my dorm. The only thing I really had was a hard modded Xbox 360, an old monitor, and an even older keyboard. I knew what I had to do. Of course. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136221/linux-on-the-7th-generation-of-consoles-the-xbox-360/)
2023-06-07T23:09:43Z	**Windows 11’s latest endearing mess rigorously and wrongly enforces Britishisms**
For those of you a little confused about what a postcode is, it’s effectively the same as a US zip code; a way of distilling a postal address down to but a few characters. Hence why some rogue auto-translate function in Windows 11 is occasionally switching ‘zip’ to ‘postcode’ in the UK’s Windows menus. As a translator myself, this is easy enough to explain. Either we’re lookin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.osnews.com/story/136228/windows-11s-latest-endearing-mess-rigorously-and-wrongly-enforces-britishisms/)