Operating Systems Stories for 2017

Kodi 18 'Leia' 64-Bit For Windows Is Finally Ready To Replace the 32-bit Version 80
Windows 10 Visits To US Government Sites Surpass Windows 7 For the First Time 111
Google Stops Selling the Pixel C Android Tablet 48
Chrome OS Will Finally Run Android Apps in the Background 42
Apple To Release Lisa OS For Free As Open Source In 2018 95
FSF Adds PureOS To List of Endorsed GNU/Linux Distributions 46
Could 2018 Be The Year of the Linux Desktop? 383
Nvidia To Cease Producing New Drivers For 32-Bit Systems 92
Slashdot Asks: Should Tech Companies End the One-Year Software Update Cycle? 187
PSA: Spotify Now Available As a Snap For Linux 66
Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Pulled Due To A BIOS Corrupting Problem 167
Apple Plans Combined iPhone, iPad and Mac Apps To Create One User Experience 247
Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Alternatives To Android Or iOS? 304
Apple Seems To Have Forgotten About the Whole 'It Just Works' Thing 242
Chrome 64 Beta Adds Sitewide Audio Muting, Pop-Up Blocker, Windows 10 HDR Video 43
Mozilla Slipped a 'Mr. Robot'-Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed 307
Google Is Shutting Down Project Tango 37
Author of BrickerBot Malware Retires, Says He Bricked 10 Million IoT Devices 149
Andy Rubin's Essential Phone Considered Anything But 150
Microsoft Releases Free Preview of Its Quantum Development Kit 31
Updated Debian Linux 9.3 and 8.10 Released 49
Zero-Day iOS HomeKit Vulnerability Allowed Remote Access To Smart Accessories Including Locks 39
'Process Doppelganging' Attack Bypasses Most Security Products, Works On All Windows Versions 126
Google Puts Android Accessibility Crackdown On Hold 28
Android 8.0 Oreo For Android Wear Released 10
ReactOS 0.4.7 Released 94
Google Wants Progressive Web Apps To Replace Chrome Apps 154
System76 Will Disable Intel Management Engine On Its Linux Laptops 149
MacOS High Sierra Bug Allows Login As Root With No Password 237
Microsoft Office Now Available On All Chromebooks 113
The Pixel 2's Dormant 'Visual Core' Chip Gets Activated In Latest Android Developer Preview 32
iPhone Users Complain About the Word 'It' Autocorrecting To 'I.T' On iOS 11 and Later 116
Two Major Cydia Hosts Shut Down as Jailbreaking Fades in Popularity 90
Ask Slashdot: What Are Your Greatest Successes and Weaknesses With Wine (Software)? 252
Ask Slashdot: How Are So Many Security Vulnerabilities Possible? 354
Sacramento Regional Transit Systems Hit By Hacker 35
New Windows Search Interface Borrows Heavily From MacOS 86
Microsoft Offering Free Windows 10 Development Environment VM for a Limited Time 81
iMac Pro Will Have An A10 Fusion Coprocessor For 'Hey, Siri' Support and More Secure Booting, Says Report 164
Google Is Working On Fuchsia OS Support For Apple's Swift Programming Language 54
Microsoft and GitHub Team Up To Take Git Virtual File System To MacOS, Linux 150
Even New Phones Are No Longer Guaranteed To Have the Latest Version of Android 158
iOS 11 'Is Still Just Buggy as Hell' 258
Bluetooth Hack Affects 20 Million Amazon Echo, Google Home Devices 40
All 500 of the World's Top 500 Supercomputers Are Running Linux 288
Fedora 27 Released 65
Google To Kill a Bunch of Useful Android Apps That Rely On Accessibility Services 105
Ask Slashdot: What Should A Mac User Know Before Buying a Windows Laptop? 449
Google Working To Remove MINIX-Based ME From Intel Platforms 181
Windows 10's Version of AirDrop Lets You Quickly Share Files Between PCs 108
Experts Propose Standard For IoT Firmware Updates 61
Microsoft Quietly Announces End of Last Free Windows 10 Upgrade Offer 147
Some Google Pixel 2 XL Units Shipped Without an Operating System 34
Apple Uses Machine Learning To Chronicle All the Bra Pics On Your iPhone 115
BlackBerry CEO Promises To Try To Break Customers' Encryption If the US Government Asks Him To 107
Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of 40 Old Galaxy S5s 73
Everything New In the Android 8.1 Oreo Developer Preview 42
Google Addresses Pixel 2 XL Display Issues, Pixel 2 Clicking Sounds With Software Updates 103
Microsoft Is Working On a Foldable Device With a Focus On Pen and Digital Ink 87
Linux Mint Is Killing the KDE Edition 141
Oracle Engineer Talks of ZFS File System Possibly Still Being Upstreamed On Linux 131
Why Did Ubuntu Drop Unity? Mark Shuttleworth Explains 215
30-Year-Old Operating System 'PC-MOS/386' Finally Open Sourced 173
How Google's Pixel 2 'Now Playing' Song Identification Works 129
Samsung To Let Proper Linux Distros Run on Galaxy Smartphones 226
Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark Released 134
Android Oreo Helps Google's Pixel 2 Smartphones Outperform Other Android Flagships 91
Microsoft's Fall Update With Redesigned Xbox Dashboard Is Now Available To All 38
Latest iOS Update Shows Apple Can Use Software To Break Phones Repaired By Independent Shops 128
Dutch Privacy Regulator Says Windows 10 Breaks the Law 63
Is the Chromebook the New Android Tablet? 182
OxygenOS Telemetry Lets OnePlus Tie Phones To Individual Users 164
KDE Plasma 5.11 Released 62
How Does Microsoft Avoid Being the Next IBM? 223
OpenBSD 6.2 Released 114
Windows 10 Update Removes Windows Media Player 255
Slashdot Asks: Does the World Need a Third Mobile OS? 304
Microsoft Exec Says Windows 10 Mobile is No Longer a 'Focus' 135
Apple Doesn't Deliberately Slow Down Older Devices According To Benchmark Analysis 163
Uber's iOS App Had Secret Permissions That Allowed It to Copy Your Phone Screen, Researchers Say 91
Mozilla To End All Firefox Support For XP, Vista In June 2018 131
According To Star Trek: Discovery, Starfleet Still Runs Microsoft Windows 237
Microsoft Shutters Groove Music, Will Move Users To Spotify 51
Meet The Next Major Operating System: Amazon's Alexa 168
Ask Slashdot: Whatever Happened To the 'Year of Linux on Desktop'? 417
Microsoft and Canonical Make Custom Linux Kernel 121
Firefox For iOS Gets Tracking Protection, Firefox Focus For Android Gets Tabs 28
Bill Gates Says He's Sorry About Control-Alt-Delete 320
iOS 11 Released 139
Results of the Ubuntu Desktop Applications Survey 93
HP Users Complain About 10-Minute Login Lag During 'Win 10 Update' 105
KDE Plasma 5.11 Beta Released 59
GNOME 3.26 Released 176
Windows 10 Will Soon Give Users More Control Over App Permissions 76
Apple Is Releasing macOS High Sierra On September 25 95
BlueBorne Vulnerabilities Impact Over 5 Billion Bluetooth-Enabled Devices 121
Android Oreo Bug Eats Up Mobile Data Even When On Wi-Fi 89
Android Oreo's Rollback Protection Will Block OS Downgrades 119
Chrome 61 Arrives With JavaScript Modules, WebUSB Support 115
TrustZone Downgrade Attack Opens Android Devices To Old Vulnerabilities 45
Microsoft Extends Free Windows 10 S-To-Pro Upgrade Deadline 93
Linux Kernel 4.13 Officially Released 43
With Android Oreo, Google Is Introducing Linux Kernel Requirements 120
Is Apple Copying Palm's WebOS? 188
ReactOS 0.4.6 Released 97
Petition Asks the Developers of Phoenix OS to Open Source the Kernel 34
Linux Desktop Market Share Crosses 3% 285
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update to Arrive October 17 60
Palm Devices Are Coming In 2018 Without WebOS, Says Report 81
Microsoft Will Never Again Sneakily Force Windows Downloads on Users 200
Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Android Oreo Features? 277
Android O Is Now Officially Android Oreo 132
postmarketOS Pursues A Linux-Based, LTS OS For Android Phones 111
Android O Is Officially Launching August 21 86
iOS 11 Has a Feature To Temporarily Disable Touch ID 138
PlayStation 4 Update 5.0 Officially Revealed 33
Hacker Claims To Have Decrypted Apple's Secure Enclave Processor Firmware 111
A New Amiga Will Go On Sale In Late 2017 185
Microsoft Dumps Notorious Chinese Secure Certificate Vendor 57
Android 8.0's 'Streaming OS Updates' Will Work Even If Your Phone Is Full 40
Linux Kernel Hardeners Grsecurity Sue Open Source's Bruce Perens 307
BLU Claims Innocence, Gets Phones Reinstated On Amazon 43
Microsoft Is Updating the Windows Console Colors For the First Time In 20 Years 142
Is the iPhone 'Years' Ahead of Android In Photography? 408
Bluetooth Battery Level Indicators May Soon Be Coming To Android 28
Microsoft's 'Windows Subsystem For Linux' Finally Leaves Beta 163
FreeBSD 11.1 Released 219
iOS 11 Will Prevent Your iPhone From Automatically Connecting To Unreliable Wi-Fi Networks 88
Microsoft Confirms It's Not Killing Off Paint After Outpouring of Support 244
Debian 'Stretch' Updated With 9.1 Release 40
Slackware, Oldest Linux Distro Still In Active Development, Turns 24 70
Ubuntu 16.10 Reaches End of Life 164
Samsung's 'Bixby' Voice Assistant Finally Launches In US 40
Android Backdoor 'GhostCtrl' Can Silently Record Your Audio, Video and More 69
Some OnePlus 5s Are Reportedly Rebooting After Dialing 911 59
Exploit Derived From EternalSynergy Upgraded To Target Newer Windows Versions 61
Windows 10 Creators Upgrade Cuts Support For Some Intel PCs Early 148
'Windows 10 Is Failing Us' 551
24 Cores and the Mouse Won't Move: Engineer Diagnoses Windows 10 Bug 352
Fedora 26 Linux Distro Released 66
Windows Phone Dies Today 233
Ubuntu Is Now Available On the Windows Store 121
Microsoft Will Sell Office, Windows as a Bundle 263
48-Year-Old Multics Operating System Resurrected 94
WikiLeaks Unveils CIA Implants That Steal SSH Credentials From Windows, Linux PCs 140
OneDrive Has Stopped Working On Non-NTFS Drives 130
OpenBSD Will Get Unique Kernels On Each Reboot 162
Linux Is Not As Safe As You Think 237
'Severe' Systemd Bug Allowed Remote Code Execution For Two Years 551
Linux Kernel 4.12 Officially Released 55
23 Years Of The Open Source 'FreeDOS' Project 123
While Chrome Dominates, Microsoft Edge Struggles To Attract New Users 172
Ubuntu Disputes 'Ads In MOTD' Claims 110
France Drops Windows 10 Privacy Case After Microsoft Changes Telemetry Settings 51
System76 Unveils Its Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distribution Called 'Pop!_OS' 117
WikiLeaks Dump Reveals CIA Malware For Tracking Windows Devices Via WiFi Networks 85
London Metropolitan Police's 18,000 Windows XP PCs Is a Disaster Waiting To Happen 232
Britain's Newest Warship Runs Windows XP, Raising Cyber Attack Fears 302
Microsoft Bringing EMET Back As a Built-In Part of Windows 10 49
Software Developer Explains Why The Ubuntu Phone Failed 137
Linus Explains What Surprises Him After 25 Years Of Linux 181
32TB of Windows 10 Internal Builds, Core Source Code Leak Online 201
WikiLeaks Doc Dump Reveals CIA Tools For Hacking Air-Gapped PCs 74
The Behind-the-Scenes Changes Found In MacOS High Sierra 205
Microsoft Now Lets Surface Laptop Owners Revert Back To Windows 10 S 81
'The Unwillingness To Foresee The Future' 193
Skype Retires Older Apps for Windows, Linux 121
Google Launches Android O Developer Preview 3 With Final APIs 16
No Known Ransomware Works Against Windows 10 S, Says Microsoft 160
Apple To Force Users To 2FA On iOS 11, macOS High Sierra 119
Apple To Phase Out 32-Bit Mac Apps Starting In January 2018 249
Ubuntu Works With GNOME To Improve HiDPI Support On Linux Desktop 85
Apple's New iOS File Manager Coming This Fall As Part of iOS 11 63
Apple Unveils What's Next For macOS Desktop OS: High Sierra 79
Microsoft Leak Reveals New Windows 10 Workstation Edition For Power Users 113
OpenELEC 8.0.4 Kodi-Focused Linux Distro Now Available 43
Ubuntu Touch Mobile OS Now Maintained By UBports 22
CIA Malware Can Switch Clean Files With Malware When You Download Them Via SMB 62
Microsoft Accidentally Released Internal Windows 10 Development Builds 76
Technology Is Making the World More Unequal; Only Technology Can Fix This 145
Windows XP Computers Were Mostly Immune To WannaCry 58
Microsoft's Looking To Reboot Mobile with New Software and Hardware: Sources 114
Security Analyst Concludes Windows 10 Enterprise 'Tracks Too Much' 284
Alpine Linux 3.6.0 Released 59
A New Amiga Arrives On the Scene -- the A-EON Amiga X5000 118
Devuan Jessie 1.0 Officially Released 237
Microsoft Announces 'Windows 10 China Government Edition', Lets Country Use Its Own Encryption 108
Linux 4.10 Kernel Reaches End of Life 58
Endless OS Now Ships With Steam And Slack FlatPak Applications 95
New OS/2 Warp Operating System 'ArcaOS' 5.0 Released 145
Almost All WannaCry Victims Were Running Windows 7 123
Linux Distros Won't Run On Microsoft's Education-Focused Windows 10 S OS 115
ReactOS 0.4.5 Released 118
Windows XP PCs Infected By WannaCry Can Be Decrypted Without Paying Ransom 60
'WannaCry Makes an Easy Case For Linux' 411
Google Home Gets Notifications, Hands-Free Calling, a TV Interface and More 37
Android Now Supports the Kotlin Programming Language 91
Google's Android Now Powers More Than 2 Billion Devices 30
HTC Launches 'U11' Squeezable Smartphone With Snapdragon 835 CPU, No Headphone Jack 69
WikiLeaks Dump Reveals CIA Malware That Can Sabotage User Software 116
Should You Leave Google Chrome For the Opera Browser? 303
Slashdot Asks: In the Wake Of Ransomware Attacks, Should Tech Companies Change Policies To Support Older OSs Indefinitely? 360
Google's 'Project Treble' Could Lead To Faster Android Updates 83
Why Doesn't Harvard Want To Talk About Its Mystery Microsoft Azure Project? 51
Windows 10 On ARM Will Support x86 Apps From Outside the Store 115
New Windows Look and Feel, Neon, Is Officially the 'Microsoft Fluent Design System' 95
Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, the Next Major Update To Desktop OS 121
Ubuntu Arrives in the Windows Store, Suse and Fedora Are Coming To the Windows Subsystem For Linux 212
Windows 10 Now On 500 Million Devices, Up By 200 Million in a Year 123
Opinion: Even if You Hate the Idea, Windows Users Should Want Windows 10 S To Succeed 259
Google Researchers Find Wormable 'Crazy Bad' Windows Exploit 74
Google's Upcoming 'Fuchsia' Smartphone OS Dumps Linux, Has a Wild New UI 219
Ask Slashdot: Is ReactOS A Serious Alternative To Windows? 236
Debian 8.8 Released 65
Amazon Leak Exposes Echo AI Device With Touch Display and FireOS 36
'This Isn't AI' 138
Court Rules In 'Sextortion' Case That Phone PINs Are Not Protected By Fifth Amendment 410
Surface Laptop Can Be Switched To Windows 10 Pro For Free Until 2018 150
You Can't Change the Default Browser or Switch To Google Search In Windows 10 S 302
Microsoft Is Bringing Office to the Windows Store 57
Linux Mint 18.2 Ubuntu-based OS is Named 'Sonya' 34
Microsoft Unveils Windows 10 S, an Education Edition Limited To Windows Store Apps 127
Modern 'Hackintoshes' Show That Apple Should Probably Just Build a Mac Tower 219
UEFI Secure Boot Booted From Debian 9 'Stretch' 168
Linux Kernel 4.11 Officially Released 55
Open Ports Create Backdoors In Millions of Smartphones 122
Should Banks Let Ancient Programming Language COBOL Die? 383
Computer Program Prevents 116-Year-Old Woman From Getting Pension 216
Ask Slashdot: Are Accurate Software Development Time Predictions a Myth? 222
Windows is Bloated, Thanks to Adobe's Extensible Metadata Platform 135
BrickerBot, the Permanent Denial-of-Service Botnet, Is Back With a Vengeance 113
NSA's DoublePulsar Kernel Exploit a 'Bloodbath' 187
Linux 4.11 Delayed For a Week 48
Systemd-Free Devuan Announces Its First Stable Release Candidate 'Jessie' 1.0.0 372
EFF Says Google Chromebooks Are Still Spying On Students 84
Samsung Will Fix the Galaxy S8 Red Tint Issue With a Software Update 31
File System Improvements To the Windows Subsystem for Linux 110
Microsoft Says It Will Release Two Feature Updates Per Year For Windows 10, Office 63
China To Question Apple About Live-Streaming Apps On App Store That Violate Internet Regulations 31
Benchmarks Show Galaxy S8 With Snapdragon 835 Is a Much Faster Android Handset 82
User-Made Patch Lets Owners of Next-Gen CPUs Install Updates On Windows 7 & 8.1 218
Microsoft Confirms Only a Handful of Windows Phones Will Receive Windows 10 Creators Update 46
Google Photos Can Now Stabilize All Your Shaky Phone Camera Videos 54
Roku-Enabled TVs Will Soon 'Listen' To Programs You're Watching To Suggest Streaming Content 52
Former Sysadmin Accused of Planting 'Time Bomb' In Company's Database 143
Ubuntu 17.04 'Zesty Zapus', Featuring Unity, Now Available To Download 83
Microsoft Kills Off Security Bulletins 89
Samsung Is Delaying the 'Voice' Part of Its New Bixby Voice Assistant 38
Developer Publishes Patch To Enable Windows 7 and 8.1 Updates On New Hardware 50
Chrome Now Uses Scroll Anchoring To Prevent Those Annoying Page Jumps 113

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