Operating Systems Stories for 2018

Linux 4.20 Released in Time for Christmas 47
Lubuntu, a Popular Ubuntu Flavor, To Stop Providing 32-Bit Releases 111
The Last Independent Mobile OS 60
Tesla Model 3 Modded To Run Ubuntu 87
Microsoft Is Readying a Consumer Microsoft 365 Subscription Bundle 92
Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping x32 Support 202
Google Play Services Drops Support For Android Ice Cream Sandwich 85
Google Is Shutting Down Its Allo Messaging App, Says Report 62
Google Bridges Android, iOS Development With Flutter 1.0 116
Researchers Discover SplitSpectre, a New Spectre-like CPU Attack 48
Microsoft is Working On a New Iteration of Windows To Take On ChromeOS, Report Says 161
Robot Janitors Are Coming To Mop Floors At a Walmart Near You 86
Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Build 18290 With Start Menu Improvements 205
Amazon Launches Cloud-Based Robotics Testing Platform 19
Latest Windows 10 Update Breaks Windows Media Player, Win32 Apps In General 200
Microsoft, Google and Qualcomm Working On Chrome For Windows On ARM 53
'Windows Isn't a Service, It's an Operating System' 445
Mark Shuttleworth Reveals Ubuntu 18.04 Will Get a 10-Year Support Lifespan 110
Lock-Screen Bypass Bug Quietly Patched In Handsets 21
Microsoft Resumes Rollout of Windows 10 Version 1809, Promises Quality Changes 139
Microsoft Launches Free AV1 Video Codec For Windows 10 48
Cisco Removed Its Seventh Backdoor Account This Year, and That's a Good Thing 102
WLinux, the First Paid-for Linux Distro for Windows 10, Goes On Sale on Microsoft Store 207
Google Sends Final Software Update To Legacy Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P Phones 107
Facebook's GraphQL Gets Its Own Open-Source Foundation 33
Ask Slashdot: What Happened To the Prank Apps That Used To Be Popular? 134
Android Pie Has a Battery Life Problem 76
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Released 53
The Linux Kernel Is Now VLA-Free: A Win For Security, Less Overhead and Better For Clang 113
Linus Torvalds and Greg K-H Talk About Linux Community, Dealing with Hardware Bugs, Chromebooks Gaining Traction, Microsoft, Companies Gleaning Data and More 21
Trivial Bug In X.Org Server Gives Root Permissions On Linux, BSD Systems 114
Microsoft's Problem Isn't How Often it Updates Windows -- It's How It Develops It 227
Winamp 5.8, the First Update In 4 Years, Is Released 198
Some Google Pixel Owners' Camera Photos Aren't Saving 47
OpenBSD 6.4 Released 121
Microsoft Making More of the Windows 10 Built-In Apps Removable 82
Ubuntu Linux 18.10 'Cosmic Cuttlefish' Arrives 99
Google Home Hub Is Nothing Like Other Google Smart Displays 44
Magic Leap Expands Shipments of Its AR Headset To 48 US States 23
Microsoft Rereleases Windows 10 October 2018 Update, Fixes Data Deletion Bug 79
Apple Releases iOS 12.0.1 With Fixes For Wi-Fi 2.4GHz Bug, Lightning Charging Issue 84
Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 October Update 139
Windows 10 October 2018 Update is Deleting User Data For Many 210
Microsoft Is Embracing Android As the Mobile Version of Windows 76
Microsoft Announces App Mirroring To Let You Use Any Android App On Windows 10 59
AmigaOS 3.1.4 For Classic Amigas Released 69
Windows 10 October 2018 Update Is Now Available; Features 'Your Phone' Android Messaging App, Dark Theme For File Explorer, and Other Tweaks 67
Ubuntu Linux 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Beta Now Available For Desktop, Cloud and Server Versions 73
Open Source BeOS Successor Haiku Releases R1/beta 1 40
An Ex-NSA Hacker Who Has Organized the First-Ever Mac Security Conference 46
Microsoft Will End Support For Skype Classic In November 51
Windows 10 Passes 700 Million Devices 113
Microsoft To Bring Multi-User Virtualization To Windows, Office With Windows Virtual Desktop Service 83
Fedora 29 Beta Now Available For Download With Improved Raspberry Pi Support 17
Apple Releases macOS Mojave Featuring Dark Mode and Other Features; Earlier Today a Security Researcher Published 0Day Bypass For a Privacy Bug in the new OS 72
Despite Outrage From Users, Microsoft Continues To Install Bloatware Applications Onto Every Windows 10 PC 490
'WaitList.dat' Windows File May Be Secretly Hoarding Your Passwords, Emails 40
Linux On Windows 10: Running Ubuntu VMs Just Got a Lot Easier, Says Microsoft 193
Chrome OS Revamp Delivers a New Look and Linux App Support 30
Google's Android OS To Power Dashboard Displays 77
Linus Torvalds Reflects On How He's Been Hostile To Linux Community Members Over the Years, Issues Apology, and Announces He Will Be Taking Some Time Off 985
Microsoft Windows U-turn Removes Warning About Installing Chrome, Firefox 100
The Linux Kernel Has Grown By 225,000 Lines of Code This Year, With Contributions From About 3,300 Developers 88
Native Support For Windows File Sharing Coming To Chrome OS 51
Tesla Issues Software Update To Extend Some Cars' Batteries Due To Hurricane Florence 242
Windows 10 Will Use the Cloud To Free Up Disk Space 204
Linux Distro Elive Emerges Alive After 8-Year Hibernation 89
Beta Release Nears For BeOS-inspired Open Source OS Haiku 69
Creator of TempleOS, Terry Davis, Has Passed Away 174
Linus Torvalds No Longer Knows the Whole Linux Kernel and That's OK 119
Adobe's Next Major Creative Cloud Release Won't Support Older OSes 308
Google Is Revamping the Wear OS Smartwatch UI 38
What Dropbox Dropping Linux Support Says 424
Chinese Phone Maker Huawei Risks Alienating Its Loyal Customer Base By Taking a Strong Stand Against Unlocking of Its Handsets, Users Say 148
Linux 4.19 Preparing Better CPU Security Mitigations, New EROFS File-System 88
Linux Turns 27 170
North Korean Hackers Hit Cryptocurrency Exchange With macOS Malware 100
Windows 95 Is Now An App You Can Download and Install On macOS, Windows, and Linux 183
Linux Study Argues Monolithic OS Design Leads To Critical Exploits 198
Google Is Developing Native Hearing Aid Support For Android 50
Debian Linux Turns 25 111
Valve Seems To Be Working On Tools To Get Windows Games Running On Linux 196
Android Pie Breaks Pixel XL's Ability To Fast Charge 79
'Do Not Buy a Smartwatch Right Now' 113
Linux 4.18 Releases With Steam Controller Kernel Driver, Spectre Updates 47
Chromebooks May Get Apple Boot Camp-Like Windows 10 Dual Boot With 'Campfire' 95
Samsung Unveils Tizen-Powered Galaxy Watch That Lasts 'Several Days' On Single Charge 82
Windows 10 Enterprise Getting 'InPrivate Desktop' Sandboxed Execution Feature 99
Palm-branded Smartphones Could Return This Year 42
Windows 10 Buggy Updates? Our Patching is Simple, Regular, and Consistent, Says Microsoft 197
Windows 10 Continues To Close in On Windows 7 210
With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It 597
Autodesk Drops Support For Alias, VRED In macOS Mojave Over OpenGL Deprecation 309
Magic Leap Offers a First Look At Its Mixed Reality OS 50
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Handle Hardware That Never Gets Software Updates? 233
Bluetooth Security Flaw Could Let Nearby Attacker Grab Your Private Data 30
ReactOS 0.4.9 Is Entirely Self-Hosting, Fixes FastFAT Crashes 200
Researchers Detail New CPU Side-Channel Attack Named SpectreRSB 39
Microsoft Launches Open-Source Quantum Katas Project On GitHub To Teach Q# Programming 37
Chrome OS Isn't Ready For Tablets Yet 35
Project 'Fuchsia': Google is Quietly Working on a Successor To Android 122
Microsoft Is Making the Windows Command Line a Lot Better 328
DOD Seeks Classification 'Clippy' To Help Classify Data, Control Access 62
Microsoft Details Secret 'Pocketable' Surface Device 92
Google Invests $22 Million In Feature Phone Operating System KaiOS 28
Linux Mint 19 'Tara' Released 75
Microsoft Removes 'Sets' Tabbed Windows Feature From Next Release 133
All-Radio 4.27 Portable Can't Be Removed? Then Your PC Is Severely Infected 247
Finally, It's the Year of the Linux... Supercomputer 171
Microsoft Quietly Cuts Off Windows 7 Support For Older Intel Computers 383
iOS 12 Will Automatically Share Your iPhone Location With 911 Centers 69
Linux 4.18 Preparing Many New Features While Dropping 100k+ Lines of Code 105
Apple Tries To Stop Developers Sharing Data On Users' Friends 21
Can An 'OS For Electricity' Double the Efficiency of the Grid? 148
Google Launches Android P Beta 2 With Final APIs 40
tvOS 12 Brings Dolby Atmos Support, Zero Sign-In, and TV App Improvements 47
Apple Jams Facebook's Web-Tracking Tools 117
Apple CarPlay Will Now Support Third-Party Navigation and Mapping Apps 44
watchOS 5 Brings Automatic Workout Detection, Walkie-Talkie Mode, Podcast App To Apple Watch 50
Apple Unveils macOS 10.14 Mojave With Dark Mode and Finder Photo Tools 99
Apple Unveils iOS 12 77
Linux 4.17 Released 28
Microsoft Is Talking About Acquiring GitHub, Says Report 164
Windows 10 Pro Is a Dead End For the Enterprise, Gartner Says 218
Sonic and Ultrasonic Attacks Damage Hard Drives and Crash OSes 102
There Are Real Reasons For Linux To Replace ifconfig, netstat and Other Classic Tools 478
Canonical Shares Desktop Plans For Ubuntu 18.10 81
Ask Slashdot: Some Good Linux Desktop Option For Kids? 179
Fedora-Based Linux Distro Korora Halts Development 68
Ask Slashdot: Is It Linux or GNU/Linux? 521
Malware Found In the Ubuntu Snap Store 90
One Year After WannaCry, EternalBlue Exploit Is Bigger Than Ever 62
Google Is Building a Pixel-Branded Smartwatch, Says Report 40
Multiple OS Vendors Release Security Patches After Misinterpreting Intel Docs 81
Windows Notepad Finally Supports Unix, Mac OS Line Endings 291
You Can Now Run Linux Apps On Chrome OS 106
Google Details New Android P Features, Including iPhone X-Like Gesture Controls 36
iOS 11.4 Disables Lightning Connector After 7 Days, Limiting Law Enforcement Access 268
Edge Computing: Explained 159
Apple's iMac Turns 20 Years Old 127
Microsoft Says 700M Devices Now Run Windows 10 120
Windows 10 Is Finally Getting An Improved Screenshot Tool 143
Ask Slashdot: Any Idiosyncrasies of the New Windows 10 April 2018 Update? 149
Fedora 28 Featuring GNOME 3.28 Released 76
Windows 10 April 2018 Update is Coming On April 30 214
Ubuntu 18.04 Focuses On Security and AI Improvements 89
iOS 11.3.1 Fixes Bug Where Third-Party Screen Repairs Made iPhone 8 Touchscreens Stop Working 104
Microsoft Plans Version of Windows 10 For Devices With Limited Storage 142
Surface Phone Speculation Spurred By New Phone APIs In Windows 77
Microsoft Readies Windows 10 April Update With New Features and Enhancements 109
The 'Unpatchable' Exploit That Makes Every Current Nintendo Switch Hackable 96
Users Complain About Installation Issues With macOS 10.13.4 90
Users Don't Want iOS To Merge With MacOS, Apple Chief Tim Cook Says 156
Microsoft Delays Windows 10 Spring Creators Update Because of 'Higher Percentage of BSODs' 108
Microsoft Built Its Own Custom Linux Kernel For Its New IoT Service 199
ReactOS 0.4.8 Released 60
Linus Torvalds Says Linux Kernel v5.0 'Should Be Meaningless' 165
Linux 4.17 Kernel Offers Better Intel Power-Savings While Dropping Old CPUs 136
Google Appears To Be Testing iPhone X-Style Gesture Navigation In Android P 18
Microsoft Discovers Blocking Bug and Delays the Release of Windows 10 Spring Creators Update 83
Apple Starts Alerting Users That It Will End 32-Bit App Support On the Mac 267
'Fuchsia Is Not Linux': Google Publishes Documentation Explaining Their New OS 245
Microsoft Open-Sources Original File Manager From the 1990s So It Can Run On Windows 10 173
Ask Slashdot: Do You Miss Windows Phone? 284
Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole In Windows Defender 71
Microsoft Will Bring 64-Bit App Support To ARM-Based PCs In May 71
Latest macOS Update Disables DisplayLink, Rendering Thousands of Monitors Dead 331
Fedora 28 Beta Linux Distro is Finally Here 37
OpenBSD 6.3 Released 77
Linux 4.16 Released 119
macOS 10.13.4 Enables Support for External GPU 53
Verizon Plans To Launch a Palm Smartphone Later This Year 45
Google Starts Blocking 'Uncertified' Android Devices From Logging In 179
State Department Seemingly Buys $15,000 iPhone Cracking Tech GrayKey 79
Face ID Deemed Too Costly To Copy, Android Makers Target In-Display Fingerprint Sensors Instead 129
Justice Department Revives Push To Mandate a Way To Unlock Phones 171
Facebook Scraped Call, Text Message Data For Years From Android Phones 158
LG Releases Open-Sourced Version of webOS in Hopes To Push It Beyond TVs and Smart Refrigerators 96
Linux Mint 19 'Tara' Cinnamon Will Be Faster 61
Microsoft Wants To Force Windows 10 Mail Users To Use Edge For Email Links 172
Android Wear Needs More Than a New Name To Fight Apple Watch 90
Linus Torvalds Slams CTS Labs Over AMD Vulnerability Report 115
Microsoft Admits It Updated Some Windows 10 Computers To Newest Build Despite Users Telling It Not To Do That 137
Ubuntu Linux 18.04 'Bionic Beaver' Beta 1 Now Available For Download 101
Windows 10's Next Update Will Be Called 'Spring Creators Update' 92
Windows 10 Is Finally Adding Tabs To File Explorer 161
Android P Drops Support For Nexus Phones, Pixel Tablet 86
Microsoft Confirms Windows 10 'S Mode' 90
Chrome 65 Arrives With Material Design Extensions Page, New Developer Features 34
Kali Linux For WSL Now Available in the Windows Store 69
Windows Phone 8.1 Users Are Having Trouble Downloading Apps From the Store 64
Apple To Suspend iTunes Store Support For 'Obsolete' First-Gen Apple TV 123
Microsoft Starts Selling Lumia Windows Phones Again 111
Botched npm Update Crashes Linux Systems, Forces Users to Reinstall 256
The Swype Smartphone Keyboard Is Dead 95
Electronics-Recycling Innovator Faces Prison For Extending Computers' Lives 288
Windows 10 Compatibility Issues Forcing US Air Force To Scrap a Significant Number of Computers 151
Windows 10 Is Adding an Ultimate Performance Mode For Pros 151
Best Linux Distribution 215
Amazon Is Designing Custom AI Chips For Alexa 70
Skype Can't Fix a Nasty Security Bug Without a Massive Code Rewrite 151
Google's Next Android Overhaul Will Embrace iPhone's 'Notch' 179
Researchers Are Developing An Algorithm That Makes Smartphones Child-Proof 67
Hackers Manage To Run Linux On a Nintendo Switch 119
Key iPhone Source Code Gets Posted On GitHub 188
Windows 10 Will Soon Get Progressive Web Apps To Boost the Microsoft Store 152
What Apple's Battery Health 'Fix' Looks Like 69
Android Oreo Passes 1 Percent Adoption After 5 Months, Nougat Finally Takes First Place 98
Chrome OS Is Almost Ready To Replace Android On Tablets 61
Microsoft Is Now Selling a Surface Laptop With An Intel Core m3 Processor For $799 108
Surpassing Windows 7's Market Share For the First Time, Windows 10 Now the Most Popular Desktop OS From Microsoft 166
US Government Investigates Apple Over iPhone Battery Slowdowns 123
Apple is Postponing Release of New Features To iOS This Year To Focus on Reliability and Performance: Report 106
Linus Finally Releases Linux 4.15 Kernel, Blames Intel For Delay 55
OnePlus Is Again Sending User Data To a Chinese Company Without User Consent 152
Are the BSDs Dying? Some Security Researchers Think So 196
Researchers Warn of Physics-Based Attacks On Sensors 85
Apple Prepares MacOS Users For Discontinuation of 32-Bit App Support 180
Fitbit Will End Support For Pebble Smartwatches In June 93
Apple Adds Medical Records Feature For iPhone 101
Windows 10 Will Soon Let Users Track the Data Microsoft Collects 148
Apple Releases Meltdown and Spectre Fixes For Older Versions of MacOS 39
Google Just Broke Amazon's Workaround For YouTube On Fire TV 264
Android Can Now Tell You How Fast Wi-Fi Networks Are Before You Join Them 44
Linux 4.15 Becomes Slowest Release Since 2011 68
Google Moves To Debian For In-house Linux Desktop 142
Google's Fuchsia OS On the Pixelbook 72
Wine 3.0 Released 153
'Text Bomb' Is Latest Apple Bug 60
Hackers Seem Close To Publicly Unlocking the Nintendo Switch 91
Many Enterprise Mobile Devices Will Never Be Patched Against Meltdown, Spectre 104
Researchers Uncover Android Malware With Never-Before-Seen Spying Capabilities 102
Researcher Finds Another Security Flaw In Intel Management Firmware 87
Microsoft Announces First Mobile Carriers To Support Always Connected PCs 109
Eben Upton Explains Why Raspberry Pi Isn't Vulnerable To Spectre Or Meltdown 116
Google Says CPU Patches Cause 'Negligible Impact On Performance' With New 'Retpoline' Technique 120
How a Researcher Hacked His Own Computer and Found One of the Worst CPU Bugs Ever Found 138
Google's Project Zero Team Discovered Critical CPU Flaw Last Year 124
Intel Responds To Alleged Chip Flaw, Claims Effects Won't Significantly Impact Average Users 375
The 'App' You Can't Trash: How SIP is Broken in Apple's High Sierra OS 164
Linux Mint 19 Named 'Tara' 124
'Kernel Memory Leaking' Intel Processor Design Flaw Forces Linux, Windows Redesign 416
Google's Mysterious Fuchsia OS Can Now Run On the Pixelbook 60