Upgrades Stories

Julia v1.10 Improves Performance, and Gnuplot Gets Pie Charts 14
How a Microsoft Update Broke VS Code Editor on Ubuntu 149
Google Chrome's Useless Reading Mode To Get a Useful Audio Upgrade 13
Glitch In System Upgrade Identified As Cause of Delays At Singapore Immigration 5
Netflix Fights Attempt To Make Streaming Firms Pay For ISP Network Upgrades 38
Hollywood Designer 6.0 Released: Now a 'Full-Blown Multimedia Authoring System' 20
Solar Power Could Become a Catalyst For a Major Synthetic Fuel Upgrade 144
Battery Drain Problems After iPhone Upgrade? Apple Suggests Complete Data Wipe 64
Apple Agrees To Notify iPhone Users If iOS Updates Will Affect Performance, UK Watchdog Says 42
GDB 8.3 Released 38
Record Number of Consumers Waiting To Upgrade Their Cellphones 191
iOS 13 To Feature Dark Mode and Interface Updates, Report Says 97
Apple Says It Could Miss $9 Billion In iPhone Sales Due To Weak Demand 332
Windows 10 October 2018 Update Is Now Available; Features 'Your Phone' Android Messaging App, Dark Theme For File Explorer, and Other Tweaks 67
Xbox One X is the Perfect Representation of the Tech Industry's Existential Crisis 190
Class Action Lawsuit Launched Over Forced Windows 10 Upgrades 347
CNET Editor Rails Against Non-Consensual Windows Updates 498
OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set Version 3.0 Released 17
NetBSD Project Releases NetBSD 7.0.2 22
Linux Kernel 4.7 Reaches End of Life, Users Urged To Move To Linux 4.8 77
Linus Torvalds Officially Announces the Release of Linux Kernel 4.8 95
Microsoft Bungles This Week's Windows 10 Anniversary Update 172
Linux Mint Unveils New 'Mintbox Mini Pro' Desktop 70
Linux Kernel 3.14 Series Has Reached End of Life 99
Ask Slashdot: How Will You Handle Microsoft's New 'Cumulative' Windows Updates? 405
Microsoft Announces 'Cumulative' Updates Will Become Mandatory For Windows 7 and 8.1 275
New FreeBSD 11.0 Release Candidate Tested By Phoronix 61
Linux Kernel 4.7 Officially Released 60
Microsoft Store Offers Free Laptop If They Can't Upgrade Your PC To Windows 10 126
Linux Mint 18 'Sarah' Released, Supports Generic GTK X-Apps 98
Woman Wins $10,000 Lawsuit Against Microsoft Over Windows 10 Upgrades 443
New C++ Features Voted In By C++17 Standards Committee 286
ECMAScript 2016: New Version of JavaScript Language Released 165
Linux Kernel 4.6 Officially Released 149
Linux 4.6 Brings NVIDIA GTX 900 Support, OrangeFS, Better Power Management 129
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Final Beta Released 69
Ask Slashdot: Are You Excited About Upcoming 4-inch iPhone or 9.7-inch iPad Pro? 310
Cinema-Quality Unity Engine 'Adam' Demo Claims To Run Real-Time On GeForce GTX 980 59
Microsoft Finally Rolls Out Windows 10 Mobile To Older Phones 44
Intel Teases Skull Canyon Gaming NUC: Core i7, Iris Pro Graphics, Thunderbolt 3 92
AMD Announces 16 TFLOP Radeon Pro Duo 42
Facebook Preps Its Infrastructure For a Virtual Reality Future 53
Linux Kernel 4.5 Officially Released 88
Opera Introduces Native Adblocking, 45% Faster Than Chrome With Adblock Plus 100
There's No End In Sight For Data Storage Capacity 107
ScummVM, Update With a Bang 37
Seagate Debuts World's Fastest NVMe SSD With 10GBps Throughput 66
Firefox 45 Will Remove Tab Groups Today, Get This Add-on To Replace It 267
Another Windows 10 Update Causing Problems 354
New DisplayPort 1.4 Standard Can Drive 8K Monitors Over A USB Type-C Cable 156
Raspberry Pi 3 Rolls Out With Faster CPU, On-Board Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 203
Raspberry Pi 3 Brings Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 97
Multimedia Powerhouse FFmpeg Hits 3.0 67
Cyanogen Tackles How Developers Interact With Mobile Devices 39
Linux Virtual Ethernet Bug Delivers Corrupt TCP/IP Data 40
Linux 4.3 Reached End of Life; Users Need To Move To Linux 4.4 111
Intel and Micron Partnership Soon To Launch 10TB SSD For Enterprise Market 94
ReactOS 0.4 Brings Open Source Windows Closer To Reality 141
A New Technique Makes GPS Accurate To An Inch 127
OCZ Toshiba Breaks 30 Cents Per GB Barrier With New Trion 150 SSD 141
Skylake Breaks 7GHz In Intel Overclocking World Record 85
Instagram Launches Account Switching On iOS and Android 29
NAND Flash Density Surpasses HDDs', But Price Is Still a Sticking Point 185
Linux Kernel Patch Hints At At 32-Core Support For AMD Zen Chips 136
Report: Google Will Go In Big For VR Hardware This Year 51
Firefox Adopts a 6-8 Week Variable Release Schedule 249
The Performance of Ubuntu Linux Over the Past 10 Years 110
Amazon's Thin Helvetica Syndrome: Font Anorexia vs. Kindle Readability 156
CFQ In Linux Gets BFQ Characteristics 65
Ask Slashdot: Fixing UVC Camera Issues Under Windows? 148
AMD Launches Enthusiast A10-7860K APU, New Mainstream CPUs and Wraith Cooler 81
Windows 10 Now a 'Recommended Update' For Windows 7 and 8.1 Users 581
Triple M.2 NVMe RAID-0 Testing Proves Latency Reductions 73
FreeBSD-Powered Firewall Distro OPNsense 16.1 Released 64
Linux 4.5 Adds Raspberry Pi 2 Support, AMD GPU Re-Clocking, Intel Kaby Lake 147
Intel Compute Stick Updated With Cherry Trail Atom, Tested 90
How OpenGL Graphics Card Performance Has Evolved Over 10 Years 115
Netgear Nighthawk X8 AC5300 Router With Active Antennas Tested 85
'Get Windows 10' Turns Itself On and Nags Win 7 and 8.1 Users Twice a Day 720
PostgreSQL 9.5 Does UPSERT Right 105
Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS Officially Released 132
Coast-To-Coast Autonomous Tesla Trips 2-3 Years Out, Says Elon Musk 259
OCZ RevoDrive 400 NVMe SSD Unveiled With Nearly 2.7GB/Sec Tested Throughput 117
Tesla Model S Software Updates Lets Car Park Itself With No One Inside It 145
Oracle Brings Real-Time Kernel Patching To Oracle Enterprise Linux 52
Intel's Next Gen Compute Stick Beefs Up Processing With Core M3 and M5 Models 95
PostgreSQL 9.5 Released 104
Apple Faces $5 Million Lawsuit Over Allegedly Slowing the iPhone 4S With iOS 9 344
Google Glass For Work Is Sleeker, Tougher and Foldable 71
Perl 6 Released 145
Wine 1.8 Released 119
WordPress 4.4 Arrives 39
Elementary OS 0.3.2 "Freya" Released 86
Radeon Graphics Cards To Support HDR Displays and FreeSync Over HDMI In 2016 37
Microsoft Will Resume Pushing Windows 10 To Machines With Win7, 8.1 665
No More Security Fixes For Older OpenSSL Branches 60
Perl 6 Gets Beta Compiler, Modules and an Advent Calendar 131
DragonFlyBSD 4.4 Switches To the Gold Linker By Default 26
Intel Skylake CPUs Are Warping Under Mounting Pressure From Third-Party Coolers 115
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Will Ship With Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS 101
AMD's Crimson Radeon Driver For Linux Barely Changes Anything 95
AMD's 'Crimson' Driver Software Released 50
Linux 4.4 Kernel To Bring Raspberry Pi Graphics Driver, Open-Channel SSD Support 67
Intel Flagship Core i7-6950X Broadwell-E To Offer 10-Cores, 20-Threads, 25MB L3 167
Microsoft Rolls Out Major Fall Update To Windows 10 181
Bluetooth 2016 Roadmap Brings Fourfold Range Increase and Mesh Networking 29
Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 820 With Adreno 530 Graphics For Mobile Devices 34
OpenSUSE Leap 42.1 Released 31
Firefox 42 Arrives With Tracking Protection, Tab Audio Indicators 134
Linux 4.3 Released As Stable; Improves On Open-Source Graphics, SMP Performance 73
Atom 1.1 Is Out, With Lots of Graphic Improvements 103
Motorola Unveils Droid Turbo 2, Claims Shatterproof Display, 48 Hour Battery 111
Official, Customized Raspberry Pi Versions Coming Soon 93
Ubuntu 15.10 'Wily Werewolf' Released 191
Hands-On With the Fairphone 2 Modular Android Smartphone 107
Samsung 950 Pro Brings NVMe To M.2, Over 2.5GB/s 36
Samsung Demos PCIe NVMe SSD At 5.6 GB Per Second, 1 Million IOPS 88
Google Makes Full-Disk Encryption Mandatory For Some Android 6.0 Devices 150
China's Flash Consumption Grows To 30%; 8TB SSDs Are Coming 67
Software Update Adds Autonomous Driving To Tesla's Bag of Tricks 242
Intel's Core i5 6500 Shines As a $199 Skylake Processor, Works With Linux 119
Pushing the Limits of Network Traffic With Open Source 55
NetBSD 7.0 Released 58
Barnes & Noble Has Been Quietly Refreshing Its Nook Hardware 31
Google's Effort To Speed Up the Mobile Web 95
Microsoft Claims 110M Devices Now Run Windows 10 171
Why Is RAM Suddenly So Cheap? It Might Be Windows 209
Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0 163
From Microsoft, HoloLens VR Dev Kit, New Phones, Continuum 88
Software Defined Smart Battery Arrays Extend Laptop Life 42
Ask Slashdot: Is the Gap Between Data Access Speeds Widening Or Narrowing? 92
Motorola Marketed the Moto E 2015 On Promise of Updates, Stops After 219 Days 123
How To Clean the Cruft Left By a Windows 10 Upgrade 205
Bjarne Stroustrup Announces the C++ Core Guidelines 262
What's New In GNOME 3.18 170
Barbie Gets a Brain 235
Google Releases Open Source Plans For Cardboard V2 Virtual Reality Viewer 26
Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking 867
AMD Radeon R9 Nano: 6 Inches Of High-Priced, High-Performance Graphics 26
Mutt 1.5.24 Released 38
Intel Launches Onslaught of Skylake CPUs For Laptops, Hybrids and Compute Stick 54
LLVM 3.7 Delivers OpenMP 3.1 Support, ORC JIT API, New Optimizations 84
Mozilla Project Working on Immersive Displays (Video) 47
Linux Kernel 4.2 Released 142
Do We Need More Emojis? 264
AMD Unveils Radeon R9 Nano, Targets Mini ITX Gaming Systems With a New Fury 60
Verizon Retrofits Vintage Legacy Vehicles With Smart Features 87
NVIDIA Launches $159 Mainstream Maxwell-Based GeForce GTX 950 85
Revisiting How Much RAM Is Enough Today For Desktop Computing 350
Intel Skylake Gen9 Series Graphics Architecture Unveiled 29
DirectX 12 Performance Tested In Ashes of the Singularity 96
Firefox 40 Arrives With Windows 10 Support, Expanded Malware Protection 113
Windows 10, From a Linux User's Perspective 321
Windows 10 RSAT, Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 3 Coming This Month 26
Ask Slashdot: Patch Management For Offline Customer Systems? 78
Ask Slashdot: Can You Disable Windows 10's Privacy-Invading Features? 492
Windows 10 Upgrade Strategies, Pitfalls and Fixes As MSFT Servers Are Hit Hard 187
10 Years of Intel Processors Compared 98
A Naysayer's Take On Windows 10: Potential Privacy Mess, and Worse 485
OnePlus Announces OnePlus 2 'Flagship Killer' Android Phone With OxygenOS 154
AMD Starts Rolling Out New Linux Driver Model, But Many Issues Remain 61
AMD Forces a LibreOffice Speed Boost With GPU Acceleration 144
The Android L Update For Nvidia Shield Portable Removes Features 117
Open-Source Mesa 3D Library/Drivers Now Support OpenGL 4 30
"Ludicrous Speed" For Tesla's Model S Means 0-60 MPH In 2.8 Seconds 171
Air-Cooled AMD Radeon R9 Fury Arrives For $100 Less With Fury X-Like Performance 77
Speed-Ups, Small Fixes Earn Good Marks From Ars For Mint 17.2 69
OpenSSL Patches Critical Certificate Forgery Bug 45
New Leaked Build Is Evidence That Windows 10 Will Be Ready By July 29 302
Scientists Overcome One of the Biggest Limits In Fiber Optic Networks 62
Ask Slashdot: Are Post-Install Windows Slowdowns Inevitable? 517
ECMAScript 6 Is Officially a JavaScript Standard 80
Microsoft Announces Customizable Xbox Elite Wireless Controller 99
Logitech Introduces G29, G920 Racing Wheels For PS3, PS4, Xbox One and PC 67
Ask Slashdot: Options After Google Chrome Discontinues NPAPI Support? 208
MediaGoblin 0.8.0 "A Gallery of Fine Creatures" Released 32
Intel Adopts USB-C Connector For 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3, Supports USB 3.1, DP 1.2 179
LG Arbitrarily Denying Android Lollipop Update To the G2 In Canada? 131
Intel Releases Broadwell Desktop CPUs: Core i7-5775C and i5-5675C 126
Cinnamon 2.6: a Massive Update Loaded With Performance Improvements 155
An Early Look At Android M's Multi-Window Mode For Tablets 95
Windows 10 RTM In 6 Weeks 290
New Freescale I.MX6 SoCs Include IoT-focused UltraLite 24
Android M Arrives In Q3: Native Fingerprint Support, Android Pay, 'Doze' Mode 83
Android M To Embrace USB Type-C and MIDI 106
Hyundai Now Offers an Android Car, Even For Current Owners 86
Dell Precision M3800 Mobile Workstation Packs Thunderbolt 2, Quadro, IGZO2 Panel 133
Linux 4.0 Has a File-System Corruption Problem, RAID Users Warned 226
Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Solve a Unique Networking Issue? 384
AMD Details High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) DRAM, Pushes Over 100GB/s Per Stack 98
Microwave Comms Betwen Population Centers Could Be Key To Easing Internet Bottlenecks 221
How MMO Design Has Improved Bar Trivia 22
A Look At GTA V PC Performance and Image Quality At 4K 72
Intel NUC5i7RYH Broadwell Mini PC With Iris Pro Graphics Tested 80
Firefox 38 Arrives With DRM Required To Watch Netflix 371
Samsung's SSD 840 Read Performance Degradation Explained 65
AMD Outlines Plans For Zen-Based Processors, First Due In 2016 166
LG G4 and Qualcomm's Snapdragon 808 Benchmarked 45
KDE Plasma 5.3 Released 53
GCC 5.1 Released 78
Why the Journey To IPv6 Is Still the Road Less Traveled 390
Chrome 43 Should Help Batten Down HTTPS Sites 70
Norway Will Switch Off FM Radio In 2017 293
Kingston HyperX Predator SSD Takes Gumstick M.2 PCIe Drives To 1.4GB/sec 51
KDE Plasma 5.3 Beta Brings Lot of Improvements 64
Google Sunsetting Old Version of Google Maps 222
Chrome 42 Launches With Push Notifications 199
Linux Getting Extensive x86 Assembly Code Refresh 209
Google Lollipop Bricking Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 Devices 179
Windows 10 Successor Codenamed 'Redstone,' Targeting 2016 Launch 197
GCC 5.0 To Support OpenMP 4.0, Intel Cilk Plus, C++14 57
The Most Highly Voted Requests In Windows 10 Feedback Pool 159
Intel Launches SSD 750 Series Consumer NVMe PCI Express SSD At Under $1 Per GiB 67
Microsoft Announces Surface 3 Tablet 128
Firefox 37 Released 156
GNOME 3.16 Released 196
Google's Pricey Pixel Gets USB-C and a Lower Price 139
Does USB Type C Herald the End of Apple's Proprietary Connectors? 392
Google Announces Android 5.1 172
Google Chrome Requires TSYNC Support Under Linux 338
Intel Reveals Unlocked, Socketed Broadwell and Core i7 NUC With Iris Graphics 51
Khronos Group Announces Vulkan To Compete Against DirectX 12 91
Xfce 4.12 Released 91
Intel Updates NUC Mini PC Line With Broadwell-U, Tested and Benchmarked 60
Linux Kernel Switching To Linux v4.0, Coming With Many New Addons 264
HTTP/2 Finalized 171
NVidia Puts the Kibosh On Overclocking of GTX 900M Series 138
Five Years After the Sun Merger, Oracle Says It's Fully Committed To SPARC 190
Live Patching Now Available For Linux 117
Kickstarted Firefox OS HDMI Dongle Delayed, DRM Support Being Added 106
Automakers Move Toward OTA Software Upgrades 157
Greg KH Favors Rolling Release Distros 175
Google Quietly Unveils Android 5.1 Lollipop 167
Perl 6 In Time For Next Christmas? 192
GeForce GTX 980 and 970 Cards From MSI, EVGA, and Zotac Reviewed 66
Wi-Fi Issues Continue For OS X Users Despite Updates 120
Windows 10: Charms Bar Removed, No Start Screen For Desktops 378
Ask Slashdot: GPU of Choice For OpenCL On Linux? 110
OpenSSL 1.0.2 Released 97
Surface RT Devices Won't Get Windows 10 158
Windows Server 2003 Reaches End of Life In July 156
Tesla Roadster Update Extends Range 128
Linux 3.19 Kernel To Start 2015 With Many New Features 66
Samsung Announces Production of 20nm Mobile LPDDR4, Faster Than Desktop DDR4 42
NetworkManager 1.0 Released After Ten Years Development 164
Forbes Blasts Latests Windows 7 Patch as Malware 230
Windows 10 Adds Battery Saver Feature 96
Ask Slashdot: Making a 'Wife Friendly' Gaming PC? 720
Ars Dissects Android's Problems With Big Screens -- Including In Lollipop 103
Apple Disables Trim Support On 3rd Party SSDs In OS X 327

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