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Stop believing these myths about Qubes OS. It's much easier than you think

Qubes isn't as hard as everyone claims. Here are the myths holding you back—and why they're wrong.

Its Time to Ditch Windows for Valve’s Lightweight SteamOS Gaming Platform

The official release of SteamOS for desktop PCs offers a stable Windows alternative for gaming, specifically optimized for ...
CNET

You Got Your Phone OS in My Laptop! Here's How Android and ChromeOS Will Merge

CNET spoke with Google's Sameer Samat and Qualcomm's Alex Katouzian about why they're combining a phone and laptop OS and how they'll do it. David Lumb is a managing editor for the mobile team, ...
ZDNet

You can easily make Zorin OS look and feel like Windows, MacOS, or Linux - here's how

Zorin OS is a flexible desktop OS. You can make the desktop anything you want. Pay for the Pro version for even more options. Do you prefer a Windows-like UI? Zorin ...
Bleeping Computer

Ubiquiti patches three max severity UniFi OS vulnerabilities

Ubiquiti has released security updates to patch three maximum severity vulnerabilities in UniFi OS that can be exploited by remote attackers without privileges. UniFi OS is a unified operating system ...
Wall Street Journal

Apple’s Security Has Been Tough to Crack. Mythos Helped Find a Way In.

Security researchers say they have discovered a new way of circumventing Apple’sAAPL-0.91%decrease; down pointing triangle state-of-the art security technology, using techniques they discovered while ...
CNET

What Will Be Running Inside the New Googlebook Laptops? What We Know So Far

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...
Hackaday

The ESP8266 Gets An OS, And It’s Familiar

A couple weeks back we brought you news of KernelUNO, a command line shell and very simple operating system for the Arduino Uno. It’s a neat idea, so it’s hardly surprising to see someone port it to ...
MacRumors

iOS 27 Will Reportedly Be Like Mac OS X Snow Leopard

In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reiterated that iOS 27 will be similar to 2009's Mac OS X Snow Leopard, in the sense that one of Apple's biggest priorities is bug fixes for ...
Macworld

Perplexity’s Personal Computer is a Mac mini running an AI OS

Perplexity launched ‘Personal Computer,’ an AI agent that runs on M4 Mac mini servers and integrates local applications with enhanced security features. According to Macworld, this follows the trend ...
PC World

Is Google’s Aluminium OS releasing this year? Sort of

Google is developing Aluminium OS, a new operating system merging Android and ChromeOS, with commercial testing expected for late 2026 despite earlier 2026 release hopes. PCWorld reports that court ...
Android Authority

This may be when Google plans to phase out Chrome OS

Court documents in Google’s search antitrust case reveal that Aluminium OS may not be ready for a full release until 2028. The new operating system could be offered to “commercial trusted testers” in ...