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Microsoft will stop supporting Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, and after that it will become increasingly unsafe to use. Here's how to delay, avoid or survive having to upgrade to Windows 11.

The ri command will now always run the version in /usr/bin, even if a version is later installed in the homebrew directory, or anywhere else. In effect, using a full absolute path in your alias breaks ...

I've used many Linux distros over the years, and this is the one I recommend the most. Here's why and how to try it.

Oracle has released version 25 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the first LTS release since JDK 21, ...

Booting from a USB stick is very helpful for many purposes. However, many factors have to be right for the boot to work ...

For the first time in many years, the deletion specialist app Bleachbit released a new version. We take a closer look at ...

It’s time to get on board with Windows 11. Four years after launching its current operating system, Microsoft will cease ...

But if you want to browse the internet, stream, or use most productivity software or office suites, you’ll find a capable ...

The technology, referred to as Software-defined Super Cores (SDC), would dynamically fuse multiple cores to execute single-threaded workloads while appearing to the operating system as a ...

A function call tracer is a kind of profiler showing a timeline of function call and return events. Here's an example trace captured by funtrace from Krita: Here we can see 2 threads - whether they're ...

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