Qantas is the flag carrier of Australia, and it dominates the long-haul market, partly due to its chief rival, Virgin Australia, being heavily restricted when competing on international routes. New Zealand and Australia feature prominently on lists of the world’s longest flights.Continue Reading
It has been over two decades since the operations of commercial supersonic services ceased due to Concorde’s withdrawal. However, it appears that commercial supersonic flights are returning amid Boom Supersonic’s advancements in design and flight testing. While the manufacturer is faced with questions regarding its suitability for the market andContinue Reading
A new kernel release is here about two months after Linux 7.2, and its biggest draw is performance. Filesystem speedups, scheduler work for gaming, and lower latency for real-time workloads lead the way, with hardware support and a few other smaller changes topping it off. Of course no new kernelContinue Reading
Anyone who wants a break from Linux is usually told to try another distro. That advice, while good, leaves out those who want a break from Linux itself. Every system listed below is open source and not powered by Linux. Each has an ISO or installer you can boot today,Continue Reading
Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux 7.3, a new mainline kernel – the one Ubuntu 26.10 is running on. Linux 7.3 is another big update, improving gaming performance for AMD GPUs with low VRAM, boosting ext4 I/O and reworking how the kernel splits CPU time between groups ofContinue Reading
Komatsu-owned battery maker American Battery Solutions (ABS) has introduced Aventor, a high-voltage battery platform developed for high-utilization commercial, industrial and specialty applications. Assembled in the US with domestically sourced cells, Aventor is designed to support OEM programs that comply with Build America, Buy America (BABA) requirements. Built on an 800Continue Reading
W. L. Gore & Associates has introduced GORE Battery Vents – MultiVent Series, an integrated vent for EV and energy storage battery packs. The device equalizes pressure, protects against moisture and evacuates gas during thermal runaway. MultiVent gives pack designers an alternative to combining dual-stage vents, separate evacuation valves andContinue Reading
Ozawa to launch new manga Ao Sansan in December…Read MoreContinue Reading
Microsoft believes Linux systems also need a corporate-oriented security solution such as Defender. Redmond’s anti-malware solution, notorious for its arguably excessive false positives, is now offering expanded support for major Linux distributions. This allows organizations to use the same security platform to protect heterogeneous enterprise environments where Windows and Linux…ReadContinue Reading
“Do you not see how UTTERLY STUPID those kinds of rules would be?” Linus Torvalds wrote this on the Linux kernel mailing list on 13 October. He was replying to a developer who wants contributors to keep declaring when they use AI tools. The Register first reported the exchange…Read MoreContinue Reading
The electric vehicle market shows how legacy EU companies continue to fail when it comes to countering Chinese competition…Continue Reading
Nvidia RTX 5090 discontinuation rumours intensify as Micro Center stops carrying multiple models A few days ago, we reported that Nvidia had allegedly stopped supplying GB202 GPUs for the GeForce RTX 5090. Apparently, all future GB202 allocations would be reserved exclusively for Nvidia’s more lucrative RTX Pro workstation graphics cards. Now, there is some additionalContinue Reading
A new version of the Tiling Shell GNOME extension is out, adding support for GNOME 51 and a faster way to tile app windows using nothing but your mouse. Tiling Shell v18.0 lets you use your right mouse button for tiling system activation. You click your left button to grabContinue Reading