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Retro Apple emulator ported to $60 ESP32 microcontroller-powered touchscreen tablet
By Mark Tyson published
A new emulator makes running classic Apple Macintosh 68K software a breeze on a cheap, portable, IoT development kit.

Windows Media Player’s ‘find album information’ functionality has been removed
By Mark Tyson published
Microsoft has quietly removed ‘find album information’ and ‘update album info online’ tools from the Media Player apps supplied with Windows 11.

Admins finally get the power to uninstall Microsoft Copilot on Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, and EDU versions
By Jowi Morales published
One less bloatware on Windows 11.

Dev creates selection of UEFI games you have to beat in order to boot your computer
By Mark Tyson last updated
Dev creates a quintet of UEFI games with the premise of Win -> Boot, Lose -> Shutdown.

Chinese semiconductor outfit has Linux MPP repository on Github disabled after a DMCA takedown request
By Mark Tyson published
Leading Chinese fabless semiconductor company Rockchip has had one of its major software repositories taken down in response to a DMCA takedown notice.

Windows 8.1 emerges as the performance winner after six generations of the OS are pitted against each other
By Hassam Nasir published
More fuel for the Windows 11 hate train.

Microsoft silently kills Windows and Office phone activation and forces online activation with a Microsoft account
By Hassam Nasir published
Nothing like the good ol' days.

Linux's contemporary filesystem mount API went without documentation for six years
By Bruno Ferreira published
Linux's contemporary filesystem mount API has been missing documentation since 2019,
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