Laptop bloatware is still a big problem – and Windows 11 needs to step up and sort it out
 Laptop bloatware is still a big problem – and Windows 11 needs to step up and sort it out

Preinstalled bloatware on our laptops is getting out of hand, but Windows 11 isn’t helping.

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California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt

California’s legislature has passed Assembly Bill 1856, exempting open-source operating systems from the State’s Digital Age Assurance Act months before the law is due to take effect on January 1, 2027.

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Get up to $175 back for your pre-installed Windows 11 license — new portal provides legal forms, but warns buyers not to wipe storage first
 Get up to $175 back for your pre-installed Windows 11 license — new portal provides legal forms, but warns buyers not to wipe storage first

The Refund4Freedom site was put together by the Italian Linux Society and the Free Software Foundation Europe to help address the unfairness of unwanted OS bundling.

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Windows 11 update arrives with much-wanted features — and very-much unwanted bugs that mess up the mouse cursor and wallpaper
 Windows 11 update arrives with much-wanted features — and very-much unwanted bugs that mess up the mouse cursor and wallpaper

Miss Microsoft’s old-style chunky white mouse pointer? A weird Windows 11 bug turns the cursor retro — and it’s messing with wallpapers too.

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Meta has a fresh update to stop people from turning Meta Smart Glasses into pervert glasses — and the updates will keep coming
 Meta has a fresh update to stop people from turning Meta Smart Glasses into pervert glasses — and the updates will keep coming

A new way to stop people from circumventing Meta Glasses’ privacy controls.

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Five years after its announcement Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas VR has finally come to the Meta Quest 3 — via a vibe-coded fan-made mod
 Five years after its announcement Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas VR has finally come to the Meta Quest 3 — via a vibe-coded fan-made mod

I’ll never forgive Meta for abandoning Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas VR, but now a modder has finally brought the game to the Meta Quest 3

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Microsoft just gave PowerToys a nifty new feature — and I think it’s high time some of these goodies came to Windows 11
 Microsoft just gave PowerToys a nifty new feature — and I think it’s high time some of these goodies came to Windows 11

Microsoft is busy improving Windows 11, and there’s an obvious easy win it’s missing: porting over smart PowerToys features.

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‘The version Microsoft will build should be known as Copilot OS’: Windows built around AI may not be happening, but leaked concept remains a grim portent for desktops
 ‘The version Microsoft will build should be known as Copilot OS’: Windows built around AI may not be happening, but leaked concept remains a grim portent for desktops

Remember Microsoft’s vision of Windows built around AI? That recent leak has been raked over — and fresh details of ‘Copilot OS’ make me more nervous about the future.

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Some Mac users think they’re installing OpenAI Codex, but it’s actually a malware that can steal passwords in seconds

An elaborate scheme was designed to deploy AMOS, a known macOS infostealer malware.

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Linux was announced by Linus Torvalds 35 years ago today — humble OS started with 10,000 lines of code but has now grown to 40 million, dominates global infrastructure

The development of Linux, a free ‘hobby’ operating system, was announced by Linus Torvalds 35 years ago today.

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