Windows 11 bugs, RIP Crucial, and more: Windows news roundup
TK TK Here are the biggest stories you may have missed.
The big news
Home Assistant December update adds better sorting, undo button and more
Home Assistant closes out the year with its 2025.12 release, bringing major quality of life improvements, an automation building overhaul, and a new area to test preview features. There’s a lot here to give you more intuitive control over your smart homes. Keep reading…
RIP Crucial: Micron will stop production in 2026
You’re about to see Crucial-branded drives, memory, and other hardware disappear from store shelves. Micron, the company behind Crucial, is exiting the consumer hardware market entirely. Keep reading…
Google Search pushes more people into AI mode
Home Assistant closes out the year with its 2025.12 release, bringing major quality of life improvements, an automation building overhaul, and an all-new space to test preview features. There’s a lot coming that should give users more intuitive control over their smart homes. Keep reading…
Raspberry Pi computers have become more expensive
Raspberry Pi computers have remained relatively affordable over the years, although this meant that stocks were sometimes limited. Unfortunately, the price of most modern Pi boards is now increasing due to AI-driven memory manufacturing costs. Keep reading…
Windows 11 zero-day security vulnerability partially patched by Microsoft
Microsoft has quietly rolled out partial mitigation for the high-severity Windows LNK vulnerability, CVE-2025-9491, which several state-sponsored groups and cybercrime gangs are exploiting as a zero-day. This security flaw allows attackers to hide malicious commands in standard Windows shortcut files. Keep reading…
Raspberry Pi just updated its camera add-on and HAT kits
Raspberry Pi has just announced software updates for its growing suite of AI products. This comes with full AI HAT+ support on the Trixie version of the Raspberry Pi OS and a brand new debug feature for the AI camera. Keep reading…
Your Galaxy phone could benefit from these features in One UI 8.5
For the past month or two, we’ve been hearing a lot about Samsung’s next major software update, One UI 8.5, which will still be based on Android 16 and packed with new features. Now, a big leak has revealed all the cool features that are about to arrive. Keep reading…
Google Antigravity IDE deleted someone’s entire drive
Google’s new AI coding platform, Antigravity, just executed a catastrophic command that erased an entire hard drive partition belonging to one of its users. This is an excellent reason not to give powerful AI agents carte blanche on the terminal of a local machine. Keep reading…
FreeBSD 15 now available, revamps package management and ditches 32-bit hardware
FreeBSD, the open source operating system, has just released a major new update. FreeBSD 15 includes overhauled package management, new versions of utilities like OpenZFS and OpenSSL, and the end of support for most 32-bit hardware. Keep reading…
This new MSI motherboard has 4 Ethernet ports
MSI has just announced the MS-CF20 V2.0, an ATX motherboard intended for industrial environments and other embedded electronics. This unusual market segment requires an unusual combination of connectivity, including a total of four 2.5G Ethernet ports. Keep reading…
Linux Usage Reaches All-Time High on Steam
Linux usage on Steam has officially reached an all-time high, reaching 3.2% market share according to the November 2025 Steam survey results. This is fantastic news for the open source community, and shows that the momentum driven by Valve’s hardware strategy is not slowing down at all. Keep reading…
Python 3.14.1 arrives with a stack of improvements
Python 3.14 was released in October, but a few bugs managed to make their way into the big release, and a few other changes weren’t ready for prime time. A new minor update has now arrived as Python 3.14.1, with its own stack of bug fixes and a few new features. Keep reading…
Android 16 isn’t finished yet: more updates are starting to roll out
Since Android Jelly Bean in 2012, Google has released a major update every year. That changes with Android 16, as the company moves away from a single, massive annual release and toward more frequent feature rollouts. The most recent version of Android 16 starts today. Keep reading…
This programming language is leaving GitHub
The Zig programming language is officially leaving GitHub and moving its main repository to Codeberg. The reason is a collapse in engineering quality and an aggressive push toward artificial intelligence tools. This is the most direct shot of a developer on Copilot I’ve seen in a while. Keep reading…
Homebrew can now also help you install Flatpaks
Homebrew, the package manager for macOS and Linux, just got a handy new feature in the latest v5.0.4 update. Brewfile’s installer scripts now feel more like a one-stop shop for software installation, as Flatpaks are now supported alongside Brew Packages, Mac App Store apps, and other packages. Keep reading…
Amazon now offers 30-minute deliveries in these cities
Amazon has officially begun testing a super-fast delivery service that promises to get essential items to your door in 30 minutes or less in parts of Seattle and Philadelphia. It appears this aims to compete with DoorDash and Instacart by bringing back a super-fast delivery model. Keep reading…
The next version of Linux Mint has a name and several new features
The Linux Mint development team published a blog post today announcing a nickname for the upcoming 22.3 release, along with an estimate of when the first beta will arrive and a list of some specific new features we can look forward to. Keep reading…
Windows 11 just broke dark mode in File Explorer
Microsoft just released an optional update for Windows 11. It was supposed to give users the long-awaited, consistent Dark Mode experience, but it accidentally broke the File Explorer interface with blinding white screen flashes. Keep reading…
Samsung’s trifold phone is finally real
Samsung has finally revealed its tri-fold smartphone, after months of rumors and leaks. It’s a phone that unfolds to reveal a 10-inch screen, and you’ll be able to buy one starting in 2026. Continue reading…
Tor Browser revamps its release schedule
The Tor Project is fundamentally changing its release schedule for the Alpha Channel, moving it from being based on Firefox Extended Support releases to the much faster rapid release cadence. This will have real consequences for both testers and stable users. Keep reading…
Did the Windows 11 update make your games slower? NVIDIA might have the fix
NVIDIA has released a critical patch driver, version 581.94, that addresses severe performance drops when running Windows 11 after the mandatory October 2025 Cumulative Update. Even though Microsoft hasn’t yet acknowledged the problem, we have a real solution. Keep reading…
Two more useful features are coming to Google Messages
Google is constantly updating its core Android apps with new controls or features, and this is especially true with Google Messages. Although it has received a lot of changes lately, they are not slowing down anytime soon and Messages is about to gain two additional features to make sharing media files and swapping SIM cards easier. Keep reading…
Netflix just made TV streaming more boring
Netflix has quietly removed the ability to stream content from its mobile apps to the vast majority of modern TVs and streaming devices. This includes newer models like the Chromecast with Google TV Streamer. This is a massive change that many users are already finding frustrating. Keep reading…
The Linux 6.18 kernel has arrived: here are the new features
The stable Linux kernel 6.18 has been officially released, bringing many major performance improvements and crucial hardware support. This new core is packed with features, touching on everything from storage and networking to graphics and support for Apple hardware. Keep reading…
These versions of KDE Connect are vulnerable to exploits
The developers of the popular KDE Connect app for desktop and mobile released a security advisory this weekend saying you should stop using certain versions of the app on untrusted networks. A security flaw allows devices running these versions to interact with devices pretending to be ones you have authenticated in the past. Keep reading…
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Latest Windows 11 bug makes signing in even harder
Windows 11 users are facing a frustrating new bug that completely hides the password login option on the lock screen, making it incredibly difficult to log into their PC. It’s not a total lock, but it’s certainly a huge headache if you use a real password. Keep reading…
