Operating Systems
Huawei to bring Harmony OS to smartphones next year
Huawei will open-source the OS in a bid to accelerate adoption
Google rolls out Android 11 beta with a focus on improving privacy
New one-time permissions feature in Android 11 allows users to give apps access camera, microphone and location for one time only
Microsoft blocks Windows 10 May 2020 Update on several devices because of compatibility issues
The latest version of Windows 10 was released last week
Microsoft Windows 10X to run updates in 90 seconds or less
Windows 10X operating system will offer better support for multi-screen devices and run applications in containers for improved security
Patch Tuesday Windows 10 update KB4532693 is borking user profiles
Cumulative update issued on Tuesday loads incorrect user profiles and resets desktop and Start menu
Temporary patch issued to cover IE 11 security flaw being actively exploited in the wild
Third-party 'Micropatch' will provide protection for out-of-support Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 r2 users
NPM security team removes malicious package caught leaking data from UNIX systems
The package has been downloaded 32 times by developers
Huawei unveils openEuler, its CentOS-based Linux distribution
In the spirit of the age, Huawei releases the source code of openEuler to Gitee, a Chinese alternative to Github
Facebook building operating system and silicon to support augmented reality and mind-reading technology push
Operating system development led by Windows NT co-author Mark Lucovsky will share space with Facebook's virtual reality hardware devs
Chinese software firms to jointly develop new OS
The move comes as China looks to ban Microsoft Windows and other foreign software and hardware
More than 200,000 NHS devices still running Windows 7
More than 20 per cent of NHS Trusts have no plans to migrate away from Windows 7, support for which ends in January
iOS 13: what app developers need to know
Apple's new operating system presents a series of challenges to developers and now would be a good time to look at the test environment
MacOS 10.15 Catalina released, splitting iTunes into Apple Music, Apple TV and Podcasts
Latest MacOS marks the end of the road for the two-decade-old music app
Android security flaw gives attackers full control of Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy smartphones
While patched in December 2017, a number of recent Android smartphones have been exploited in the wild
Windows 10 20H1 build 18990 rolled out for Insiders in the Fast ring
New Windows 10 build comes with a setting to automatically restart UWP apps when a user signs back in to a PC
Oracle Autonomous Linux can update itself without human intervention, claims Oracle
Oracle claims that Oracle Autonomous Linux can tune and patch itself without human intervention
Microsoft bundles telemetry into September 'security-only' patches for Windows 7 and 8.1
And not for the first time. In July, the Windows 7 security update was also found to have installed telemetry onto users' systems
Microsoft unveils resuscitated PowerToys Windows utilities
Microsoft uploads new PowerToys utilities to GitHub for Windows 10 users to play with
Celebrating 50 years of the Unix operating system
Without the pioneering work of Ken Thompson and his colleages the world would be a very different place
Microsoft offers some business customers free Windows 7 extended security updates for one year
The company wants to give businesses a bit more time to finalise their plans for migration from Windows 7 to Windows 10
High-severity Windows security flaw enables attackers to hijack any application
Bug affects all versions of Microsoft Windows, back from Windows XP to Windows 10
Apple ups top bug bounty reward from $200,000 to $1m for operating system security flaws
The new bug bounty programme will include iOS, macOS, watchOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and iCloud
Huawei shows-off Harmony, it's operating system to replace Windows and Android
Huawei touts one proprietary operating system to rule all devices
Accidental leak of untested Windows 10 build reveals another new Start menu design
Features spotted in the leaked build may not be incorporated into a final version of Windows
