Neowin News Feed for: Development

Linux Mint 22.3 release will be a short cycle, immediate focus is LMDE 7

Paul Hill — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:42:01 +0000

The Linux Mint team is focused on LMDE 7, with a beta set to arrive this month. Afterwards, it'll prepare to release Linux Mint 22.3 in December. Read more...

Linux turns 34 years old, here's how it got started

Paul Hill — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:14:01 +0000

The Linux kernel has turned 34 years old today. On this day in 1991, Linus Torvalds posted to a newsgroup on Usenet that he was already working on the kernel as a hobby. Read more...

Travel, stragglers, and a healthy merge window for Linux 6.17-rc1

Paul Hill — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 08:02:01 +0000

Linus Torvalds has closed the Linux 6.17 merge window and pushed the first release candidate. Linux 6.17 should go stable around the end of September or early October. Read more...

Crashing to success: What we know and don't know about Starship's third test flight

Martin Hodás — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:40:02 +0000

SpaceX commented on Starship milestones in its post-flight debrief. The third test flight of Starship seemed like an overall success, though once again, there are important questions left unanswered. Read more...

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Visual Studio 2022 17.4 lets you roll back to a previous version

Paul Hill — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:54:02 +0000

Visual Studio 2022 17.4 now includes a feature that allows you to roll back to a previous version of the IDE. Microsoft recommends you only do this temporarily, as the latest version is most secure. Read more...

Meta has reportedly paused development of its Apple Watch rival

Usama Jawad — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 08:36:01 +0000

Meta has seemingly paused development on its Apple Watch rival. A prototype of the hardware featured one camera on the front and another on the back, but the latter reportedly interfered with sensors. Read more...

Samsung makes breakthrough in MRAM ‘brain-mimicking' technology

Paul Hill — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 09:20:01 +0000

Samsung has made a breakthrough in increasing the resistivity of MRAM. This makes it a more viable option for in-memory processing and could be used in next-generation artificial intelligence chips. Read more...

Set fire to your applications with Burn My Windows 7

Dean Howell — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 18:58:01 +0000

Open-source developer Simon Scheegans is working on a project called Burn My Windows that restores classic desktop effects like burning windows to Gnome 3x and Gnome 40x, respectively. Read more...

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Youtube-dl sees first new release in six months

Dean Howell — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 17:06:01 +0000

Code backported from yt-dlp now enables Youtube-dl to resume paused downloads, as they were broken in the previous release due to multiple signature issues. FFmpeg fixes are also in tow. Read more...

New defrag simulator is a polished nostalgia trip you'll want to go on

Dean Howell — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 15:04:01 +0000

LeTournaeu's app simulates the defrag process, hoisting itself onto a familiar DOS-blue canvas. It doesn't look like the Windows tool that I used, but it's very reminiscent of the MS-DOS version. Read more...

UWP no longer fashionable as Microsoft releases guidance for migrating apps to Windows App SDK

Usama Jawad — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 09:08:01 +0000

It appears that UWP is on the way out as Microsoft has recently published guidance about how to migrate from UWP to Windows App SDK, which has been highlighted as the new strategic direction. Read more...

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Terraria for Google Stadia is back in development

Usama Jawad — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 05:36:01 +0000

After being announced as cancelled earlier this month, Re-Logic has confirmed that Terraria for Stadia is back in development after it managed to get its developer accounts unblocked by Google. Read more...

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Anyone can now contribute to Google's Fuchsia OS

Paul Hill — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 21:46:01 +0000

Google's letting members of the public submit code to its Fuchsia operating system repositories. The firm has been working on Fuchsia since 2016 and this move could speed up development. Read more...

The GNOME project launches Circle dev programme

Paul Hill — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:22:01 +0000

The GNOME project has announced Circle, a programme that it hopes will allow it to build its developer outreach. Circle lowers the barriers for developers that want to be a part of the GNOME project. Read more...

The new Intel Open FPGA Stack is geared towards easing development of custom platforms

Ather Fawaz — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 07:18:01 +0000

The Intel OFS aims to increase the adoption of FPGAs in the industry by providing an open-source platform that enables code modularity and reusability when developing and deploying on FPGAs. Read more...

Microsoft is partnering with Qualcomm to enhance AI and ML developer experience

Usama Jawad — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 10:02:01 +0000

Microsoft and Qualcomm are partnering to improve the development and deployment experience for developers using the respective technologies offered by the two firms to build AI and ML solutions. Read more...

GIMP 2.99.2 released with GTK 3 UI and Wayland support

Paul Hill — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 21:36:01 +0000

The team behind GIMP has released a new development version of the image editor which it describes as the first step to GIMP 3. It includes a GTK 3 UI, render caching, Wayland support, and more. Read more...

Discuss: Should crunch culture in video game development be acceptable?

Usama Jawad — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 09:16:01 +0000

"Crunch culture" - in which employees are forced to work overtime towards the release of a product - has been the subject of criticism over the past few years. What are your thoughts on the matter? Read more...

Microsoft releases the InnerEye Deep Learning Toolkit to improve patient care

Ather Fawaz — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 18:00:02 +0000

Integrated heavily with Microsoft Azure, the toolkit is meant to facilitate researchers, developers, and clinicians in training and deploying their custom medical imaging AI models. Read more...

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New Android Studio update arrives with code quality emphasis

Paul Hill — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 11:12:01 +0000

Google has announced the latest update for Android Studio. With this update, the firm decided to introduce just a couple of new features while refining those it added before to improve performance. Read more...

Microsoft's GitHub buys Pull Panda to improve workflows

João Carrasqueira — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:02:01 +0000

GitHub, the open-source development platform Microsoft acquired last year, has made a new purchase of its own, absorbing Pull Panda and making all of its features available for free. Read more...

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Microsoft announces Project Mu to promote Firmware as a Service

Usama Jawad — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 07:20:01 +0000

Microsoft wants firmware development to follow the Firmware as a Service (FaaS) model. It has announced an open-source release of Project Mu, which allows UEFI development in a modular manner. Read more...

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Visual Studio 2019 is now available in preview, introducing a refined UI and other changes

João Carrasqueira — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 19:06:01 +0000

Alongside the first preview of .NET Core 3.0, Microsoft is also releasing Visual Studio 2019 in preview form, bringing an improved UI and a bunch of other changes to the coding experience. Read more...

Apple launches Entrepreneur Camp to assist female software developers

Paul Hill — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 01:58:01 +0000

Apple has announced a new project called Entrepreneur Camp which aims to assist women in app-driven businesses. The firm plans to run its initial camp in January and has strict entry rules. Read more...

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ProtonMail has released version 3.0 of OpenPGPjs

Paul Hill — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 17:06:01 +0000

The secure email platform, ProtonMail, has announced OpenPGPjs 3.0 which comes with many improvements. The new release paves the way for PGP interoperability support by ProtonMail, due in Spring. Read more...

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Telegram releases TDLib to help third party developers

Paul Hill — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 08:34:02 +0000

Telegram has now released the Telegram Database Library (TDLib) in order to further aid developers of third party Telegram applications. TDLib handles core functions so developers can focus on the UI. Read more...

Google's Fuchsia OS can now be installed on the Pixelbook

Craig Mu — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 08:48:01 +0000

Google has been working on their mysterious operating system called Fuchsia for quite some time now. The OS is now able to be installed on Pixelbook laptops and other selected devices. Read more...