Tag: MacOS

Nvidia Launches Cloud Gaming Service GeForce Now for $5 Per Month

jowifi writes: NVIDIA officially launched its GeForce NOW earlier this week, making the streaming gaming service available to all with no waitlisting. It is advertising a free tier which allows 1-hour of game play at a session, and a premium tier that allows 6-hour sessions and preferred access to the streaming servers. The premium tier is being offered for a limited-time…

Linus Torvalds Pulls WireGuard VPN into Linux 5.6 Kernel Source Tree

“The WireGuard VPN protocol will be included into the next Linux kernel as Linus Torvalds has merged it into his source tree for version 5.6,” reports TechRadar: While there are many popular VPN protocols such as OpenVPN, WireGuard has made a name for itself by being easy to configure and deploy as SSH… The WireGuard protocol is a project from security…

ProtonVPN Open Sources All Its Code

ProtonVPN open sourced its code this week, ZDNet reports:
On Tuesday, the virtual private network (VPN) provider, also known for the ProtonMail secure email service, said that the code backing ProtonVPN applications on every system — Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, Android, and iOS — is now publicly available for review in what Switzerland-based ProtonVPN calls “natural” progression. “There is a lack of…

‘Rocket League’ To Drop Linux and Mac Support

Long-time Slashdot reader Motor writes: Rocket League — a very popular multiplayer game — will no longer “be patched” for Linux and the Mac after March — say the publisher, Psyonix… The publishers say it’s motivated by the need to support unspecified “new technologies”. Thanks Psyonix. The announcement says their final patch “will disable online functionality (such as in-game purchases) for…

Every Half-Life Game Is Now Free On Steam

With Half-Life: Alyx launching in March 2020, Valve is offering gamers the opportunity to play every Half-Life game on Steam for free. “This is basically a two-month-long trial; you won’t get to keep these games,” notes The Verge. “Every game is compatible with Windows, Linux, and macOS (though all of these games are 32-bit apps, which means they don’t work on…

Microsoft Launches Chromium Edge for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, and macOS

Microsoft today launched its new Edge browser based on Google’s Chromium open source project. You can download Chromium Edge now for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, and macOS directly from microsoft.com/edge in more than 90 languages. From a report: Business features aside, there’s also support for Chrome-based extensions, 4K streaming, Dolby audio, inking in PDF, and privacy tools. For the…

Firefox 72 Arrives With Fingerprinting Blocked By Default, Picture-in-Picture on macOS and Linux

Mozilla today launched Firefox 72 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Firefox 72 includes fingerprinting scripts blocked by default, less annoying notifications, and Picture-in-Picture video on macOS and Linux. There isn’t too much else here, as Mozilla has now transitioned Firefox releases to a four-week cadence (from six to eight weeks).

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Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

Mac developer Michael Tsai reports that Apple News no longer supports RSS. The news comes from user David A. Desrosiers, who writes: Apple News on iOS and macOS no longer supports adding RSS or ATOM feeds from anywhere. Full-stop, period. It will immediately fetch, then reject those feeds and fail to display them, silently without any message or error. I can…

WireGuard VPN Is On Its Way To Linux

WireGuard has now been committed to the mainline Linux kernel. “While there are still tests to be made and hoops to be jumped through, it should be released in the next major Linux kernel release, 5.6, in the first or second quarter of 2020,” reports ZDNet. From the report: WireGuard has been in development for some time. It is a layer…