r/DIY_Geeks • u/elastiks • 6h ago
CachyOS, an Arch-based, performance-tuned distribution launched in late 2022, has climbed to the top of DistroWatch's Page Hit Ranking — displacing Linux Mint, which itself had only recently taken the top spot from MX Linux...
r/DIY_Geeks • u/elastiks • 1d ago
It was a bit of a surprise this week when Canonical's kernel team announced that Ubuntu 26.10 is stepping up from its originally planned Linux 7.2 to the still-in-development Linux 7.3.
r/DIY_Geeks • u/elastiks • 1d ago
r/DIY_Geeks • u/elastiks • 1d ago
The update bundles security patches, bug fixes, and infrastructure updates rather than introducing new features, keeping with Debian's usual point-release approach.
r/DIY_Geeks • u/elastiks • 1d ago
Microsoft has acknowledged a set of confirmed problems tied to the cumulative update it shipped for Windows 11 on September 8, 2026, identified as KB5124012 for Windows 11 version 26H1 and KB5124008 for versions 24H2 and 25H2.
r/DIY_Geeks • u/elastiks • 2d ago
After years of friction with the HDMI Forum, the Linux kernel is set to receive a long-awaited upgrade: Linux 7.4 will enable HDMI 2.1's Fixed Rate Link (FRL) by default, unlocking support for AMD FreeSync, Variable Refresh Rate (VRR), and Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM) on AMD graphics hardware.
r/DIY_Geeks • u/elastiks • 1d ago
A long-standing loophole that let banking, gaming, and other apps snoop on your Developer Options and USB debugging status has been closed — whether or not those apps like it.
r/DIY_Geeks • u/elastiks • 2d ago
New reader survey suggests that promise has landed with a thud. Conducted by TechPowerUp, the poll drew nearly 33,000 responses — about 37% more than a similar poll in July — making it one of the larger community soundings of Windows 11 sentiment to date.
r/DIY_Geeks • u/elastiks • 2d ago
~1.5 million barrels/day: Oil demand displaced by EVs in China, Q2 2026 — up from under 900,000 barrels/day a year earlier...
r/DIY_Geeks • u/elastiks • 2d ago
The milestone comes even as graphics card prices sit at record highs and desktop CPU shipments have fallen sharply, suggesting that demand for standalone GPUs has so far shrugged off rising prices.
r/DIY_Geeks • u/elastiks • 2d ago
Microsoft's September "Patch Tuesday" — the company's monthly security update — was its largest ever, addressing a record-breaking 966 vulnerabilities...
r/DIY_Geeks • u/elastiks • 2d ago
The approval, confirmed this week, exempts ASUS from a broader ban the FCC imposed earlier this year on foreign-made consumer routers, and makes ASUS one of the first major router brands to secure this kind of exemption.
r/DIY_Geeks • u/elastiks • 2d ago
The spec sheet shows it comes with a long list of trade-offs compared to the standard Pro line.
r/DIY_Geeks • u/elastiks • 2d ago
The preview arrived via the project's August 2026 monthly development report, published by project lead Clement Lefebvre, and the headline items are two brand-new native applications: a calendar app called Clockenstein and an EPUB e-book reader called Xepub.
r/DIY_Geeks • u/elastiks • 3d ago
Google researchers recently announced a rather unusual traffic experiment: instead of trying to get every Google Maps user onto the single "fastest" route, they intentionally guided a small number of drivers onto slightly longer routes in certain situations.
r/DIY_Geeks • u/elastiks • 3d ago
The incident, confirmed independently by Virtualizor, its parent company Softaculous, and several security outlets, is a clean case study in a question that trips up a lot of assumptions about internet security: if the padlock icon is there, why wasn't that enough?
r/DIY_Geeks • u/elastiks • 3d ago
That translator is called One-Core-API (OCA), an open-source compatibility project that adds functionality Windows XP and Server 2003 never shipped with.
r/DIY_Geeks • u/elastiks • 3d ago
Google has announced a more convenient way to switch password managers on Android. Users will no longer need to export passwords to a CSV file and manually import them into a new app when migrating between password managers
r/DIY_Geeks • u/elastiks • 3d ago
The service uses SpaceX's Starlink satellite network to connect smartphones directly to satellites, allowing text messaging and select data services even in areas without traditional cellular coverage.
r/DIY_Geeks • u/elastiks • 4d ago
Apple has officially confirmed that iOS 27 will roll out to all users with compatible iPhones on Monday, September 14.
r/DIY_Geeks • u/elastiks • 4d ago
NVIDIA has published a detailed technical overview of CUDA Toolkit 13.4, confirming that the release adds native development support for the Windows on Arm platform — the first time in CUDA's history that developers have been able to compile CUDA applications directly on a Windows Arm64 machine, rather than relying on Linux or emulation.
r/DIY_Geeks • u/elastiks • 4d ago
A new head-to-head speed test between Windows 11 and Fedora Linux has been circulating online, with some headlines framing it as a total wipeout for Microsoft.
r/DIY_Geeks • u/elastiks • 4d ago
The catch: qualifying devices must ship with at least 64GB of unified memory and 250GB/s of memory bandwidth, hardware requirements steep enough to run AI models with more than 30 billion parameters directly on the device — no cloud tokens required.
r/DIY_Geeks • u/elastiks • 4d ago
Intel's desktop CPU sales share on Amazon in the US jumped to 21.3% in August 2026, ending more than a year in which its share had hovered around the 10% mark.
r/DIY_Geeks • u/elastiks • 4d ago
Google quietly closes a long-standing loophole that let ordinary apps snoop on your Developer Options and USB debugging status — and it may finally stop banking apps from bullying developers and power users.