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OMG new obsession just dropped.
An OS built on Swift, and it looks very tasteful.
https://swiftos.tech/

Why it's hard to make a compliant personal robot.
(Because it should be flexible with respect to its jobs and its environment, and compliance is hard to test if you cannot bound the tests and expected responses.)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/domestic-humanoid-robot-s…

New York-based Probook, which is building an AI operating system for home service businesses, raised a $34M Series A led by a16z and a $6M seed led by Sequoia (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/06/23/excl…

Exclusive: A founder who went from pressure washing to Wharton just raised $40 million to put AI to work for plumbers, electricians, and HVAC crews
Sequoia and a16z are betting Probook will be the AI operating system powering home services.

More #FreeCADFriday now in Friday in my own time zone. I have a fan that I want to make a table stand for to use outside while operating #HamRadio. First I modeled the fan in a silly amount of detail, including the grill, which took some learning, and I'm still pretty sure I d…

Cool
The Virtual OS Museum opens its doors
#Operating_System

The Virtual OS Museum opens its doors
A massive compilation of historic OSes and the emulators to run them

I probably spent way too much time researching CMS/blog for my #astrojs website hosted on Cloudflare
There are dozens of threads on Reddit, lots of options.
Result of my research and what I implemented:
Sanity: https://www.sanity.io

As a proponent of hybrid desktops (mutable base, sandboxed applications and rollback by snapshots) I found this write-up by @… very much to the point. For me the security aspects, payload and loss of ownership stand out.
Thanks to @…

One of the hazards of photographing a much-photographed thing is that, after careful consideration of viewpoint, composition and framing, you take exactly the same pictures as everyone else who has carefully considered viewpoint, composition and framing.
Here are two photographs I took of the Atlas Fountain at Castle Howard, along with the two illustrations from its Wikipedia entry. Years apart in time, inches apart in space.

A M A Z I N G
https://virtualosmuseum.org/

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@iampytest1/116782541766741673
There is also no such thing as "sideloading" and "jailbreaking". You have a general-purpose CPU running some operating system, and you're installing software on it. Jus…

Nectar Social, which offers an agentic OS for marketers, raised a $30M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, with GV and True Ventures among investors (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/16/marketing…

Marketing operating system Nectar Social raises $30M Series A led by Menlo | TechCrunch
AI-powered marketing platform Nectar Social announced Thursday that it raised a $30 million Series A round led by Menlo Ventures and its Anthology Fund, which was created alongside Anthropic.

I updated my orange pi zero to #openbsd 7.9 really easily with the sysupgrade command. Easier than debian and alpine and the other operating systems.
I am running a #tor site on it that displays the system information from a python script I made.
You can view it here:

ICE is operating more facilities then they have admitted publicly. Many of these facility’s are not meant to accommodate anybody for “detention”.
Video Source:
#ice

Court of appeal on Palestine Action: “It is not, as it claims, a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes operating transparently in the open. It is a covert organisation that operates using secret cells to avoid the detection and prosecution of those using violence to destroy the property of third parties.”
Er, surely that's exactly how the suffragettes operated, very famously?

So after updating to #macOS 15.7.5, I'm suddenly harrassed again by #Apple to update to macOS #Tahoe, despite my self-created device profile forbidding major OS updates. Turns out this is intenti…

Why is it that TV shows don’t use real computer UI? I get it in sci, but some detective show is doing a ‘zoom call’, and… it’s custom operating system (on a surface laptop studio no less), and then a mostly correct Zoom UI…

Paris-based Pivot, which develops AI tools for procurement and financial workflows, raised a $40M Series B co-led by Forestay Capital and Notion Capital (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/05/21/pivot-raises-40m-to-expand-ai-pow…

Pivot raises $40M to expand AI-powered enterprise procurement platform
Paris-based Pivot, an AI-powered procurement and finance operations platform, has raised $40 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round led by Forestay Capital and Notion Capital, with participation from Greyhound, procurement industry executives and existing investors including Hedosophia, Visionaries Club and Emblem. The latest financing brings the company’s total funding raised since its founding in 2023 to $70 million.Pivot develops an AI operating system designed to help e…

stupid question:
What is the actual obstacle to being able to run Linux on a cellphone (i.e., and be able to use it as a cellphone)?
Is there some crucial interop spec that's being kept proprietary/secret?
Or is it there some particular software component that's encumbered by patents and so there can't be a free version of it?
Some weird licensing structure that the operating companies have been able to enforce (and the EU hasn't gotten around to say…

Last Saturday, I was honored and delighted to give the keynote at Grazer Linuxtage #GLT26, a large #Linux event with a lot of history (23 years and counting!) and still a dedicated team behind it.
Title: "What can we learn from Android for other embedded Linux systems security?"
…

If I have to guess I would assume that most of the $122 billions #OpenAI raised for this will pay their daily operating cost.
OpenAI Bets Big on Building an Everything App https://www.macstories.net/l…

Advice to Mozilla, from an outgoing long-time employee:
❝Be boring for a while. There's blood when you live on the cutting edge, but a lot of it is yours. Mozilla has tried building everything from a shopping nexus to a phone's operating system, and kept discovering that they're not great at it. They are, however, really good at building browsers. They should do that.❞ @… https://mindof.jrconlin.com/@jrconlin/statuses/01KTYGJSYT1YJQJTVCQC4VVBC2

Can anyone find an origin for this FreeBSD graphic?
(It's seen in a YouTube video that does not state the origin. I have left a comment there …)
"FreeBSD provides the entire operating system as one unified project."
I already used an extension – Search by Image <https://addons.mozilla.org/a…

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116753866177754138
FUCK.
I like my Roku stick; I bought one when the onboard smart TV operating system choked itself on adverts and it treats me like I'm the customer rather than the product.
G…

Words I did not enjoy reading this week, from a leading artificial intelligence company:
“During our testing, we found that Mythos Preview is capable of identifying and then exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and every major web browser when directed by a user to do so.”

What Anthropic’s new nightmare means, in plain English
Anthropic shared with the world what it learned from its breakthrough model. Would China?

Hey #sandiego , sick of Microsoft's crap? Curious about #Linux ? The Central Library is hosting System Setup Saturdays every week this month.
I'll be there with installers for Mint, Zorin, Debian, Bodhi, CachyOS, and Fedora. Check it out, ask questions, or take the plunge.
We can go …

Just rescued a water damaged laptop for a friend. The Laptop wouldn't boot anymore. So I took out the SSD and attached it via a USB adapter to my Linux Laptop and created a QEMU KVM virtual machine booting this device. After a bit of sweating Windows came up and I'm able to login to rescue the data inside the operating system.
#linux

It's April 2026 and Windows 11, the idk 15th (?) major release of Windows NT, an operating system first released 32 years ago just crashed it's networking stack so bad that rebooting doesn't work and I will have to force power-down and power-up my PC.
This happens about every 2 days.

handy random string (password) generator
echo `tr --complement --delete "a-fA-F0-9" < /dev/urandom | head -c 12`
#bash #cmdline #tricks
source:

yunohost/helpers/helpers.v2.1.d/string at b1ce284434a06e204e6eda17746d1d60990be811 · YunoHost/yunohost
YunoHost is an operating system aiming to simplify as much as possible the administration of a server. This repository corresponds to the core code, written mostly in Python and Bash. - YunoHost/yu...

🇺🇸 Car seeks energy partner to work together on exciting projects for the grid. A lasting partnership, based on equality that lifts both parties.
In Europe you could almost find the reverse contact ad:
🇪🇺 Smart energy partner seeks car for joint grid fun.
#V2G

"Consumers will be more motivated when given clear, appropriate incentives. Together, we can expand localized, time-of-use tariffs, allowing EV owners to charge cost-effectively during energy… | Jaap Burger
"Consumers will be more motivated when given clear, appropriate incentives. Together, we can expand localized, time-of-use tariffs, allowing EV owners to charge cost-effectively during energy surpluses and receive appropriate compensation when supporting the grid during peak strain or in times of need. This creates a rare economic alignment: a car becomes an asset that offsets its own operating costs while actively delivering benefits to the public system." A letter well worth reading from Wad…

It becomes ever more important that you stop using Google.
It's been important for a long time, since they removed 'don't be evil' from their tag-line and decided that they had to be a big evil corporation instead.
They're giving up on being a search engine now too by the sounds of it.
You can use startpage or duckduckgo or something if you still want search.
There are lots of different email providers.
There is GrapheneOS and lineageos and others for your phone and tablet operating systems.
There is Peertube and Rumble and others for uploading your videos.
You don't have to remove it all at once, just make a continuing effort to move away from Google, one step at a time.
I'm almost completely degoogled now. Its taken years. It was a good move. Google only gets worse from here.
#google #enshitification #ai

> I had a commenter on one of my posts insist that it's impossible that Mark Carney is worse for the climate than Harper was, and having taken the time to respond at length, I thought I should share that as a thread because it's clearly not just one person operating under that false belief. 🧵1/
https://

This is exciting! BeOS meets Linux in VitruvianOS. HaikuOS is awesome, but I welcome another way of using the BeOS interface. https://v-os.dev

Apple event talking about how they're improving their operating system apps, and nothing was off the table. So hopefully someone internal at Apple has used macOS Contacts and knows how shit it is?

"A year ago, about 5% of Trail of Bits was on board with our AI initiative. The other 95% ranged from passively skeptical to actively resistant. Today we have 94 plugins, 201 skills, 84 specialized agents, and on the right engagements, AI-augmented auditors finding 200 bugs a week."

How we made Trail of Bits AI-native (so far)
We had 5% buy-in and 95% resistance. A year later, AI-augmented auditors are finding 200 bugs a week on the right engagements. Here's the six-part operating system we built, open sourced, and are giving away.

from my link log —
How we ran a Unix-like OS (Xv6), on our home-built CPU, with our home-built C compiler.
https://fuel.edby.coffee/posts/how-we-ported-xv6-os-to-a-home-built-cpu-with-a-home-built-c-compiler/
saved …

Notch, which is developing an OS designed for high-compliance sectors, raised a $30M Series A led by Headline, after pivoting from being a specialty insurer (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/03/25/notch-raises-30m-…

Notch raises $30M to expand AI operating system for regulated industries - SiliconANGLE
Notch raises $30M to expand AI operating system for regulated industries - SiliconANGLE

Gefühl jedes Mal wenn ich ein Problem mit #Nextcloud habe, hatte es der @… einen Tick früher schon: ht…

Unable to update from 32.0.3.2 to 32.0.8
The Basics Nextcloud Server version (e.g., 29.x.x): 33.0.3.2 Operating system and version (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04): Gentoo 2.18 Web server and version (e.g, Apache 2.4.25): 2.4.66 Reverse proxy and version _(e.g. nginx 1.27.2) * PHP version (e.g, 8.3): 8.3.29 Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Yes / No): Yes When did this problem seem to first start? After restoring Nextcloud from Backup Installation method (e.g. AlO, NCP, Bare Metal/Archive, etc.) Bare Metal A…

LocalSend allows you to "AirDrop" files between any two devices on the same Wi-Fi network. It supports most real operating systems (i.e. Linux/Android), plus Windows, macOS, and iOS. (Sorry to BSD users, but I'm sure you can just UUCP the file or something.) https://localsend.org/

I have the feeling my smartphone OS is trying to tell me something. OnePlus, never settle.
#slop #OnePlus #NeverSettle

"SSE begins operating 150MW battery system at former coal plant"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy #Batteries

SSE begins operating 150MW battery system at former coal plant
SSE has begun operating a 150MW/300MWh battery storage system on the site of a former coal-fired power plant in Yorkshire. 

In the new book,
Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed,
authors Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff look at the worldview that shaped Elon Musk
and the ideology that has coalesced around him.
They call Muskism “an operating system for the 21st century.”
Musk runs rocket company SpaceX, AI startup xAI, electric car maker Tesla and the social media platform X, formerly Twitter.
Musk’s political influence extends from his use of X to advance controversial ideas,

“Muskism”: Author Quinn Slobodian on How Apartheid South Africa Inspired Elon Musk’s Worldview & More
In the new book, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, authors Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff look at the worldview that shaped Elon Musk and the ideology that has coalesced around him. They call Muskism “an operating system for the 21st century.” Musk runs rocket company SpaceX, AI startup xAI, electric car maker Tesla and the social media platform X, formerly Twitter. Musk’s political influence extends from his use of X to advance controversial ideas, to his political donations, to the r…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_inside/116518779828971699
The year is 2029.
iOS 30 is released and about 42GB of the operating system is code to check which regions the phone is in to nitpick carve-outs from legal requirements to not treat your customers like garbage.

Fascist Paramilitary Invaders Abduct people from Courthouse Grounds in Violation of HB1312 In Front Of Sheriff who Ignores the Crime [St. Charles, IL]
(Illinois) HB1312 prohibits ICE from operating within 1,000 feet of a courthouse. Here’s a Kane County sheriff ignoring the situation and refusing to give his badge number.
Video Source:
https://

Agent libOS: A Library-OS-Inspired Runtime for Long-Running, Capability-Controlled LLM Agents
Yingqi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03895 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.03895 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.03895
arXiv:2606.03895v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are evolving from request-response assistants into long-running software actors: they maintain state across model calls, fork subtasks, wait for external events, request human authority, generate tools, and perform side effects that must be resumed and audited. This paper presents Agent libOS, a library-OS-inspired runtime substrate for LLM agents. Agent libOS runs above a conventional host operating system; it does not implement hardware drivers, kernel-mode isolation, or a POSIX-compatible operating system. Instead, it treats an agent as an AgentProcess: a schedulable execution subject with process identity, parent-child lineage, lifecycle state, a tool table derived from an AgentImage, typed Object Memory, explicit capabilities, human queues, checkpoints, events, and audit records. Its central design rule is tools are libc-like wrappers; runtime primitives are the authority boundary. Filesystem access, object access, sleeps, human approval, JIT tool registration, and external side effects are checked at primitive boundaries under explicit capabilities and policy.
We describe the design, threat model, Python prototype, and safety-oriented evaluation. The current prototype implements async scheduling, namespace-local Object Memory, runtime-integrated human approval, one-shot permission grants, per-process working directories, shell and image-registration primitives, Deno/TypeScript JIT tools over a libOS syscall broker, filesystem/object bridge tools, an injectable Resource Provider Substrate, deterministic demos, real-model smoke scripts, and 123 regression tests at the time of writing. Rather than improving planner accuracy, Agent libOS demonstrates a runtime substrate in which long-running LLM agents can be scheduled, authorized, resumed, and audited without treating tool dispatch as the trust boundary.
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Finally! Version 1.0 of the First Microcomputer Disk Operating System - deramp513
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIURH-TUISQ

"because Linux to read text from the terminal uses this thing called readline that implements the Emacs key bindings, so in the terminal you can use ctrl-a to go to the beginning of the line, ctrl-e to the end, etc. Mac OS, the billionaire operating system uses these key bindings system wide, so in every fucking place you can write text, you can use the same shortcuts. Linux desktop for some goddamn reason instead uses... the Windows key bindings"

A demo for vibeOS, an all AI operating system. Nothing here is programmed. If you need an app, it generates the UI and all interactions on the fly.
I'm glad I'm not a programmer anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3pV6FHvcgM

Steve Bourne is internationally known for his work on the UNIX operating system.
During his career he spent 20 years in senior engineering management positions at computer systems and networking companies.
These included Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment and Silicon Graphics.
Since 2000 he has been Chief Technology Officer at El Dorado Ventures (now Rally Ventures) in Menlo Park, California
Upcoming
The Design of Unix Shell, Stephen R. Bourne
…

I do not want to "move from an operating system to an intelligence system" thanks Google.
I still want my computer to operate, not to intelligent.
I do not want a popup every time I wriggle my mouse to see where the cursor is.
Also "google books" is already a thing you maniacs. Google, the search engine company, has made a product which is unserchable because of a name clash with another thing from the same company already called that.
/slow-clap.
This is intelligence apparently. We're going to need a new word for actually clever things given all this crap branded intelligent nowadays.
#googleBook #laptop

'The interval between great-power wars in Europe from 1648 to 1945 averaged around forty years. That’s how long it takes for the generational memory of the last war to fade from the bodies of the people who vote in the next one. The post-1945 peace in Europe is the longest stretch in recorded history, which means we have a decade or two before the generation that could say "I remember" no longer exists in political life.
What happens then, is what always happens.'

The Loop: everything has happened before, and everything will happen again
We keep replaying the same human mistakes -bubbles, strongmen, scapegoats, and panics -because the operating system in our skulls hasn’t updated in ten thousand years.

A profile of BlackBerry's QNX division, whose operating system controls safety features in 275M cars and accounts for half of BlackBerry's revenue (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/blackberry-qnx-so…

Denver-based Scotch, which makes AI-powered payments tools for liquor retailers, raised a $20M Series A from VMG Partners, following a $10M seed in 2024 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/scotch-raises-ai-funding-liquor-ret…

Exclusive: Scotch Raises $20M Series A To Disrupt Legacy Liquor Retail Tech With AI
All-in-one software ecosystem provider Scotch is a Denver-based AI-native operating system designed specifically for liquor store owners.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.OS. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.OS/new
[1/1]:
- TuneAgent: Agentic Operating System Kernel Tuning with Reinforcement Learning
Hongyu Lin, Yuchen Li, Haoran Luo, Zhenghong Lin, Libo Zhang, Mingjie Xing, Yanjun Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12551 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115055236888864569
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The war is turning into the ultimate test of an operating principle that has guided Trump for decades: construct a narrative, declare it to be true and relentlessly force the world to submit to it. It has proved effective in Manhattan boardrooms, on reality television and even at the heart of power in Washington.
But in Iran, Trump’s unique brand of “truthful hyperbole” has collided with the truthful truth. His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/30/trump-iran-war-reality?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Sycamore, founded by former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath to let enterprises build, deploy, and monitor AI agents, raised a $65M seed led by Coatue and Lightspeed (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals…

Exclusive: Former Atlassian exec raises $65M for a secure AI agent operating system
It was founded at the end of last year.