Transport

Version 13 of OpenTTD is in development and the first beta release has been released. In this open source clone of the Microprose game Transport Tycoon Deluxe, the aim is to build a transport empire by road, rail, water and air.…

Version 6.4 of Qt has been released. Qt, pronounced cute, is an open source and cross-platform environment for developing applications and graphical user interfaces. It is used in Caliber, KDE, Opera, Skype, VLC Media Player, Digikam,…

MariaDB originated as a fork of MySQL, after it was taken over by Oracle. For an overview of the differences between MariaDB and MySQL, go to this one and this one pages right. MariaDB is a powerful open source database server, which is…

MariaDB originated as a fork of MySQL, after it was taken over by Oracle. For an overview of the differences between MariaDB and MySQL, go to this one and this one pages right. MariaDB is a powerful open source database server, which is…

Taxi company Uber deployed various kill switches to frustrate the investigation into its UberPOP service around 2015. Inspectors who wanted to look around in the app did not see any drivers. It concerned a version of the app that was…

Wammes Witkop passed away this weekend at the age of 70 after a short illness. He was publisher and editor-in-chief of various computer magazines and founder of PC-Active. In the eighties he became a well-known face in the computer world…

Google has released version 100 of its Chrome web browser. Google Chrome is available for Windows, Linux and macOS. There are also versions for Android and iOS, but they follow a slightly different release schedule. In version 100 we…

Linus Torvalds has version 5.17 of the Linux Kernel released† The kernel is the heart of the operating system and, simply put, it sits as a layer between the hardware and the applications. In version 5.17 we find, among other things,…

TechSmith has released version 2022.0.2 of Snagit. With this program, which for both Windows if macOS available, images, text, moving images and web pages can be captured and edited. For example, effects such as perspective, spotlight…

Square Enix has apologized for the overloaded servers of its mmorpg Final Fantasy XIV. The server issues are due to the early access of the Endwalker expansion becoming available this weekend, bringing significantly more players…