Busted ATM shows Windows 7 login page on screen — asks for username and password instead of PIN to dispense cash

An ATM in Manchester, England, is still running the 17-year-old operating system for dispensing cash.

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Developer patches Wine to make Photoshop 2021 & 2025 run on Linux — Adobe Creative Cloud installers finally work thanks to HTML, JavaScript and XML fixes

Linux can now handle Adobe Creative Cloud-era installers thanks to a series of patches built by PhialsBasement, an open-source developer who has fixed longstanding HTML and JavaScript rendering issues, alongside XML parsin…

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Retro Apple emulator ported to $60 ESP32 microcontroller-powered touchscreen tablet — supports Mac OS8.1 and a virtual MC68040 CPU in major emulation leap

A new emulator makes running classic Apple Macintosh 68K software a breeze on a cheap, portable, IoT development kit.
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Windows Media Player’s ‘find album information’ functionality has been removed — you’ll have to find other software for playing and ripping CDs with relevant track information

Microsoft has quietly removed ‘find album information’ and ‘update album info online’ tools from the Media Player apps supplied with Windows 11.
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Admins finally get the power to uninstall Microsoft Copilot on Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, and EDU versions — devices must meet specific conditions to allow the removal of the AI app

Microsoft finally allows administrators to remove the Microsoft Copilot app from managed versions of Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, and EDU. However, you need to have Microsoft 365 Copilot installed, among other conditions.
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Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison

If you’re a Windows 11 hater, sit back and enjoy your biases being validated in the most satisfying way possible. A new speed test shows Microsoft’s latest OS performing terribly against the five previous Windows versions,…

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Microsoft silently kills Windows and Office phone activation and forces online activation with a Microsoft account — Windows users are now herded into an online-only portal for activation

Microsoft has somehow put the cap on yet another way to circumvent its internet-powered setup process, and this time it’s on a build that they haven’t even supported for a while! Production activation via call is still lis…

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Linux’s contemporary filesystem mount API went without documentation for six years — latest man-page package finally adds content for 2019 code

Linux’s contemporary filesystem mount API has been missing documentation since 2019,

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Recovered Unix v4 tape quickly yields a usable operating system — nostalgia addicts can now boot up Unix v4 in a browser window

Nostalgia addicts can now get their Unix v4 fix in a browser

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Microsoft promises to nearly double Windows storage performance after forcing slow software-accelerated BitLocker on Windows — new CPU hardware-accelerated crypto will also improve battery life, but requires new CPUs

The new BitLocker implementation offloads encryption and decryption to dedicated crypto engines on supported SoCs, delivering faster storage performance and reduced CPU usage.
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