Kevin Purdy

4 days ago | businessandamerica.com | Kevin Purdy

It’s not the first time Torvalds has suggested dropping support for 32-bit processors and relieving kernel developers from implementing archaic emulation and work-around solutions. “We got rid of i386 support back in 2012. Maybe it’s time to get rid of i486 support in 2022,” Torvalds wrote in October 2022. Failing major changes to the 6.15 kernel, which will likely arrive late this month, i486 support will be dropped. Where does that leave people running a 486 system for whatever reason?

5 days ago | arstechnica.com | Kevin Purdy

Linus Torvalds sees "zero real reason for anybody to waste one second" on them. Kevin Purdy – May 9, 2025 2:55 pm | Intel's i486 was the first "computer number" I ever really understood. Sure, my elementary school computer lab had both the Apple IIGS and Apple IIc, and one of them was slightly more useful, for reasons unexplained to me.

6 days ago | arstechnica.com | Kevin Purdy

The foundation of user trust Argues that recent "extraordinary Order" is punishment, not based on findings. Kevin Purdy – May 8, 2025 11:54 am | Many horses, including Spotify and Amazon's Kindle Store, have already left the barn. But Apple is moving quickly to shut the external payments door opened by last week's ruling that the company willfully failed to comply with court orders regarding anticompetitive behavior.

1 week ago | technewstube.com | Kevin Purdy

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1 week ago | arstechnica.com | Kevin Purdy

And make it sound alarming "One way you can tell is it's always such a nice report," founder tells Ars. Kevin Purdy – May 7, 2025 12:49 pm | "A threshold has been reached. We are effectively being DDoSed. If we could, we would charge them for this waste of our time," wrote Daniel Stenberg, original author and lead of the curl project, on LinkedIn this week.