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One UI 8.5 Beta 7 is out [Galaxy S25]! One UI 8.5 has made a significant appearance, with new features and other improvements. We are very thrilled to announce that Samsung has released the seventh beta version of One UI 8.5 (build ZZC7) that has the following changes: Bugs that have been fixed Fixed an issue where a call would switch to a video call. Fixed an issue where the GMS app color palette was not applied to the Work/Security folder.

One UI 8.5 Beta 7 is now available for the Galaxy S25 series!

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Samsung officially releases the Galaxy S26 series! This year's flagship phone series has finally been released as of March 11th, with the phone series available for purchase, after 2 weeks of pre-orders! Depending on your country and your region, the Galaxy S26 is already waiting for you in the Galaxy stores. The flagships have been engineered with the most advanced capabilities as a third-generation Galaxy AI phone, which becomes the agentic phone thanks to new, powerful AI features.

Samsung officially releases the Galaxy S26 flagship series worldwide!

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Samsung officially releases the Galaxy Buds4 series! This year's flagship earbuds series has finally been released as of March 11th, with the series available for purchase, after 2 weeks of pre-orders! Depending on your country and your region, the Galaxy Buds4 is already waiting for you in the Galaxy stores. With the Galaxy Buds4 series, the sound has become more clear than never before, with the upgraded components that are found within the brand new earphone series!

Samsung officially releases the Galaxy Buds4 earbuds worldwide!

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Windows 11 March 2026 patch is out! Microsoft have recently released this month's Patch Tuesday for Windows 11 computers and laptops, and they usually contain new features that the normal patches will include. These new features, along with many improvements and bug fixes, will enhance your user experience by making some of the features easier to use. The official changelogs for this month's patch is:  With this update, Windows quality updates include additional high confidence device targeting data, increasing coverage of devices eligible to automatically receive new Secure Boot certificates.

Windows 11 March 2026 patch is out!

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Galaxy Tab S11, Tab S9, and Tab S8 Series receive February 2026 Security Patch globally Samsung has continued distributing the February 2026 security patch to the Tab S11, Tab S9, and Tab S8 series, and is now available globally. This is built on top of One UI 8.0 that uses Android 16 as the base. This also increments the bootloader version so that reversing the update is no longer possible. According to the latest data, we have found the following firmware versions released: (not all versions are available)

Samsung releases the Galaxy Tab S11, Tab S9, and Tab S8 February 2026 update globally!

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Galaxy Fit3 receives a new update globally (March 2026) Samsung has begun distributing the Galaxy Fit3 update, which will upgrade both your band's security and stability. The March 2026 update has reached the wider audience (United States, India, United Arab Emirates, and so on). The firmware build information for this update is found below: SM-R390: R390XXU0AZA3 [INU, XAA, KOO] To obtain the update, follow these steps:

Samsung releases the March 2026 Galaxy Fit3 update globally!

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Galaxy Watch7 receives the February 2026 update globally Samsung has begun distributing the Galaxy Watch7 update that was released last week, which will upgrade both your watch's security and stability. The February 2026 update has reached the wider audience (United States, India, United Arab Emirates, and so on), including the LTE version. This update is based on One UI 8.0 Watch, which was released last November. The firmware build information for this update is found below:

Galaxy Watch7 February 2026 update lands globally!

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FreeBSD 14.4 goes official! FreeBSD 14.4 is now globally available for the general public! This version of FreeBSD aims to bring many improvements to the operating system and to the kernel to enhance your user experience. The ISO images can now be downloaded using the below button. It will take you to the file list that lets you select what kind of image you want to download, in terms of architecture, install source, and image type.

FreeBSD 14.4 is now available!

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Research: GitHub Actions, security practices, and mixed methods GitHub Actions is a CI/CD environment that allows you to automate building, testing, and deploying your project to save development time while maximizing productivity and increasing flexibility. GitHub Actions is free and unlimited for public repositories, which supports the need of continuous integration in open source projects. Recently, a research, which is conducted by the researchers: Yusuke Kubo (Waseda University and NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS Inc.), Fumihiro Kanei (NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS Inc.), Mitsuaki Akiyama (NTT, Inc.), Takuro Wakai (Waseda University), and Tatsuya Mori (Waseda University, NICT, and RIKEN AIP), is studying how developers across GitHub is using GitHub Actions in public repositories.

We have summarized the research for GitHub Actions and security practices, which was accepted for NDSS Symposium 2026.

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Samsung rolls out the “Restart After Inactivity” feature Some Samsung devices have been spotted hiding the "Restart After Inactivity" feature, which is a security feature that will automatically restart your phone if it hasn't been active for 72 hours. This automatic restart only triggers if the device is locked and unused for this time period. As spotted on the Galaxy S25 Edge by SamsungWelt.de, after the phone received the February 2026 security patch (build number is…

Samsung rolls out the "Restart After Inactivity" feature!

It makes your phone restart by itself after 72 hours of inactivity.

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Samsung releases the February 2026 security patch for the Galaxy S26 series Samsung have released the February 2026 security patch for the majority of Galaxy users worldwide. As per their rollout schedule for security updates, Samsung have released the patch to the Galaxy S26 users, starting from the Korean version. Two days before the global release of the flagship Galaxy S26 series, the security patch has been released as in the security update rollout schedule, and we should expect the Galaxy S26 to be updated to the March security update by the end of March as the phone series gets updated on a monthly basis.

Samsung releases the Galaxy S26 February 2026 security update 2 days before the global rollout!

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Linux 7.0 RC3 released! Linux 7.0 RC3 is now live for developers and curious users to try out. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate. The official announcement from the kernel mailing list says: So -rc2 was big - some of the biggest in recent history - but I suspected it was mainly due to random timing and just happenstance.

Linux 7.0 RC3 is now available!

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Switching GitHub Pages deployment from Classic to Actions-based deployment GitHub has introduced another method to deploy your GitHub Pages website from the classic method to the modern deployment method from your GitHub Actions workflow. This avoids having to select a dedicated branch (usually called gh-pages) from your repository, which is separate from all your branches, including the main one. This removes a huge overhead in having to maintain a separate branch dedicated for GitHub Pages files, which are static files that contain HTML, CSS, JS, and other website-related files.

Switching GitHub Pages deployment method from classic to modern method demonstrated with Textify.

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Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT) migration for our projects In an earlier announcement, we have announced the existence of the Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT) toolset that allows you to make your own build system for your projects using Python scripts. Now, we are planning to roll it out to all our projects, starting from this week, with more projects being on the list, and the rollout is expected to be finished within two whole weeks.

All Aptivi projects will use Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT) instead of the older script-based system!

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Linux Weekly Releases (Week 10 – 3/7/2026) Every week, new Linux versions that are under a supported version series get released to incorporate bug fixes and other general improvements that are pushed to the servicing branches. This ensures that your Linux user experience gets better when latest versions fix some of the bugs. This week, the below Linux kernel versions are released:

Linux Kernel releases as of Week 10, March 7th, 2026.

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Samsung Galaxy S26 and Buds4 global release is imminent Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S26 to everyone at the Galaxy Unpacked February 2026 event, along with the Galaxy Buds4 earbuds that work the best with this phone series. Along with the powerful bass that the bigger woofer comes with on the Galaxy Buds4 earbuds, and the improved Hi-Fi music experience with 24-bit / 96 kHz music with Samsung Seamless Codec (SSC) + Hi-Res Audio, the Galaxy S26 is set to globally release on March 11th.

Samsung Galaxy S26 and Galaxy Buds4 will be released soon! Hurry up and pre-order now!

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Galaxy Z Fold/Flip 7 series One UI 8.5 beta forums and builds spotted! One UI 8.5 is not an incremental version of One UI, but it's a major overhaul of how you use your phone and how your phone looks. Fluent design, attractive looks, Now nudges, and new features are key changes to this version of One UI. The Galaxy S26 series, which is released this year, uses the full version of One UI 8.5, with software updates that improve the experience to come.

Galaxy Z Fold7 and Flip7 One UI 8.5 beta builds and forums have been spotted!

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Our sincere apology regarding API docs deployment glitches We have earlier announced that the redesign for the whole Aptivi branding was complete, and that we had updated all the websites to make sure that they reflect the new, modern, bold design. Upon further inspection, we found that we weren't able to fix the API documentation deployment glitches that caused our docs sites not to apply to the latest version of our projects and not to use the new Aptivi branding, causing confusion among developers.

Our sincere apology regarding API docs deployment glitches causing outdated pages and Aptivi design to appear.

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Galaxy Watch6 receives the February 2026 update Samsung has begun distributing the Galaxy Watch6 update that is released today, which will upgrade both your watch's security and stability. The February 2026 update begins its rollout from Korea, with the remaining set of devices expected to receive the update as early as next week. This update is based on One UI 8.0 Watch, which was released last November.

Galaxy Watch6 receives the February 2026 stability update, starting from Korea!

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Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT) is now official! Our earlier announcement talked about how we've finalized the development of the new toolkit and how it would replace the older script-based toolkit. We have stated that the older script-based toolkit suffered from the following problems: Maintenance burdens: The older toolkit raised maintenance concerns, since we have to make sure that the toolkit's features work properly in both Windows and Unix by maintaining two shell types and keeping them in sync.

🎉 Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT) is now available! 🎉

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Watch Galaxy Unpacked 2026 Official Replay + Highlights Galaxy Unpacked 2026 was officially over, and the event took place at: Date: February 25th, 2026 Time: 10 AM Pacific Time (6 PM GMT / Add your location here) Place: San Francisco, USA The event announced the following devices: Galaxy S26, S26+, and S26 Ultra Galaxy Buds4 and Buds4 Pro This is in addition of Samsung revealing new innovations of AI features and much more.

Watch the official replay of Galaxy Unpacked 2026 and its highlights here!

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Galaxy Tab S11, Tab S9, and Tab S8 Series receives February 2026 Security Patch Samsung has recently began distributing the February 2026 security patch to the Tab S11, Tab S9, and Tab S8 series. This is built on top of One UI 8.0 that uses Android 16 as the base. This also increments the bootloader version so that reversing the update is no longer possible. According to the latest data, we have found the following firmware versions released: (not all versions are available)

Galaxy Tab S11, Tab S9, and Tab S8 receive the February 2026 security update on Korea!

#Samsung #Galaxy #OneUI8 #TeamGalaxy #GalaxyAI #TeamSamsung #TechNews #TechUpdates #GalaxyTabS11 #GalaxyTabS9 #GalaxyTabS8

Google Play System Update (February 2026) rolls out for Samsung devices Google Play System Update was a feature that was introduced for devices that ship with Android 10 or newer. It's mandatory for device manufacturers that plan to release their devices with Android 10 to support Google Play System Updates. As a result, non-Google devices, such as Samsung Galaxy phones and tablets released with Android 10 (One UI 2.1), can receive such updates, too.

Google Play System Update of February 2026 rolls out to Samsung devices!

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Mandrake Linux 8.0 (2001) on 86Box with Socket 370 [1998] Mandriva Linux is a fusion of the older Mandrake Linux (FR) and Conectiva Linux (BR), which is a Linux distribution that is based off the legacy Red Hat Commercial Linux (not the modern RHEL). Mandrake was released on July 1998 as version 5.1, and Mandrake Linux 8.0 was released on March 2001 to feature Linux kernel 2.4.3 and KDE 2.1.1.

Mandrake Linux 8.0 (2001) tested on 86Box with Socket 370 [1998]!

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Samsung updates the list of supported devices in March 2026 SMR! Samsung has re-evaluated the supported devices list as of this month as of today, and you can see the updated list in full here. We have run a comparison of supported models, and the results are now in: The following devices have been added to the list: Monthly security patches Galaxy S26, Galaxy S26+, Galaxy S26 Ultra Quarterly security patches …

Galaxy S26 users: you'll get monthly security patches!

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Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT) availability announcement Earlier, we have worked on the shell-based development toolkit that allowed users to build projects and applications more efficiently with the use of shell scripts. We were proud when we had released the toolkit under the tools repository in GitHub. However, the problems that followed it, including inconsistency in the vendor scripts structure (one shell file for Linux and macOS vs.

Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT) will be available shortly!

This will be a drop-in replacement for the older shell-based toolkit!

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Linux 7.0 RC2 released! Linux 7.0 RC2 is now live for developers and curious users to try out. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate. The official announcement from the kernel mailing list says: So I'm not super-happy with how big this is, but I'm hoping it's just the random timing noise we see every once in a while where I just happen to get more pull requests one week, only for the next week to then be quieter.

Linux 7.0 RC2 is now available!

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Linux Weekly Releases (Week 9 – 2/28/2026) Every week, new Linux versions that are under a supported version series get released to incorporate bug fixes and other general improvements that are pushed to the servicing branches. This ensures that your Linux user experience gets better when latest versions fix some of the bugs. This week, the below Linux kernel versions are released:

Linux Kernel releases as of Week 9, February 28th, 2026.

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Solaris 2.6 (x86) on 86Box with Socket 7 [1996] Solaris 2.6 was released on July 1997 with SVR4 as the base, which makes it compatible with UNIX System V 4.0. This version was the first to provide TrueType fonts, Kerberos 5 authentication, and large file support. As of today, you can obtain the Solaris 2.6 installation (but unbootable!) ISO file here. As we said "unbootable," we mean that you can't just insert the ISO file to the CD-ROM drive and expect Solaris to boot.

Solaris 2.6 (x86, July 1997) is tested on 86Box with Socket 7 [1996]!

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Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X (Alpha 1992) on 86Box with i486 [1992] Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X is the first Linux distribution that came up with the concept of the live distribution that came in a single CD-ROM disk. It was named "Plug and Play Linx", which means that this distro automatically configures itself for hardware. In this article, we will be testing the alpha release of Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X that was released on December 1992 with the pre-installed Bochs virtual machine ZIP file while integrating its disk image with 86Box.

Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X (Alpha Test Release, 1992/12) has been tested with 86Box, i486 [1992], and X386.

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