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The Oculus Go’s operating system is being unlocked, John Carmack announces

The Verge

Root access will be achieved by sideloading a future software update, opening the door for anyone to modify and improve Oculus’ original standalone all-in-one VR headset. The Go was officially discontinued in 2020. The developer has long been a fan of opening his work on titles like Doom and Quake for hobbyist tinkering.

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Salesforce IT injects generative AI to ease its massive datacenter migration

CIO Business Intelligence

When you’re tasked with migrating 200,000 servers to a new operating system, a helping hand is very welcome indeed. Upgrading the fleet Salesforce’s RHEL migration is part of “Hyperforce,” a rearchitecting of the company’s infrastructure that began in 2020, Lutz says. There are misconceptions about this,” he adds.

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Huawei’s HarmonyOS is coming to smartphones

The Verge

Huawei has announced the second version of its HarmonyOS operating system and detailed plans to bring it to a wider range of devices, including smartphones. Consumer business CEO Richard Yu made the announcement today at Huawei’s developer conference in Shenzhen, China. Huawei will make a beta version of the HarmonyOS 2.0

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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

“The core reason for purchasing an IBM Z is these workloads that require massive amounts of transactions at very high speeds, but then the second reason is to use the modernizations on the system to do all these additional value-generating things with it,” he says. IBM LinuxONE III systems run only Linux at prices starting at $135,000.

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Android 12 may be released on October 4th

The Verge

Android 12 may be released on October 4th, according to an internal document shared by XDA Developers. The next version of Google’s mobile operating system features the new Material You visual design and has been in public beta since May.

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How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel

The Verge

The University of Minnesota’s path to banishment was long, turbulent, and full of emotion On the evening of April 6th, a student emailed a patch to a list of developers. But among the other major characters — the Linux developers — there was no such hesitancy. This was a community eager to speak; it was a community betrayed.

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Here’s the nuclear option to opt out of tracking on iOS

Vox

Apple’s mobile operating system update, iOS 14.5, went live today with a highly anticipated, long-awaited privacy feature the company first announced way back in June 2020 : App Tracking Transparency. Developers, not Apple, decide when to put up the prompt. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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