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Marshall Gunnell is a Tokyo-based tech journalist and editor with over a decade of experience covering IT, cybersecurity and data storage. Alongside CNET, his work has appeared in ZDNET, Business ...

Mojang Studios announced Tuesday it will eliminate code obfuscation in Minecraft: Java Edition, marking a significant shift in how the company distributes the game to its modding community. The change ...

You can rollback to a previous iOS, but you might be risking your data. Credit: Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via Getty Images UPDATE: Sep. 29, 2025, 12:10 p.m. EDT If you've updated your device to iOS26, ...

Did you regret installing the iOS 26 beta or the iPadOS 26 beta? Here’s the step-by-step to downgrade your iPhone or iPad to a previous, non-beta version. To uninstall the beta, you’ll need to wipe ...

There are gentle migration strategies that can delay the move away from Windows 10, which Microsoft will stop supporting in October 2025. Technically (and maybe even psychologically), the easiest step ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Senior Technology Editor. He has a BFA in Film & TV from NYU, where he specialized in writing. Jake has been helping people with their technology professionally since ...

Here are the three easiest ways to fix Java’s “not recognized as an internal or external command” error: Install or reinstall Java and the JDK on your computer Add Java’s bin directory to the computer ...

This issue is about a public attempt of transitioning my game on linux to have a bundled java version since systems java is no longer accessable. Its public to possibly help people at steam to provide ...

Recently, the Linux kernel community was shocked when Greg Kroah-Hartman, a senior Linux kernel leader, announced in a patch that several Russian Linux maintainers had been removed from their roles ...