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5 of the most lightweight operating systems, ranked by download size

5 of the most lightweight operating systems, ranked by download size

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Most people take operating system size for granted — until the moment it matters. Maybe you have a decade-old machine collecting dust in a corner, and you’re hoping you’ll find an operating system that can make any slow PC fast. Perhaps you have a USB stick with more ambition than available space, which is perfect, since there are portable operating systems so light you don’t even need to install them. Or maybe you simply have a curiosity about just how lean modern software can be. Whatever brought you here, I think you are going to be really surprised by what these operating systems manage to pack into a footprint smaller than a single smartphone photo. Some of these are the size of a Word document. One fits on a floppy disk. All of them boot into something functional. If you have ever wondered how far minimalist computing can be pushed, pull up a chair — this list is for you. KolibriOS (~1.44 MB) A fully functional desktop that weighs less than a JPEG Images taken …

Best Alternatives to Google’s Android Operating System (2026), Tested and Reviewed

Best Alternatives to Google’s Android Operating System (2026), Tested and Reviewed

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Want Google out of your life? It’s pretty easy to find alternative search, email, and photo storage providers, but it’s much harder to come up with a mobile operating system that’s free of Google. The obvious answer is an iPhone, but if you want Google out of your life, you probably don’t want to immediately replace it with Apple. While a little better from a privacy standpoint, Apple is still not great. Fear not, privacy-conscious WIRED reader, there are alternatives to Android. Technically speaking, most alternative mobile operating systems are based on Android, not alternatives to it, but these various projects all remove Google and Google-related services (to varying degrees) from the system. Typically that means all the Google services are stripped out and replaced with some alternative code (usually the micro g project), which is then sandboxed in some way to isolate it and restrict what it has access to. The result is a phone that is less dependent on Google, pries less into your privacy, and sometimes might offer a more secure experience. …

Building a shared operating model in the semiconductor industry

Building a shared operating model in the semiconductor industry

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Krish Dharma, Strategic Advisor for the SEMI Supply Chain Management (SCM) Initiative, explains how the semiconductor industry is moving from fragmented insight to coordinated resilience – by building a capability-led blueprint that allows companies to anticipate disruption, improve capital efficiency, and respond faster without compromising competitive advantage. The global semiconductor supply chain has entered a new phase. Disruption is no longer an occasional shock, but a structural condition shaped by geopolitical realignment, AI-driven demand growth, climate risk, and unprecedented capital intensity. While individual companies have invested heavily in digital tools and internal resilience, the broader ecosystem still struggles to respond coherently to systemic risk. Data remains fragmented across tiers, trust is limited, and decisions are often made in isolation. Coordination typically begins only once a disruption is already unfolding, leading to amplified volatility, misaligned capacity investments, slow response times, and inefficient use of capital. The challenge is not a lack of capability at the company level. It is the absence of a neutral, global industry-level operating model that enables companies to anticipate disruption and act …

Toyota supplier Denso slashes full-year operating profit forecast on higher costs

Toyota supplier Denso slashes full-year operating profit forecast on higher costs

Published by Sam Flores

TOKYO, Feb 3 : Japan’s Denso, a major auto parts supplier to Toyota, slashed its full-year operating profit forecast by nearly a fifth, reflecting a drag from U.S. import tariffs and a hit from rising material and fixed costs. The company cut its forecast for the fiscal year ending in March by 17.8 per cent to 535 billion yen ($3.44 billion) from a previous estimate of 651 billion yen. The world’s second-largest maker of vehicle parts generates about 56 per cent of its revenue from Toyota group companies. Denso shares fell after it released its reduced operating profit forecast, finishing the morning session down 1.5 per cent. Its shares were 1.6 per cent higher before the disclosure. Even after the forecast cut, both full-year operating profit and revenue, which was revised upward, were expected to reach record highs, Chief Financial Officer Yasushi Matsui said. The company said a positive impact from the yen’s exchange rate helped offset rising cost pressures and a smaller-than-expected impact from the measures it is taking to counter U.S. tariffs. For …

Israel says it will ban MSF from operating in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israel says it will ban MSF from operating in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

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Medical charity has been barred for not providing Israeli authorities with personal details of its staff in the enclave. Published On 1 Feb 20261 Feb 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Israel says it will terminate the humanitarian operations in Gaza of Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, after it failed to provide a list of its Palestinian staff, further depriving Palestinians in the besieged enclave of life-saving assistance. In December, Israel announced it would prevent 37 aid organisations, including MSF, from working in Gaza from March 1 for failing to submit detailed information about their Palestinian employees, drawing widespread condemnation from NGOs and the United Nations. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list “The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism is moving to terminate the activities of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in the Gaza Strip,” the ministry said on Sunday. The decision followed “MSF’s failure to submit lists of local employees, a requirement applicable to all humanitarian organisations operating in the region”, it added. The …

Calabasas man pleads guilty to tax evasion and operating illegal offshore gambling business

Calabasas man pleads guilty to tax evasion and operating illegal offshore gambling business

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Jason Noah Feinman of Calabasas in California, has pleaded guilty to operating an illegal offshore gambling business, evading taxes and laundering money in a statement released by the Office of Public Affairs at the US Department of Justice. Feinman operated a Costa Rica-based business in which its main focus was to run a website that was used by illegal gambling businesses to assist various gambling activities for customers who lived in California. The details were apparently leaked in the notorious Panama Papers. California Man Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion and Operating Illegal Offshore Gambling Businesshttps://t.co/TZYxzO6ZNh — Criminal Division (@DOJCrimDiv) January 14, 2026 They were encouraged to place bets across various websites that Feinman used and maintained, which is, of course, illegal in California under state and federal law. Feinman laundered the money by exchanging cash for checks, receiving more than $1.5 million in cash between 2018 and 2024. Furthermore, he failed to declare his income, concealing more than $4 million from the US Government, thus paying no tax on any of this. He will be …

Israel’s ban on NGOs operating in Gaza will be devastating | Israel-Palestine conflict

Israel’s ban on NGOs operating in Gaza will be devastating | Israel-Palestine conflict

Published by Sam Flores

I work for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker organisation that has been present in Gaza for more than 77 years. AFSC began its work in 1948 when the United Nations asked it to organise relief efforts for Palestinian refugees who had been expelled from their land by Zionist forces. For two years, AFSC’s Gaza staff helped set up and run 10 refugee camps in al-Faluja, Bureij, Deir el-Balah, Gaza City, Jabalia, Maghazi, Nuseirat, Khan Younis and Rafah. They worked to provide food, shelter and sanitation as well as setting up educational programmes for children. In the decades that followed, AFSC’s programmes have provided support for agricultural development, kindergartens, midwife training, humanitarian aid and trauma healing. Since the start of Israel’s genocide in 2023, AFSC staff members in Gaza have provided more than a million meals, food parcels, fresh vegetables, hygiene kits and other essential supplies. Now, for the first time since 1948, AFSC along with dozens of other international organisations is threatened with a ban from the Israeli government that puts lifesaving …

Minnesota department finds child care centers targeted in viral video operating normally

Minnesota department finds child care centers targeted in viral video operating normally

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Minnesota’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families on Friday said that investigators have found child care facilities at the center of recent fraud allegations were operating as they should. The department issued the statement in response to requests for information about the Child Care Assistance Program, which it oversees grants from, and referenced a “recently circulated video.” The Trump administration, and President Donald Trump himself, have alleged fraud in Minnesota after a recent video from a right-wing online influencer named Nick Shirley contained unsubstantiated claims of fraud at child care facilities in the state. The department said in the statement that investigators with its Office of Inspector General conducted compliance checks at nine centers referenced in the viral video. “Investigators confirmed the centers were operating as expected, gathered evidence and initiated further review,” the department said in a statement Friday. “Children were present at all sites except for one — that site, was not yet open for families for the day when inspectors arrived,” it said. The department said it has ongoing investigations into four …

Man Operating Robot Accidentally Makes It Kick Him Directly in the Nutsack

Man Operating Robot Accidentally Makes It Kick Him Directly in the Nutsack

Published by José Betancourt

In a now viral video, a man controlling a Unitree robot accidentally made the humanoid kick him right in the groin, forcing him into a groaning heap while painfully and visually embodying the promise and perils of advanced robotics. “Yep, let’s go ahead and train our future AI overlords how to kick ass,” one X user quipped upon viewing the clip, which was originally posted on Christmas Day to the Chinese video sharing website Bilibili. “Maybe we do deserve to become made redundant.” The video opens to the inside of a regular office space in what appears to be China and a man in a black motion capture suit standing next to a Unitree G1 robot, which follows his movements after a second or so of delay. The man squares up into a kickboxing stance and then starts pacing, shadow boxing, and kicking the air until the robot slips in front of him and kicks him in the nutsack, spurring both the man and the person holding the camera to groan in pain. teleoperator kicking …

Israel to ban 37 aid groups operating in Gaza unless they provide ‘lists of Palestinian employees’

Israel to ban 37 aid groups operating in Gaza unless they provide ‘lists of Palestinian employees’

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View of humanitarian supplies for Gaza. BENOIT TESSIER / REUTERS Israel plans to ban 37 aid organizations from operating in Gaza from Thursday, January 1, unless they hand over detailed information on their Palestinian staff, despite mounting criticism from the United Nations and the European Union. Several NGOs have told AFP the new rules will have a major impact on food and medical shipments to Gaza, and humanitarian groups warn there is already not enough aid to cover the devastated territory’s needs. Israel’s deadline for NGOs to provide the details expires at midnight on Wednesday. “They refuse to provide lists of their Palestinian employees because they know, just as we know, that some of them are involved in terrorism or linked to Hamas,” spokesman for the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, Gilad Zwick, told AFP, naming 37 NGOs that had so far failed to meet the new requirements. “I highly doubt that what they haven’t done for 10 months, they will suddenly do in less than 12 hours,” Zwick said. “We certainly won’t …