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Nintendo has put out a remastered version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, prompting renewed interest from longtime fans and newcomers alike. The Verge's Installer newsletter highlights the remake alongside other recent releases like the Godzilla Minus Zero sequel.
In this week's Installer newsletter, The Verge's David Pierce highlights Apple's new iPad Mini, noting it lacks a ProMotion display but is thinner, lighter and more water- and dust-resistant than before. He also mentions Amazon's $500 Echo Show 16 smart display and a cheaper $200 Alexa-powered photo frame, alongside other gear picks like a Pebble Index 01 and CMF Speaker S.
Herdr has released a native desktop application that organizes terminal sessions and coding agents into workspaces called 'spaces,' each containing tabs and splittable panes. The app includes an agents sidebar that tracks the status of coding agents across all spaces—marking them as Working, Blocked, Done, or Idle—and lets terminals keep running after the window closes. It installs via shell script on Linux/macOS and PowerShell on Windows, and can also install its companion herdr-core component if missing.
A developer has released DEsk, a Wayland-based Linux desktop environment formerly known as DeskWM, designed with realistic skeuomorphic visuals reminiscent of iOS 6. The desktop renders windows as paper on a ray-traced walnut desk, with a drawer-style dock, bookshelf app launcher, and a post-box notification system. Version 0.1.2 is a beta release with installers for Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, and Fedora, alongside a new Discord server for bug reports and feature requests.
Developers have created an open-source installer that allows users of Apple Silicon Macs to run Google's experimental desktop operating system within a virtual environment. This tool provides a way to test Googlebook OS without official support from Google or Apple.
Security firm Jamf identified malware dubbed CloudSyncD distributed as a fake Zoom installer for Mac. The disk image mimics a normal installer but includes a background image with step-by-step instructions guiding victims through System Settings to manually override Apple's Gatekeeper protection. Once approved, it installs the real Zoom app alongside an infostealer that sends captured user data to attackers' servers as often as every eight seconds.
TiddlyInstall is a browser-based tool that generates installers for apps across Windows, macOS and Linux from a single project. It can produce offline installers packed entirely in the browser, and for compiled languages it downloads and installs toolchains like Go, Rust, Zig or Nim locally into the app's folder to build the project on the user's machine rather than requiring a pre-built binary.
Apple's newest Pro-series iPhones bring a variable-aperture main camera, a new chip, improved battery life, and a black color option, but starting prices rose by $100 across the lineup, including older models. Alongside them, Apple released AirPods 5 with better active noise cancellation and stem-based volume controls on the pricier version, starting at $129.
LG's Monitor App Installer software was found sneaking pop-up ads, disguised as driver updates, onto customers' PCs, with McAfee promotions appearing at every boot even on premium $1,200 UltraGear monitors. After PC hardware outlet Gamers Nexus exposed the issue, Microsoft stepped in and pressured LG to pull the ads.