Author: ProHoster

Couldn't: Graphcore is exploring the possibility of selling the business due to fierce competition in the AI ​​chip market

British AI accelerator startup Graphcore Ltd. is rumored to be considering selling the business. Silicon Angle reports that this decision is due to the difficulties of competition in the market, primarily with NVIDIA. Over the weekend, media reports suggested that the company was discussing a potential deal with major technology companies in an attempt to raise funds to cover large losses. […]

A Canonical employee presented miracle-wm, a composite manager based on Wayland and Mir

Matthew Kosarek from Canonical presented the first release of the new composite manager miracle-wm, which is based on the Wayland protocol and components for building Mir composite managers. Miracle-wm supports tiling of windows in the style of the i3 window manager, the Hyprland composite manager and the Sway user environment. The project code is written in C++ and is distributed under the […]

In Russia, sales of boxed versions and keys of Windows and Office have increased significantly

Russian users began to actively buy boxed versions and license keys of Microsoft software products, such as Windows operating systems and the Office 365 suite of office applications. According to the source, more than half of software sales on Wildberries last year were on Windows, while Yandex Market is more popular in total there were keys to activate Office 365. Image source: StartupStockPhotos / […]

A plan for migrating LXQt to Qt6 and Wayland has been published

Developers of the user environment LXQt (Qt Lightweight Desktop Environment) spoke about the process of transition to using the Qt6 library and the Wayland protocol. Migration of all components of LXQt to Qt6 is currently considered as the primary task, which is given the full attention of the project. Once the migration is complete, support for Qt5 will be discontinued. The results of porting to Qt6 will be presented in the release of LXQt 2.0.0, […]

Meizu will abandon the production of traditional smartphones and focus all its efforts on artificial intelligence

The smartphone market has reached a certain phase of maturity and saturation; one can no longer dream of the same rate of revenue growth, so its participants are trying to find new business strategies. The Chinese company Meizu has announced a radical change of course: from now on, all efforts will be devoted to creating devices that support artificial intelligence functions; traditional smartphones will no longer be developed. Image source: MeizuSource: 3dnews.ru

Runet sites have started deleting VPN data - this must be done before March 1

From March 1, a ban on the popularization of VPN services and the publication of data on ways to bypass blocking will come into force in Russia. Such information will be blocked. Against this background, some sites have already begun to remove information about VPNs. For example, the technical forum 4PDA and corporate media Skillfactory have already gotten rid of information about VPNs, including setup instructions and selections […]

SoftBank will challenge NVIDIA with AI accelerators on Arm

According to rumors, OpenAI founder Sam Altman is not alone in his desire to compete with NVIDIA in the development and production of chips for computing accelerators used in artificial intelligence systems. SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son, according to Bloomberg, plans to raise up to $100 billion to implement his own project in this area. Image source: […]

KeyTrap vulnerability allows you to permanently disable DNS with a single request

Specialists from the German National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE reported the discovery of a dangerous vulnerability in the DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) mechanism, a set of DNS protocol extensions. The flaw theoretically allows you to disable the DNS server by carrying out a DoS attack. The study involved employees of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt (Goethe University Frankfurt), the Fraunhofer Institute for Information Security Technology […]