Author: ProHoster

The European Union will impose the first ever antitrust fine on Apple for €500 million

According to online sources, the main regulator of the European Union, represented by the European Commission, is preparing to fine the American company Apple €500 million for violating the antimonopoly legislation in force in the region in the field of music streaming. The regulator is expected to announce the fine next month. Image source: Foundry / Pixabay Source: 3dnews.ru

Issues causing Wi-Fi authentication bypass in IWD and wpa_supplicant

In the open packages IWD (Intel inet Wireless Daemon) and wpa_supplicant, used to organize the connection of client Linux systems to a wireless network, vulnerabilities have been identified that lead to bypass of authentication mechanisms: In IWD, the vulnerability (CVE-2023-52161) appears only when the work is enabled in access point mode, which is not typical for IWD, which is usually used to connect to wireless networks. The vulnerability allows you to connect [...]

Samsung's flexible displays fail Apple's reliability test

According to online sources, Apple has delayed the development of an iPhone with a flexible display due to concerns that such panels are not durable enough. A report on the Korean portal Naver said that this decision was made after the American company conducted a series of experiments with folding smartphones from other vendors, including Samsung. Image source: SamsungSource: 3dnews.ru

Samsung Display will launch production of new generation OLED screens for laptops

Samsung Display is close to launching the production of eighth-generation OLED screens, writes SamMobile.com, citing publications in the South Korean media. One of the local resources reported that Samsung has entered into a contract with companies to build vacuum chambers for the production of eighth-generation OLED displays using appropriate equipment. Image source: SamsungSource: 3dnews.ru

The ugrep 5.0 utility for advanced search in files has been published

The ugrep 5.0 project has been released, developing an advanced version of the grep utility for searching data in files. Additionally, an interactive ug shell is provided with a user interface that provides a preview of the surrounding rows. In terms of performance, ugrep is many times faster than grep. The project code is written in C++ and distributed under the BSD license. The utility combines the most useful features of the grep program with advanced functionality […]

Release of DuckDB 0.10.0, an SQLite variant for analytical queries

The release of the DuckDB 0.10.0 DBMS is presented, combining such properties of SQLite as compactness, the ability to connect in the form of an embedded library, storing the database in one file and a convenient CLI interface, with tools and optimizations for executing analytical queries covering a significant part of the stored data, for example that aggregate the entire contents of tables or merge several large tables. The project code is distributed under the MIT license. […]

Release of free5GC 3.4.0, an open implementation of 5G core network components

A new release of the free5GC 3.4.0 project has been published, which develops an open implementation of 5G core network components (5GC) compliant with the requirements of the 3GPP Release 15 (R15) specification. The project is being developed at National Jiaotong University with the support of the Chinese Ministries of Education, Science and Economy. The code is written in Go and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The project covers the following 5G components and services: AMF – […]

British AI chip developer Graphcore will try to find support from foreign investors

It would be naive to think that the boom in artificial intelligence systems itself has become a “gold mine” for absolutely all market participants, and the dizzying dynamics of the stock price of NVIDIA or Arm should not be misleading. The British developer of accelerators for AI systems, Graphcore, according to local press reports, is desperately looking for funds to cover losses, and is even ready to sell […]

Apple agreed to implement RCS in iPhone under pressure from China

In November, Apple unexpectedly announced its intention to provide support for the RCS (Rich Communication Services) standard on the iPhone, due this year. According to the initial version, the company decided to take this step because of the European “Digital Markets Act” (DMA), but authoritative technical blogger John Gruber is sure that the opinion of Beijing was decisive. Image source: Kelly […]

Sales of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles dropped by 30% last year.

Based on the results of last year, many sources reported a decrease in the growth rate of the electric vehicle market, and against the backdrop of intense price competition, such dynamics will clearly hit automakers. As it turns out, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are slow to gain popularity, still remaining a small category of vehicles. Last year, their sales volumes decreased by 30,2%. Image source: […]

Sway Input Configurator 1.4.0

Sway Input Configurator 1.4.0 is available - a utility for easily configuring input devices in Sway. The utility is written in Python using Qt6/PyQt6 and allows you to configure keyboard, mouse and touchpad settings in a couple of clicks. The settings are stored in a JSON file. Standard Libinput options for setting up input devices are used, in particular, keyboard layout, key combination for changing the layout, […]