While M**a CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn't like Apple's Vision Pro mixed reality headset and thought their Quest 3 headset was overall better than the competition, app developers don't seem to agree. According to Apple Marketing Director Greg Joswiak, more than a thousand different native applications have already been created for Vision Pro. […]
The main branch of nginx 1.25.4 has been released, within which the development of new features continues. The parallel-maintained stable branch 1.24.x contains only changes related to the elimination of serious bugs and vulnerabilities. In the future, based on the main branch 1.25.x, a stable branch 1.26 will be formed. The project code is written in C and distributed under the BSD license. In the new version […]
The release of the desktop-oriented distribution GhostBSD 24.01.1, built on the basis of FreeBSD 14-STABLE and offering the MATE user environment, has been published. Separately, the community creates unofficial builds with Xfce. By default, GhostBSD uses the ZFS file system. Both work in Live mode and installation on a hard drive are supported (using its own ginstall installer, written in Python). Boot images are built for the architecture [...]
Two vulnerabilities have been identified in various implementations of the DNSSEC protocol, affecting the BIND, PowerDNS, dnsmasq, Knot Resolver, and Unbound DNS resolvers. The vulnerabilities could cause a denial of service for DNS resolvers that perform DNSSEC validation by causing a high CPU load that interferes with the processing of other queries. To carry out an attack, it is enough to send a request to a DNS resolver using DNSSEC, resulting in a call to a specially designed […]
Researchers at Stanford University have found that lithium metal batteries can increase their service life if they are completely discharged from time to time and left in that state. At the same time, after such manipulation, the actual battery capacity increases, as the study showed. Image source: Samsung SDI Source: 3dnews.ru
NASA reported that the shutter protecting the optics of the SHERLOC ultraviolet spectrometer stopped opening normally. This is all the more offensive since the rover approached the place where an ancient river flows into a prehistoric lake. A team of specialists is investigating the problem to try to restore the functionality of the device. Image source: NASASource: 3dnews.ru
As expected, on February 25, on the eve of the MWC 2024 exhibition, the flagship series of Xiaomi 14 smartphones, including the older model Xiaomi 14 Ultra, will be presented to the global market. The MySmartPrice resource managed to obtain official images of the device a little more than a week before the event. Image source: mysmartprice.comSource: 3dnews.ru
Mozilla plans to cut up to ten percent of its workforce and refocus its efforts on using artificial intelligence technologies in its Firefox browser. After the appointment of a new leader, Mozilla intends to make layoffs among approximately 60 employees and revise its product development strategy. Given the total number of employees in the range of 500 to 1000 people, this would affect approximately 5-10% of the workforce. This […]
Following the appointment of a new leader, Mozilla intends to lay off about 60 employees and change its product development strategy. Considering that, according to public reports, Mozilla employs from 500 to 1000 people, the layoffs will affect 5-10% of the staff. This is the fourth massive wave of layoffs - in 2020, 320 (250 + 70) workers were laid off, and in […]
Tesla actively tests its software with the participation of volunteers, so it carries out “recalls” of products that imply forced updates to it every now and then at the request of American regulators. Waymo applied such a measure for the first time only recently, and did so on its own initiative after two identical accidents in Arizona. Image source: WaymoSource: 3dnews.ru
Working with an AI chatbot on a regular basis can become annoying, as each time the user has to explain certain facts about themselves and their preferences to improve the experience. OpenAI, the developer of the ChatGPT AI bot, intends to correct this by making the algorithm more personalized by adding “memory” to it. Image source: Growtika / unsplash.com Source: 3dnews.ru
As noted the day before, the market capitalizations of NVIDIA, Amazon and Alphabet turned out to be not so far from each other, and for the first of them this figure is steadily growing in anticipation of the publication of quarterly reports, which will be released next week. Amazon and Alphabet's share price dynamics are not so clear, so NVIDIA still managed to beat the first […]
