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New versions of Wine 9.2 and Winlator 5.0. An ntsync driver has been proposed for the Linux kernel

An experimental release of an open implementation of the Win32 API - Wine 9.2 - took place. Since the release of 9.1, 14 bug reports have been closed and 213 changes have been made. The most important changes: The Wine Mono engine with the implementation of the .NET platform has been updated to release 9.0.0. Improved system tray support. Exception handling has been improved on ARM platforms. During assembly, the YEAR2038 macro is used to use […]

New article: Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth - a ticket to heaven. Review

The seventh part of Yakuza turned out to be an excellent entry point into the series for beginners, and the eighth, which we will talk about today, develops its best ideas - it even has a translation into Russian from the very first day! Why it’s impossible to tear yourself away from Ichiban’s adventures in Hawaii, we explain in detail in the review Source: 3dnews.ru

Pure Storage, intending to eliminate hard drives, cut 4% of its staff

Pure Storage, a company specializing in All-Flash storage systems, has carried out another round of layoffs, laying off up to 275 employees, the Blocks & Files resource reported. According to the publication, the cuts affected the data protection department, as well as specialists in the field of AI, analytics, databases, alliances and in the field of unstructured data. A Pure representative told the publication that the company continues to scale and maintain high growth rates […]

For AI and more: NVIDIA will closely develop custom chips for large customers

NVIDIA has formed a new division that will develop custom chips for cloud operators and other large clients. The main goal is to capture as much of the emerging market for specialized AI chips as possible and protect the business from the growing number of companies offering alternative solutions. NVIDIA currently controls about 80% of the high-performance AI chip market, making its market value […]

ZX-Spectrum emulator Glukalka2

A new reincarnation of the ZX-Spectrum Glukalka emulator is available for download. The graphical part of the emulator was rewritten using the Qt library (the recommended minimum version of Qt is 4.6; on older versions of Qt, some emulator functions will be disabled, or the emulator will not build). The use of Qt has made the emulator more portable: now it works not only on UNIX/X11, but also on MS Windows, Mac OS […]

The Fedora Atomic Desktops family of atomically updated distributions has been introduced.

The Fedora Project has announced the unification of the naming of custom builds of the Fedora Linux distribution, which use the atomic update model and monolithic system layout. Such distribution options are separated into a separate family of Fedora Atomic Desktops, the assemblies in which will be called “Fedora desktop_name Atomic”. At the same time, for already recognizable and long-existing atomic assemblies, it was decided to keep the old name, since […]

NASA proposes to explore space with primitive robots with the skills of assembling children's construction sets

Deeper exploration of the Solar System will be impossible without the massive use of robots and local resources. You can’t take much from Earth, so almost everything for building and maintaining bases will have to be found locally, including self-reproduction of robots. NASA is working on this concept and has made significant progress in creating automata and the basic principles of their operation. Image source: NASASource: 3dnews.ru

There is a shortage of GeForce RTX 4080 Super video cards in the USA

There is a shortage of GeForce RTX 4080 Super video cards in US stores, writes the VideoCardz portal. The accelerator with a recommended price of $999, which is lower than the starting price of the regular RTX 4080 model, has proven to be in demand among gamers. According to the source, in most stores the card cannot be ordered online. Image source: VideoCardzSource: 3dnews.ru