Author: ProHoster

The JET fusion reactor set a world record for energy production, but will never start again

The European thermonuclear reactor Joint European Torus (JET) in Oxford, UK, has set a new world record for the amount of energy generated in a single fusion reaction cycle. The installation operated for a record 6 seconds and produced 69,26 megajoules of thermal energy during this time. The new experiment was further proof that the ITER project will be successful, since the JET tokamak is its scaled-down […]

The number of products in the Russian software registry exceeded 20 thousand

The number of software solutions in the Russian software registry has exceeded 20 thousand product names. This is evidenced by the readings of the counter installed on the website of the register of domestic software. Compared to 2020, the number of Russian products increased by 2,5 times. Image source: reestr.digital.gov.ruSource: 3dnews.ru

Xfce Project Updates Plans for Wayland Support

The Xfce developers have updated the page with plans related to adding support for the Wayland protocol. The plan has added mention of implementing initial support for Wayland in the core components of the next major release of Xfce 4.20, while maintaining support for X11. Previously, the issue of maintaining backward compatibility with X11 was at the stage of discussion, in which it was not possible to achieve consensus. It has now been decided that X11 support in […]

Heroes of Might and Magic 2 open engine release - fheroes2 - 1.0.12

The fheroes2 1.0.12 project is now available, which recreates the Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine from scratch. The project code is written in C++ and distributed under the GPLv2 license. To run the game, files with game resources are required, which can be obtained from the original game Heroes of Might and Magic II. Main changes: All possible objects are available for placement [...]

Rust programming language 1.76 release

The release of the Rust 1.76 general-purpose programming language, founded by the Mozilla project, but now developed under the auspices of the independent non-profit organization Rust Foundation, has been published. The language focuses on memory safety and provides the means to achieve high job parallelism while avoiding the use of a garbage collector and runtime (runtime is reduced to basic initialization and maintenance of the standard library). […]

China created the world's first microwave weapon using Stirling engines

A group of Chinese scientists announced the development and testing of powerful microwave weapons to destroy drones, aircraft and even satellites. But the most amazing thing is that electricity for it is generated by four Stirling engines installed on the truck. Thanks to this, the combat platform consumes only 20% of the power required to power alternative energy weapons and can operate continuously for four hours. Approximate […]