Management at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced the upcoming layoffs of 530 laboratory employees and 40 contractor workers. This is one of the largest cuts at JPL and comes as the US Congress refuses to allocate the requested space budget in 2024. For this reason, it will be necessary to reconsider and even curtail some promising projects to study the planets of the Solar […]
The release of the programming language Go 1.22 is presented, which is being developed by Google with the participation of the community as a hybrid solution that combines the high performance of compiled languages with such advantages of scripting languages as ease of writing code, speed of development, and error protection. The project code is distributed under the BSD license. The syntax of Go is based on the familiar elements of the C language with some borrowings from […]
Apple has published the source code for the low-level system components of the macOS 14.3 (Sonoma) operating system that use free software, including Darwin components and other non-GUI components, programs, and libraries. A total of 172 source packages have been published. The gnudiff and libstdcxx packages have been removed since the macOS 13 branch. Among other things, the code available […]
The long-suffering pirate action game Skull and Bones from Ubisoft on the way to release overcame a storm of seven postponements, but is finally preparing for release. A new gameplay trailer was dedicated to the upcoming premiere. Image source: Ubisoft Source: 3dnews.ru
AMD is quite active in its development of chips for embedded systems, as these solutions are used in industrial, automotive, commercial and medical sectors, in remote digital gaming systems and in other areas. AMD today introduced the new Embedded+ platform, combining Ryzen Embedded processors on the Zen+ architecture, as well as Versal adaptive SoCs on a single board. Image source: AMD Source: 3dnews.ru
The most interesting news from the world of artificial intelligence for the first month of 2024: while the AI near Moscow is busy clearing snow, the American ChatGPT has become lazy, refuses to work and advises users to do the work themselves; a new generation of PCs is entering the market - AI-prepared; adult content has flooded the GPT Store, even though it is prohibited; and, of course, some cats! Source: 3dnews.ru
Facebook announced the open source of dotslash, a command-line utility designed to make it easier to distribute a set of executable files for different platforms. The utility is designed to run scripts that automate the download of an executable file suitable for the current platform, checking its integrity and execution. The utility code is written in Rust and is distributed under the MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses. The utility solves problems similar to [...]
A maintenance release of Firefox 122.0.1 is available, which offers the following fixes: The problem with displaying only icons (without text labels) of the Multi-Account Containers add-on in the “Open in New Container Tab” block, called from the library context menu and sidebar, has been resolved. Fixed incorrect application of the yaru-remix system theme in Linux-based environments. A Windows platform-specific bug has been fixed […]
The release of the OpenSilver 2.1 project has been published, which continues the development of the Silverlight platform and allows you to create interactive web applications using C#, F#, XAML and .NET technologies. Silverlight applications compiled with OpenSilver can run in any desktop and mobile browsers that support WebAssembly, but compilation is currently only possible on Windows using Visual Studio. The project code is written in [...]
Over the past year, the share of daily users of the Telegram messenger in Russia has grown by more than 20%, which is almost half of the country’s entire population over 12 years of age, RBC reported citing a Mediascope study. With an average daily coverage of 47%, Telegram ranks fourth in popularity among Internet resources in Russia, behind WhatsApp (61%), Yandex […]
Apple has published a report on the adoption rate of its mobile OS, revealing a remarkable trend: the trajectories of iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, compared to their predecessors, took opposite directions. Image source: apple.comSource: 3dnews.ru
TrendForce estimates that global monitor sales fell 2023% in 7,3, reaching 125 million units, below pre-pandemic levels. Against the backdrop of a low base, as well as the expected economic recovery and the industry's 4-5-year PC upgrade cycle, it is predicted that in the second half of 2024, upgrades to monitors purchased during the pandemic will begin. This […]
