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Manjaro-based Orange Pi Neo portable gaming console announced

As part of FOSDEM 2024, the Orange Pi Neo portable gaming console was announced. Key characteristics: SoC: AMD Ryzen 7 7840U with RDNA 3 video chip; screen: 7 inches with FullHD (1920×1200) at 120 Hz; RAM: 16 GB or 32 GB DDR 5 to choose from; long-term memory: 512 GB or 2 TB SSD to choose from; wireless technologies: Wi-Fi 6+ […]

Gentoo has started creating binary packages for the x86-64-v3 architecture

The developers of the Gentoo project announced the introduction of a separate repository with binary packages compiled with support for the third version of the x86-64 microarchitecture (x86-64-v3), used in Intel processors since approximately 2015 (starting with Intel Haswell) and characterized by the presence of such extensions like AVX, AVX2, BMI2, FMA, LZCNT, MOVBE and SXSAVE. The repository offers a separate set of packages, formed in parallel [...]

Apple publishes Pkl, a configuration programming language

Apple has open-sourced an implementation of the Pkl configuration language, which promotes the configuration-as-code model. The Pkl-related toolkit is written in Kotlin and published under the Apache license. Plugins for working with code in the Pkl language are prepared for the IntelliJ, Visual Studio Code and Neovim development environments. The publication of the LSP handler (Language […]

Release of EasyOS 5.7, the original distribution from the creator of Puppy Linux

Barry Kauler, founder of the Puppy Linux project, has published the EasyOS 5.7 distribution, which combines Puppy Linux technologies with container isolation to run system components. The distribution kit is managed through a set of graphical configurators developed by the project. The size of the boot image is 857 MB. Distribution features: Each application, as well as the desktop itself, can be run in separate containers, to isolate […]

In 2023, Alphabet saved $3,9 billion by extending the service life of servers, but increased spending on AI infrastructure

Alphabet holding reported results for the fourth quarter and 2023, ending December 31. Revenue from Google Cloud's cloud division amounted to approximately $9,2 billion, an increase of 25,66% year-on-year. Remarkably, the division posted an operating profit of $864 million, compared with a loss of $186 million a year earlier. Alphabet's entire revenue […]

Due to the Cloudflare hack, it was necessary to completely replace the equipment in one of the data centers

The American company Cloudflare reported a hacker intrusion into its IT infrastructure. Security experts CrowdStrike were involved in the investigation of the incident: it is alleged that government hackers of a certain state may be involved in the cyberattack. As a result of the investigation, the company decided to re-equip its data center in Brazil. It is said that to penetrate Cloudflare’s internal network, the attackers used an access token and credentials […]

Samsung's cooperation with Baidu is unlikely to help boost sales of Galaxy S24 smartphones in China

When introducing the new flagship smartphones of the Galaxy S24 family to the Chinese market, Samsung Electronics relied on cooperation with the local search giant Baidu, ensuring the integration of the Chinese partner’s specialized services on its devices. Experts believe that this step will not contribute to the popularization of Samsung smartphones in the Chinese market. Image source: Samsung ElectronicsSource: 3dnews.ru

The US will have to change all highway barriers - the current ones cannot cope with electric cars

Statistics show that electric cars get into accidents just as often as cars with internal combustion engines. At the same time, electric vehicles are 20-50% heavier, and due to the large volume of traction batteries, their centers of gravity are greatly reduced. Thus, the road infrastructure in the form of fences and barriers was not ready to meet electric vehicles in every sense. Electric cars […]

The Russian company Softlogic will release AI solutions on Chinese Sophgo chips

The Chinese company Sophgo, according to the Vedomosti newspaper, has signed the first contract for the supply of its tensor AI processors to Russia. The Russian company Softlogic has become a partner, which will also act as a distributor. The fact that Sophgo was eyeing the Russian market became known at the end of January 2024. An enterprise from China intends to officially ship tensor processors to the Russian Federation […]

New article: Palworld - we’ll collect all the ideas! Preview

A traditionally quiet month in the industry, January suddenly brought players a deafeningly loud release that literally everyone and everywhere is talking about. Released in early access, Palworld sets record after record, makes crazy sales and irresistibly attracts the attention of players. Is such a hype justified, or did Pokemon fall due to lack of fish? We tell you in our materialSource: 3dnews.ru