Google has awarded the Rust Foundation a $1 million targeted grant to fund work to improve the interoperability of Rust code with C++ codebases. The grant is seen as an investment that will expand the use of Rust across various components of the Android platform in the future. It is noted that as tools for portability […]
Hans de Goede, a Fedora Linux developer working at Red Hat, presented an open stack for MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface) cameras at the FOSDEM 2024 conference. The prepared open stack has not yet been accepted into the Linux kernel and the libcamera project, but has been noted as having reached a state suitable for testing by a wide range of […]
The Banana Pi team introduced the BPI-F3 single-board computer, aimed at developers of industrial automation systems, smart manufacturing, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, etc. The product is said to provide high performance with low power consumption. The SpacemiT K1 processor is used on the RISC-V architecture with eight computing cores. The integrated AI accelerator delivers 2.0 TOPS performance. LPDDR4/4X RAM is supported with a maximum capacity […]
Over the past six years, Capcom has released five full-fledged Resident Evil games and, according to trusted insider Dusk Golem (aka AestheticGamer), has no intention of slowing down in the coming years. Image source: CapcomSource: 3dnews.ru
Xiaomi has officially announced a series of key personnel changes in its leadership team. These changes indicate that the company intends to increase its focus on its growing automotive business. On February 3, Xiaomi CEO and founder Lei Jun announced on social network Weibo that he would focus more on the group's automobile business, and Lu Weibing, president […]
The release of SBCL 2.4.1 (Steel Bank Common Lisp), a free implementation of the Common Lisp programming language, has been published. The project code is written in Common Lisp and C, and is distributed under the BSD license. In the new release: Partial support for compact instance headers has been added to the parallel garbage collector that uses the mark-region algorithm. For functions with declared return types in optimization modes with large […]
The release of KaOS 2024.01 has been published, a distribution with a rolling update model aimed at providing a desktop based on the latest releases of KDE and applications using Qt. Distribution-specific design features include the placement of a vertical panel on the right side of the screen. The distribution is developed with an eye on Arch Linux, but maintains its own independent repository of more than 1500 packages, and […]
The Kubuntu Linux developers have announced work to convert the distribution to use the Calamares installer, which is independent of specific Linux distributions and uses the Qt library to create the user interface. Using Calamares will allow you to use a single graphics stack in a KDE-based environment. Lubuntu and UbuntuDDE have already switched from the official editions of Ubuntu to the Calamares installer. In addition to replacing the installer from [...]
The largest supplier of HBM memory remains the South Korean SK hynix, but rival Samsung Electronics is going to double its output of similar products this year. Japanese company Towa notes that orders for the supply of specialized equipment for memory packaging have increased by an order of magnitude this year, citing increased demand from South Korean customers. Image source: TowaSource: 3dnews.ru
Chinese chip designers' interest in the open-source RISC-V architecture is largely driven by increased Western sanctions and the ability of geopolitical opponents to influence the spread of other computing platforms. Over the past five years, Chinese organizations and companies have invested at least $50 million in RISC-V-related projects. Image source: Unsplash, Tommy L Source: 3dnews.ru
The authors of the large-scale amateur project Project Arroyo, which recreates Fallout 2 on the Fallout 4 engine, have published a trailer demonstrating locations and battles. This is the first video on the developers' YouTube channel in four years. Image source: Nexus Mods Source: 3dnews.ru
Developers from Mithril Interactive presented a gameplay trailer for Dungeonborne, their first-person action game with elements of the classic dungeon crawler. The publication of a new video is timed to coincide with the release of the demo version on Steam. Image source: Mithril InteractiveSource: 3dnews.ru
