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New article: HUAWEI MatePad Pro 13,2” review: a truly impressive tablet

It’s been a long time since we studied the new HUAWEI tablets of the older MatePad Pro series - that is, designed for professional use, as a replacement for a laptop (to a certain extent), and as a universal multimedia device. Well, let's talk about the new representative of the family, which also takes HUAWEI tablets to a fundamentally new level. Source: 3dnews.ru

Elektroid 3.0

A new major version of Elektroid has been released - a free analogue of Elektron Transfer for managing presets and samples on hardware synthesizers and samplers from various manufacturers. The following devices are supported: Elektron Model:Samples; Elektron Model:Cycles; Elektron Digitakt; Elektron Digitone and Digitone Keys; Elektron Syntakt; Elektron Analog Rytm MKI and MKII; Elektron Analog Four MKI, MKII and Keys; Elektron Analog Heat +FX; […]

Distributions available: MX Linux 23.2 and AV Linux 23.1

The release of the lightweight distribution kit MX Linux 23.2, created as a result of the joint work of the communities formed around the antiX and MEPIS projects, has been published. The release is based on the Debian package base with improvements from the antiX project and packages from its own repository. The distribution uses the sysVinit initialization system and its own tools for configuring and deploying the system. 32-bit and 64-bit […]

Nokia to exit TD Tech joint venture with Huawei due to US-China tensions

The Finnish company Nokia, according to the South China Morning Post, has decided to sell a controlling stake in the Beijing company TD Tech, a joint venture with Huawei. The reason is the increasing tension between the US and China. TD Tech was founded in 2005 and was originally a joint venture between Huawei and German technology conglomerate Siemens. The company specializes in [...]

The bpftime project develops a user-space implementation of eBPF

The bpftime project is presented, which develops a runtime and a virtual machine for executing eBPF handlers in user space. Bpftime allows eBPF tracing and process intervention programs to run entirely in user space, using features such as uprobe and programmatic system call interception. It is noted that by eliminating unnecessary context switches, bpftime allows for a tenfold reduction in overhead compared to […]

PicoLibc 1.8.6 Standard C Library Release

A release of the standard C library PicoLibc 1.8.6 has been published, developed by Keith Packard (X.Org project leader) for use on embedded devices with a limited amount of permanent storage and RAM. During development, part of the code was borrowed from the newlib library from the Cygwin and AVR Libc project, developed for Atmel AVR microcontrollers. The PicoLibc code is distributed under the BSD license. Library assembly is supported [...]

Release of DietPi 9.0, distribution for single-board PCs

DietPi 9.0 Specialized Distribution Released for Use on ARM and RISC-V Single Board PCs such as Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi, NanoPi, BananaPi, BeagleBone Black, Rock64, Rock Pi, Quartz64, Pine64, Asus Tinker, Odroid and VisionFive 2. The distribution is based on the Debian package base and is available in builds for more than 50 boards. Diet Pi […]

Optimizations have been prepared for the Linux kernel to improve the performance of I/O schedulers

Jens Axboe, creator of io_uring and the I/O schedulers CFQ, Deadline and Noop, has continued his experiments with I/O optimization in the Linux kernel. This time, his attention came to the BFQ and mq-deadline I/O schedulers, which turned out to be a bottleneck at least in the case of high-speed NVMe drives. As the study of the situation showed, one of the key reasons for suboptimal performance of subsystems […]

TSMC has created an improved magnetoresistive memory - it consumes 100 times less energy

TSMC, together with scientists from the Taiwan Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), presented a jointly developed SOT-MRAM memory. The new storage device is designed for in-memory computing and for use as a high-level cache. The new memory is faster than DRAM and retains data even after power is turned off, and it is designed to replace STT-MRAM memory, consuming 100 times less […]