Newsraft 0.23, a console program for viewing RSS feeds, has been released. The project is largely inspired by Newsboat and tries to be its lightweight counterpart. Notable features of Newsraft: parallel downloads; grouping tapes into sections; settings for opening links with any command; viewing news from all feeds in explore mode; automatic updates of feeds and sections; assigning multiple actions to keys; support for tapes derived from [...]
On January 26, 2.7.0 of the console utilities fastfetch and flashfetch, written in C and distributed under the MIT license, was released. Utilities are designed to display information about the system. Unlike fastfetch, flashfetch does not support its advanced features. Changes: Added a new TerminalTheme module that displays the foreground and background colors of the current terminal window. Doesn't work on Windows yet; […]
The release of SystemRescue 11.0 is available, a specialized Live distribution based on Arch Linux, designed for system recovery after a failure. Xfce is used as the graphical environment. The iso image size is 853 MB (amd64). Changes in the new version: The Linux kernel has been updated to branch 6.6. Added ssh_known_hosts parameter to the configuration file to specify the public keys of trusted hosts for SSH. Updated configuration […]
AMD has published driver source code for cards with an engine based on the XDNA architecture, which provides tools for accelerating calculations related to machine learning and signal processing (NPU, Neural Processing Unit). NPU based on the XDNA architecture is available in the 7040 and 8040 series of AMD Ryzen processors, AMD Alveo V70 accelerators and AMD Versal SoCs. The code is written in [...]
Apple veteran DJ Novotney, who led the development of home devices and helped launch the development of an electric car, announced to colleagues that he was leaving the company. According to the source, Novotny will move to the position of vice president of automotive programs at Rivian, which produces electric SUVs and pickup trucks, and will report directly to Rivian CEO Robert Scaringe. "Great products - [...]
Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo spacecraft will be launched for the first time on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station. The launch will take place from the Cape Canaveral spaceport in Florida on January 30 at 12:07 local time (20:07 Moscow time). Image source: SpaceX Source: 3dnews.ru
Apple's latest changes to its App Store policies also affect the Sign in with Apple feature. Under the new rules, apps that use user authentication services through third-party platforms such as Google, F******k and X (formerly Twitter) are no longer required to offer the option to sign in with an Apple account. However, in return, developers are required to offer users an alternative authorization service that has certain confidentiality guarantees […]
The first release of the Niri composite server has been published. The project is inspired by the GNOME extension PaperWM and implements a tiling layout method in which windows are grouped into an endlessly scrolling ribbon on the screen. Opening a new window causes the ribbon to expand, while previously added windows never change their size. The project code is written in Rust and is distributed under the […]
Released in Early Access on January 19, Palworld has hit another impressive milestone. A few days ago, 1 Steam users played the simulator simultaneously. Now it has become known that later this figure exceeded 864 million concurrent players, which is the second result in the entire history of the service. Image source: PocketpairSource: 421dnews.ru
The American startup Cerebras Systems, which develops chips for machine learning systems and other resource-intensive tasks, according to Bloomberg, intends to carry out an initial public offering (IPO) in the second half of this year. Negotiations are already underway with consultants. Cerebras was founded in 2015. It is the developer of wafer-sized integrated WSE (Wafer Scale Engine) chips […]
The “Chips Law” adopted by the US authorities back in 2022, which implies government support for their production and development for a total of $53 billion, has so far helped few manufacturers to look more confidently at the future of their business in the country. Sources believe that a number of important announcements will be made this quarter. Image source: IntelSource: […]
About 50 years ago it became clear that galaxies are filled with some invisible substance, which, as it were, cements everything that we observe in them. This substance began to be called dark, since it is not visible in the electromagnetic ranges and affects its surroundings only by gravity. Due to the abundance of dark matter in galaxies, the orbital velocities of stars do not decrease as they move away […]
