Author: ProHoster

Taiwan's power woes are becoming a concern for Apple and NVIDIA, among others.

The high concentration of advanced lithographic production in Taiwan, in addition to political risks, also brings with it some infrastructural problems. Scarcity of water and energy resources has already exposed the vulnerability of the local semiconductor industry, and Taiwan's high dependence on imported fossil energy sources could pose a challenge for customers of local companies seeking to pursue a green agenda. Image source: Unsplash, Henry & CoSource: 3dnews.ru

Midnight Commander 4.8.31

On January 27, the release of the console file manager Midnight Commander 4.8.31 was published, distributed in source code under the GPLv3+ license. List of main changes: Support for the LZO/LZOP compression format has been added to VFS. Virtual FS uc1541, which provides access to disk images of Commodore VIC20/C64/C128, has been updated to version 3.6. The s3+ virtual file implementation used to access Amazon AWS S3 storage has been migrated to […]

Budgie 10.9 desktop environment released with initial Wayland support

The Buddies Of Budgie organization, which oversees the development of the project after its separation from the Solus distribution, has published an update to the Budgie 10.9.0 desktop environment. The user environment is formed by separately supplied components with the implementation of the Budgie Desktop desktop, a set of Budgie Desktop View icons, an interface for configuring the Budgie Control Center system (a fork of GNOME Control Center) and a screen saver Budgie Screensaver (a fork of gnome-screensaver). […]

Opera will release mobile AI browser Opera One for Apple iOS in the EU

Opera, the Norwegian company behind the browser of the same name, announced the launch of its new AI browser Opera One for iOS devices in the European Union (EU). Opera One will run on its own unique browser engine. This was made possible after Apple relaxed its App Store policies in response to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which now allows […]

Gigabyte introduced GeForce RTX 4000 Eagle Ice video cards

Gigabyte has officially introduced four new video cards. All of them belong to the GeForce RTX 40 series models, and two of them will join the Super line. Rumors about the appearance of new Gigabyte accelerators have been circulating for a long time and were fueled by various information leaks. ,Image source: GigabyteSource: 3dnews.ru

Newsraft 0.23

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 [...]

fastfetch 2.7.0

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; […]

SystemRescue 11.0 distribution release

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 Open Source Driver for NPUs Based on XDNA Architecture

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 [...]