Since October 1, Toshiba Memory Holdings Corporation has been operating under the new name Kioxia Holdings. “The official launch of the Kioxia brand is an important step in both our evolution as an independent company and our commitment to leading the industry into a new era of storage devices,” said Stacy J. Smith, executive chairman of Kioxia Holdings Corporation. […]
At the end of September, Apple confirmed that the new Mac Pro will be produced at its plant in Austin, Texas. This decision was probably made due to the benefits provided by the American government for 10 of the 15 components supplied from China. As for the remaining 5 components, it appears that Apple will have to pay a duty of 25%. Reportedly […]
Cisco has announced a major new release of its free antivirus suite, ClamAV 0.102.0. Let us recall that the project passed into the hands of Cisco in 2013 after the purchase of Sourcefire, the company developing ClamAV and Snort. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. Key improvements: The functionality of transparent checking of opened files (on-access scanning, checking at the time of file opening) has been moved from clamd to a separate process […]
Mozilla has won a federal appeals court case for a significant relaxation of the FCC's net neutrality rules. The court ruled that states can individually set rules regarding net neutrality within their local laws. Similar legislative changes preserving net neutrality, for example, are pending in California. However, while repealing net neutrality […]
Jungle survival simulator Green Hell, which left Steam Early Access on September 5, will be released on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The developers from Creepy Jar planned a console premiere for 2020, but did not specify the date. This became known thanks to the published development schedule of the game. From it we learned that this year the simulator will add the ability to grow […]
Publisher Reef Entertainment has announced the system requirements for the first-person shooter Terminator: Resistance, which will be released on November 15 on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The minimum configuration is designed for gaming with medium graphics settings, 1080p resolution and 60 frames per second: operating system: Windows 7, 8 or 10 (64-bit); processor: Intel Core i3-4160 3,6 GHz […]
Against the backdrop of ongoing riots, an attempt was made to completely block access to the Internet in Iraq. Currently, connectivity with approximately 75% of Iraqi providers has been lost, including all major telecom operators. Access remains only in some cities in northern Iraq (for example, the Kurdish Autonomous Region), which have a separate network infrastructure and autonomous status. Initially, authorities tried to block access […]
The Pine64 community, known for the free Pinebook and Pinebook Pro laptops, announced the start of production of a new free smartphone based on Plasma Mobile - PinePhone. The first batch will be released at the end of 2019, but for now only for developers. Sales in stores will begin in March 2020. In addition to Plasma Mobile, images of Maemo Leste, UBPorts, PostmarketOS, LuneOS are offered. Moreover, the community works […]
The Pine64 community, which recently announced the production of the free PinePhone smartphone, presents its new project - the PineTime smart watch. Main features of the watch: Heart rate monitoring. Capacious battery that will last for several days. Desktop docking station for charging your watch. Housing made of zinc alloy and plastic. Availability of WiFi and Bluetooth. Nordic nRF52832 ARM Cortex-M4F chip (at 64MHz) supporting Bluetooth 5 technologies, […]
Benjamin Berg, one of the Red Hat engineers involved in the development of GNOME, summarized the work on transitioning GNOME to session management exclusively through systemd, without the use of the gnome-session process. To manage login to GNOME, systemd-logind has been used for quite some time, which monitors session states in relation to the user, manages session identifiers, is responsible for switching between active sessions, […]
Trade associations NCTA, CTIA and USTelecom, which defend the interests of Internet service providers, asked the US Congress to pay attention to the problem with the implementation of “DNS over HTTPS” (DoH, DNS over HTTPS) and request detailed information from Google about current and future plans for enable DoH in their products, and also obtain a commitment not to enable centralized processing by default […]
Against the backdrop of ongoing riots, an attempt was made to completely block access to the Internet in Iraq. Currently, connectivity with approximately 75% of Iraqi providers has been lost, including all major telecom operators. Access remains only in some cities in northern Iraq (for example, the Kurdish Autonomous Region), which have a separate network infrastructure and autonomous status. Initially, authorities tried to block access […]
