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Experience in creating Ceph storage with tebibyte per second throughput

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An engineer from Clyso summarized the experience of creating a storage cluster based on a fault-tolerant distributed Ceph system with a throughput exceeding tebibytes per second. It is noted that this is the first Ceph-based cluster that was able to achieve such an indicator, but before obtaining the presented result, engineers had to overcome a series of not obvious pitfalls. For example, to increase productivity by 10-20% it was […]

Giant 316MP image sensor unveiled - almost the size of a saucer

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STMicroelectronics has released the world's largest image sensors with a resolution of approximately 18K × 18K pixels. Only four such sensors can be produced on one 300 mm silicon wafer. It's not a wafer-sized Cerebras processor, but it's still a silicon chip that's bound to impress. Image source: STMicroelectronicsSource: 3dnews.ru

Haier forced the developer of Home Assistant plugins to remove them from public access

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Major home appliance manufacturer Haier has issued a license revocation notice to a software developer for creating Home Assistant plugins for the company's home appliances and publishing them on GitHub. Haier is a multinational home appliance and consumer electronics corporation that sells a wide range of products under the brands General Electric Appliances, Hotpoint, Hoover, Fisher & Paykel and Candy. German […]

Collaborative development platform SourceHut was taken down for 7 days due to a DDoS attack

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The developers of the collaborative development platform SourceHut published a report on an incident, as a result of which the service was disrupted for 7 days due to a prolonged DDoS attack, for which the project’s infrastructure was not ready. Basic services were restored on the third day, but some services were unavailable from January 10 to January 17. At the initial stage of the attack, the developers did not have time to react […]

Samsung provides support for JPEG XL image format

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Samsung has added support for the JPEG XL image format to the camera app included with the Galaxy S24 smartphones. Previously, Apple, Facebook, Adobe, Mozilla, Intel, Krita, The Guardian, libvips, Cloudinary, Shopify and the Free Software Foundation were also among the supporters of the format. Previously, Google removed an experimental implementation of JPEG XL from the Chromium codebase, […]

KDE has improved scaling support and added autosaving in Dolphin

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Nate Graham, a QA developer on the KDE project, has published a report on preparations for the KDE 6 release scheduled for February 28th. The KDE Plasma 6.0 and KDE Gears 6.0 codebase has been forked into a separate repository, and the master branch has begun accumulating changes for KDE Plasma 6.1 and KDE Gears 24.05. Among those included in the thread […]

Apple will open access to the NFC chip in the iPhone for third-party developers - so far only in Europe

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Apple has expressed its readiness to provide the ability to make contactless payments using iOS devices through mobile wallets and third-party payment services in the European Economic Area. The company believes that this will help dispel the concerns of the main industry regulator, the European Commission, about possible violations of competition rules in force in the region. Image source: Jonas Leupe / unsplash.comSource: […]

Peregrine lunar lander burns up in Earth's atmosphere as fuel leak derails mission

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The Peregrine lunar lander ended its mission on Friday, burning up in Earth's atmosphere even though its goal was to land on the lunar surface. Based on the latest telemetry received from Peregrine, Astrobotic estimates that the spacecraft disintegrated at approximately 16:04 EST on January 18 (00:04 Moscow time on January 19) in the skies over the South Pacific […]

iPhone 16 will receive a new mechanical button to control the camera

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Apple plans to place a mechanical button to control the camera on the body of future iPhone 16 series smartphones, a number of authoritative sources have reported. It is expected that it will be located at the bottom of the right side of the smartphone body and when shooting in portrait orientation it will be convenient to interact with it using your index finger - just like with the shutter button on cameras. […]

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