Oracle has published a corrective release of the VirtualBox 7.0.14 virtualization system, which contains 14 fixes. At the same time, an update of the previous branch of VirtualBox 6.1.50 was created with 7 changes, including support for packages with the kernel from the RHEL 9.4 and 8.9 distributions, as well as the implementation of the ability to import and export images of virtual machines with NVMe drive controllers and media inserted into […]
GitHub has disclosed a vulnerability that allows access to the contents of environment variables exposed in containers used in production infrastructure. The vulnerability was discovered by a Bug Bounty participant seeking a reward for finding security issues. The issue affects both the GitHub.com service and GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) configurations running on user systems. Log analysis and audit […]
It is believed that in ordinary light pulses the electromagnetic field strength changes over time in a sinusoidal manner. Other field shapes were thought to be impossible until Russian physicists recently proposed a game-changing theoretical approach. The discovery will make it possible to generate triangular or rectangular light pulses, which will bring a lot of new things to the operation of quantum computer circuits. Image source: AI generation Kandinsky 3.0/3DNewsSource: 3dnews.ru
The Russian Watt Studio, left without 102 million rubles of state money, was forced to suspend work on the action game Trains: Through Electric Storms at the end of 2022, but returned at the beginning of 2024 with new strength and vision for the project. Image source: Watt StudioSource: 3dnews.ru
At the end of 2023, sales of game consoles in Russia more than doubled in quantitative terms, Kommersant reports, citing information from retail chains and trading platforms. Portable models of the Steam Deck format and retro consoles were especially in high demand. This year they are likely to maintain momentum, while traditional set-top boxes are scaring off some consumers in the Russian Federation […]
After a year of development and 26 experimental versions, a stable release of the open implementation of the Win32 API - Wine 9.0, which incorporated more than 7000 changes, was presented. The key achievements in the new version include the implementation of the WoW64 architecture for running 32-bit programs in a 64-bit environment, driver integration to support Wayland, support for the ARM64 architecture, implementation of the DirectMusic API and support for smart cards. […]
The action-adventure Senua's Saga: Hellblade II from Microsoft-owned studio Ninja Theory is announced for 2024, but the developers are in no hurry to share the exact release date. Insider eXtas1s did it instead. Image source: XboxSource: 3dnews.ru
It is reported that the earthquake that occurred in Japan on January 1, 2024 damaged a unique installation - a gravitational wave detector. There are three such installations in the world - one in the USA, one in Europe and one in Japan. Moreover, the Japanese detector first began observations in May 2023. And he is not destined to start a new scientific season - to repair [...]
Like all representatives of the new generation of computer power supplies, Polaris Pro supports the ATX 3.0 standard and native connection of video cards with a 12VHPWR connector, but at the same time it develops a huge power of 1 W with an efficiency of 300 Plus PlatinumSource: 80dnews.ru
Linux kernel 6.7 has been released. As you know, the main change in this version is the new file system - bcachefs. The developers claim the following capabilities in this FS: copy-on-write (COW), similar to ZFS or btrfs; checksums for all files and directories; support for multiple devices; replication; noise-resistant coding (not yet stable); caching; compression; encryption; snapshots; mode support […]
Jens Axboe, the creator of io_uring and maintainer of the block subsystem in the Linux kernel, was able to increase the number of input/output operations per second (IOPS) by at least 6% (possibly more on full-fledged Linux kernel configurations) with only 5 minutes of coding. The idea is to cache the current time request in the block subsystem for every I/O operation, since […]
System76, the developer of the Linux distribution Pop!_OS, announced progress in developing a custom COSMIC shell, rewritten in the Rust language (not to be confused with the old COSMIC, which was based on the GNOME Shell). The shell has been in development for over two years and is close to the first alpha release, which will mark the readiness of a basic set of features that allow the shell to be considered a working product. Supposed, […]
