Author: ProHoster

At CES 2024, Mercedes-Benz showed a prototype of the electric Geländewagen with a “tank turn” function

The car, which will be designated EQG in its production version, has already been demonstrated by Mercedes-Benz in sketches and videos. The German automaker has been nurturing the idea of ​​releasing an electric version of the famous Geländewagen (G-Klasse) for a long time, and at CES 2024 the pre-production version was demonstrated in light camouflage, which did not hide the shape and size of the body. Image source: Car and DriverSource: 3dnews.ru

New article: Cosmos 2023

2023 continued the trends in space activity of recent years. There were bright premieres, successes, and failures. Let's talk about the most notable events of the past yearSource: 3dnews.ru

New article: 2023 results: PC processors

In 2023, we did not see either processors based on the AMD Zen 5 architecture, nor the new Intel desktop platform with Arrow Lake processors. But this does not mean that the year turned out to be uninteresting, and now we will prove this by recalling the main processor announcements over the past year. Source: 3dnews.ru

EKWB introduced water blocks for Intel processors with a giant LGA 7529 socket

EK Water Blocks (EKWB) announced the EK-Pro CPU WB 7529 and 7529 Rack water blocks for liquid cooling systems of future Intel Xeon processors in the LGA 7529 version, in particular, Sierra Forest (Birch Stream platform). The appearance of the latter on the commercial market is expected in the first half of this year. These processors will have up to 288 E-cores, and therefore they will need effective cooling. […]

Results of GNU Hurd development for the 4th quarter of 2023

On January 9, the final news for the 3rd quarter of 2023 was published in the official news section of the GNU Hurd project: Samuel Thibault fixed the default PIE Hurd for gcc and added support for static PIE. He also added a whatis command to the GNU Mach kernel debugger, which can determine what an address points to (stack? port? kalloc?...). Was […]

GodotOS shell release

The release of GodotOS - an interface for operating systems, entirely created in the Godot game engine. GodotOS allows you to work with folders, edit text files, view images, play games and much more in a single, polished interface that can be used even on the Internet. The developers note that GodotOS is not so much a serious project as an experimental toy. GodotOS is designed to push […]

Shotcut release 23.12.15/XNUMX/XNUMX

Quietly and surprisingly unnoticeably, on December 15, 2023 (almost a month ago!) the Shotcut development team released version 23.12.15. This version is a small collection of fixes and updates, such as: Fixing crashes when launching Wayland in Ubuntu 22.04 and 23.10 - installation of qt6-wayland may be required (the bug appeared in version 23.11 of the program). This causes Wayland support to break on Ubuntu […]

Meshtastic - implementation of a self-sufficient mesh network based on LoRa transmitters

The Meshtastic project is developing an open communication platform for building a self-sufficient decentralized messaging network in which each point in the network communicates through neighboring points, without the use of centralized routers. To broadcast the signal, transceivers based on the LoRa protocol are used, allowing data to be transmitted in an unlicensed frequency range at a speed of several kilobits per second over distances of tens or even hundreds […]