A new study of failed stars - brown dwarfs - has revealed for the first time signs of a previously unseen phenomenon. One of the objects showed signs of aurora, which was impossible to imagine even in principle. On planets neighboring stars, ionospheric aurora is a common occurrence. But for it to arise without outside influence—scientists have never encountered anything like this. […]
Amazon-owned streaming service Twitch intends to cut 35% of its workforce, or about 500 people, in the latest step in a series of job cuts at the company, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. It is quite possible that this will be officially announced today. Image source: Caspar Camille Rubin/unsplash.comSource: 3dnews.ru
On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the project, the developers of the OpenWrt distribution took the initiative to create a community-developed wireless router OpenWrt One (AP-24.X). As a basis for OpenWrt One, it is proposed to use hardware similar to Banana Pi (BPi-R4) boards, which are equipped with open firmware (except for the wireless chip firmware), come with U-Boot and are supported in the Linux kernel. Schemes for your own assembly of the device will be [...]
After three years of development, the Vcc (Vulkan Clang Compiler) research project is presented, aimed at creating a compiler capable of translating C++ code into a representation that can be executed on GPUs that support the Vulkan graphics API. In contrast to GPU programming models based on GLSL and HLSL shader languages, Vcc develops the idea of completely eliminating the use of separate shader languages and […]
At the CES 2024 event taking place these days in Las Vegas, Samsung introduced the new S95D QD-OLED TV, which belongs to the third generation. Its main feature is that, thanks to the highest level of brightness and special coating, the TV is able to broadcast the clearest and brightest picture even in bright sunlight. Image Source: Chris Welch/The VergeSource: […]
It has long been no secret that for the South Korean industrial conglomerate Hyundai Motor Group, the development of light electric-powered aircraft is one of the priority areas of development. At CES 2024, subsidiary Supernal showed off a prototype of the S-A2 aircraft, which it expects to begin operating in the United States in 2028. Image source: SupernalSource: 3dnews.ru
Sennheiser has officially unveiled new versions of its wireless headphones. We are talking about the Momentum True Wireless 4, Momentum Sport models with more reliable case protection and fitness tracking functions, as well as the full-size Accentum Plus. Image source: SennheiserSource: 3dnews.ru
On January 8, the next release of the Solus Linux 4.5 distribution took place. Solus is an independent Linux distribution for modern PCs, using Budgie as its desktop environment and eopkg for package management. Innovations: Installer. This release uses a new version of the Calamares installer. It makes it easy to install using file systems like Btrfs, with the ability to specify your own partition layout, which is […]
The first alpha version of the open-source Medal of Honor engine, OpenMoHAA, has been released in 2024. The goal of the project is to make a cross-platform open source engine that is fully compatible with the original Medal of Honor. Game module: engine crashes fixed; fixed callvote with invalid strings; Fixed issuance of incorrect weapons (bad weapon attachments); Fixed grenade flight; mines are now fully operational; […]
After two months of development, a new version of the statically typed programming language V (vlang) has been published. The main goals in creating V were ease of learning and use, high readability, fast compilation, increased security, efficient development, cross-platform use, improved interoperability with the C language, better error handling, modern capabilities, and more maintainable programs. The project is also developing its graphics library and […]
Arch Linux developers have announced the use of the dbus-broker project as the default implementation of the D-Bus bus. It is claimed that using dbus-broker instead of the classic dbus-daemon background process will improve reliability, increase performance and improve integration with systemd. The ability to use the old dbus-daemon background process as an option is retained - the Pacman package manager will provide a choice in the dbus-broker-units installation […]
A maintenance release of Firefox 121.0.1 is available with the following fixes: Fixes a hang that occurs when loading some sites with multi-column content, such as doordash.com. Fixed an issue where the corner rounding specified via the CSS border-radius property would disappear for a video played on top of another video. Fixed an issue with Firefox not closing correctly, resulting in the inability to use FIDO2 USB keys in applications after […]
