Author: ProHoster

The most important events in 2023 related to open source projects

A final selection of the most important and notable events of 2023 related to open source projects and information security: Cessation of publication of source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution packages and leaving CentOS Stream as the only public source of code for RHEL packages. Red Hat's dissatisfaction with products created by simple reassembly without changes. Rebuilding distributions (Alma Linux, Rocky Linux, […]

Samsung announced updated Odyssey OLED gaming monitors - from 27 to 49 inches

South Korean company Samsung has announced three Odyssey series OLED gaming monitors, including an updated version of the flagship 49-inch curved Odyssey OLED G9 (G95SD). The new products will be presented to the general public at the annual CES 2024 exhibition, which will be held in Las Vegas next week. Image source: SamsungSource: 3dnews.ru

Scientists have learned how to reliably determine the level of technological development of an alien civilization

Oddly enough, the presence of oxygen and water in the signatures of the atmospheres of exoplanets is not enough for the probable detection of technologically highly developed civilizations there, which a group of European astrophysicists has convincingly substantiated. Scientists have shown that there is a narrow range in the concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere that can reliably indicate the degree of likely technological development of a civilization. Image source: University of Rochester illustration / Michael Osadciw Source: […]

Toxic-0.13.1

toxic is a client application for the tox secure messaging protocol. toxic provides a cli interface, text chat, audio and video calls, file transfer and reception, and several simple games. New in release 0.13.0, released two weeks ago: Added a competitive online mode for the snake game. Added /autoaccept on command to automatically accept incoming file transfers. It has become possible to set a unique name [...]

30 years of the Blender project

On January 2, 2024, the free 3D modeling and animation package Blender turned 30 years old. Blender was developed as a proprietary application by the Dutch animation studio NeoGeo. Development officially started on January 2, 1994, with version 1.00 released a year later. The studio subsequently ceased to exist, and development was transferred to a new company, Not a Number Technologies, in June 1998 […]

Release of text editor Vim 9.1

After a year and a half of development, the text editor Vim 9.1 was released. The Vim code is distributed under its own copyleft license, compatible with the GPL and allowing unlimited use, distribution and reworking of the code. The main feature of the Vim license is related to the reversion of changes - improvements implemented in third-party products must be transferred to the original project if the Vim maintainer considers these improvements […]

Comparing the effectiveness of 20 programming languages

The second edition of the PLB (Programming Language Benchmark) project has been published, aimed at testing the performance of solving typical problems in various programming languages. Unlike the first edition, published in 2011, the new version measures the performance of code for matrix multiplication and solving the 15-queen placement problem, and also additionally evaluates finding solutions to the game Sudoku and determining the intersections of two arrays. […]

Effective management: thanks to the efforts of Mask, the cost of X fell by 3,5 times in a year

After the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk, the social network, renamed X, is not doing well. Recently, things have gotten to the point where the social network has begun to lose major advertisers, which has resulted in a significant reduction in the company’s revenue. As a result, the market value of X also fell. According to the Fidelity fund, in just a year the social network lost […]