No matter how much you want to roll your eyes at the sight of yet another project with the word West in the title, your hands still involuntarily reach for your hat, your trusty six-shooter and the “buy” button—the surroundings beckon. However, Blood West is able to please not only with its favorite aesthetics - we’ll tell you what else right now. Source: 3dnews.ru
Despite its significant impact on the market for artificial intelligence systems, OpenAI maintains its startup status and is funded by investors through private placements. According to Bloomberg, the next round of financing could value OpenAI's capitalization at $100 billion, which would put the startup in second place by this criterion after the aerospace company SpaceX. Image source: Unsplash, Andrew NeelSource: 3dnews.ru
With the expansion of artificial intelligence systems, whose large language models are trained on huge amounts of publicly available data, copyright scandals arise every now and then. For this reason, Apple, according to The New York Times sources, wants to create legal conditions for training its artificial intelligence systems, paying publishers at least $50 million for access to […]
The release of the GNU Autoconf 2.72 package has been published, which provides a set of M4 macros for creating auto-configuration scripts for building applications on various Unix-like systems (based on the prepared template, the “configure” script is generated). The new version adds support for the future C language standard - C23, the publication of the final version of which is expected next year. Support for C compilers using variants of the […]
The editors of Digital Foundry, represented by John Linneman, Alex Battaglia and Oliver Mackenzie, summed up the results of 2023 in a special video, choosing games with the best graphics. Image source: Steam (Porkhammer)Source: 3dnews.ru
The New Year holidays are just around the corner, and layoffs in the gaming industry continue. The American company tinyBuild has closed its indie publishing house Versus Evil, firing all its employees. Image source: Stoic StudioSource: 3dnews.ru
On December 21, the European supercomputer MareNostrum 5 with a performance of 314 Pflops was officially launched at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS). The ceremony dedicated to the machine, created as part of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) project, was attended by the Chairman of the Government of Spain. MareNostrum 5 represents the largest investment ever made by Europe […]
A release of the labwc 0.7 (Lab Wayland Compositor) project is available, developing a composite server for Wayland with features reminiscent of the Openbox window manager (the project is touted as an attempt to create an alternative to Openbox for Wayland). Of the features of labwc, minimalism, compact implementation, extensive customization options and high performance are called. The project code is written in C language and distributed under the GPLv2 license. As a basis […]
The Lazarus development team is pleased to announce the release of Lazarus 3.0, an integrated development environment for Free Pascal. This release is still built with the FPC 3.2.2 compiler. In this release: added support for Qt6, based on version 6.2.0 LTS; The minimum Qt version for lazarus 3.0 is 6.2.7. Gtk3 binding has been completely redesigned; for Cocoa, numerous memory leaks have been fixed and support […]
Researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA) have introduced a new type of Mayhem attack that uses the Rowhammer dynamic RAM bit distortion technique to change the values of stack variables used as flags in the program to decide whether authentication and security checks have passed. Practical examples of the attack are demonstrated to bypass authentication in SUDO, OpenSSH and MySQL, […]
After almost two years of development, the release of the integrated development environment Lazarus 3.0, based on the FreePascal compiler and performing tasks similar to Delphi, has been published. The environment is designed to work with the release of the FreePascal 3.2.2 compiler. Ready-made installation packages with Lazarus are prepared for Linux, macOS and Windows. Among the changes in the new release: Added a set of widgets based on Qt6, built with […]
The release of Tails 5.21 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), a specialized distribution kit based on the Debian package base and designed for anonymous access to the network, has been released. Anonymous exit to Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections, except traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by default by the packet filter. Encryption is used to store user data in the save user data between runs mode. […]
