Author: ProHoster

Representatives of the US trucking industry appealed to the country's authorities to support the development of autopilot

Autopilot technology company Cruise faced a major challenge this fall, as it lost two of its founding executives after a pedestrian accident in October and has yet to decide to resume driverless rides outside of California. Industry representatives said in a group message to the US Department of Transportation that the development of autopilot technologies needs […]

Xiaomi has released a unique smart bracelet, Genshin Impact Tartaglia Smart Band 8 Pro Limited Edition, based on the popular game

For fans of the open-world adventure role-playing game Genshin Impact, Xiaomi, in collaboration with developer miHoYo, has introduced a special version of the Smart Band 8 Pro - Genshin Impact Tartaglia Limited Edition. The device is made in the style of the popular Genshin Impact character Childe Tartaglia. Image source: Genshin GlobalSource: 3dnews.ru

pkgconf 2.1.0

On November 22, after more than two months of development, 2.1.0 of the cross-platform console utility pkgconf and the libpkgconf library, written in C with minimal dependencies, was released. The utility was created as an alternative to pkg-config from the freedesktop.org project and is intended to help configure compiler and linker flags; usually in conjunction with autotools utilities. List of changes: the analyzer solution is no longer “flattened”; corrected […]

CMake 3.28

On December 6, 3.28 of the cross-platform build system CMake, written in C++ and distributed under the BSD-3 license, was released. List of major changes: Improved support for C++20 modules in Ninja and Visual Studio generators (VS 2022 and later). Details in cmake-cxxmodules(7); HIP language code for NVIDIA GPUs can now be compiled by the nvcc compiler (NVIDIA CUDA Compiler). Details in […]

GnuPG author founded LibrePGP, a fork of the OpenPGP standard

Werner Koch, the primary developer and creator of the GnuPG (GNU Privacy Guard) project, founded the LibrePGP project, focused on developing an updated alternative specification to the OpenPGP standard. The fork was created in response to changes planned by the IETF working group for the next update to the OpenPGP specification (RFC-4880) and perceived by Koch as questionable in terms of maintaining compatibility and […]

Release of Electron 28.0, a platform for building applications based on the Chromium engine

The release of the Electron 28.0.0 platform has been published, which provides a self-sufficient framework for developing multi-platform user applications, using Chromium, V8 and Node.js components as a basis. The significant change in version number is due to an update to the Chromium 120 codebase, the Node.js 18.18.2 platform and the V8 12.0 JavaScript engine. Among the changes in the new release: Added support for ESM (ECMAScript Modules) JavaScript modules created in […]

Release of the free voxel game engine Minetest 5.8.0

After eight months of development, the release of Minetest 5.8.0 has been published, a free cross-platform sandbox game engine that allows you to create games in the style of MineCraft, using various voxel blocks for players to jointly form various structures and buildings that form a semblance of a virtual world. The gameplay provided by the engine is entirely dependent on a set of mods created in the Lua language. The game is written in C++ and […]