After ten months of development, the Endless OS 5.1 distribution has been released, aimed at creating an easy-to-use system in which you can quickly select applications to your taste. Applications are distributed as self-contained packages in Flatpak format. The boot images offered range in size from 1.1 to 18 GB. The distribution does not use traditional package managers, instead offering minimal […]
The release of Alpine Linux 3.19 is available, a minimalistic distribution built on the basis of the Musl system library and the BusyBox set of utilities. The distribution has increased security requirements and is built with SSP (Stack Smashing Protection) protection. OpenRC is used as the initialization system, and its own apk package manager is used to manage packages. Alpine is used to build official Docker container images and […]
Researchers from the City University of New York (CUNY) have confirmed the possibility of ultra-dense data recording in diamond defects. Many levels of information can be written into a tiny space, similar to writing to a multi-level flash memory cell. One square inch of such media can contain 25 GB of data, like a large multi-layer Blu-Ray disc, and the storage reliability will be unimaginable. Image source: AI generation Kandinsky 3.0/3DNewsSource: 3dnews.ru
Earlier this year, Panos Panay, the company's chief product officer who led the development of Windows 11 and Surface devices, left Microsoft. The new management of the division continues to formulate a roadmap for the development of the software platform for the coming years. Against this background, the Windows Central portal has collected information regarding the further development of Windows - it, not surprisingly, will […]
At the beginning of this year, the US authorities began implementing a multi-year subsidy program for citizens to purchase North American-assembled electric vehicles, but starting in January the rules will be tightened - the presence of a Chinese-made traction battery will deprive the electric vehicle of some of the subsidies. China has already recognized such conditions as a violation of WTO rules. Image source: Ford MotorSource: 3dnews.ru
After four months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 255 is presented. Among the most important improvements: support for exporting drives via NVMe-TCP, the systemd-bsod component for full-screen display of error messages, the systemd-vmspawn utility for starting virtual machines, the varlinkctl utility for managing Varlink services , systemd-pcrlock utility for analyzing TPM2 PCR registers and generating access rules, authentication module pam_systemd_loadkey.so. Key changes […]
McDonald's announced a partnership with Google to implement generative AI starting in 2024. The move, aimed at upgrading the company's technology, promises to radically transform the chain's operations, offering customers better service and fresher food. Image source: Waid1995 / PixabaySource: 3dnews.ru
The AMD event, at which the Instinct MI300 and MI300X computing accelerators were once again demonstrated, was used by the company's management to update the forecast for the capacity of the core market. If recently the company estimated this parameter at $150 billion as of 2027, now it has raised the bar to $400 billion. Image source: AMD Source: 3dnews.ru
Elon Musk's aerospace company SpaceX remains private, so it does not disclose its share capital structure and does not sell its shares on the public stock market. This summer, SpaceX's capitalization was estimated at $150 billion, but the next deal could raise this bar to at least $175 billion. Image source: SpaceX Source: 3dnews.ru
UEFI interfaces that boot Windows and Linux devices can be hacked using malicious logo images. Billions of Windows and Linux computers from virtually every manufacturer are vulnerable to a new attack that launches malicious firmware early in the boot process. Thus, the system becomes infected with viruses that are almost impossible to detect or remove using existing protection mechanisms. […]
Acer was the first manufacturer to announce a gaming laptop based on the AMD Ryzen 8040 processors introduced yesterday. The new product, called Nitro V 16, is expected to go on sale in the US no earlier than March, and will appear in other countries in April. The laptop will start at $999 or €1199. Image source: Acer Source: 3dnews.ru
iKS-Consulting has published the results of a study of the commercial data center market in Russia. It noted that the pessimistic forecasts of experts were only partially confirmed, and the data center industry in Russia in 2022 did not reduce turnover, but increased the number of introduced rack spaces by 10,8% year on year. At the end of the study period, the number of rack spaces in Russia amounted to 58,3 thousand. At the end of 2023 […]
