Author: ProHoster

The Fedora project introduced a new version of the Fedora Slimbook laptop

The Fedora project has introduced a new version of the Fedora Slimbook ultrabook, equipped with a 14-inch screen. The device is a more compact and lighter version of the first model, which comes with a 16-inch screen. There are also differences in the keyboard (no side number keys and more familiar cursor keys), video card (Intel Iris X 4K instead of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti) and battery (99WH instead of 82WH). […]

Dozens of massive stars are hastily leaving our galaxy, and now scientists have figured out why

Since the early 2000s, extensive astrometric observations of the sky began, which provided an accurate picture of the speed and direction of movement of stars. We began to see the Universe around us in dynamics. About 20 years ago, the first star leaving our galaxy was discovered. It turned out that there are quite a lot of runaway stars and most of them are heavy, the study showed. An example of a rogue star creating a shock wave […]

Apple iPhone 15 Pro has learned to shoot 3D video for the Vision Pro headset - the first videos impressed journalists

With the release of Apple's iOS 17.2 update, which is currently in beta and expected to release in December, iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max will be able to capture spatial video with depth data, and can be viewed on a mixed media headset reality Vision Pro. Some journalists were lucky enough to try out the new product in practice. Image source: […]

From the beginning of 2024, 160 government and other organizations will be connected to the all-Russian system for countering DDoS attacks

Russia has launched testing of a system for countering DDoS attacks based on TSPU, and from the beginning of 2024, 160 organizations should connect to this system. The creation of the system began this summer, when Roskomnadzor announced a tender for its development worth 1,4 billion rubles. In particular, it was necessary to improve the TSPU software, create a coordination center for protection against DDoS attacks, supply […]

FFmpeg 6.1 multimedia package release

After ten months of development, the FFmpeg 6.1 multimedia package is available, which includes a set of applications and a collection of libraries for operations on various multimedia formats (recording, converting and decoding audio and video formats). The package is distributed under LGPL and GPL licenses, FFmpeg development is carried out adjacent to the MPlayer project. Among the changes added in FFmpeg 6.1, we can highlight: The ability to use the Vulkan API for hardware […]

In October, TSMC's revenue grew sequentially by 34,8%

By the third ten days of October, TSMC had only managed to report the results of the third quarter, and formed its forecast for the fourth from contradictory theses. If demand for 3nm products and components for artificial intelligence systems should push revenue upward now, then maintaining increased inventories should prevent this. October, meanwhile, showed an increase in revenue to $7,52 billion. Source […]

Cruise is forced to begin reducing the staff servicing its unmanned taxis

A traffic accident in San Francisco in early October had a significant impact on Cruise, which has been licensed to commercially operate self-driving taxis in the city since August. Their work was stopped throughout the country, and now the company is also forced to lay off contractors who were involved in maintaining the fleet. Image source: CruiseSource: 3dnews.ru

GNOME Foundation received 1 million euros for development

The non-profit organization GNOME Foundation received a grant of 1 million euros from the Sovereign Tech Fund. These funds are planned to be spent on the following: creating a new stack of assistive technologies for people with disabilities; encryption of user home directories; GNOME Keyring update; improved hardware support; investments in QA and Developer Experience; extension of various freedesktop APIs; consolidation and improvements to GNOME platform components. Foundation […]

Wine 8.20 release

An experimental release of an open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 8.20 - took place. Since the release of version 8.19, 20 bug reports have been closed and 397 changes have been made. The most important changes: The development of the DirectMusic API has continued. The capabilities of the winegstreamer library have been expanded. Added support for the functions find_element_factories, factory_create_element, wg_muxer_add_stream, wg_muxer_start, wg_muxer_push_sample, ProcessSample. Export to the main user environment of bindings for those launched under […]

New article: The Invincible - we have flies. Review

Hard science fiction is what we love, what we miss, and what we hardly expect from modern art. After all, now it’s already unfashionable retro. But the seeds sown in us by the classics will inevitably sprout. And a game will appear based on Stanislaw Lem’s seemingly unsuitable novel. An idea doomed to fail? Or vice versa, […]