Author: ProHoster

Oil giant BP will buy 250 kW electric vehicle charging from Tesla for $100 million

Oil and gas giant BP will become the first company to buy DC fast charging equipment from Tesla for use in its network of charging stations. The initial deal will be worth $100 million. BP Pulse, a dedicated electric vehicle charging division, plans to invest up to $1 billion to create a nationwide network of charging stations in the United States by 2030, of which $500 million […]

The Galaxy Watch 7 will be the first Samsung device to be powered by a 3nm Exynos processor.

Samsung intends to begin production of 3-nanometer chips next year, and plans to master the production of products using 2 nm and 1,4 nm technical processes in 2025 and 2027, respectively. According to online sources, the first Samsung device with a proprietary 3-nanometer processor will be the Galaxy Watch 7 smartwatch, which should be released in the second half of next year. Image source: sammobile.comSource: […]

Electronic circuit simulator Qucs-S 2.1.0 released

Today, October 26, 2023, the Qucs-S electronic circuit simulator was released. The recommended modeling engine for Qucs-S is Ngspice. Release 2.1.0 contains significant changes. Here is a list of the main ones. Added modeling in tuner mode (see screenshot), which allows you to adjust component values ​​using sliders and see the result on graphs. A similar tool is available, for example, in AWR; For Ngspice added […]

Audit results of Tor Browser and Tor infrastructure components

The developers of the anonymous Tor network have published the results of an audit of the Tor Browser and the OONI Probe, rdsys, BridgeDB and Conjure tools developed by the project, used to bypass censorship. The audit was conducted by Cure53 from November 2022 to April 2023. During the audit, 9 vulnerabilities were identified, two of which were classified as dangerous, one was assigned a medium level of danger, […]

AOOSTAR R1 introduced - a hybrid NAS, mini-PC and 2.5GbE router based on Intel Alder Lake-N

In June of this year, AOOSTAR announced the N1 Pro device on the AMD Ryzen 5 5500U processor, combining the functions of a mini-computer, router and NAS. And now the AOOSTAR R1 model has debuted, which has similar capabilities, but uses the Intel Alder Lake-N hardware platform. The device is housed in a housing with dimensions of 162 × 162 × 198 mm. Installed Intel Processor N100 chip (four cores; up to 3,4 […]

Bluetuith v0.1.8 release

Bluetuith is a TUI based Bluetooth manager for Linux that aims to be an alternative to most Bluetooth managers. The program can perform bluetooth operations such as: Connect to and generally manage bluetooth devices, with device information such as battery percentage, RSSI, etc. displayed if available. More detailed information about the device can be […]

Simply Linux 10.2 distribution release

The Basalt SPO company has published the Simply Linux 10.2 distribution kit, built on the 10th ALT platform. The distribution is an easy-to-use and low-resource system with a classic desktop based on Xfce, which provides complete Russification of the interface and most applications. The product is distributed under a license agreement that does not transfer the right to distribute the distribution kit, but allows […]

Open source code for Jina Embedding, a model for vector representation of text meaning

Jina has open-sourced a machine learning model for vector text representation, jina-embeddings-v2.0, under the Apache 2 license. The model allows you to convert arbitrary text, including up to 8192 characters, into a small sequence of real numbers that form a vector that is compared with the source text and reproduces its semantics (meaning). Jina Embedding was the first open machine learning model to have the same performance as a proprietary […]

MySQL 8.2.0 DBMS available

Oracle has formed a new branch of the MySQL 8.2 DBMS and published corrective updates to MySQL 8.0.35 and 5.7.44. MySQL Community Server 8.2.0 builds are prepared for all major Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Windows distributions. MySQL 8.2.0 is the second release formed under the new release model, which provides for the presence of two types of MySQL branches - “Innovation” and “LTS”. Innovation branches, […]