In August of this year, the California Department of Motor Vehicles authorized Cruise Automation to provide 3-hour commercial passenger transportation using driverless taxis throughout San Francisco. This week, such activities were ordered to be suspended until an investigation into the safety of such vehicles is completed. Image source: Cruise AutomationSource: XNUMXdnews.ru
Software giant Microsoft released its quarterly results this week, revealing that the corporation's revenue exceeded analysts' expectations and reached $56,52 billion, and net income increased by 27% thanks to management's efforts to cut costs. Microsoft shares rose almost 4% after trading closed. Image source: MicrosoftSource: 3dnews.ru
Over the past twelve months, Alphabet's quarterly revenue growth rate was measured in single digits, so the results of the past quarter stand out from this trend, demonstrating an 11% increase in revenue to $76,69 billion. At the same time, in the cloud business, revenue dynamics did not meet market expectations, due to why the holding's shares fell in price by 7% after the close of trading. Source […]
Corrective releases of X.Org Server 21.1.9 and DDX component (Device-Dependent X) xwayland 22.2.2 have been published, which ensures the launch of X.Org Server for organizing the execution of X11 applications in Wayland-based environments. The new versions address vulnerabilities that could potentially be exploited for privilege escalation on systems running the X server as root, as well as for remote code execution in configurations […]
Dmitry Khanzhin translated the documentation for the IceWM window manager and created the Russian-language project website - icewm.ru. Currently, the main manual, documentation on creating themes and man pages have been translated. Translations are already included in the package for ALT Linux. Source: opennet.ru
NVIDIA announced that new export restrictions on the supply of high-performance specialized graphics accelerators introduced against China came into force on Monday. Regulators insisted on this, reports Reuters. Image source: NVIDIA Source: 3dnews.ru
Our test laboratory has an original and spacious case with quick-release panels, four pre-installed fans with backlighting, dust filters and the ability to install a video card vertically. Let's try to understand the features of its design, test the cooling efficiency and measure the noise levelSource: 3dnews.ru
British studio SFB Games (Snipperclips, Tangle Tower) has announced its next project. It turned out to be an old-school horror game Crow Country with graphics in the spirit of games for the original PlayStation. Image source: SteamSource: 3dnews.ru
Last weekend, October 21-22, the final of the system programming competition for Linux-based operating systems took place at SberUniversity. The competition is designed to popularize the use and development of open system components, which are the basis for operating systems based on GNU and Linux Kernel components. The competition was held using the OpenScaler Linux distribution. The competition was organized by the Russian software developer SberTech (digital […]
The Firefox 119 web browser was released and a long-term support branch update was created - 115.4.0. The Firefox 120 branch has been transferred to the beta testing stage, the release of which is scheduled for November 21. Key new features in Firefox 119: The Firefox View page has been redesigned to make it easier to access previously viewed content. The Firefox View page brings together information about [...]
Firefox 119 is available. The contents of the Firefox View page are divided into sections “Recent browsing”, “Open tabs”, “Recently closed tabs”, “Tabs from other devices”, “History” (with the ability to sort by site or by date). The icon of the button that opens the Firefox View page has been changed. Recently closed tabs are now always persisted between sessions (browser.sessionstore.persist_closed_tabs_between_sessions). Previously, they were saved only if […]
Canonical has announced a 10-year update period for LTS releases of Ubuntu, as well as for base Linux kernel packages originally shipped in LTS branches. Thus, the LTS release of Ubuntu 22.04 and the Linux 5.15 kernel used in it will be supported until April 2032, and updates for the next LTS release of Ubuntu 24.04 will be generated until 2034. Previously […]
