Author: ProHoster

Canada bans installation of Kaspersky and WeChat on government devices

Canada has banned the use of Chinese messaging app WeChat and Russian Kaspersky Lab antivirus software on government mobile devices. This is due to concerns about privacy and security risks. The statement was made by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat after Canada's Information Technology Agency determined that "a suite of WeChat and Kaspersky applications pose an unacceptable level of risk to privacy and […]

Elon Musk promised that Tesla Cybertruck will be able to accelerate to 100 km/h in less than three seconds

At the end of this month, Tesla will begin delivering the first commercial Cybertruck pickup trucks to owners, so Elon Musk is not shy about talking about the consumer properties of these unusual cars. He recently recalled that the electric car will be able to accelerate to 100 km/h in less than 3 seconds, and also announced Tesla's ability to produce about 200 pickup trucks per year. Let us remind you that […]

Release of the Tails 5.19 distribution

The release of Tails 5.19 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), a specialized distribution kit based on the Debian package base and designed for anonymous access to the network, has been released. Anonymous exit to Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections, except traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by default by the packet filter. Encryption is used to store user data in the save user data between runs mode. […]

Bloodborne Kart finally gets a PC release date

The unofficial studio FanSoftware, led by programmer Lilith Walther, has revealed the release date of its arcade racing game Bloodborne Kart, based on the gothic action game Bloodborne from FromSoftware. Image source: FanSoftwareSource: 3dnews.ru

NVIDIA proprietary driver release 545.29.02

NVIDIA has announced the release of a new branch of the proprietary driver NVIDIA 545.29.02. The driver is available for Linux (ARM64, x86_64), FreeBSD (x86_64) and Solaris (x86_64). NVIDIA 545.x became the sixth stable branch after NVIDIA opened components running at the kernel level. Source codes for the nvidia.ko, nvidia-drm.ko (Direct Rendering Manager), nvidia-modeset.ko and nvidia-uvm.ko (Unified Video Memory) kernel modules from the new NVIDIA branch, […]

T-FLEX CAD worked under Linux without Wine

At the last October annual conference “Constellation CAD 2023”, the developers of the Top Systems company demonstrated a version of their flagship product for engineering design - T-FLEX CAD, assembled for the Linux operating system. During the live demonstration, the process of opening large-volume assembly models and the main functions for navigating in a 3D window were shown. Participants of the event noted the high speed of the system [...]

The bcachefs file system is included in Linux 6.7

After three years of negotiations, Linus Torvalds adopted the bcachefs file system as part of Linux 6.7. Development has been carried out by Kent Overstreet over the past ten years. Functionally, bcachefs is similar to ZFS and btrfs, but the author claims that the file system design allows for higher levels of performance. For example, unlike btrfs, snapshots do not use COW technology, which allows […]

The Midori 11 web browser has been introduced, translated into the Floorp project's developments

The Astian company, which absorbed the Midori project in 2019, introduced a new branch of the Midori 11 web browser, which switched to the Mozilla Gecko engine used in Firefox. Among the main goals of Midori development, concern for user privacy and lightness are mentioned - the developers set themselves the task of making a browser that is the most undemanding of resources among products based on the Firefox engine and is suitable for […]

Tens of thousands of GPUs in international waters - Del Complex figured out how to bypass sanctions and restrictions for AI

Technology company Del Complex has announced the BlueSea Frontier Compute Cluster (BSFCC) project, which involves the creation of independent city-states in international waters, including powerful computing systems and not limited by the tightening laws of the United States and Europe regarding AI developments. Del Complex claims that within the framework of the BSFCC independent structures will be created that meet the requirements of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and […]