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Motorola showed the concept of a bendable smartphone that can be worn on your hand

This week the Lenovo Tech World event took place, during which the developers announced a number of interesting new products. One of them was shown by the Motorola Mobility division. We are talking about a prototype smartphone with a rollable display, which, if necessary, can turn into some kind of smart watch. Image source: Motorola / LenovoSource: 3dnews.ru

Release of nginx 1.25.3, njs 0.8.2 and NGINX Unit 1.31.1

The main branch of nginx 1.25.3 has been released, within which the development of new features continues. The parallel-maintained stable branch 1.24.x contains only changes related to the elimination of serious bugs and vulnerabilities. In the future, based on the main branch 1.25.x, a stable branch 1.26 will be formed. The project code is written in C and distributed under the BSD license. Among the changes: Strengthened […]

Regulators in California have banned Cruise from continuing to operate self-driving taxis without an insurance driver.

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

Microsoft managed to increase net profit by 27% as a result of cost savings

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

Alphabet (Google) returns to double-digit revenue growth, but cloud business falls short of expectations

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 […]

Update X.Org Server 21.1.9 and xwayland 23.2.2 with vulnerabilities fixed

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 […]

Translation of documentation for the IceWM window manager

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

New article: Review and testing of the APNX C1 case: no screws!

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

The best system programming developers have been identified in the Open OS Challenge 2023 competition

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 […]

Firefox 119 release

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 [...]