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MSI unveils MAG curved QHD gaming monitors on Rapid VA panels - up to 32 inches and up to 240 Hz

MSI introduced the MAG 275CQRF-QD, MAG 325CQRF-QD, MAG 275CQRFX and MAG 325CQRFX gaming monitors. Key features of the new products are that they all use curved Rapid VA matrices with a radius of curvature of 1000R, a response time of 1 ms (GtG), support for a resolution of 2560 × 1440 pixels and backlighting with quantum dots (Quantum Dot, QD). Image source: MSI Source: 3dnews.ru

For the smartphone market, the third quarter was the worst in the last ten years.

Statistics on smartphone sales in the third quarter of this year published by Counterpoint Research specialists suggest that the period was the worst among all third quarters over the past ten years. At the same time, smartphone sales, although they decreased by 8% year-on-year, sequentially increased by 2%. Image source: Counterpoint Research Source: 3dnews.ru

Assessing problems with maintaining open source projects and using old dependencies

Sonatype, a company specializing in protection against attacks manipulating the substitution of software components and dependencies (supply chain), published the results of a study (PDF, 62 pages) of problems with dependencies and maintenance of open source projects in the languages ​​Java, JavaScript, Python and .NET, presented in Maven Central, NPM, PyPl and Nuget repositories. Over the year, there has been an increase in the number of projects in monitored open ecosystems in […]

New article: Top 10 smartphones under 20 thousand rubles (2023)

It seems that this is becoming a tradition: we are again making a selection of inexpensive smartphones, while stores set prices in accordance with the most gloomy forecasts about the ruble exchange rate. What can you buy today that is acceptable at a price below 20 thousand rubles? How are things on the market in general? Let's figure it out Source: 3dnews.ru

Release of OpenBSD 7.4

The release of the free UNIX-like operating system OpenBSD 7.4 is presented. The OpenBSD project was founded by Theo de Raadt in 1995 after a conflict with the NetBSD developers that denied Theo access to the NetBSD CVS repository. After that, Theo de Raadt and a group of like-minded people created a new open […]

China successfully tests optical satellite technology in space for future 6G networks

A group of scientists from China has announced the creation of a communication device that could play a decisive role in the development of 6G networks. The equipment, based on “space optical switching technology,” was launched into orbit for testing in August 2023. The device installed on the satellite is capable of transmitting light signals without converting them into electrical impulses. The team of Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision […]

OpenBSD 7.4

Today, October 16, 2023, a new release of OpenBSD was released - version 7.4. In addition to the fact that this is the 55th release, traditionally the new version is full of improvements, such as: the appearance of functionality for updating the microcode of AMD processors, including fixing the 'Zenbleed' bug; DRM and graphics driver updates; numerous improvements to the SMP subsystem (less and less locks in the kernel!); […]