Author: ProHoster

TSMC intends to launch production of 6nm chips in Japan

The joint venture between TSMC, Sony and Denso, which is being built in southwest Japan, should begin producing serial products next year. In the future, it will master the production of 28-nm and 12-nm components, but the matter will not be limited to one enterprise in this territory. Japanese media report that another TSMC plant will be built here, which will be able to produce 6nm chips. Image source: […]

Global chipmakers will pay dearly if China cuts off supplies of gallium and germanium

In August of this year, as CNN notes, citing official statistics, Chinese companies did not supply gallium and germanium outside their country, since they were temporarily unable to work in the export direction due to the need to obtain licenses, which they acquired only in September. Finding alternatives to gallium and germanium from China could become a problem for the entire world […]

Qualcomm will lay off 1258 employees in California

In the current fiscal year, Qualcomm expects to see a 19% decline in revenue, so as part of its efforts to reduce costs, it is forced to reduce its headcount now. According to CNBC, the company's two California offices will lose 1285 employees by mid-December. This corresponds to approximately 2,5% of the company's total workforce. Image source: Times […]

PipeWire 0.3.81 released

PipeWire is a multimedia server designed for outputting and processing audio and video streams in real time. Compatibility with PulseAudio, JACK and ALSA APIs is available for clients. The new version is the first RC for version 1.0. Major changes Jackdbus support is enabled by default. IRQ-based scheduling in ALSA has been improved and is enabled by default for the […]

Daggerfall Unity 0.16.1 Release Candidate

Daggerfall Unity is an open source implementation of the Daggerfall engine with a native version for GNU/Linux on the Unity3d engine. The source code is distributed under the MIT license. Release Candidate Daggerfall Unity 12 was released on October 0.16.1. This release contains several localization bug fixes and fixes. Now Daggerfall Unity is no longer beta, virtually all functionality is implemented, no more new features are planned. […]

fheroes2 1.0.9: new interface and control elements, improved AI, first objects in the editor

Hello, players and fans of Heroes of Might and Magic 2! We present the next update of the fheroes2 game engine. Our team would like to tell you what's new in the new version 1.0.9. Using standard resources of the original game, the developers of our team generated a new window for “Hot Keys” to make it more convenient for users to understand and customize the game for themselves. In addition to these players […]

Incident with the substitution of obscene expressions in the Ubuntu 23.10 installer

Shortly after the release of Ubuntu 23.10, users were faced with the inability to download assemblies of the desktop edition of the distribution, which were removed from the boot servers due to an emergency replacement of installation images. The replacement was caused by an incident, as a result of which the vandal managed to ensure that offensive anti-Semitic expressions and obscenities were included in files with translations of installer messages into Ukrainian (translation). Proceedings have been initiated into how […]

New article: Microelectromechanics - the right path to “smart dust”?

Microelectromechanical systems can be considered as an intermediate stage on the path to futuristic nanomachines - and at the current level of technology, unlike the latter, it is quite achievable. However, is it possible in principle to continue to effectively reduce the scale of current MEMS - without compromising their functionality? Source: 3dnews.ru

Hackers infected dozens of developers' games on Steam with malware

Valve reported that some time ago, attackers hacked the accounts of several dozen developers on the Steam platform and added malware to their games. It is noted that the attack affected less than 100 Steam users. Valve promptly warned them of the danger via email. Image source: ValveSource: 3dnews.ru

Fujitsu is preparing a 2nm 150-core MONAKA Arm server processor with support for PCIe 6.0 and CXL 3.0

Fujitsu held a briefing for the media and analysts at the Kawasaki plant this week, where it talked about the development of the MONAKA server processor, which is scheduled to appear on the market in 2027, writes the resource MONOist. The company first announced the creation of a new generation of CPUs in the spring of this year, and the Japanese government allocated part of the funds for development. As reported by Naoki […]

Ubuntu 23.10 distribution release

The release of the Ubuntu 23.10 “Mantic Minotaur” distribution has been published, which is classified as an intermediate release, updates for which are generated within 9 months (support will be provided until July 2024). Ready-made installation images are created for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, UbuntuKylin (Chinese edition), Ubuntu Unity, Edubuntu and Ubuntu Cinnamon. Basic […]

Release of P2P VPN 0.11.3

The release of P2P VPN 0.11.3 took place - an implementation of a decentralized virtual private network that works on the Peer-To-Peer principle, in which participants are connected to each other, and not through a central server. Network participants can find each other through a BitTorrent tracker or BitTorrent DHT, or through other network participants (peer exchange). The application is a free and open analogue of VPN Hamachi, written in [...]