A new version of the multi-platform high-performance POP3/IMAP4 server Dovecot 2.3.21 has been published, supporting the POP3 and IMAP4rev1 protocols with popular extensions such as SORT, THREAD and IDLE, and authentication and encryption mechanisms (SASL, TLS, SCRAM). Dovecot remains fully compatible with classic mbox and Maildir, using external indexes to improve performance. Plugins can be used to expand functionality (for example, […]
The Chinese market remains one of the largest in the world, so the weakness of the local economy continues to worry manufacturers around the world. According to official statistics, over the eight months of this year, smartphone production volumes in China fell by 7,5% compared to the same period last year. At the same time, third-party analysts also talk about a decrease in sales volumes. Image source: Huawei TechnologiesSource: 3dnews.ru
Experiments on the use of hydrogen as a fuel in aviation are being conducted not only in the context of its direct combustion, but also as a source of electricity for fuel cells. The Japanese authorities are ready to allocate up to $200 million in government subsidies for the creation of environmentally friendly aviation, and hydrogen air transport is also fully covered by this initiative. Image source: BoeingSource: 3dnews.ru
Restrictions on the supply of American-origin computing accelerators to China, introduced a year ago, were aimed at curbing the country's technological development. The Chinese authorities do not hesitate to set ambitious goals for the national computing infrastructure, even in difficult conditions. In the technology sector, China expects to increase computing power by more than a third by 2025. Image source: NVIDIA Source: 3dnews.ru
The release of VLC media player 3.0.19 has been published, which for systems with Intel and NVIDIA GPUs supports Super Resolution technology, which uses spatial scaling and detail reconstruction algorithms to reduce the loss of image quality when upscaling and displaying at higher resolutions. Other changes include: Improved support for AV1 video. Improved HDR video processing […]
Jordan Petridis, a member of the GNOME QA and release teams, has posted a change request to remove systemd targets from the gnome-session package for running in X11 environments. It is noted that this is the first step towards abandoning support for the X11 protocol in GNOME. However, at the current stage, the remaining functionality required for […]
ASUS has quietly released a high-performance Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5 expansion card for PCIe 5.0 SSDs. This is a significant upgrade over the previous Hyper M.2 x16 Gen4 for PCIe 4.0 drives, potentially doubling throughput to 512 Gbps when using four drives in RAID mode. Image source: ASUS Source: […]
Developers from independent studio Mintrocket are going to soon release a big update for their casual sea adventure Dave the Diver. The update will add a new zone, new creatures and other content to the game. Image source: MintrocketSource: 3dnews.ru
Starfield has become famous not only for being the first IP from Bethesda in the last 25 years, and for its rich graphics, but also for its stringent requirements for video card performance, especially if it is a video card on an NVIDIA chip. Source: 3dnews.ru
The first release of the Incus project has been presented, within which the Linux Containers community is developing a fork of the LXD container management system, created by the old development team that once created LXD. The Incus code is written in Go and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. As a reminder, the Linux Containers community oversaw the development of LXD before Canonical decided to develop LXD separately as an enterprise […]
The Ministry of Digital Development has developed rules for using digital versions of identity documents through the State Services application instead of their traditional paper versions. First of all, this concerns a digital passport. A message about this appeared on the portal of draft legal acts. Image source: Malte Helmhold/unsplash.comSource: 3dnews.ru
Users of the social network X (formerly Twitter) reported the appearance of a new type of advertising on the platform. These are unlabeled ads that cannot be liked or shared with other users. In fact, the new format does not reveal who is behind the ad or whether it is even an ad. At this stage, such advertisements began to appear in personal feeds [...]
