Author: ProHoster

NVIDIA intends to switch to an annual update of the GPU architecture - at least for AI

In an effort to maintain its leadership in AI accelerators and high-performance computing (HPC), NVIDIA plans to accelerate the development of new GPU architectures and, in fact, return to an annual schedule for introducing new products. Judging by the plans presented to investors, Blackwell generation GPUs should see the light of day in 2024, and in 2025 it will be replaced by a new […]

Free software is becoming a driver of the Russian IT industry - ХIX Free Software Developers Conference

From September 29 to October 1, the annual XNUMXth conference of free software developers was held in Pereslavl-Zalessky. Participants presented their developments to their colleagues, shared ideas, discussed current problems and ways to solve them. The event was organized and held by the Basalt SPO company in partnership with the A. K. Ailamazyan Institute of Software Systems. All developments presented at the conference are published under free licenses - [...]

Samsung helps developers adapt mobile games to foldable smartphones

Samsung is involved in the development of mobile games to be adapted for folding smartphones of the Galaxy Fold and Flip series. The Korean manufacturer's partners include Epic Games, Tencent, NCSOFT, Krafton, Nexon and Pearl Abyss. Testing of games with target groups is carried out in four countries, reports the Korea Economic Daily. Cooperation with developers is aimed at increasing sales of foldable smartphones in […]

The Core i9-14900K was on average only 2% faster than the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D in Intel's own tests

The flagship 24-core Intel Core i9-14900K processor from the updated Raptor Lake-S Refresh series is on average 2% faster than the flagship 16-core AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D chip with expanded 3D V-Cache memory. This is evidenced by the schedule of internal gaming tests of Intel itself, apparently leaked to the Network from the company's Chinese office before the official announcement of the new chips. Source […]

Google rewrote the pvmfm firmware used in Android in Rust

As part of its efforts to strengthen the security of critical software components of the Android platform, Google has rewritten the pvmfm firmware in Rust, which is used to organize the operation of virtual machines launched by the pVM hypervisor from the Android Virtualization Framework. Previously, the firmware was written in C and implemented on top of the U-Boot bootloader, in the code of which vulnerabilities were previously found […]

Analysts predict Samsung Electronics' quarterly profit to fall fivefold

The high degree of dependence of Samsung Electronics' revenue on the situation in the memory chip market, as noted by Reuters, does not give industry analysts the most optimistic expectations regarding the dynamics of this company's operating profit. As expected, last quarter this figure fell by 80% year-on-year to $1,56 billion. In other words, this is five times less than […]

Unity CEO John Richitello leaves company amid scandal over business model changes

It has become known that John Riccitiello has resigned as president, CEO, chairman and member of the board of directors of Unity. This happened shortly after a scandal related to a change in the company's business model, which intended to start charging a commission to all developers for using its game engine. John Richitello / Image source: ign.com Source: 3dnews.ru

Russian software developers do not have time to respond to vulnerabilities

Russian software developers do not comply with the regulations of the Federal Service for Technical and Export Control regarding the speed of response to detected vulnerabilities, which may result in the revocation of certificates. Kommersant writes about this with reference to data from a FSTEC representative. Image source: Kevin Ku/unsplash.comSource: 3dnews.ru

Composite server Wayfire 0.8 available using Wayland

After almost three years of development, the release of the composite server Wayfire 0.8 has been published, using Wayland and allowing the creation of low-resource user interfaces with 3D effects in the style of 3D plugins for Compiz (switching screens through a 3D cube, spatial layout of windows, morphing when working with windows and so on.). Wayfire supports extension through plugins and provides a flexible customization system. The project code is written […]

New article: Big Windows 11 update - dotting the i's

The recently released major functional update for Microsoft's flagship software platform has puzzled many users with the question: where are the previously announced innovations? We'll tell you how to activate them and why you shouldn't rush into it. Source: 3dnews.ru