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The .RU domain is 30 years old

Today Runet celebrates its thirtieth anniversary. It was on this day, April 7, 1994, that the international network information center InterNIC officially delegated the national .RU domain for the Russian Federation. Image source: 30runet.ruSource: 3dnews.ru

Elon Musk spoke about plans to colonize Mars and refine the giant Starship rocket

This week, SpaceX's social media account X (formerly Twitter) posted a recording of a presentation that recently took place at the company's Starbase base in Boca Chica, Texas. The presentation was made by the head of SpaceX, Elon Musk, who during his speech spoke about the upcoming test flights of the Starship spacecraft and the company’s plans to organize […]

In the morning - money, in the evening - SMR: Equinix paid $25 million for the right to receive up to 500 MW from Oklo small modular reactors

Equinix has entered into a preliminary agreement with small modular reactor (SMR) creator Oklo, backed by OpenAI chief Sam Altman. According to Datacenter Dynamics, this is the first contract signed by an operator to include the use of SMR. AltC Acquisition Corp's Form S4 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) discloses some details of the transaction. In particular, Equinix […]

New article: MSI MEG Z790 GODLIKE motherboard review: a few words about art

There is a category of computer devices that cannot be assessed in the “price-quality” coordinate system. Simply because they were created without regard to price. Because they are not bought for practicality. MSI MEG Z790 GODLIKE is an example of such a device and, perhaps, the most sophisticated board for the Intel LGA1700 platform that can be bought in Russia. Source: 3dnews.ru

Cloudflare released the first public release of Pingora v0.1.0

On April 5, 2024, Cloudflare presented the first public release of the open source project Pingora v0.1.0 (already v0.1.1). It is an asynchronous multi-threaded framework in Rust that helps create HTTP proxy services. The project is used to create services that provide a significant portion of the traffic to Cloudflare (instead of using Nginx). The Pingora source code is published on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license. Pingora provides libraries and APIs […]

Release of Qt 6.7 framework and Qt Creator 13 development environment

The Qt Company has published a release of the Qt 6.7 framework, in which work continues to stabilize and increase the functionality of the Qt 6 branch. Qt 6.7 provides support for the platforms Windows 10+, macOS 12+, Linux (Ubuntu 22.04, openSUSE 15.5, SUSE 15 SP5, RHEL 8.8 /9.2, Debian 11.6), iOS 16+, Android 8+ (API 23+), webOS, WebAssembly, INTEGRITY, VxWorks, FreeRTOS and QNX. […]

Release of Phosh 0.38, GNOME environment for smartphones

The release of Phosh 0.38, a screen shell for mobile devices based on GNOME technologies and the GTK library, has been published. The environment was initially developed by Purism as an analogue of GNOME Shell for the Librem 5 smartphone, but then became one of the unofficial GNOME projects and is used in postmarketOS, Mobian, some firmware for Pine64 devices and the Fedora edition for smartphones. Phosh uses […]

An estimated 14 million people use the Xfce desktop environment

Alexander Schwinn, who is involved in the development of the Xfce desktop environment and the Thunar file manager, tried to calculate the approximate number of Xfce users. Having assessed the popularity of the main Linux distributions, it was concluded that approximately 14 million users use Xfce. The following assumptions were used in the calculation: The number of all Linux users is estimated at 120 million. Approximately 33% of Linux users […]

Google will add an improved desktop mode to Android 15

Google introduced support for desktop mode back in 2019, in Android 10. However, at that time, this mode did not have an abundance of features and was mainly intended for developers who tested their products in multi-screen use cases. It looks like this may soon change and Android will get a full desktop mode. […]