Author: ProHoster

An object from an inexplicable mass gap between neutron stars and light black holes has been discovered - it was detected by LIGO detectors

On April 5, the first data from a new observation cycle of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, which started a year ago, was published. The first reliably confirmed event was the gravitational wave signal GW230529. This event turned out to be unique and the second such event in the entire history of the detectors. One of the objects of gravitational interaction turned out to be from the so-called mass gap between neutron stars and light black holes, and this is a new mystery. […]

TSMC said the earthquake's impact will not force it to revise its annual revenue forecast.

This past week, the earthquake in Taiwan, which was the strongest in the previous 25 years, caused a lot of concern among investors, since the island is home to advanced chip manufacturing enterprises, including TSMC factories. It decided by the end of the week to say it would not revise its full-year revenue guidance in light of recent events. Image source: TSMC Source: 3dnews.ru

Intel confirms layoffs in sales and marketing department

Intel, as part of its strategy to reduce operating costs, has initiated a new round of layoffs in its sales and marketing department. The move follows a series of previous cuts, signaling the company's extensive efforts to streamline its structure in the face of weaker demand and tougher competition. Image source: Mohamed_hassan / PixabaySource: 3dnews.ru

OpenBSD 7.5

OpenBSD 7.5 is out! The release did not bring with it any fundamental innovations or changes, but, as always, it included a huge number of real patches. Run to update! From the individual points of the changelog I would like to highlight: even fewer kernel locks; updated to 6.6.19 drm; even more support for ARM64 and RISC-V; pinsyscalls(2), which allows you to “nail” syscalls to specific addresses […]

Samsung overtook Apple to reclaim title of largest smartphone vendor in February

Samsung has regained its title as the largest smartphone supplier five months after losing it to Apple, writes the South Korean publication The Korea Times, citing industry experts and analysts. According to the latest data, the company's success is associated with high sales of the high-performance Galaxy S24 series of smartphones equipped with artificial intelligence technologies. Samsung lost the title of world's largest […]

New article: South Park: Snow Day! A holiday, but not for the fans. Review

Two successful role-playing games were released based on South Park, and this time we got a 3D action game. The radical change not only in the genre, but also in the visual style, initially scared off even the fans, but perhaps they were hasty in jumping to conclusions? Let's find out in the reviewSource: XNUMXdnews.ru

Wine 9.6 release

An experimental release of an open implementation of the Win32 API - Wine 9.6 - took place. Since the release of 9.5, 18 bug reports have been closed and 154 changes have been made. The most important changes: In the system call manager (wine_syscall_dispatcher), the state of registers used in the AVX extension is saved. The Direct2D API has improved support for effects. The BCrypt implementation has added support for using OAEP padding […]