In mid-October, the Chinese company EHang received a flight certificate in China, allowing it to operate EH216-S flying unmanned taxis in the country's airspace. By March, the company had already begun accepting pre-orders for these aircraft at prices starting from $330. Outside of China, by the way, such a flying taxi will cost all of $000, but the license for them […]
Speaking about the rise of the automobile market in the Russian Federation in its current state, it is important to remember that on April 2499, changes to customs legislation came into force, making it meaningless to import cars through neighboring countries of the Customs Union, which was previously cheaper than direct imports. Directly new electric vehicles, which are mainly imported into the country, sold XNUMX units in March. This is the most [...]
The historical role-playing action movie “The Troubles” from the Russian studio Cyberia Nova, released last week, is the main, but far from the only domestic development that was supported by the Internet Development Institute (IRI). Image source: Cyberia Nova Source: 3dnews.ru
The Arch Linux developers have announced a change aimed at improving compatibility with Windows games running through Wine or Steam (using Proton). Similar to the change in the Fedora 39 release, the sysctl vm.max_map_count parameter, which determines the maximum number of memory mapping areas available to a process, has been increased by default from 65530 to 1048576. The change is included in the filesystem package 2024.04.07-1. Using […]
The release of the apt-mirror2 4 toolkit has been published, designed to organize the work of local mirrors of apt-repositories of distributions based on Debian and Ubuntu. Apt-mirror2 can be used as a transparent replacement instead of the apt-mirror utility, which has not been updated since 2017. The main difference from apt-mirror2 is the use of Python with the asyncio library (the original apt-mirror code was written in Perl), as well as the use of […]
The PumpkinOS project attempted to create a re-implementation of the PalmOS operating system used in Palm communicators. PumpkinOS allows you to directly run applications created for PalmOS, without using a PalmOS emulator and without requiring the original PalmOS firmware. Applications built for the m68K architecture can run on systems with x86 and ARM processors. The project code is written in C […]
Almost 5 years after the last release, the GNU Stow 2.4 package management system has been released, using symbolic links to separate package contents and associated data into separate directories. The Stow code is written in Perl and is licensed under the GPLv3. Stow takes a simple and different approach to […]
Over the course of two years, sanction pressure has greatly changed the state of affairs on the Russian market of knowledge management systems (Knowledge Management System, KMS) and brought to the forefront domestic analogues that can offer not only similar functionality, but also additional advantages. Source: 3dnews.ru
Quantum announced the ActiveScale Z200 object storage system, designed to work with AI applications and tasks that involve intensive information exchange. Thanks to flexible scaling, the new product is suitable for creating large data lakes. ActiveScale Z200 is an All-Flash solution. The device is made in a 1RU form factor and is designed to install ten NVMe SSDs with a capacity of 15,36 TB. Thus, the total capacity […]
Samsung has announced a solution called the CXL Memory Module - Box (CMM-B): an array of CXL memory modules designed for rack mounting. The new product is compatible with Supermicro Plug and Play rack-mount scalable solutions. Let us remind you that CXL (Compute Express Link) is a high-speed interconnect that ensures interaction between the host processor and accelerators, memory buffers, input/output devices, etc. CXL is based […]
Kent Overstreet, the developer of the Bcachefs file system, proposed patches that allow the Linux kernel to work with the Bcachefs file system even after a significant amount of metadata has been damaged, if necessary rebuilding the damaged b-trees using metadata from the inode and dirent structures. The changes were accepted by Linus Torvalds and included in today's test update to the 6.9-rc3 kernel. The changes ensure the mounting of damaged file systems and provide access […]
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
