Author: ProHoster

Even by reducing the supply of electric vehicles, Tesla was able to regain its status as the largest manufacturer in the world.

In the fourth quarter of last year, an event occurred that seemed irrevocable: the Chinese company BYD overtook Tesla in the number of electric vehicles produced and shipped. However, the market situation last quarter allowed Tesla to achieve revenge, and now it can again be considered the largest manufacturer of electric vehicles. Image source: TeslaSource: 3dnews.ru

Adding and using “World” cards has become unavailable in Samsung Pay

Starting today, adding and using cards from the domestic payment system “Mir” has become unavailable in the Samsung Pay mobile payment service. The South Korean company warned about the changes in advance, noting that this will not affect the ability to add and use club cards and loyalty cards in the application. Image source: samsung.comSource: 3dnews.ru

Intel was forced to admit that the contract division had only increased its losses so far.

Intel Corporation is not yet ready to publish a quarterly report, but is no longer shy about talking about the results of the Intel Foundry division, which will now appear as a separate area in the financial statements. Last year, the contract business increased Intel's losses to $7 billion, and revenue decreased from $27,5 to $18,9 billion. The division expects to break even somewhere […]

Firefox 124.0.2 update. Testing the vertical tab bar and tab containers

A maintenance release of Firefox 124.0.2 is available, which offers the following fixes: Fixed a crash with Linux builds for the AArch64 architecture. Resolved an issue with loading web pages and crashing processes with tabs on systems with test builds of Ubuntu 24.04, which arose due to changes to the default AppArmor profile. The problem with the impossibility of restoring bookmarks from a backup copy, which manifests itself […]

New article: Results of March 2024: is the time for generative freedom passing?

The period of euphoria sparkling with unbridled enthusiasm regarding generative AI lasted almost a year and a half - and now, it seems, it is beginning to give way to a time of calmer awareness: why, for what purpose and, most importantly, within what legal framework “smart” machines will help people. The benefit of practical applications of AI - not always positive, by the way - is being found more and more month by month Source: 3dnews.ru

libmui - library for MacOS Classic style interfaces

Hello ENT! A couple of days ago, the libmui library code was published, which allows you to create user interfaces reminiscent of the MacOS Classic operating system. The library's API is also inspired by this OS. The library is written in C and has a minimal set of dependencies. Work is supported only in X11 environments; the author does not plan to support Wayland. The code is published under the MIT license. Source: linux.org.ru

Embox v0.6.2

On April 2, 2024, the next version of the open real-time operating system Embox was released. Among the changes: The file subsystem has been significantly redesigned. Added support for the domestic RISC-V microcontroller k1921vg015. Added a utility for flashing the STM32 MK on the fly. Improved APIs for character and block devices. Improved support for some platforms including RasPi & STM32. Added new nocode annotation to Mybuild. Added […]

ROSA Fresh 12.5 distribution release

The company STC IT ROSA has released a corrective release of the freely distributed and community-developed distribution kit ROSA Fresh 12.5, built on the rosa2021.1 platform. Assemblies designed for the x86_64 platform in versions with KDE Plasma 5, GNOME, Xfce, LXQt and without GUI have been prepared for free download. Users who already have the ROSA Fresh 12 distribution installed will receive the update automatically. […]

The Ussury project is developing a new standard C library

The gradual adaptation of ONTL (Open NT Native Template Library) to the Linux operating system has begun (the ONTL project implements the standard C++11 library, which was used to create executable files for both the NativeAPI user space and the Windows OS kernel). The possibility of using C++ in the Linux kernel is not considered in principle, since it goes against the established tradition. A small part of C functions has been moved to the new […]

Databricks Opens Large DBRX Language Model Outperforms GPT-3.5 Benchmarks

Databricks announced the discovery of a large language model, DBRX, that can be used to create chatbots that answer questions in natural language, solve proposed mathematical problems, can generate content on a given topic, and generate code in various programming languages. The model was developed by Mosaic ML, which was acquired by Databricks for $1.3 billion. For training we used a cluster [...]