After 6 months of development, the Samba 4.20.0 release was presented, which continued the development of the Samba 4 branch with a full implementation of a domain controller and Active Directory service, compatible with the Windows 2008 implementation and capable of servicing all Microsoft-supported versions of Windows clients, including Windows 11. Samba 4 is a multifunctional server product that also provides the implementation of a file server, print service and […]
A survey of 2000 Americans found that 52% of users use ad blockers in their browser. The most popular reason for installing an ad blocker was concern for one's privacy (20%), with reluctance to watch advertising in second place (18%). 9% cited the ability to load pages faster as a reason. The survey was conducted among US residents by Censuswide, a company specializing in independent […]
NVIDIA has published new, even more impressive results in the field of working with large language models (LLM) in the MLPerf Inference 4.0 benchmark. Over the past six months, the already high results demonstrated by the Hopper architecture in inference scenarios have been improved almost threefold. Such an impressive result was achieved thanks to both hardware improvements in the H200 accelerators and software optimizations. Generative AI […]
Qualcomm previously promised that its Arm-based Snapdragon X Elite processor, designed for laptops, will be able to run most Windows games without any problems. As it turned out, the manufacturer proved this a few weeks ago, demonstrating the capabilities of its SoC in games such as Baldur's Gate 3, Control and Redout II. Image source: VideoCardz Source: 3dnews.ru
Since negotiations with a potential strategic partner about financing Fisker’s business failed, and the company’s money was becoming increasingly scarce, it decided to sell off its existing commercial vehicles at significantly reduced prices. In the US, the Fisker Ocean electric crossover is offered with discounts of up to 39%, which can save tens of thousands of dollars. Image source: FiskerSource: 3dnews.ru
Several users of Apple devices reported that they had become victims of a new type of phishing - attackers sent dozens of system password change requests to their devices, preventing them from using the device until they were all closed with consent or refusal. The scammers would then call victims pretending to be Apple support and claim that their account was under attack and […]
Amazon.com Inc. will additionally invest $2021 billion in the AI startup Anthropic, created in 2,75 by former OpenAI employees, as part of a deal concluded last year, writes Bloomberg. Amazon's total investment in Anthropic, taking into account this amount, as well as the investments announced by the company in September last year, will reach $4 billion. As part of the deal, Amazon had the right to […]
Gone are the days of phones that last for weeks. But there are also almost no more devices that creakingly survive half the day. The time has come for averaging. However, there are relative long-livers in it - for example, within the TECNO POVA series, the new representative of which just came to us for testing. Source: 3dnews.ru
Today KDE is releasing a bug fix update for KDE Plasma 6 version 6.0.3 This release adds two weeks of bug fixes from KDE contributors. There were over 149 fixes in total, here are some of them: Smoothed out the hover/unhook animation of the floating panel when using a zoom factor, both when using a zoom factor greater than 100%, and in general. Posts on […]
A release of a specialized distribution kit, Tails 6.1 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), based on the Debian 12 package base, supplied with the GNOME 43 desktop and designed for anonymous access to the network, has been created. Anonymous access to Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections other than traffic through the Tor network are blocked by the packet filter by default. To store user data in […]
The Igor's LAB portal published a photo of an Intel Lunar Lake processor as part of a test reference platform. The latter is equipped with a non-standard mounting system for quickly replacing the tested chips. In addition, the source shared a diagram of future chips. Image source: Igor's LABSource: 3dnews.ru
Google reported that in 2023, hackers used 97 unique zero-day vulnerabilities in software, which is almost one and a half times higher than the previous year, in which 62 such exploits were recorded. However, Google says it is making progress in preventing zero-day attacks, with 2021 such unique vulnerabilities exploited by cybercriminals in 106. Source […]
