Microsoft could have prevented last year's hacker attack on its services, in which attackers managed to gain access to the contents of the mailboxes of US government employees, including those working in the field of national security. This is stated in a report released this week by the US Cybersecurity Review Board (CSRB), part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Source […]
Giant Bomb journalist Jeff Grubb, in a recent episode of the Giant Bombcast podcast, mentioned where and when the remake of the cult horror game Silent Hill 2 from the Polish studio Bloober Team could get a release date. Image source: KonamiSource: 3dnews.ru
Former Google employees have teamed up to create a startup that will develop advanced AI chips. According to Bloomberg, the new products will be designed to train large language models (LLM), and the company has already raised $25 million for its own initiatives. In an interview with Bloomberg, company founders Mike Gunter and Reiner Pope said Google has managed to speed up […]
A month after Apple's reluctant capitulation to Europe's Digital Markets Act, only one third-party iOS app store is fully operational in the region. This is Mobivention's business-focused platform that allows companies to distribute their own applications to their employees. But in the foreseeable future the number of sites will increase. Epic Games Store and MacPaw Setapp have been announced, but may be the first to […]
Quietly and unnoticed, not for the sake of lulz, but for work, 6 months after the first major, Bun 1.1 was released. Bun is an alternative JavaScript and TypeScript runtime implementation compatible with NodeJS. The minor version fixed more than a thousand errors, added new functions and APIs, and implemented official Windows support (it was considered unstable in version 1.0). Improvements and […]
Among the developers of the systemd system manager, there is a discussion about reducing the dependencies of the libsystemd library, which links not only to systemd components, but also to many external applications. For example, in Fedora, more than 150 packages use libsystemd in their dependencies. The initiator of the discussion believes that adding additional third-party libraries to libsystemd that are not controlled by systemd developers significantly increases the attack surface […]
The developers of the Mojo programming language have begun converting the project's developments into open source software. The first to open source was the standard library code, which is now available under the Apache 2.0 license with exceptions from the LLVM project that allow mixing with code under the GPLv2 license. In addition to publishing code, the development process has shifted towards openness and the ability to communicate third-party changes through submitting pull requests to GitHub. […]
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
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 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 […]
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 […]
The creators of the Fallout series based on post-apocalyptic role-playing games from Bethesda Softworks presented a behind-the-scenes video about the work on the show, and the IGN portal shared some new footage from it. Image source: IGNSource: 3dnews.ru
