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Instead of an electric car, Apple decided to develop home robots

Journalist Mark Gurman, known for his interest in Apple products, said that the company is exploring the possibility of entering the personal robotics market, which should be a new large-scale project after the canceled development of an electric car. Gurman’s sources wished to remain anonymous, citing the “secrecy” of the project. Image source: unsplash.comSource: 3dnews.ru

Release of the CENO 2.1 web browser, which uses a P2P network to access sites

After a year of development, the release of the mobile web browser CENO 2.1.0 has been published, designed to organize access to information in conditions where direct access to information is impossible, for example, when Internet segments are disconnected from the global network as a result of failures or the actions of attackers. The browser is built on the GeckoView engine (used in Firefox for Android), enhanced with the ability to exchange data via a decentralized P2P network, […]

Release of Redict 7.3.0, a fork of the Redis DBMS

Drew DeVault, author of the Sway user environment, the Hare programming language, the Aerc email client and the SourceHut collaborative development platform, presented the release of the Redict 7.3.0 project, which develops a fork of the Redis DBMS. Redict forked from Redis 7.2.4, the latest version distributed under the BSD license. The changes developed by the Redict project are distributed under the LGPLv3.0 license, but the code borrowed from Redis remains under the […]

The attackers gained access to 174 accounts in the PyPI directory

Administrators of the Python package repository PyPI (Python Package Index) published information about identifying unauthorized access to 174 user accounts of the service. According to representatives of PyPI, the authentication parameters of the affected users were obtained from collections of previously compromised credentials generated as a result of hacks or leaks of user databases of other services. Access to accounts in PyPI was obtained due to the use of […]

A piece of space debris from the ISS crashed into a residential building in Florida

Florida homeowner Alejandro Otero said an object that looked like a piece of space debris crashed into the roof of his home and went through two floors. Presumably, this is part of the ISS's three-ton battery pack, which, according to NASA, should have completely burned out upon re-entry. Fortunately, there were no casualties in the incident. Otero was eventually able to contact […]

Microsoft could have stopped Chinese hackers from hacking US government email last year

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 […]

People from Google founded the startup MatX to develop chips for training AI models

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 […]

What alternative app stores for iPhone will look like, The Verge portal showed

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 […]

Bun 1.1 released

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 […]