Author: ProHoster

Elon Musk announced that Neuralink's next product will give sight to the blind

Neuralink founder and owner Elon Musk has announced Neuralink's next product, Blindsight. As the name suggests, this device is designed to restore vision. A few years ago, Elon Musk said that Neuralink would be able to restore sight to blind people. Now, after the successful demonstration of playing chess using a brain implant, Musk's promises seem to be a matter of […]

Tim Cook personally opened the eighth Apple Store in Shanghai

Apple CEO Tim Cook arrived in Shanghai yesterday, having managed to get acquainted with local attractions and some media personalities, but one of the main purposes of his visit was to personally participate in the opening ceremony of a new brand store in this Chinese metropolis, which became the eighth according to the account within its limits. Image source: AppleSource: 3dnews.ru

Redis changes license to non-free

The authors of Redis announced a change in the project’s license to a double one - Redis Source Available License and SSPLv1. Neither is considered free according to Debian, FSF and Open Source Initiative criteria. Accordingly, new changes to Redis will no longer be published under the BSD license. Fedora developers are thinking about excluding Redis from repositories. Source: linux.org.ru

Red Hat introduced Nova, a driver for NVIDIA GPUs written in Rust

Red Hat has begun work on the Nova project, which develops a new open driver for NVIDIA GPUs, in which GPU initialization and control operations are included in the firmware and performed by a separate GSP (GPU System Processor) microcontroller. The new driver is designed as a module for the Linux kernel and uses the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) subsystem. The project is positioned as a continuation of the development of the driver […]

China launched a satellite that will help bring soil from the far side of the Moon to Earth

Recently, the Long March-8 rocket, carrying the Queqiao-2 satellite, launched from the Wenchang Cosmodrome on the southern Chinese island of Hainan. This is a repeater that will be placed in a highly elliptical orbit around the Moon. The Chang'e 2 mission is planned later this year to return samples from the far side of the Moon. The repeater will help control the process outside the line of sight of ground stations. Rocket […]

Suyu is a new incarnation of the Yuzu emulator

Suyu is a fork of the Yuzu emulator, which ceased to exist due to litigation with Nintendo. The Suyu repository is on Gitlab, (Yuzu used GitHub). Builds are available for Windows, Linux, MacOS (Apple Silicon for sure, unknown about Intel), Android and FreeBSD. Experimental version 0.0.2 is available. Features of the release: complete rebranding; generation of ICNS icons; error processing; initial Qlaunch integration; *for automated builds […]

The Redis DBMS is moving to a proprietary license. Discussion about removing Redis from Fedora

Redis Ltd has announced a change in the license for the Redis DBMS, which belongs to the class of NoSQL systems. Starting with the release of Redis 7.4, the project code will be distributed under two proprietary licenses RSALv2 (Redis Source Available License v2) and SSPLv1 (Server Side Public License v1), instead of the previously used BSD license. Previously, only the code of additional modules was supplied under a proprietary license, […]

Wayland-Protocols 1.34 release

After six months of development, the release of the wayland-protocols 1.34 package has been published, containing a set of protocols and extensions that complement the capabilities of the base Wayland protocol and provide the capabilities necessary for building composite servers and user environments. All protocols sequentially go through three phases - development, testing and stabilization. After completion of the development stage (category “unstable”), the protocol is placed in the “staging” branch and officially included in […]