Author: ProHoster

History repeats itself: the antitrust lawsuit against Apple is similar to the browser case against Microsoft in 1999

The US Department of Justice's recently filed 88-page antitrust lawsuit against Apple contains direct references to the 25-year-old US v. Microsoft case. According to the Department of Justice, the case against Microsoft gave Apple, which was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, the opportunity to launch its breakthrough project - the iPod. Now Apple itself finds itself a defendant in antitrust proceedings much like […]

Micron showed huge 5 GB MCRDIMM DDR8800-256 memory modules

Micron showed unusual 2024 GB MCRDIMM RAM modules at the Nvidia GTC 256 conference. These high-height modules are designed for the new generation of server systems, including those based on the future Intel Xeon Scalable Granite Rapids processors. Micron said it has already begun sending samples to interested buyers. Image source: MicronSource: 3dnews.ru

Rust programming language 1.77 release

The release of the Rust 1.77 general-purpose programming language, founded by the Mozilla project, but now developed under the auspices of the independent non-profit organization Rust Foundation, has been published. The language focuses on memory safety and provides the means to achieve high job parallelism while avoiding the use of a garbage collector and runtime (runtime is reduced to basic initialization and maintenance of the standard library). […]

US companies sponsored the Chinese semiconductor exhibition Semicon China, despite sanctions

Last October, American authorities once again tightened sanctions in the field of semiconductor component production technologies against Chinese companies, but this did not stop representatives of American business from showing some interest in the Semicon China industry conference in Shanghai. Those who did not take part in the event could not resist sponsoring it. Image Source: China DailySource: […]

Incident with KDE theme deleting user files

The KDE Project has recommended against installing unofficial global themes and widgets for KDE following an incident involving the deletion of all personal files from a user who installed the Gray Layout theme from the KDE Store, with approximately 4000 downloads. It is believed that the incident was not caused by malicious intent, but by a bug related to the unsafe use of the "rm -rf" command. In global topics […]

GitLab has blocked the Suyu emulator repository

Nintendo secured the blocking of the main Suyu project repository on GitLab, a day after the publication of the first release. The repository was blocked after a complaint was sent to GitLab about the Suyu project violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in force in the United States. An alternative repository running on its own server using the Forgejo platform (a fork of Gitea), as well as a repository with […]

Microsoft has upgraded the repairability of Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6

Microsoft has made repairing the Surface Pro 10 tablet and Surface Laptop 6 much easier than their predecessors. The manufacturer has added special QR codes to the replaced elements, as well as marks indicating the type of component itself, as well as the characteristics of the screws used and the types of tools that are required to replace it. Image source: MicrosoftSource: 3dnews.ru

HP will equip workstations with NVIDIA A800 accelerators intended for China

HP, according to Tom's Hardware, is preparing to release new Z series workstations designed for AI applications. These computers will be equipped with NVIDIA A800 accelerators, which were originally created for China as a “stripped-down” version of the A100 (40 GB). It was assumed that data center operators in China would be able to purchase A800 solutions, which were designed specifically taking into account the sanctions […]

Lawsuits against Apple reduced the company's capitalization by $113 billion

Apple has recently had to face close attention from regulators on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, lawsuits threaten it with multi-billion-dollar fines and are making investors nervous, so Apple's stock quotes fell by 4,1% yesterday, reducing the company's capitalization by $113 billion. In total, from At the beginning of the year, Apple shares fell in price by 11%. Source […]