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Nvidia will show off its next-generation AI accelerator next week at GTC 2024

Nvidia CEO and co-founder Jensen Huang will take the stage at the Silicon Valley Hockey Arena on Monday, March 18, to unveil new solutions, including next-generation AI chips. The reason for this will be the annual developer conference GTC 2024, which will be the first in-person meeting of this scale since the pandemic. Nvidia expects 16 people to attend the event, […]

James Webb discovered clouds of solidified alcohol around protostars

An international group of scientists using the MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered icy compounds of complex organic molecules: ethyl alcohol and, presumably, acetic acid in the accumulations of matter around the protostars IRAS 2A and IRAS 23385. Image of the protostar IRAS 23385. Image source: webbtelescope.org Source: 3dnews.ru

Former Oculus CEO Calls Apple Vision Pro "Over-Equipped Dev Kit"

Apple's first-generation Vision Pro headset is an "over-equipped development kit" that comes with more sensors than are needed to deliver the capabilities Apple offers. This opinion was expressed by the former vice president of Android, Xiaomi and the former head of the Oculus brand being ousted by M**a. Image source: apple.comSource: 3dnews.ru

Release of Vivaldi 6.6 for Android

Today, a stable version of the Vivaldi 6.6 browser for Android, developed on the Chromium kernel, was released. In the new version, the developers introduced features such as installing your own wallpaper on the start page (both a collection of preset options and installing your own image are available), improved work of the built-in translator, saving pinned tabs when restarting the browser, and work was also done to restructure [... ]

The PiDP-10 project is developing a clone of the PDP-10 mainframe based on the Raspberry Pi 5 board

Vintage computer enthusiasts have published the PiDP-10 project, aimed at creating a working reconstruction of the DEC PDP-10 KA10 mainframe from 1968. A new plastic control panel housing was manufactured for the device, equipped with 124 lamp indicators and 74 switches. The computing components and software environment are recreated using a Raspberry Pi 5 board with a Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS distribution and […]

Vulnerability in Intel Atom processors leading to information leakage from registers

Intel has disclosed a microarchitectural vulnerability (CVE-2023-28746) in Intel Atom processors (E-core) that allows data used by a process previously running on the same CPU core to be determined. The vulnerability, codenamed RFDS (Register File Data Sampling), is caused by the ability to determine residual information from the processor's register files (RF, Register File), which are used to jointly store the contents of registers […]

Yandex taught AI to recognize human emotions

Yandex presented a neural network capable of recognizing human emotions during a conversation. It will help in the work of voice assistants and virtual call center operators, writes Kommersant with reference to the system developers. Image source: The_BiG_LeBowsKi / pixabay.comSource: 3dnews.ru

Epic Games seeks enforcement of 2021 judgment against Apple

Epic Games has asked Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to enforce her original 2021 ruling regarding alternative payment systems in the Apple App Store. According to Epic, Apple's updated policy of withholding 27% on payments outside the App Store (or 12% for small development teams) continues to demonstrate anti-competitive behavior by the company. […]

Btrfs performance improvements announced in kernel 6.9

Ahead of the release of Linux Kernel 6.9, SUSE's David Sterba has announced updates to the Btrfs file system that include not only stability improvements and bug fixes, but also performance optimizations. Btrfs Performance Improvements Among the key Btrfs performance optimizations in Linux 6.9, Sterba highlights the following improvements: Logging Speedup: Slightly faster logging when […]

Linux kernel 6.8 released

The other day Linus Torvalds announced the release of the Linux 6.8 kernel. Major changes: New DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) driver for Intel Xe GPUs. Improved P-State driver for Meteor Lake processors. Added audio support for Arrow Lake and Thunderbolt/USB4 support for Lunar Lake. Added P-State Preferred Core driver. Implemented support for future Zen 5 chips and RDNA graphics […]

Plans for Firefox support for versions 2 and 3 of the Chrome manifest

Developers from Mozilla have updated information about plans related to supporting versions 127 and XNUMX of the Chrome manifest in Firefox. Google intends to stop supporting add-ons that use the second version of the manifest in the test releases of Chrome XNUMX (Dev, Canary and Beta) this June. In the stable branch, support for the second version of the manifest will be stopped no earlier than July. IN […]