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TSMC eyes nearly $5 billion in subsidies to build facilities in Arizona

Taiwan's TSMC has every reason to be the most eager potential recipient of US government subsidies under the Chip Act, as it has agreed to begin construction of two factories in Arizona for the contract production of semiconductor components with the explicit expectation of financial support from the country's authorities. Judging by recent rumors, she is currently entitled to more than $5 billion. Image source: TSMC Source: 3dnews.ru

Microsoft: Russian hackers stole part of the source code and continue attacks

Microsoft, which earlier this year accused the Russian hacker group Nobelium of hacking into the email accounts of some of its executives, said that hackers also managed to steal some fragments of the source code and are now continuing to try to penetrate its systems using existing data. Image source: Boskampi/PixabaySource: 3dnews.ru

An expedition to search for alien technology failed due to an error with the location of the meteorite impact

As the US Space Command once reported, on January 8, 2014, a meteorite identified as the first interstellar body to reach Earth fell to Earth off the coast of Papua New Guinea. Later, this object became the subject of interest of a group of scientists of the Galileo project to search for alien technologies. They believed that the fallen body could very likely be an alien probe, traces of […]

New article: The Thaumaturge - mystical cranberry. Review

Poland is rich in role-playing game developers. CD Projekt RED's hits are thundering all over the world, and Fool's Theory diligently follows their colleagues. After Seven: The Days Long Gone, it seemed like the studio had good potential. However, The Thaumaturge is discouraging. And irrepressible political statements are just the tip of the iceberg. Source: 3dnews.ru

Release of Phosh 0.37, GNOME environment for smartphones

The release of Phosh 0.37, a screen shell for mobile devices based on GNOME technologies and the GTK library, has been published. The environment was initially developed by Purism as an analogue of GNOME Shell for the Librem 5 smartphone, but then became one of the unofficial GNOME projects and is used in postmarketOS, Mobian, some firmware for Pine64 devices and the Fedora edition for smartphones. Phosh uses […]

KD Lab Association opens the code for the qdEngine game engine

The KD Lab association has opened the source code of the qdEngine game engine, designed for creating quests. All code, with the exception of third-party libraries, is published under the GPLv3 license. The engine supports the Windows 10 platform and can be tested with resources from the game “The Good Soldier Schweik”. The following games were created based on the published engine: Pilot Brothers 3D. The Case of Garden Pests […]

A 2,6-ton block of used batteries from the ISS will fall to Earth in the next XNUMX hours

Before noon on March 9, a 2630-kilogram EP9 (Exposed Pallet 9) unit of spent batteries, dropped from the ISS in March 2021, is expected to enter the Earth’s atmosphere. At that time, it was the most massive object ejected from the station. This method of disposing of used equipment is a common practice - such objects most often burn safely in the atmosphere. Image source: twitter.com/planet4589Source: […]