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SpaceX lowered the ping on the Starlink satellite network by 25-30%

This week, SpaceX presented a report on how the company is working to reduce latency in data transfers within its Starlink satellite Internet system. Published information indicates that ping on the Starlink network for US customers has recently dropped by more than 30%. Image source: Mariia Shalabaieva / unsplash.com Source: 3dnews.ru

Social network X Elon Musk will launch an analogue of YouTube for smart TVs

Elon Musk's Company X, owner of the social network of the same name, will soon launch an application for SmartTV, Fortune reported, citing an informed source. The app will be released next week and looks "identical" to YouTube's TV app, the source said. The app will initially be available on Amazon and Samsung TVs. Image source: XSource: 3dnews.ru

Bruce Perens published a draft version of the Post-Open license

Bruce Perens, one of the authors of the Open Source definition and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, presented the first draft of a new “Post-Open Zero-Cost” license aimed at solving the accumulated problems associated with the interaction of open source developers and commercial companies in the context of obtaining a fair return on commercial use of the code. The license reflects the possibility of imposing additional conditions [...]

Tab grouping is coming to Firefox

Laura Chambers, recently appointed CEO of Mozilla Corporation, announced the appointment of developers who will implement the tab grouping feature in Firefox. Work to add tab grouping support has been given higher priority. The decision was made after once again one of the users tried to draw attention to the fact that Mozilla was spending large resources […]

Wine 9.4, Wine staging 9.4 and GE-Proton9-1 published

An experimental release of an open implementation of the Win32 API - Wine 9.4 - took place. Since the release of 9.3, 25 bug reports have been closed and 321 changes have been made. The most important changes: The development of the winewayland.drv driver has continued, allowing the use of Wine in environments based on the Wayland protocol without the use of XWayland and X11 components. The new version adds initial support for OpenGL. Added basic […]

New article: Review of the HONOR Pad 9 tablet: an exemplary upgrade

HONOR continues to develop the tablet direction - the company ignored it for a long time, and now has become one of the main players in this field, at least in the mid-range and budget segments. Today we will talk about the title, numbered series, which continues to drag large screens into the relatively low price segmentSource: 3dnews.ru

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