Author: ProHoster

SberTech launched GitVerse collaborative development platform and GigaCode AI assistant

SberTech, a subsidiary of Sberbank, announced the opening of public access to the new collaborative development platform GitVerse. The platform is not a clone of existing systems and provides a fairly simple and lightweight interface. GitVerse functionality is currently limited to only basic features such as pull requests, reviewing proposed changes, forks, subscriptions to changes, viewing commit history and migrating projects from GitHub, […]

New article: Balatro - how to make poker even cooler. Review

There's a new addition to the list of great roguelikes - the creator of Balatro took the familiar poker formula, turned it on its head and came up with a wonderful card game that you can't escape from. We lay all the cards on the table and tell you why the new product is wonderful. Source: 3dnews.ru

The Japanese SLIM module fell asleep again with the arrival of the second lunar night

Having survived the first lunar night, the Japanese lunar lander SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon) again went into sleep mode due to the onset of the second long and harsh lunar night. This period is characterized by an increased risk of failures due to extreme temperature fluctuations. Despite this, the management team hopes to resume operation of the device when the sun's rays arrive at the end of March. Image source: […]

NVIDIA's capitalization for the first time consolidated at more than $2 trillion

The record set by NVIDIA shares a week ago was not long-lasting, as the company's capitalization was unable to remain at $2 trillion until the end of the trading session, but this happened last Friday, as revelations from Dell management about the demand for NVIDIA accelerators gave investors new support for further growth quotes. Image source: NVIDIA Source: 3dnews.ru

The results of the security audit of the LLVM codebase have been published

The OSTIF (Open Source Technology Improvement Fund), created to strengthen the security of open source projects, announced the completion of an independent audit of the LLVM project code. The work was carried out by the English company Ada Logics. During the work carried out, the testing process in OSS-Fuzz, interrupted more than a year ago, was restored. The coverage of the codebase involved in […]

Clean energy growth in 2023 has not made the world a cleaner place—greenhouse gas emissions set a record

Greenhouse gas emissions hit a record high in 2023, despite the rise of clean energy, according to an annual report from the International Energy Agency (IEA). Developed countries showed economic growth against the backdrop of falling emissions, but developing countries were unable to move away from the model of growth due to increasing emissions from the combustion of fossil resources. Image source: AI generation Kandinsky 3.0/3DNewsSource: […]

New electrolyte will improve the performance of lithium batteries in extreme cold

A group of scientists led by a team from Zhejiang University of China has developed an electrolyte that promises to significantly improve the performance of lithium batteries in extreme cold and heat. For such a universal electrolyte, it must have a number of incompatible properties, providing high ionic conductivity in both heat and cold. According to a new scientific work, scientists were able to invent a universal formula and […]

KDE 6 release

After a year of development, the KDE community has released new versions of the Plasma 6 desktop environment, the Frameworks 6 library set, and the Gear 24.02 application suite. Key New Features in Plasma 6 The Overview effect has been combined with the grid view for desktops into one new effect with improved touch support. Wayland session is now used by default. As a way to present a list [...]

Grml Live distribution release 2024.02

After more than a year of development, the grml 2024.02 live distribution based on the Debian GNU/Linux package base has been released. The distribution kit contains a selection of programs for performing text data processing operations using the texttools package and for performing work that arises in the practice of system administrators (data recovery after a failure, analysis of incidents, etc.). The graphical environment is built using the Fluxbox window manager. Size […]

GParted 1.6 partition editor and GParted Live 1.6 distribution released

A release of the Gparted 1.6 disk partition editor (GNOME Partition Editor) is available, supporting most file systems and partition types used in Linux. In addition to the functions of managing labels, editing and creating partitions, GParted allows you to reduce or increase the size of existing partitions without losing the data placed on them, check the integrity of partition tables, recover data from lost partitions and align the beginning of a partition […]

FLAC audio codec granted proposed standard status

The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), which develops Internet protocols and architecture, has approved the assignment of the status of “Proposed Standard” to the free audio codec FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), developed by the Xiph.Org community. Based on the 14th edition of the draft FLAC specification, an RFC will be formed (usually the final editing and publication of the RFC takes 3-6 months). It is noteworthy that the list of those at the […]