Author: ProHoster

On March 6, the Linux-skills competition for children and youth will take place

Registration is open for children and youth competitions in Linux - “Linux-skills”, which will be held as part of the festival of technical creativity “TechnoKakTUS”. Competitions are held in two categories: Alt-skills (ALT Linux) and Calculate-skills (Calculate Linux), in three age groups: 10-13 years old, 14-17 years old, 18-22 years old. From March 6 to March 10, 2024, a qualifying stage will take place, during which participants will undergo testing. C […]

EK introduced the EK-Quantum Delta² TEC thermoelectric water block for life support systems with support for 14th generation Intel Core chips

Slovenian manufacturer of liquid cooling systems EK introduced an updated EK-Quantum Delta² TEC water block for processors supporting 14th generation Intel Core chips (Raptor Lake Refresh-S), equipped with Intel Cryo Cooling thermoelectric cooling technology. The new product was developed as part of a private collaboration with Intel, since the latter stopped supporting the Cryo Cooling project last year. Image source: EKSource: 3dnews.ru

Adobe introduced Project Music GenAI Control: AI that changes understanding of musical creativity

Adobe has unveiled an innovative tool that marks a new era in the art of music. At the Hot Pod Summit event, held in Brooklyn, Project Music GenAI Control was announced - a platform capable of not only generating audio content based on a user’s text request (for example, “happy dance music” or “sad jazz”), but also deeply customizing it. Image source: AdobeSource: 3dnews.ru

Demand for Apple Vision Pro was higher than expected, and the level of returns was lower

Noted TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo noted that demand for the Vision Pro augmented reality headset was higher than Apple's initial forecast. Shipments of the wearable device in the US are expected to reach 200-250 thousand units this year. As the excitement caused by the start of sales of the Apple Vision Pro waned, the level of returns of the headset, according to Ming-Chi Kuo's estimates, fell […]

The Russian cloud market continues to grow rapidly

In 2023, the volume of the Russian cloud services market increased by 33,9% compared to the previous year to 121 billion rubles, according to the iKS-Consulting report “Russian market of cloud infrastructure services”, which Forbes writes about. These figures take into account the IaaS and PaaS market. In currency equivalent, market growth was 7,4%, to $1,44 billion, which, according to analysts, reflects “more […]

Release of RAR 7.0 archiver

Evgeny Roshal has released a new significant version of the RAR 7.0 archiver. The RAR source code continues to be available but is distributed under a restrictive license agreement. Ready-made assemblies are generated for Linux, macOS, Windows, Android and FreeBSD. From personal experience, RAR7 is still inferior to LZMA2 in compression ratio when using dictionaries up to 4GB, but provides significantly higher compression speed and […]

KDE 6.0 release

After a year of development, the KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment, KDE Frameworks 6 libraries and the KDE Gear 24.02 collection of applications have been released. To evaluate KDE 6, you can use builds from the KDE Neon project. Main changes: Switched to using the Qt 6 library. By default, a session using the Wayland protocol is offered. Work using X11 has been moved to […]