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Specifications for the Blackwell GPU family and tests of the GeForce RTX 5080 indicate that all models in the 50 series, except for the GeForce RTX 5090, represent little more than a soft upgrade of their respective previous-generation models. The situation is exacerbated by a shortage of new graphics cards, leading to sky-high prices. Most buyers find that high-end devices, monopolized by NVIDIA, attract only theoretical […]
On March 14, after two months of development, the release of version 2.49 of the distributed version control system Git, written in C and distributed under the GNU GPL 2 license, took place. Key changes include: an updated autocompletion script for zsh, the addition of an alternative path hashing function in git pack-objects and its wrapper git repack, and support for the —expire-to option in git gc […]
On March 18, the release of version 1.7.0 of the BLAKE3 libraries, implementing the cryptographic hashing algorithm BLAKE3 in C and Rust, and distributed as public domain or under the Apache 2.0 license, took place. The project also provides a command-line utility b3sum, written in Rust. Change list: Support for multithreading (based on Intel's oneTBB library) has been added to the C implementation, similar to the reference […]
Hello, LOR! Galois Inc. has introduced Grease – a program for static analysis of executable files and detection of vulnerabilities within them. Grease disassembles the executable file and builds a model of its execution, after which it analyzes boundary conditions for potential errors. Grease can be used both independently and as a plugin to the reverse engineering system Ghidra. Grease supports the analysis of executable files […]
The Estonian company Ampler has announced the electric bicycles Nova and Nova Pro. Their main feature is that the built-in USB Type-C interface in the frame is used to recharge the battery, which can also be utilized to power various gadgets when needed. The electric bicycles Nova use relatively small built-in batteries of 48 V 336 Wh (removable only for […]
On March 5 and 20, the releases of versions 5.0.0 and 5.0.1 of the high-performance library Glaze, designed for reading and writing JSON, took place. CSV and BEVE formats are also supported. The library is written in C++ (header-only, C++23 standard) and is distributed under the MIT license. Change log: Customizable parameters at compile time – the structure glz::opts now contains only default options, while more […]
After a long hiatus, the developers of the Windows-compatible operating system ReactOS, whose source code is available under the GPL license, have released version 0.4.15. This release includes: Plug and Play fixes; audio stack fixes; memory management fixes; improvements to the registry; enhancements to system utilities, including Notepad, Paint, RAPPS, and Input Method Editor. ReactOS has been developed by a group of enthusiasts since 1998 […]
The release of shadPS4 version 0.7.0 has taken place. The shadPS4 project is a PlayStation 4 emulator with native support for Windows, Linux, macOS, and chromeOS. The emulator is written in Qt6 and C++ and is in the early stages of development. What's new compared to version 0.3.0: Added HDR support. Added FSR support (AI upscaling, i.e., AMD's DLSS). Added emulated support for processors, […]
The release of the console utility nvtop 3.2.0 has been announced, designed for interactive monitoring of GPU performance and hardware accelerators. The utility allows users to visually track loads, memory consumption, and changes in GPU frequency on graphs, as well as view processes that heavily load the GPU. It supports GPUs and accelerators from AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, Apple (M1 & M2), Huawei (Ascend), Qualcomm, and Broadcom (VideoCore). It is possible […]
After seven years since the last release and twelve and a half years since the publication of the 2.7 branch, the release of GNU patch utility version 2.8 is presented. The utility applies patches to files that include change lists created by the diff program. The code is written in C and is distributed under the GPLv3+ license. In the new version: The year 2038 issue has been resolved – the utility now works correctly […]
The results of a study on the security of the isolated environment for executing Python code, used by Google in the Gemini chatbot, have been published. The Gemini chatbot provides tools for generating code based on task descriptions, and for Python, it allows for immediate execution of the created code, relieving the developer from unnecessary actions during testing. The code runs in an isolated environment, which is cut off from the outside world and allows […]
The developers of the openSUSE distribution have implemented the ability to parallelize the download of packages and metadata in the Zypper package manager. A new backend has also been proposed that more optimally reuses already established connections and increases metadata processing efficiency. When updating 250 packages with a total size of 100 MB, the download time after enabling the new backend and parallel mode decreased from 68.7 seconds to 13.1 seconds, and […]