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Russ Cox has announced his departure as the leader of the Go programming language development project, a position he held for the past 12 years. The reason for his departure is cited as a desire to ensure leadership change, without which the project could stagnate. It is believed that the change in leadership will create conditions for project growth, provide a new perspective, and allow […]
According to the StatCounter ranking, which monitors global web browser usage statistics, the share of Linux distributions among desktop systems has surpassed 4.45% for the first time. This data was collected from a counter installed on 1.5 million websites. The 4% milestone was crossed by desktop Linux distributions in March. By June, the share of Linux had reached 4.05%. Meanwhile, the popularity of the ChromeOS operating system continues to decline, with a share of […]
Meta✴ has published a report indicating that its financial results for the second quarter of 2024 exceeded analysts' expectations. Revenue, income, and the company's forecast for the upcoming quarter all surpassed projections. Meta✴'s revenue for the second quarter of 2024 was $39.07 billion, compared to analysts' expectations of $38.31 billion, marking a 22% year-over-year growth — the fourth […]
Google has introduced Gemma 2 2B — a compact yet powerful artificial intelligence language model (LLM) that can compete with industry leaders despite its significantly smaller size. The new language model, containing only 2.6 billion parameters, demonstrates performance comparable to much larger counterparts, including OpenAI GPT-3.5 and Mistral AI Mixtral 8x7B. In the LMSYS Chatbot test […]
The nightly builds of Firefox, based on which version 130 will be released on September 3, have introduced an experimental feature that allows for automatic video continuation in a floating window (picture-in-picture mode) when switching away from the tab displaying the video. In other words, if you switch to another tab while watching a video, the video will remain visible on top of the new […]
The Ænix team, in collaboration with the community, has released a new COSI driver for the distributed file system SeaweedFS, enabling the use of the COSI (Container Object Storage Interface) for integrating SeaweedFS support into Kubernetes. The driver introduces new entities, such as BucketClaim, Bucket, and BucketAccess for declared definition of object storage containers (S3 Bucket) and access management based on PVC (Persistent Volume […]
Arnd Bergmann, responsible for kernel packaging at SUSE, has published a plan on the Linux kernel developers' mailing list to eliminate the kernel and GCC build toolchain code that supports old ARM CPUs and associated ABIs, instruction sets, and kernel features. The plan is currently in the RFC stage, meaning it is open for community discussion. […]
Ampere Computing has announced the 512-core AmpereOne Aurora processor for data centers, along with pricing for the previously introduced 96-, 128-, 144-, 160-, and 192-core AmpereOne M chips, and provided updates on the development of the AmpereOne MX processors, which will offer up to 256 cores. The AmpereOne processors are designed for high-density data centers. They not only compete with […]
After 8 months of development, the free hypervisor Xen 4.19 has been released. Companies such as Amazon, Arm, EPAM Systems, and AMD participated in the development of the new release. Updates for the Xen 4.19 branch will continue until February 2026, while publication of vulnerability fixes will go on until August 2027. Key changes in Xen 4.19 include support for ARM architecture systems […]
The Circle to Search feature, which allows users to initiate an image search by drawing around an area on the screen, has appeared in beta versions of Google ChromeOS 127 and Chrome 128 for Windows and macOS. Initially debuting on Samsung Galaxy S24 and Google Pixel 8 smartphones, the feature quickly spread to other devices. Circle to Search enables searching based on visual […]
On July 30, the release of version 0.14 of the command-line utility trurl (tr for URLs), written in C using the curl_url_set function from the libcurl library, took place. The utility is intended for parsing and other manipulations with URLs. Changes include: the use of a custom implementation instead of strncasemp; support for strict prefix with the command —get; addition of conditional assignment operator ?= with the command —set; removal of unnecessary translation […]
Daniel Robbins, the founder of the Gentoo distribution, who stepped away from the project in 2009, has announced the cessation of development for the Funtoo Linux distribution, which he had been developing since 2006 as a project to further enhance the technologies present in Gentoo. The reason for closing the project is cited as the loss of interest and a desire to devote his time to other pursuits. Management will be handed over to other […]