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According to leaked documents regarding Intel's upcoming plans in the processor market, the company's future appears anything but bright. If the documents are accurate, the increase in core counts in mainstream processors to ten will not occur before 2020, and 14nm processors will dominate the desktop segment until at least 2022, while the situation has become a sticking point [...].
Ted Ts’o, the author of the ext2/ext3/ext4 file systems, has accepted a set of changes into the Linux-next branch, which will form the basis for the release of Linux kernel 5.2, implementing case-insensitive operations support in the Ext4 file system. The patches also add support for UTF-8 characters in file names. The case-insensitive mode can be optionally enabled for individual directories using [...].
The latest version of Android 9 was released in August 2018. In October, 81 days after its launch, when Google published its latest public statistics, this version of the OS was installed on less than 0.1% of devices. The previous version, Oreo 8, released in August 2017, was running on 21.5% of devices 431 days after its launch. After a lengthy 795 days [...].
The OpenBSD 6.5 version has been released. Here are the changes in the system: 1. Support for new devices has been added: 1. The clang compiler is now available on mips64 2. Support for the OCTEON GPIO controller has been added. 3. A paravirtualized clock driver has been added in the KVM virtualization system. 4. Support for Intel Ethernet 700 series has been added to the ix(4) driver. 2. Changes in the networking subsystem: 1. [...].
Microsoft has acknowledged in its blog that the basic security rules for Windows 10 and Windows Server, which require regular password changes, are essentially useless. The issue is that the system requires the creation of complex passwords, which are difficult to remember. As a result, users often change or add just one character, making it easier to guess. According to the company, scientific research has shown that periodic […]
Today, you can find streams for every taste, from programming lessons to makeup, cooking, and hours of bloggers chatting 'about life.' Streaming is a full-fledged industry with a multimillion audience that advertisers invest significant money into. And while advertising deals are primarily available to streamers with large audiences, even beginner streamers can earn from donations. In this article […]
Friends, we have been in the business for several years — manufacturing and wholesale selling of jewelry, trading through major platforms and directly to wholesale clients. A lot has been experienced, endured, and learned while working with partners; that's a separate story, and if you're interested, we can share. But we just made our own website now. In connection with this, to all of you as […]
As you know, the company Samsung recently postponed the release of its flexible smartphone Galaxy Fold. The reason is that some reviewers, to whom the novelty was provided for testing, found that the smartphone's screen failed after just a couple of days of use. Now, some of the most well-known experts in gadget repair and disassembly, the company iFixit, has shared their thoughts on the Galaxy issues […]
Microelectronics have become a trendy hobby in recent years thanks to the magical Arduino. But here's the problem: with enough interest, you can quickly outgrow DigitalWrite(), and what to do next isn't quite clear. The Arduino developers have made considerable efforts to lower the entry barrier into their ecosystem, but beyond it lies a dark forest of harsh schematics that's not easily accessible to enthusiasts. For instance, datasheets. They seem […]
Yesterday, NVIDIA officially unveiled the GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card. Many expected that along with the presentation, reviews of the new product would be published on specialized sites, including ours. However, this did not happen, as NVIDIA did not provide drivers for the reviewer for this accelerator in advance. Typically, specialized resources receive NVIDIA graphics cards before their official release along with […]
System76, a company specializing in manufacturing laptops, PCs, and servers pre-installed with Linux, has released a new version of the Pop!_OS distribution 19.04, developed for deployment on System76 hardware instead of the previously offered Ubuntu distribution. Pop!_OS is based on the Ubuntu 19.04 package base and features a redesigned desktop environment based on a modified GNOME Shell. The project's developments are distributed under the GPLv3 license. The ISO images […]
After 6 months of development, the Apache Software Foundation has released version 1.12.0 of the Subversion version control system. Despite the rise of decentralized systems, Subversion remains popular in commercial companies and projects that use a centralized approach to version and configuration management of software systems. Notable open projects using Subversion include: projects from Apache, FreeBSD, Free Pascal, OpenSCADA, GCC, and LLVM. […]