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Google's search chief Prabhakar Raghavan, who oversees search, advertising, maps and commerce and reports directly to CEO Sundar Pichai, addressed Google's knowledge and information division, which has more than 25 full-time employees. Google's digital advertising business has become "the envy of the world," he said, but "that doesn't mean [β¦]
Fulqrum Publishing and developers from the Best Way studio have revealed the exact release date of their military strategy Men of War II, a continuation of the Behind Enemy Lines series. The announcement was accompanied by a new trailer and screenshots. Image source: SteamSource: 3dnews.ru
An unexpected patch with 64-bit support for Valve's team-based multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2, in addition to all the benefits, also brought with it a bug that caused the game to crash for a rather unusual reason. Image source: Reddit (xervenisty)Source: 3dnews.ru
Among the tasty: Gnome 46 KDE Plasma 6.0.3 IPV4 Address Conflict Detection PyTorch in turnip out of the box Update as usual: dnf system-upgrade download βreleasever=40 dnf system-upgrade reboot https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora -workstation-40/ Source: linux.org.ru
A maintenance release of Firefox 125.0.2 is available, which disables the feature introduced in Firefox 125 to block downloads of files from untrusted URLs. In some situations, this functionality led to the download of other files instead of the requested ones (for example, when the βdom.block_download_insecureβ setting was enabled, an attempt to download a CSV file resulted in the download of a file with the HTML text of the page). They plan to improve the mode for blocking dangerous downloads [...]
Fedora Linux 40 distribution released. Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server, Fedora CoreOS, Fedora Cloud Base, Fedora IoT Edition and Live builds are prepared for download, delivered in the form of spins with desktop environments KDE Plasma 5, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, Phosh, LXQt, Budgie and Sway. Assemblies are generated for x86_64, Power64 and ARM64 (AArch64) architectures. Publishing Fedora Silverblue builds [β¦]
A release of a specialized distribution kit, Tails 6.2 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), based on the Debian 12 package base, supplied with the GNOME 43 desktop and designed for anonymous access to the network, has been created. Anonymous access to Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections other than traffic through the Tor network are blocked by the packet filter by default. To store user data in [β¦]
M**a said it intends to open up the operating system that runs Quest mixed reality devices to third-party hardware manufacturers to provide "more choice for consumers and a broader ecosystem for developers." Image source: M**aSource: 3dnews.ru
The next generation of Chinese nuclear submarines could be equipped with laser engines. In theory, this would allow submarines to move faster than the speed of sound in water and do so silently. To do this, thousands of optical emitters will be built into the body, and a 2-MW laser will be enough to create a thrust of 70 thousand N - like a jet engine [β¦]
The EA Play subscription will soon become more expensive, following its main competitors, but Electronic Arts intends to smooth out the unpleasant news by adding one of its main releases in 2023 to the catalog. Image source: Steam (paimona)Source: 3dnews.ru
Benjamin Summerton, author of the PSRayTracing ray tracing system, analyzed the impact on application performance of using the βfinalβ keyword, which appeared in the C++11 standard, in C++ code. The reason for testing was that there were claims floating around the Internet that using βfinalβ would improve performance, which were limited to value judgments without indicating the results of the changes. Benjamin's testing showed that the performance [β¦]
The release of the network security scanner Nmap 7.95 has been published, designed to conduct a network audit and identify active network services. The project's code is licensed under the NPSL (Nmap Public Source License), based on the GPLv2 license, which is supplemented by recommendations (not requirements) for using the OEM licensing program and purchasing a commercial license if the manufacturer does not wish to open source its product in accordance with [β¦]
