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After a 6-month trial period, official Xfce project communications are moving from IRC to Matrix. The old IRC channels will remain open for now, but the Matrix channels are now official. The change affects the following channels: #xfce on libera.chat → #xfce:matrix.org #xfce-dev on libera.chat → #xfce-dev:matrix.org – development discussion #xfce-commits on libera.chat → #xfce- commits:matrix.org – notable GitLab activity Previously, many IRC participants […]
According to the old English tradition, taxis in the USA and other English-speaking countries are usually called “cabs” (from the English cab), so Elon Musk did not complicate the task of naming the future Tesla robotic taxi, and at the quarterly conference he stated that it will be called "Cybercab". Image source: TeslaSource: 3dnews.ru
One of the world's largest manufacturers of memory chips, the South Korean company SK Hynix announced on Wednesday plans to invest 5,3 trillion won (about $3,86 billion) in the construction of a plant for the production of DRAM memory in South Korea, writes Reuters. The company noted that the new production facility will mainly focus on the production of HBM-class memory chips. Image source: […]
To power its data centers and colocation facilities, Apple used 2023 TWh of electricity in 2,344. Datacenter Dynamics reports that the company owns seven of its own data centers, as well as an unknown number of colocation sites around the world, the energy consumption of both of which is 100% offset by the purchase of PPA certificates. In the Environmental Progress Report, the company said the Mesa, Arizona facility was the largest […]
There has been a corrective release 0.9.2 of the console interpreter and embedded library of the Pluto language - an alternative implementation of the Lua 5.4 language with many changes and improvements in the syntax, standard library and interpreter. The project participants are also developing the Soup library. The projects are written in C++ and distributed under the MIT license. List of changes: fixed compilation error on aarch64 architecture; fixed method calls […]
After a year of development, RT-Thread 5.1, a real-time operating system (RTOS) for Internet of Things devices, is now available. The system has been developed since 2006 by a community of Chinese developers and has currently been ported to 154 boards, chips and microcontrollers based on x86, ARM, MIPS, C-SKY, Xtensa, ARC and RISC-V architectures. The minimalistic RT-Thread (Nano) build requires only 3 KB […]
nxs-data-anonymizer 1.4.0 has been published - a tool for anonymizing PostgreSQL and MySQL/MariaDB/Percona database dumps. The utility supports data anonymization based on templates and functions of the Sprig library. Among other things, you can use the values of other columns for the same row to fill. It is possible to use the tool through unnamed pipes on the command line and redirect the dump from the source database directly to […]
Gigabyte has confirmed that AMD's upcoming series of desktop processors will be called Ryzen 9000. The manufacturer has released new BIOS versions for its motherboards that support the new chips. Image source: VideoCardz Source: 3dnews.ru
Earlier this month, Microsoft began testing a feature to show ads for third-party products in the Start menu in Windows 11. This week, the software giant began rolling out update KB5036980, which, among other things, enables the feature to show ads in the recommendations section of the Start menu in stable operating system builds. Image source: MicrosoftSource: 3dnews.ru
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has faced charges of intellectual property infringement over its Pokemon Go-inspired app PicTree: Capture the Current. Image source: PicTree: Capture the Current Source: 3dnews.ru
After many years of waiting, you can now finally access the personal account of a legal entity taxpayer on the Federal Tax Service website (https://lkul.nalog.ru/) from Linux with an electronic signature. Setting up a Linux login is still an arduous quest with installing all sorts of programs from different sources according to different instructions. But it really started to work. After logging in using a signature, the service itself pleased me with its speed [...]
The Pale Moon 33.1.0 web browser has been released, branching from the Firefox code base to provide higher performance, preserve the classic interface, minimize memory consumption and provide additional customization options. Pale Moon builds are created for Windows and Linux (x86_64). The project code is distributed under the MPLv2 (Mozilla Public License). The project adheres to the classic interface organization, without moving to [...]
