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Seagate sent letters to large customers, notifying them of an immediate increase in prices for all hard drives - Western Digital took a similar step not so long ago. Image source: Seagate.Source: 3dnews.ru
The Semiconductor Products Standards Committee (JEDEC) released the DDR5 specification (JESD79) in 2020, defining module parameters up to DDR5-6400 speeds. The committee has now introduced an updated specification, JESD79-JC5, which specifies modules up to DDR5-8800, increases peak memory bandwidth by 37,5%, and adds some new security features designed to counter RowHammer attacks. Image source: unsplash.comSource: 3dnews.ru
A release of the free sound editor Audacity 3.5 has been published, providing tools for editing sound files (Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3 and WAV), recording and digitizing sound, changing sound file parameters, overlaying tracks and applying effects (for example, noise reduction, changing tempo and tone ). Audacity 3.4 was the fourth major release created after the project was taken over by Muse Group. Code [β¦]
The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) accused Google of using anti-competitive practices that limited Yahoo Japan's ability to compete in targeted search advertising, Bloomberg writes. According to the JFTC, from 2015 to 2022, Google blocked Yahoo Japan's access to technologies that could generate revenue from targeted advertising on mobile devices. According to a statement from the Japanese [β¦]
At the announcement of the remake of Silent Hill 2 from Bloober Team, fans criticized the appearance of the main character - some seemed too old. The developers even defended their decision, but it seems they followed the lead of the fans. Image source: KonamiSource: 3dnews.ru
The Chinese company Mechrevo presented two gaming laptops - Mechrevo Kuangshi 16 Super and Yanshi 16 Super Supreme. New items can offer a powerful 14th generation Intel Core processor, as well as video cards from the GeForce RTX 4000 series. Both laptops offer support for an external liquid cooling system as an option. Image source: MechrevoSource: 3dnews.ru
Ryan Marcus, developer of the experimental Bao optimizer for PostgreSQL, which uses machine learning to optimize query execution, has published performance testing results of the native PostgreSQL query optimizer. Testing covered PostgreSQL branches starting from 8.4 (2009) to 16 (2023). Performance was measured using the JOB (join order benchmark) collection, which includes more than 100 complex queries [β¦]
A release of the EdgeDB 5.0 DBMS is available, which implements the relational graph data model and the EdgeQL query language, optimized for working with complex hierarchical data. The project is developed in the form of an add-on for PostgreSQL, the code of which is written in Python and Rust (parser and performance-critical parts), and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Client libraries are prepared for Python, Go, Rust languages. [β¦]
Last weekend, well-known Bloomberg columnist Mark Gurman not only indulged in arguments about why Apple really needs a new $250 smartphone, but also talked about the company's approach to integrating artificial intelligence functions into its devices. According to him, the company is trying to entrust a significant part of the calculations to the local components of user devices. Image source: Unsplash, Gilles [β¦]
A court hearing is scheduled to take place this week in San Francisco in which OpenAI's interests will try to appeal Elon Musk's lawsuit accusing the nonprofit of abandoning its principles. Representatives of the defendant claim that Musk is distorting the facts and basing his accusations on legally non-existent provisions. Image source: OpenAI Source: 3dnews.ru
Even following the results of the March GTC 2024 conference, according to the publication on the LinkedIn social network of the head of the American representative office of Samsung Electronics, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang approved the use of HBM3E memory chips of this Korean brand in his calculation accelerators. Now it has become known that their deliveries may begin before the end of the current half of the year. Image source: LinkedInSource: 3dnews.ru
The developers of the Chinese distribution Deepin decided to try to challenge Microsoft Copilot and introduced AI-powered features in the new Beta 2. The AI ββwill help users edit images: add and remove background blur, scale, colorize, increase resolution, turn your images into hand-drawn or to 3D comics and much more. Also in Deepin IDE β their [β¦]
