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New article: Review of Full HD IPS monitor CHiQ LMN24F680-S: an amazing discovery

Sanctions, “parallel imports”, the official departure of well-known brands from Russia, market redistribution and, finally, the appearance of products from companies that the average Russian has never heard of before. Anything new is suspicious, especially when store shelves are flooded with less-than-quality OEM products. However, the Chinese brand CHiQ is a bird of a completely different flight. Source: 3dnews.ru

Aquarius presented T50 AC series servers with Intel Xeon Ice Lake-SP chips

The Aquarius company, a Russian manufacturer of enterprise-class equipment, announced the Aquarius T50 AC family of servers, which, according to the creators, will be suitable for corporate customers, service providers and HPC sites. The devices are based on Intel Xeon Ice Lake-SP processors. The Aquarius T50 D110AC, Aquarius T50 D120AC, Aquarius T50 D212AC and Aquarius T50 D224AC models made their debut. They are designed to solve a wide range of problems, [...]

Linux 6.6.6

Greg Croah-Hartman, who apparently does not suffer from hexacosiohexecontagexaphobia, announced the release of the Linux kernel with the mystical number 6.6.6. There is exactly one change - the rollback of a bug fix related to the cfg80211 driver subsystem (802.11 wireless API configuration), which led to a series of regressions due to one lost commit. Source: linux.org.ru

Valve has published a system popularity rating - Linux has a new historical maximum

Valve's monthly Steam report for November showed statistics on the increase in the share of Linux users to another historical record of 1,91%. The increase in absolute terms compared to the previous reporting period (October) was 0,52%. Apparently, the increase in popularity is associated with the release of a new generation console from Valve - Steam Deck OLED with deployed […]

Linux Kernel 6.6.6 Update

Greg Kroah-Hartman, responsible for maintaining the stable branch of the Linux kernel, published the landmark 6.6.6 kernel release, which proposed one change affecting the cfg80211 wireless stack. The change rolls back a bug fix added in release 6.6.5, which led to regressions due to the fact that, along with the fix, another […]

China will provide itself with AI chips of its own design, despite US sanctions

Despite US sanctions, China continues to increase self-sufficiency in chips for artificial intelligence tasks of its own production. However, the development of the segment of high-performance AI chips based on advanced technical processes in the country is limited, writes the TrendForce analytical agency. Image source: NVIDIA Source: 3dnews.ru

Table 23.3.0

Not particularly noticeably, on November 29, a new version of the free graphics stack Mesa 23.3.0 was released. Among the important events, the following stand out: support for OpenGL ES 3.1 for the Asahi driver; support for the VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness Vulkan extension for the Intel ANV Vulkan driver; support for the VK_KHR_maintenance5 Vulkan extension for the Radeon RADV Vulkan driver; support for VK_KHR_cooperative_matrix Vulkan extension for RADV/GFX11 hardware; Asahi driver received […]