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With the expansion of artificial intelligence systems, whose large language models are trained on huge amounts of publicly available data, copyright scandals arise every now and then. For this reason, Apple, according to The New York Times sources, wants to create legal conditions for training its artificial intelligence systems, paying publishers at least $50 million for access to […]
The release of the GNU Autoconf 2.72 package has been published, which provides a set of M4 macros for creating auto-configuration scripts for building applications on various Unix-like systems (based on the prepared template, the “configure” script is generated). The new version adds support for the future C language standard - C23, the publication of the final version of which is expected next year. Support for C compilers using variants of the […]
The New Year holidays are just around the corner, and layoffs in the gaming industry continue. The American company tinyBuild has closed its indie publishing house Versus Evil, firing all its employees. Image source: Stoic StudioSource: 3dnews.ru
On December 21, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) officially launched the European supercomputer MareNostrum 5, with a performance of 314 petaflops. The Prime Minister of Spain attended the ceremony dedicated to the machine, created as part of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) project. MareNostrum 5 represents the largest investment ever made by Europe […]
A release of the labwc 0.7 (Lab Wayland Compositor) project is available, developing a composite server for Wayland with features reminiscent of the Openbox window manager (the project is touted as an attempt to create an alternative to Openbox for Wayland). Of the features of labwc, minimalism, compact implementation, extensive customization options and high performance are called. The project code is written in C language and distributed under the GPLv2 license. As a basis […]
The Lazarus development team is pleased to announce the release of Lazarus 3.0, an integrated development environment for Free Pascal. This release is still built with the FPC 3.2.2 compiler. In this release: added support for Qt6, based on version 6.2.0 LTS; The minimum Qt version for lazarus 3.0 is 6.2.7. Gtk3 binding has been completely redesigned; for Cocoa, numerous memory leaks have been fixed and support […]
Researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA) have introduced a new type of Mayhem attack that uses the Rowhammer dynamic RAM bit distortion technique to change the values of stack variables used as flags in the program to decide whether authentication and security checks have passed. Practical examples of the attack are demonstrated to bypass authentication in SUDO, OpenSSH and MySQL, […]
After nearly two years of development, Lazarus 3.0, an integrated development environment (IDE) based on the FreePascal compiler and performing Delphi-like tasks, has been released. The IDE is designed to work with the FreePascal 3.2.2 compiler release. Ready-to-use Lazarus installation packages are available for Linux, macOS и WindowsChanges in the new release include: A Qt6-based widget set built with […]
A specialized distribution of Tails 5.21 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) based on the package base has been released. Debian and designed for anonymous network browsing. Anonymous browsing in Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections except for traffic through the Tor network are blocked by default by a packet filter. Encryption is used to store user data in persistent mode between launches. […]
The remake of the cult shooter System Shock was released at the end of May, but the developers from the Nightdive Studios team are not abandoning the project - a major patch and console versions are being prepared for release. Image source: Steam (Bloxwess)Source: 3dnews.ru
Bohemia Interactive studio has summed up the development and support of the survival simulator DayZ for 2023. All information is published in a separate note on the game website. Image source: Bohemia InteractiveSource: 3dnews.ru
Operating systems Windows 10 is rapidly approaching the end of its life. Microsoft plans to end support for it in October 2025. This event could result in a significant increase in e-waste, with millions of PCs becoming trash because they cannot be upgraded to Windows 11. Image source: SiliconangleSource: 3dnews.ru