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On the eve of the official release of the PC version, the surreal adventure Indika from developers from the Kazakh studio with Russian roots Odd Meter received the first ratings from Western journalists. Image source: Odd MeterSource: 3dnews.ru
The Linux Mint developers, in their monthly news digest, talked about the progress of the development of Linux Mint 22 and, among other things, shared their vision of the situation related to the development of GNOME and applications developed within it. In 2016, Linux Mint developers launched a project called XApps, aimed at creating universal applications for traditional desktop environments […]
For the first time since 2018, there was a new stable release of the Amarok music player. This is the first stable version based on Qt5/KDE Frameworks 5. The road to version 3.0 has been a long one. Most of the porting work to Qt5/KF5 was done back in 2015, followed by slow polishing and fine-tuning, stopping and then continuing. Alpha version 3.0 has been released […]
Lennart Pöttering, the lead developer of systemd, announced on his Mastodon channel his new initiative: the run0 command, designed to replace sudo in escalating user privileges. Run0 is planned to be included in systemd 256. According to the author: Systemd has a new utility called run0. Or, more precisely, this is not a new utility, but a long-standing systemd-run command, but […]
The release of the OpenSilver 2.2 project has been published, which continues the development of the Silverlight platform and allows you to create interactive web applications using C#, F#, XAML and .NET technologies. Silverlight applications compiled with OpenSilver can run in any desktop and mobile browsers that support WebAssembly, but compilation is currently only possible on Windows using Visual Studio. The project code is written in [...]
Oracle has formed a new branch of the MySQL 8.4 DBMS and published a corrective update to MySQL 8.0.37. MySQL Community Server 8.4.0 builds are prepared for all major Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Windows distributions. Release 8.4.0 is classified as a Long Term Support (LTS) branch, which is released every two years and is supported for 5 years (plus an additional 3 years […]
Astrophotographer Rod Prazeres presented the results of his project - an image of the nebula IC 2944, also known as the Running Chicken Nebula because it resembles a bird running with its wings spread. The project took 42 hours to complete. Chicken Running Nebula (IC 2944). Image source: astrobin.comSource: 3dnews.ru
In Taiwan, not only the leading enterprises of TSMC are concentrated, but also production facilities for assembling server systems, which are actively used in the artificial intelligence segment. At the end of the first quarter, exports of such products ensured that the island’s GDP grew by 6,51% to $167 billion, and this was the best dynamics since the second quarter of 2021. Image source: TSMC Source: 3dnews.ru
As promised, the first major patch for the historical action role-playing game “The Troubles” from the Russian studio Cyberia Nova did not take long to arrive. The developers announced the release of update 1.0.4. Image source: Cyberia Nova Source: 3dnews.ru
The release of the OpenTofu 1.7 project has been presented, which continues the development of the open code base of the configuration management platform and automation of maintaining the Terraform infrastructure. The development of OpenTofu is carried out under the auspices of the Linux Foundation using an open management model with the participation of a community formed from companies and enthusiasts interested in the project (161 companies and 792 individual developers have announced support for the project). The project code is written […]
NASA presented an experimental electric rocket engine, the H71M, with a power of up to 1 kW, which has record efficiency. According to the developers, this engine will be a “game changer” for future small satellite space missions in everything from servicing within Earth orbits to planetary missions throughout the solar system. Image source: NASASource: 3dnews.ru
Publicly available text materials are one of the easiest sources of data for training large language models, but developers of artificial intelligence systems are constantly faced with claims from copyright holders. A new lawsuit against OpenAI was brought forward by the American publishing house MediaNews Group, which owns several online publications. Image source: Unsplash, Praswin Prakashan Source: 3dnews.ru
