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Biden signs bill to ban TikTok in US unless ByteDance sells it

US President Joe Biden has signed a bill that will ban TikTok from operating in the US unless parent Chinese company ByteDance sells the app within nine months. This deadline could be extended by another three months if regulators see progress in complying with the sale requirements. Image source: PixabaySource: 3dnews.ru

The Japanese SLIM device came to life again and sent a photo from the Moon - engineers do not understand how it did it

The Japanese Smart Lander for Investigation Moon (SLIM) managed to survive the third lunar night and, after its completion, made contact again on April 23. This achievement is remarkable because the device was not originally designed to cope with the harsh conditions during a lunar night, when ambient temperatures drop to -170 CΒ°. Image source: JAXA Source: 3dnews.ru

Huawei introduced the Qiankun brand for intelligent driving systems

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Import of servers and storage systems to Russia in 2023 increased by 10–15%

In 2023, approximately 126 thousand servers were imported to Russia, which is 10–15% more than the previous year. Thus, as the Kommersant newspaper reports, citing statistics from the Federal Customs Service (FCS), purchases of equipment from abroad in this segment have returned to approximately the level observed in 2021. In particular, as noted, in [...]

AMD: Chiplet Architecture in EPYC Processors Helps Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Justin Murrill, AMD's director of corporate responsibility, said the company's decision to use chiplet architecture in EPYC processors has reduced global greenhouse gas emissions by tens of thousands of tons per year. AMD began introducing chiplets about seven years ago. The use of multi-chip architecture instead of monolithic products provides a number of advantages. In particular, greater flexibility is achieved in the design […]

Xfce moves from IRC to Matrix

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 β†’ #xfce:matrix.org #xfce-dev on libera.chat β†’ #xfce-dev:matrix.org – development discussion #xfce-commits on libera.chat β†’ #xfce- commits:matrix.org – notable GitLab activity Previously, many IRC participants […]

Tesla robotaxi will be called Cybercab

According to the old English tradition, taxis in the USA and other English-speaking countries are usually called β€œcabs” (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

SK Hynix will build a new semiconductor plant for $4 billion for Nvidia so that it has enough HBM chips

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: […]

Apple data centers consumed more than 2023 TWh of electricity in 2,3

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 […]

pluto 0.9.2

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 […]

RT-Thread 5.1 real-time operating system published

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 […]