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Intel showcased a prototype of a massive AI chip featuring four logic blocks and 12 HBM4 stacks.

Intel Foundry has released a promotional document detailing the company's advanced solutions in the development and implementation of hardware for artificial intelligence applications and high-performance computing. Intel also showcased a "test chip sample for AI" demonstrating the company's current packaging capabilities. Intel exhibited a system in package (SiP) the size of eight photomasks of standard chips, featuring four logic blocks, […]

Firefox has introduced a setting to disable AI and activated a split-screen mode

The codebase for the upcoming Firefox 148 release, scheduled for February 24, has added the previously promised setting to completely disable all AI-related features. The parameter "browser.preferences.aiControls" has appeared on the about:config page, after which a section for managing AI usage appears on the settings page. Users can disable all AI functions at once or selectively […]

The release of the free emulator for classic quests ScummVM 2026.1.0

After a year of development, the release of the free cross-platform interpreter for classic adventures, ScummVM 2026.1.0, is now available. This version replaces executable files for games and allows many classic games to run on platforms for which they were not originally intended. The project code is distributed under the GPLv3+ license. It supports the ability to run over 500 quests, including games from companies like LucasArts, Humongous Entertainment, Revolution Software, Cyan, and Sierra, […]

The cost of progress: Oracle has not found funding for new data centers and may lay off up to 30,000 employees.

Oracle does not rule out the possibility of reducing its workforce by 20,000 to 30,000 employees and selling off parts of its divisions, as American banks have refused to finance the company's program to expand data centers for artificial intelligence systems. This information was reported by CIO based on details from investment bank TD Cowen. The large-scale workforce reduction would free up for Oracle […]

The attackers managed to insert undetected malicious code into the Plone repository.

Developers of the open-source content management system Plone, written in Python and JavaScript/NodeJS, have announced an incident in which malicious code was added to the project's GitHub repository. Initially, three changes appeared in the repository on January 7 (1, 2, 3), adding malicious code to the project's JavaScript files (1, 2, 3). An analysis of the incident revealed that the integration of the malicious code […]

Release Pingora 0.7, a framework for creating network services

Cloudflare has released version 0.7 of the Pingora framework, designed for developing secure, high-performance network services in Rust. The Pingora proxy has been used in Cloudflare's content delivery network for over two years, replacing nginx, and handles over 40 million requests per second. The code is written in Rust and is published under the Apache 2.0 license. Key features […]

The scx_horoscope, an astrological task scheduler for the Linux kernel, has been released.

Lucas Zampieri from Red Hat has released a humorous task scheduler, scx_horoscope, which allocates CPU resources based on astrological principles, taking into account zodiac signs and planetary positions at the current time. The project is being developed for educational and entertainment purposes. The primary aim of scx_horoscope is to teach and demonstrate the use of the 'sched_ext' (SCX) mechanism, which allows the use of eBPF to create schedulers […]

OGC: An alliance has been formed to develop unified components for gaming Linux distributions.

Developers of eight Linux distributions focused on providing environments for running computer games have formed the Open Gaming Collective (OGC) working group to collaboratively develop a unified set of components and promote prepared changes to the core of the projects that make up the open gaming stack. Joining the initiative were the distributions Universal Blue (Bazzite), Nobara, ChimeraOS, Playtron, Fyra Labs, PikaOS, ShadowBlip, and ASUS Linux. It is expected that […]

GTK+ 1.3 port is available for Windows 11

A port of the GTK+ 1.3 library has been prepared, working on Windows 11 and compiled using modern development tools like MSVC 2022 and CMake. All standard examples work (helloworld, testgtk). The result looks authentic, and the RAM consumption when launching examples is 1.7 MB. Plans include writing a rendering backend for the GDK library that will allow using SDL 1.2 and SDL3, which will expand the range of […]

Release of the console web browser Chawan 0.3.3

The release of the console web browser Chawan 0.3.3 has been published, utilizing its own compact engine with support for CSS and JavaScript. The project's goals include implementing support for modern web standards while maintaining self-sufficiency, simplicity, and extensibility. The Chawan code is written in Nim and is distributed as public domain. It supports operation in Linux, BSD systems, Haiku, and macOS. Key features include support for HTTP/1.1 and HTTPS protocols […]

In Debian 14, there are plans to remove the compatibility layer for systemd with sysv-init scripts.

The Debian maintainers initially planned to remove the systemd-sysv-generator compatibility layer in Debian 13 (Trixie), but the decision has been postponed to the next release (Debian 14). Two years have passed, and a full transition to systemd unit services is planned by the end of February 2026. The transition is justified by increasing the security level of the services running under systemd and providing more reliable control over the startup and operation cycles […]

An alliance has been formed to develop unified components for gaming Linux distributions.

Developers of eight Linux distributions focused on providing environments for running computer games have formed the Open Gaming Collective (OGC) working group to collaboratively develop a unified set of components and promote prepared changes to the core of the projects that make up the open gaming stack. Joining the initiative were the distributions Universal Blue (Bazzite), Nobara, ChimeraOS, Playtron, Fyra Labs, PikaOS, ShadowBlip, and ASUS Linux. It is expected that […]

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