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The HiSilicon Kirin 9010 processor inside the Huawei Pura 70 smartphones is also produced by SMIC using 7nm technology

The Huawei Pura 70 family smartphones presented last week were logically equipped with the most modern HiSilicon processors of their own design, and for American officials the intrigue was whether SMIC retained the ability to produce 7-nm chips under the sanctions. According to third-party experts, 7nm processors are again seen inside new Huawei smartphones. Image source: Huawei TechnologiesSource: 3dnews.ru

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release

The Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release, dubbed β€œNoble Numbat,” is a long-term support release and will be updated for 12 years, including 5 years of public updates and another 7 years of updates for Ubuntu Pro service users. Together with Ubuntu, the release of versions with other desktops (flavours), including Kubuntu, was announced. […]

IBM buys HashiCorp for $6.4 billion

IBM announced an agreement to purchase HashiCorp, which develops Vagrant, Packer, Hermes, Nomad and Terraform tools. The size of the deal will be $6.4 billion. The transaction, which has already been approved by the boards of directors of IBM and HashiCorp, is planned to be completed before the end of the year after receiving approval from HashiCorp shareholders (the largest shareholders have expressed their willingness to vote for the transaction) and regulatory […]

Microsoft and IBM open source MS-DOS 4.0 operating system

Ten years after the open source of MS-DOS 10 and 1.25, Microsoft announced the open source of the MS-DOS 2.0 operating system, originally released in 4.0 and developed jointly with IBM. The code is open under the MIT license, which allows you to freely modify, redistribute and use in your own products. In addition to the code, documentation is publicly available […]

China sent the Shenzhou-18 manned spacecraft with three taikonauts to the space station

Today at 20:59 Beijing time (15:59 Moscow time), the Long March-2F rocket with the Shenzhou-18 manned spacecraft launched from the Jiuquan Cosmodrome in the Gobi Desert. There are three taikonauts on board the ship - this is the new shift that will spend the next six months at the orbital station. The Shenzhou-17 crew will return to Earth approximately on April 30, transferring all matters to a new shift. Image source: AFP Source: 3dnews.ru

Winners of the international Workspace Digital Awards 2024 announced

On April 24, an awards ceremony was held in Moscow for the winners of the international digital case competition Workspace Digital Awards. This year, 390 companies from Russia, Belarus, Armenia, the UAE and Uzbekistan took part in it, 127 of which took prizes. Image source: workspace.ruSource: 3dnews.ru

Apple has released 8 open-source AI models that do not require an Internet connection

Apple has released eight large open-source language models, OpenELM, that are designed to run on the device rather than through cloud servers. Four of them were pre-trained using the CoreNet library. Apple is using a multi-layered scaling strategy that aims to improve accuracy and efficiency. The company also provided code, training logs, and several versions of […]

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS distribution release

The release of the Ubuntu 24.04 β€œNoble Numbat” distribution took place, which is classified as a long-term support (LTS) release, updates for which are generated within 12 years (5 years - publicly available, plus another 7 years for users of the Ubuntu Pro service). Installation images were created for Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, […]