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Google delays ending support for third-party cookies in Chrome

Google has announced another adjustment to its plans to stop supporting third-party cookies in the Chrome browser, which are set when accessing sites other than the domain of the current page. Initially, support for third-party Cookies was planned to end until 2022, then the end of support was moved to mid-2023, after which it was again postponed to the fourth quarter of 2024. […]

“Rest assured, we are not going anywhere,” TikTok commented on the law on its ban in the United States

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew said the company intends to seek permission through the courts to continue operating in the United States, where the popular short video service has 170 million users. Earlier today, American President Joe Biden signed a bill banning the operation of TikTok in the country if the Chinese company ByteDance, which is the parent company of the platform, […]

Qualcomm was suspected of faking Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus tests - in fact, they are much slower

Qualcomm has been accused of deceiving the performance of its Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus PC processors for Windows laptops. The accusation was made by SemiAccurate, citing statements from two “major” laptop OEMs that plan to release laptops based on the new processors, as well as the words of “one of the sources inside Qualcomm itself.” Image source: HotHardwareSource: 3dnews.ru

In Fedora 41 it is proposed to create an official build with the Miracle composite manager

Matthew Kosarek, a developer from Canonical, came up with a proposal to begin creating official Spin builds of Fedora Linux with a user environment based on the Miracle window manager, using the Wayland protocol and components for building Mir composite managers. The spin edition of Fedora with Miracle is planned to be delivered starting with the release of Fedora Linux 41. The proposal has not yet been considered by the FESCo committee (Fedora […]

Release of Proxmox VE 8.2 distribution

Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.2, a specialized Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, aimed at deploying and maintaining virtual servers using LXC and KVM, and capable of acting as a replacement for products such as VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix, has been released hypervisor. The size of the installation iso-image is 1.3 GB. Proxmox VE provides the means to deploy a turnkey virtual […]

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 C°. Image source: JAXA Source: 3dnews.ru

Huawei introduced the Qiankun brand for intelligent driving systems

Chinese technology company Huawei has taken another step towards becoming a major player in the electric vehicle industry with the introduction of a new brand called Qiankun, under which it will produce software for intelligent driving. The new brand's name combines images of the sky and China's Kunlun Mountains - the company will sell autopilot systems, as well as audio and driver's seat controls, […]

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 […]