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Last quarter, integrated circuit production in China grew by 40%

The efforts of the American authorities to curb China's technological development in the semiconductor sector, as already noted, have led to the rapid development of local production using mature lithography, which is not yet subject to sanctions. Last quarter, as reported by the Chinese government statistics authorities, the production volume of integrated circuits in the country increased by 40% to 98,1 billion units. Image source: […]

VirtualBox 7.0.16 release

Oracle has published a corrective release of the VirtualBox 7.0.16 virtualization system, which contains 15 fixes. In addition to these changes, the new version eliminates 13 vulnerabilities, 7 of which are marked as dangerous (four problems have a danger level of 8.8 out of 10, and three have a danger level of 7.8 out of 10). Details about the vulnerabilities are not disclosed, but judging by the level of danger set, […]

The Gentoo Project has banned the adoption of changes prepared using AI tools

The Gentoo Linux distribution's governing board has approved rules that prohibit Gentoo from accepting any content created using AI tools that process natural language queries, such as ChatGPT, Bard, and GitHub Copilot. Such tools should not be used when writing Gentoo component code, creating ebuilds, preparing documentation, or submitting bug reports. The main concerns for which the use of AI tools is prohibited […]

New versions of nginx 1.25.5 and fork FreeNginx 1.26.0

The main branch of nginx 1.25.5 has been released, within which the development of new features continues. The parallel-maintained stable branch 1.24.x contains only changes related to the elimination of serious bugs and vulnerabilities. In the future, based on the main branch 1.25.x, a stable branch 1.26 will be formed. The project code is written in C and distributed under the BSD license. Among the changes: In […]

Nvidia introduced professional graphics cards RTX A1000 and RTX A400 with ray tracing

Nvidia introduced entry-level professional video cards RTX A1000 and RTX A400. Both new products are based on chips with Ampere architecture, made using Samsung's 8nm process technology. The new items replace the T1000 and T400 models released in 2021. A notable feature of the new cards is their support for ray tracing technology, which was absent from their predecessors. Image source: NvidiaSource: 3dnews.ru

Apple allows EU users to download apps from developer sites

Apple has allowed users from the European Union to download and install applications bypassing the App Store, directly from developer sites. To do this, developers will have to meet certain requirements and obtain permission from Apple, but the fact that iPhone users in the EU will be able to download and install applications from the company's websites is important. Image source: Mariia Shalabaieva / unsplash.com Source: 3dnews.ru

Firefox 125 release

The Firefox 125 web browser was released and a long-term support branch update was created - 115.10.0. Due to problems identified at a late stage, build 125.0 was canceled and 125.0.1 was announced as a release. The Firefox 126 branch has been transferred to the beta testing stage, the release of which is scheduled for May 14. Key new features in Firefox 125: The built-in PDF viewer includes […]