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British IT service Smart CT is testing the delivery of components by drones to combat traffic jams and harmful emissions

The British company Smart CT, which maintains IT infrastructure, is testing the delivery of equipment and electronics to customers by drones. The Register reports that this will allow the company to achieve its sustainability goals while also easily avoiding traffic congestion. Based in Berkshire, west of Greater London, the company has already begun test deliveries. The organization maintains the IT infrastructure of managed service providers (MSPs), including […]

Intel is preparing “stripped-down” versions of the Gaudi3 AI accelerator for China

Intel Corporation, as noted by The Register, is preparing specialized modifications of the Gaudi3 AI accelerator for the Chinese market. These options, due to sanctions restrictions from the United States, will differ from the standard versions in lower TDP and “reduced” performance. Intel officially unveiled Gaudi3 less than a week ago. The product has a chiplet layout: it consists of two identical crystals with fast interconnection. In equipment [...]

Tesla will lay off more than 14 thousand employees worldwide

Tesla will lay off about 14 thousand employees and also introduce technological pauses in the production of Cybertruck. The cuts come amid Tesla's efforts to cut costs and improve productivity. And changes in Cybertruck production may be due to the need to refine assembly lines. Image source: TeslaSource: 3dnews.ru

Initiative to decouple the Servo browser engine from Mozilla SpiderMonkey

The developers of the Servo browser engine presented an initiative to strengthen modularity and move away from the use of low-level APIs of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine, developed by Mozilla and used in Servo to provide support for JavaScript and WebAssembly. In the future, Servo plans to move to a higher-level API and an abstraction layer for interacting with JavaScript engines, which will make it possible to get rid of unsafe direct calls to […]

GitLab blocked BPC, a browser add-on for bypassing Paywall

GitLab has blocked the repository of the BPC (Bypass Paywalls Clean) project, which develops a browser add-on for organizing access to materials distributed through a paid subscription (Paywall). The reason for the removal was a complaint was sent to GitLab about violation of the amendment to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in force in the United States. Currently, the developers of the add-on are considering the possibility of transferring the project to another Git hosting. […]

The Redka project develops an implementation of the Redis protocol and API on top of SQLite

The first releases of the Redka project have been published, aimed at providing a RESP protocol and API compatible with the Redis DBMS, but implemented on top of the SQLite library. Using SQLite additionally allows you to access data using the SQL language, for example, to generate reports or analyze data. The use of ACID transactions is supported. Redka can be run as a server that accepts requests over the network, or used as […]

A cluster for the production of equipment for the production of chips is developing in the northeast of Japan

According to Nikkei Asian Review, Japanese suppliers of equipment for the production of semiconductor components have been inspired by the idea of ​​reviving the national industry, and therefore are actively developing a cluster in the northeast of the country, which was previously designated “Silicon Way”. Tokyo Electron creates equipment here that is four steps ahead of existing technology. Image source: Tokyo ElectronSource: 3dnews.ru

The gluttony of AI and data centers has forced US energy companies to reconsider their development plans in the coming years

US utilities forecast increased demand for electricity driven by explosive growth in the data center and generative AI markets. According to Datacenter Dynamics, many of the country's energy providers are now reconsidering capital expenditures in light of growing demand from data centers. Nine out of 10 U.S. utilities attribute customer growth and electricity demand to […]

Telegram now has a tool for easily creating stickers from images

Telegram developers have introduced an editor that allows users of the messenger to create and edit their own stickers from any images in the mobile application, adding text, animations and other graphic elements to them. Using the editor, you can cut out fragments of photos, delete or restore certain parts of the image, and frame them with a classic white outline. Created stickers can be sent in chats or added to [...]