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MediaTek Unveils Kompanio Ultra Processor for Future Chromebooks with AI — It's Very Similar to Dimensity 9400

MediaTek has unveiled the Kompanio Ultra processor for Chromebooks. In fact, it is the flagship Dimensity 9400 mobile platform, adapted for work in a laptop. Perhaps the most noticeable common feature of both processors is the NPU 890 neural engine for AI tasks. According to MediaTek, it provides 50 TOPS (trillion operations per second) performance and is five times better than the NPU built into the Intel processor […]

10 years after its release, Enter the Gungeon is getting a “heavy-duty sequel” — first trailer and details for Enter the Gungeon 2

Publisher Devolver Digital and American developer Dodge Roll announced a sequel to the 2 action roguelike Enter the Gungeon at a Nintendo Direct presentation for the Nintendo Switch 2016 console. According to Devolver, Enter the Gungeon 2 is a “recharged, high-caliber sequel” to the iconic bullet-curtain dungeon crawler. The announcement was accompanied by a 30-second teaser trailer. The video shows the main […]

FTXUI 6.0.0 and 6.0.1

On March 28, after more than a year and a half of development, 6.0.0 and 6.0.1 of the cross-platform FTXUI library were released. It is designed to create C++ applications with a text interface and is distributed under the MIT license. The library features: a functional style similar to React JS; a simple and elegant style (according to the author of the library); handling keyboard and mouse events; support for UTF8 and Unicode; support for True […]

mlterm 3.9.4

After two years of development, version 3.9.4 of the cross-platform mlterm terminal emulator has been released. List of changes: Added support for the default Shift+Control+v and Shift+Control+c keyboard shortcuts for copying and pasting text via the clipboard. Removed the -P/—clip/use_clipboard option. Added the —chsel/change_selection_immediately option to all supported backends except xlib and Wayland. Added the COPY_CLIPBOARD command for use in keyboard shortcuts. Added the ability to search […]

GIMP Editor Changes Name

Hi, ENT! As you may have heard, for years the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP, translated as “cripple”) has been facing criticism for its name, which many activists consider offensive. Because of this, a fork called Glimpse was even created. The authors of GIMP finally decided to listen to the community and after a short discussion settled on […]

New article: Dahua C970 Plus SSD Review: “China” in a Good Sense

The number of manufacturers trying their hand at producing solid-state drives has long ceased to be recounted. The threshold for entering this market is very low - independent controller developers are ready, if necessary, to take on the entire burden of SSD production, offering their customers only to distribute the resulting product. As a result, store shelves are littered with numerous SSD models with little-known names. […]

Microsoft Wants to Eliminate Passwords Completely — and It Has a Plan

Microsoft has announced major changes to the way it logs into accounts, which will affect more than one billion users worldwide. The new biometric passkey login method is designed to reduce the risk of phishing and hacking, and make authentication more convenient. According to Microsoft, the company has made a number of improvements in recent years, including the ability to completely remove the password from […]

Release of X12 and its reference implementation Xero: A new competitor to Wayland

March 30, 2025 – In the world of graphics systems for Linux A significant event has occurred: the announcement of X12 and its reference implementation, Xero, which are already establishing themselves as serious competitors to the popular Wayland protocol. The developers are confident that their new creation will bring users numerous advantages that will help overcome the shortcomings of the older technology. X12 protocol page […]

Gnome developers to remove unnecessary features from C++

As everyone knows, the C++ programming language is probably the largest in volume of all PLs. Even programmers who have been writing in it for decades cannot boast that they know it completely. In connection with this, the C++ standardization committee made a difficult decision: in order for the language to remain competitive against the pressing new PLs, such as rust, it is necessary to remove all legacy […]

FreeCAD Begins Collecting Telemetry

The FreeCAD project has announced the collection of telemetry in the application. The data will help developers to get an objective picture of the use of FreeCAD - without the emotions that fill the error tracker and user forum. What data is collected: System information (OS, architecture). User preferences (theme, interface configuration). List of installed add-ons and macros from third-party developers. Crash logs. Errors that the user makes while using the program, such as […]

Windows switches to a BSD-compatible kernel

As Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated, work is currently underway to adapt the userspace portion of the popular operating system. Windows to a new proprietary hybrid kernel based on the FreeBSD kernel source code. Thus, Windows 12 is the last OS from Microsoft to receive the outdated NT kernel: subsequent releases will receive a new kernel, codenamed […]

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