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New article: It's not silicone! Part two: power, brilliance and two-dimensionality

Silicon is extremely versatile as a basis for semiconductor microelectronics, as researchers seeking to find a replacement for it have seen again and again in light of the steadily rising costs of further improving Si-centric photolithography. There is hope to achieve this goal - however, moving towards it, apparently, will take many more decades. Source: 3dnews.ru

Firefox Update 125.0.3

A maintenance release of Firefox 125.0.3 is available, which fixes several issues: Fixed an issue where, after upgrading to Firefox 125, some users would occasionally spontaneously open new tabs with the URL “https://0.0.0.1” in the address bar. The effect only appeared on the Windows platform. Analysis of the situation showed that tabs appear when trying to launch another copy of Firefox from the command […]

Release of desktop environment Trinity R14.1.2, continuing the development of KDE 3.5

The release of the Trinity R14.1.2 desktop environment has been published, continuing the development of the KDE 3.5.x and Qt 3 codebase. Binary packages will soon be prepared for Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL/CentOS, Fedora, openSUSE and other distributions. Among the features of Trinity are its own tools for managing screen parameters, a udev-based layer for working with equipment, a new interface for […]

Lennart Pottering introduced run0, a sudo replacement integrated into systemd

Lennart Pottering introduced the run0 utility, which allows you to run processes under the identifiers of other users. The new utility is positioned as a more secure replacement for the sudo program, implemented as an add-on to the systemd-run command and allowing you to get rid of the use of an executable file with the SUID flag. The run0 utility is included in the release candidate release of systemd 256. It is noted that […]

OpenAI will be able to legally train AI using Financial Times publications

The spread of artificial intelligence systems, which used large volumes of texts, works of art and other intellectual property to train their language data, encountered opposition from copyright holders. The Financial Times was able to conclude a licensing agreement with OpenAI. Image source: Unsplash, Toa HeftibaSource: 3dnews.ru

The Chinese auto industry will produce twice as many electric vehicles and hybrids as it can sell in China

Concerns among many experts and policymakers outside China about the prospect of overproduction of electric vehicles in the domestic market have some basis, the Nikkei Asian Review reported, citing local media. Next year, local manufacturers will produce 36 million hybrids and electric vehicles in China, but will only be able to sell 17 million units within the country. Image source: BYDSource: […]