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Canonical has announced the codename for Ubuntu 24.04 - Noble Numbat. Release schedule: February 29, 2024 – Feature Freeze; March 21, 2024 – User Interface Freeze; April 4, 2024 – Ubuntu 24.04 Beta; April 11, 2024 – Kernel Freeze; April 25, 2024 – Ubuntu 24.04 LTS regular release; August 2024 - Ubuntu […]
Leah Rowe, the main developer and founder of the Libreboot distribution, presented the first release of the Canoeboot project, developed in parallel with Libreboot and positioned as a completely free build of Libreboot, meeting the Free Software Foundation requirements for completely free distributions. Previously, the project was published under the name “unofficial GNU Boot”, but after receiving a complaint from the creators of GNU Boot, it was initially renamed […]
The Rust language developers have warned that support for non-canonical downloads that use normalized package names with underscores and hyphens replaced in the crate.io repository will be disabled on November 20, 2023. The reasons for making the change are said to be to improve reliability and optimize performance. Until now, it did not matter whether an underscore or a hyphen was specified in the name when loading […]
Adam Mosseri, head of the Instagram✴ platform, announced the imminent launch of an API for the Threads social platform. This move, Mosseri promises, will expand opportunities for developers, allowing them to create new applications and functional solutions. However, he also expressed fears that this could lead to the dominance of the content of media holdings over the work of independent authors. Image source: ThreadsSource: 3dnews.ru
A team of scientists from the University of British Columbia, in collaboration with Honda researchers, has developed impact-sensitive artificial skin for robots. The development was demonstrated as the basis for a manipulator that equally carefully squeezes a chicken egg and a thin glass glass of water. Image source: UBC Applied Science/Paul Joseph Source: 3dnews.ru
Boston Dynamics has trained the robot dog Spot to act as a guide around its laboratory and conduct tours on behalf of different characters - for this purpose, a chat bot based on artificial intelligence ChatGPT was connected to the machine. Image source: bostondynamics.comSource: 3dnews.ru
In the code base that powers the KDE Plasma 6 user environment, support for Wayland protocol extensions for color management has been added to the KWin composite server. The Wayland-based KDE Plasma 6 session now features separate color management for each screen. Users can now assign their own ICC profiles to each screen, and in applications using […]
It became known that Google spent a total of $2021 billion in 26,3 to maintain its place as the default search engine in web browsers and smartphones. Information about this was disclosed as part of the ongoing antitrust proceedings between the US Department of Justice and Google. Image source: 377053 / PixabaySource: 3dnews.ru
In January 2021, Chinese search giant Baidu took the first decisive step in moving from years of development of Apollo autopilot technology to production of mass-produced electric vehicles. To do this, in collaboration with Geely, a joint venture JIDU was created, which a couple of months ago changed its capital structure and name, and is now starting to supply serial Jiyue 01 electric vehicles with the most […]
Advanced Performance Nexus (APNX), formed by a team of engineers from Taiwan and Europe with more than 20 years of experience in the development and production of computer and gaming equipment, announced the start of sales in Russia of its first computer case APNX C1. The key feature of the new product is the completely screwless mounting of all panels, several pre-installed fans, and the almost complete absence of plastic […]
The Russian company RED SOFT, known for developing the RHEL-like distribution RED OS and the Red Database DBMS (edition of the open DBMS Firebird), has registered the RED OS M operating system in the Russian software registry, aimed at use on mobile devices and desktop systems with touch screens. RED OS M is compiled from the source code of the Android platform, located in [...]
There is only a week left before the start of BlizzCon 2023, and the organizers of the annual festival Blizzard Entertainment have revealed what live broadcast viewers and ordinary visitors can expect from the event. Image source: Blizzard Entertainment Source: 3dnews.ru
