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Apple reported a decrease in revenue in Russia by more than 23 times. The TASS news agency writes about this with reference to the reporting of the Russian division of the American company, which was transferred to the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation. In 2022, Apple's revenue in Russia amounted to over 85 billion rubles. At the end of 2023, the company’s revenue slightly exceeded […]
Microsoft has announced the creation of an artificial intelligence (AI) center in London, which will be led by Jordan Hoffmann, a prominent AI scientist from the startup Inflection AI. The move is part of Microsoft's strategy to develop consumer AI technologies and strengthen its position in the race for dominance in this area. Image source: Placidplace / Pixabay Source: 3dnews.ru
The German state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to migrate 30 local government computers from Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice, according to a blog post by the Document Foundation, the organization overseeing LibreOffice development. The decision by Schleswig-Holstein comes after the European Data Protection Supervisor concluded that the European Commission's use of Microsoft 365 violated […]
The results of testing the effectiveness of optimizations added to the VTE library (Virtual TERminal library) and included in the GNOME 46 release have been published. During testing, the responsiveness of the interface was measured in the terminal emulators Alacritty, Console (GTK 4), GNOME Terminal (GTK 3 and 4) and VTE Test App (example from the VTE repository), when running them on Fedora 39 with GNOME 45 and […]
The developer of the PiVPN toolkit, designed for quickly setting up a VPN server based on the Raspberry Pi board, announced the publication of the final version 4.6, which summed up the 8 years of the project’s existence. After the release was formed, the repository was transferred to archive mode, and the author announced a complete cessation of project support. Loss of interest in development with the feeling that the project has completed […]
In mid-October, the Chinese company EHang received a flight certificate in China, allowing it to operate EH216-S flying unmanned taxis in the country's airspace. By March, the company had already begun accepting pre-orders for these aircraft at prices starting from $330. Outside of China, by the way, such a flying taxi will cost all of $000, but the license for them […]
Speaking about the rise of the automobile market in the Russian Federation in its current state, it is important to remember that on April 2499, changes to customs legislation came into force, making it meaningless to import cars through neighboring countries of the Customs Union, which was previously cheaper than direct imports. Directly new electric vehicles, which are mainly imported into the country, sold XNUMX units in March. This is the most [...]
The historical role-playing action movie “The Troubles” from the Russian studio Cyberia Nova, released last week, is the main, but far from the only domestic development that was supported by the Internet Development Institute (IRI). Image source: Cyberia Nova Source: 3dnews.ru
The Arch Linux developers have announced a change aimed at improving compatibility with Windows games running through Wine or Steam (using Proton). Similar to the change in the Fedora 39 release, the sysctl vm.max_map_count parameter, which determines the maximum number of memory mapping areas available to a process, has been increased by default from 65530 to 1048576. The change is included in the filesystem package 2024.04.07-1. Using […]
The release of the apt-mirror2 4 toolkit has been published, designed to organize the work of local mirrors of apt-repositories of distributions based on Debian and Ubuntu. Apt-mirror2 can be used as a transparent replacement instead of the apt-mirror utility, which has not been updated since 2017. The main difference from apt-mirror2 is the use of Python with the asyncio library (the original apt-mirror code was written in Perl), as well as the use of […]
The PumpkinOS project attempted to create a re-implementation of the PalmOS operating system used in Palm communicators. PumpkinOS allows you to directly run applications created for PalmOS, without using a PalmOS emulator and without requiring the original PalmOS firmware. Applications built for the m68K architecture can run on systems with x86 and ARM processors. The project code is written in C […]
Almost 5 years after the last release, the GNU Stow 2.4 package management system has been released, using symbolic links to separate package contents and associated data into separate directories. The Stow code is written in Perl and is licensed under the GPLv3. Stow takes a simple and different approach to […]
