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Ampere Computing announced the 512-core AmpereOne Aurora processor for data centers, as well as announced prices for the previously introduced 96-, 128-, 144-, 160- and 192-core AmpereOne M chips and talked about the development progress of AmpereOne MX processors, which will offer up to 256 cores. AmpereOne processors are designed for high-density data centers. They not only compete with [...]
Topping our hit parade (see the first part of the review at this link) is the Gosuslugi Auto app, developed by the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation and available for platforms Android and iOS. Using the app, car owners can present their driver's license and vehicle registration certificate as a QR code to a State Traffic Safety Inspectorate officer (this feature is in pilot mode; the inspector has the right to ask […]
Telegram has introduced a major update that includes a number of new features and improvements. The main innovation was a built-in browser with support for multiple tabs, access to Web3, a mini application store, the ability to give “Stars” to friends and much more. The Telegram browser supports multiple tabs, which allows you to quickly switch between sites, articles in quick view mode, mini-applications and messages in […]
After 8 months of development, the release of the free hypervisor Xen 4.19 was published. Companies such as Amazon, Arm, EPAM Systems and AMD took part in the development of the new release. The generation of updates for the Xen 4.19 branch will last until February 2026, and the publication of vulnerability fixes until August 2027. Key changes in Xen 4.19: For systems based on ARM architecture […]
As Interfax reports, Roskomnadzor (RKN) published a draft order on the portal of draft regulatory legal acts, according to which the publication of scientific, scientific, technical and statistical information about VPN services to bypass blocking will be subject to a ban in Russia, with the exception of information about VPNs used to provide secure remote access. The project proposes to amend paragraph 5 of the order in force since March 1 […]
The Circle to Search feature, which allows you to launch an image search by circling an area of the screen, was introduced in Google ChromeOS 127 and Chrome 128 beta versions for Windows и macOSThe feature initially debuted on the Samsung Galaxy S24 and Google Pixel 8 smartphones, but quickly expanded to other devices. Circle to Search allows you to search based on visual […]
In 2023, Canonical, the developer, will have revenues of Ubuntu, increased by $46 million to $251 million. This growth was driven by increases in sales, marketing, and research and development expenses. Operating profit was $45 million. Key Performance Indicators Revenue growth. Revenue increased by $46 million compared to the previous year's $205 million. Decrease in cash flow. […]
On July 30, 0.14 of the console utility trurl (tr for URLs), written in C using the curl_url_set function of the libcurl library, was released. The utility is designed for parsing and other manipulations with URLs. List of changes: instead of the strncasemp function, our own implementation is used; added support for the strict prefix with the --get command; added support for the conditional assignment operator ?= with the –set command; extra translation removed [...]
Daniel Robbins, the founder of the Gentoo distribution who stepped away from the project in 2009, announced the end of development of the Funtoo distribution. Linux, which he had been developing since 2006 as a project to further improve Gentoo's existing technologies. The reason cited for the project's closure was a loss of interest and a desire to devote his time to other things. In order to transfer control to other […]
The release of the Redis 7.4 DBMS, which belongs to the class of NoSQL systems, has been published. Redis provides functions for storing key/value data, enhanced by support for structured data formats such as lists, hashes, and sets, as well as the ability to run server-side script handlers in Lua. Unlike in-memory storage systems such as Memcached, Redis does not store the database […]
Google has created an update to Chrome 127.0.6533.88, which fixes 3 vulnerabilities, including a critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-6990), which allows you to bypass all levels of browser protection and execute code on the system outside the sandbox environment. Details have not yet been disclosed; it is only known that the critical vulnerability is associated with the use of uninitialized values in the Dawn component, which implements the WebGPU specification. The other two vulnerabilities are labeled […]
Japanese developer Keigo Oka demonstrated that using the GNU find and mkdir utilities it is possible to create a Turing complete computing environment, i.e. allowing you to implement any computable function on it and recreate yourself. The ability to create such an environment has previously been demonstrated for the sed and awk utilities. To confirm Turing completeness, implementations are provided using a link from find […]