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In exchange for more active expansion of production, the US authorities will allocate about $6,6 billion in subsidies to Samsung

Yesterday's example of TSMC demonstrating more ambitious plans to expand production in the United States shows that local authorities are ready to provide fairly generous subsidies, but subject to the rapid development of foreign companies of their chip production facilities in the United States. According to some reports, Samsung will be able to qualify for $6,6 billion in government support under the Chips Act. Image source: Samsung ElectronicsSource: […]

New article: First impressions of HONOR Magic6 Pro: northern acquaintance

Modern flagship smartphones are finally divided into two camps: “for life and image” (usually foldable) and “for photography and video” (traditional form factor). While “regular” flagship smartphones are being purchased more often, they compete with each other primarily in the field of cameras. For example, HONOR Magic6 Pro immediately flew to first place in the DxO ranking […]

Backdoor in D-Link network storages, allowing code execution without authentication

A security issue has been identified in D-Link network storage (CVE-2024-3273), which allows you to execute any commands on the device using an account predefined in the firmware. Some NAS models manufactured by D-Link are affected by the problem, including the DNS-340L, DNS-320L, DNS-327L and DNS-325. A scan of the global network showed the presence of more than 92 thousand active devices susceptible to vulnerability. D-Link does not intend to publish a firmware update […]

The first release of the framework for creating network services Pingora

Cloudflare has published the first release of the Pingora framework, designed for developing secure, high-performance network services in the Rust language. The proxy, built using Pingora, has been used in the Cloudflare content delivery network instead of nginx for about a year and processes more than 40 million requests per second. The code is written in Rust and published under the Apache 2.0 license. Key features: HTTP/1 support […]

Apple's revenue in Russia fell 23 times in 2023, but losses also became smaller

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 will open an AI development center in London led by Jordan Hoffman

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

Samsung has released an all-in-one PC that looks too much like the Apple iMac

Samsung continues to expand its range of desktop PCs. Last year, the company released a 24-inch all-in-one PC in South Korea. In this, the manufacturer presented a 27-inch all-in-one PC All-In-One Pro. At home, the new product is already available for pre-order and will go on sale from April 22. An interesting feature of the new product is its design, which very much resembles the appearance of Apple's iMac. […]

Schleswig-Holstein: transfer of 30 thousand machines from Windows/MS Office to Linux/LibreOffice

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 […]

Assessing the impact of optimizations in GNOME 46 on the performance of terminal emulators

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 […]

Announced termination of development of the PiVPN project

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 […]