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AMD becomes a server company, and sales of Radeon and console chips have halved

AMD has published its financial report for the first quarter of this year. Financial results slightly exceeded Wall Street analysts' expectations, but the company showed declines in most areas compared to the previous quarter. AMD shares have already reacted by falling 7% in extended trading. AMD's net profit in the first quarter of this year was $123 million. This is significantly better than […]

Git 2.45 source control release

After two months of development, the distributed source control system Git 2.45 has been released. Git is one of the most popular, reliable, and high-performance version control systems that provides flexible non-linear development tools based on branching and merging branches. To ensure the integrity of the history and resistance to changes "backdating", implicit hashing of the entire previous history in each commit is used, […]

Z80 Compatible Open Processor Project

After Zilog ceased production of 15-bit Z8 processors on April 80, enthusiasts took the initiative to create an open clone of this processor. The goal of the project is to develop a replacement for the Z80 processors, which will be interchangeable with the original Zilog Z80 CPU, compatible with it at the pinout level, and capable of being used in the ZX Spectrum computer. Diagrams, descriptions of hardware units in Verilog […]

Sanctions are not a hindrance: Huawei's profits soared by 563% due to success in the smartphone market

Despite restrictions from the United States, Chinese tech giant Huawei is posting impressive financial performance thanks to successful smartphone sales and the development of its own chips. The head of Nvidia sees Huawei as a serious competitor. Despite restrictions imposed by the US government on Huawei's access to advanced technologies, the Chinese tech giant continues to expand its presence in the market. According to Bloomberg, […]

A vulnerability in the implementation of the R language that allows code execution when processing rds and rdx files

A critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-27322) has been identified in the main implementation of the R programming language, which is aimed at solving problems of statistical processing, analysis and visualization of data, leading to code execution when deserializing unverified data. The vulnerability can be exploited when processing specially designed files in the RDS (R Data Serialization) and RDX formats, used for data exchange between applications. The problem is resolved […]

T2 SDE 24.5 Meta Distribution Release

The T2 SDE 24.5 meta-distribution has been released, providing an environment for creating your own distributions, cross-compiling and keeping package versions up to date. Distributions can be created based on Linux, Minix, Hurd, OpenDarwin, Haiku and OpenBSD. Popular distributions built on the T2 system include Puppy Linux. The project provides basic bootable iso images with a minimal graphical environment in […]

Wave of layoffs at Google affecting Flutter, Dart and Python Teams

Google is laying off some of the employees involved in the Flutter and Dart projects, as well as the team involved in developments related to the Python programming language. Reorganization caused by optimization of processes, redistribution of responsibilities, as well as getting rid of bureaucracy and unnecessary links is mentioned as the main reason for staff reduction. The dismissal of the entire Python team is explained by the replacement of the old team with another, geographically located in Munich. […]

Tesla shares rose 15% after FSD preliminary approval in China

The visit of Tesla CEO Elon Musk this week might have seemed spontaneous, but work on certifying electric vehicles of this brand, assembled in Shanghai, from an information security point of view, began back in November. Having received a certain amount of trust from the Chinese authorities, Tesla has grown in the eyes of investors. As a result, the company's stock price rose by 15%. […]

Samsung's memory chip business returns to profitability

Samsung Electronics traditionally approaches the publication of quarterly reports in stages, first naming its own forecast in this area, then summing up the preliminary results of the quarter, and only then revealing the full reports. At the third stage of this journey, it can already be said that Samsung's memory business has returned to profitability. Image source: Samsung ElectronicsSource: 3dnews.ru

The world's largest all-electric container ship has entered service in China.

On Monday, the state-owned China Ocean Shipping Group (Cosco) began regular sea container shipping between the two coastal cities of Shanghai and Nanjing using the all-electric container ship Greenwater 01. The ship broke several world records in its field, becoming the largest, heaviest, cargo-carrying and most loaded with batteries. Shipping is knocking on the environmental door. Image source: SCMP Source: […]