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Steam weekly chart: Dragon's Dogma 2 interrupted Helldivers 2's six-week lead, and Alone in the Dark didn't even make it into the top 30

Having topped the Steam sales chart for six weeks in a row, the cooperative shooter Helldivers 2 still lost ground. In the period from March 19 to 26, a new product took the lead in the paid chart - the role-playing action game Dragon's Dogma 2 (Counter-Strike 2 is still at the top of the free one). Dragon's Dogma 2. Image source: Steam (Calbee)Source: 3dnews.ru

Americans bombarded Apple with lawsuits, supporting the US Justice Department's accusations

Apple is facing a flurry of new consumer lawsuits accusing the company of monopolizing the smartphone market - they supported the antitrust lawsuit filed last week by the US Department of Justice and representatives of 17 states. Since last Friday, iPhone owners have filed at least three lawsuits in federal courts in California and New Jersey, accusing Apple of overcharging […]

China has launched a satellite into lunar orbit that will help deliver soil from the far side of the Moon

Xinhua News Agency reported that the Queqiao-2 relay satellite previously launched by China has been launched into lunar orbit. Two days ago, during a 2-minute deceleration, Queqiao-19 secured itself in the lunar orbit with parameters of 2 Γ— 200 km. The orbit and its inclination will be changed to 100 Γ— 000 km with an orbital period of 200 hours. In this position, the satellite is almost […]

The death of Upstart, 32-bit builds, Unity and Deb packages in Ubuntu is delayed by 2 years: LTS releases received two more years of support

According to Canonical's blog post, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (the latest LTS release with Upstart by default) will be supported until April 2026, Ubuntu 16.04 - the last official release with Unity 7 as the default desktop environment - until 2028, Ubuntu 18.04 (the latest LTS release with support for 32-bit architecture) - until 2030, Ubuntu 20.04 - the latest release with […]

The SDL3 library has delayed the transition to Wayland by default

The developers of the SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) library, aimed at simplifying the writing of games and multimedia applications, have reversed the change that switches the SDL3 branch to use the Wayland protocol by default in environments that provide simultaneous support for Wayland and X11. The reason cited is the presence of issues unresolved in the Wayland ecosystem related to surface locking and FIFO (vsync) implementation. These problems lead to [...]

ZenHammer - attack method for corrupting memory contents on AMD Zen platforms

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed the ZenHammer attack, a variant of the RowHammer class of attacks to modify the contents of individual bits of dynamic random access memory (DRAM), adapted for use on platforms with AMD processors. Past RowHammer attacks have been limited to Intel-based systems, but research has shown that memory corruption can also be […]

Bitcoin returns to $70 after sharp decline

Bitcoin once again crossed the $70 mark after peaking at $14 on March 73 before falling to $797. Galaxy Digital head of research Alex Thorn noted that such drawdowns are β€œcharacteristic of historical short-term corrections in the working market.” " Despite the declines, the value of Bitcoin increased by 60% over the month, […]

Intel, Google, Arm and others team up to fight Nvidia's hegemony with open source software

As Reuters has learned, a number of large technology companies, including Intel, Google, Arm, Qualcomm, Samsung, etc., have formed a group called The Unified Acceleration Foundation (UXL). The companies have teamed up to create open source software that would allow developers of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to not be tied to Nvidia's proprietary technology. Image source: NvidiaSource: […]