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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: […]

New article: It's not silicone! Part two: power, brilliance and two-dimensionality

Silicon is extremely versatile as a basis for semiconductor microelectronics, as researchers seeking to find a replacement for it have seen again and again in light of the steadily rising costs of further improving Si-centric photolithography. There is hope to achieve this goal - however, moving towards it, apparently, will take many more decades. Source: 3dnews.ru

Firefox Update 125.0.3

A maintenance release of Firefox 125.0.3 is available, which fixes several issues: Fixed an issue where, after upgrading to Firefox 125, some users would occasionally spontaneously open new tabs with the URL “https://0.0.0.1” in the address bar. The effect only appeared on the Windows platform. Analysis of the situation showed that tabs appear when trying to launch another copy of Firefox from the command […]