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Recent Windows update broke VPN - Microsoft has no solution

Microsoft has officially confirmed that the latest security update for Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems may interfere with VPN connections. We are talking about the April update KB5036893, the installation of which can lead to VPN malfunctions. Image source: UnsplashSource: 3dnews.ru

New article: OnePlus 12 smartphone review: merger and acquisition

By holding its own at least when it comes to the flagship series (and ditching the Pro version), OnePlus seems to have a better focus on its flagship smartphone. At least the OnePlus 11 looked pretty good compared to the disastrous 10 Pro. Was it possible to maintain the same course with OnePlus 12? Source: 3dnews.ru

The game "Abyss of Light" on the free INSTEAD engine

Vasily Voronkov, the author of the games “Transition” and “Lydia”, as well as several books, has released a new game “Abyss of Light”. The crew of the Grozny spacecraft is sent to the Kabiria orbital station, the last frontier of space explored by man, where they will encounter something inhuman. The genre of the game is textographic quests. Some of the puzzles in the game are solved using terminal emulation. In addition to scripts […]

Release of CudaText 1.214.0

The CudaText text editor has been quietly and quietly updated. In the 7 months since the previous announcement, many improvements have been implemented; they are briefly listed on the English-language forum: Enumeration. The most noticeable change is the acceleration of mass replacements; now replacing RegEx 'w' with, for example, one letter is many times faster than in Sublime Text. New plugins: Hotspots; VSCode's functionality has been added to Markdown Editing […]

Release of Nvidia RTX Remix 0.5

The open source project Nvidia RTX Remix 0.5 has been released. RTX Remix is ​​powered by Nvidia Omniverse and is part of the Nvidia Studio toolset. The platform is designed to create remasters of classic games on DirectX 8 and 9. Using machine algorithms, RTX Remix tools improve graphics and add modern technologies to games, such as ray tracing, scaling […]

Release of the GNU nano 8.0 text editor

The console text editor GNU nano 8.0 has been released, offered as the default editor in many user distributions whose developers find vim too difficult to master. The new release adds a command line option “—modernbindings” (“-/”), which activates an alternative set of basic hotkeys: ^Q - exit, ^X transfer to clipboard, ^C - copy to clipboard […]

Nvidia adds voice input to ChatRTX, support for the Google Gemma neural network, and photo search on PC using OpenAI CLIP

Nvidia has updated its ChatRTX app for running local AI chatbots, adding support for new AI models. Initially, the application offered support for the Mistral and Llama 2 AI models. The updated version received support for the Gemma models from Google, ChatGLM3, as well as CLIP from OpenAI, which simplifies the search for photos and images. Image source: NvidiaSource: 3dnews.ru

Linux Mint abandons libAdwaita and encourages others to join them

The Linux Mint developers, in their monthly news digest, talked about the progress of the development of Linux Mint 22 and, among other things, shared their vision of the situation related to the development of GNOME and applications developed within it. In 2016, Linux Mint developers launched a project called XApps, aimed at creating universal applications for traditional desktop environments […]

Amarok 3.0 "Castaway"

For the first time since 2018, there was a new stable release of the Amarok music player. This is the first stable version based on Qt5/KDE Frameworks 5. The road to version 3.0 has been a long one. Most of the porting work to Qt5/KF5 was done back in 2015, followed by slow polishing and fine-tuning, stopping and then continuing. Alpha version 3.0 has been released […]