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The Redox 0.9 operating system, which is based on the Rust language and the microkernel architecture, was officially released on September 9, 2024, by the Redox OS community after two years of development. The source code has been published on GitLab under the MIT license, and for testing purposes, Redox OS offers bootable live environments for physical hardware and virtual machines.
AT&T sues Broadcom, accusing the chip manufacturer in attempting to disrupt the VMware contracts for a telecommunications company, which jeopardizes first responders and government systems.
Nvidia has lost a record $280 billion after it received a subpoena from the US Department of Justice for alleged antitrust violations.
Intel's laptop processors with a significant advantage in performance and energy efficiency will soon be available to users.
The new Intel product features a significant reduction in power consumption, which is almost 50 percent compared to previous processors. As a result, the laptops' battery life can reach 20 hours, which is much longer than the new AMD Ryzen AI 300 Strix Point chips offer.
In September 2024, the Rust for Linux project lost a key advocate. Wedson Almeida Filho, the project maintainer, resigned due to "nontechnical nonsense" and conflicts with some Linux kernel developers, including Ted Ts'o, the maintainer of the ext4 filesystem.
Recently, Dell publicized its fiscal quarterly report on its current market position. Revenue increased significantly and reached an impressive $25.06 billion. The largest growth was recorded in the server segment, where profits increased by almost 80 percent, mainly due to the impact of AI systems.
At the Ignite 2023 conference Microsoft for the first time talked about developing their own AI accelerator chip under the name Maia, sharing the specifications of Maia 100 just before the event. Maia 100 is one of the biggest 5nm node TSMC processors and is specifically developed for high workloads in Azure.
The release of the Wireshark 4.4.0 software network analyzer has recently occurred. Version 4.0.0 of the tool became available in the fall of 2022, the next version appeared in 2023, and version 4.2.6 became available in July. The first stable release of the analyzer came in 2008.
According to StatCounter, the share of desktop versions of Linux reached 4.5%, 4.56% to be precise in August 2024. Just a year ago this number reached the point of 3%. At this rate, Linux will reach 5% by February 2025.
The Hot Chips 2024 conference was held in Palo Alto, where IBM unveiled a new processor and AI accelerator. The innovative products were designed mainly for enterprise applications and performance improvements for AI tasks.