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Just a few days ago there was talk of potentially removing the Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers from the Linux kernel considering they had been orphaned for a decade and beginning to cause a maintenance burden. After briefly being marked for deprecation, it now looks like the drivers may be maintained with new maintainers alleging to step-up to the role...

Kitajci naredili korak proti hitrejšim SSD-jem

• Matej Huš :: danes ob 00:03
• Diski

Slo-Tech - V najnovejši številki revije Nature raziskovalci z Univerze Fudan na Kitajskem poročajo o odkritju novega koncepta shranjevanje podatkov v polprevodniškem pomnilniku, ki omogoča hitrejši bistveno zapis podatkov. Pokazali so, da je z uporabo dvorazsežnega Diracovega grafena možno med stanji preklapljati v 400 pikosekundah, kar je več tisočkrat hitreje od konvencionalnih SSD-jev. Več na Slo-Techu.

Nintendo zaradi carin podražil dodatke za Switch 2

• Matej Huš :: danes ob 00:03
• Konzole

Slo-Tech - Nintendo bo v četrtek znova začel pobirati prednaročila za prihajajočo konzolo Switch 2, ki jih je zaradi negotovosti ob ameriški uvedbi carin odložil. Cena konzole Switch 2 kljub bojazni o podražitvi ostaja 450 dolarjev v ZDA in bržkone prav toliko evrov v EU, bodo pa nekoliko dražji dodatki. Joy-Con bo na namesto 90 dolarjev sal 95 dolarjev, za krmilnik Pro bomo namesto 80 dolarjev odšteli 85 dolarjev, kamera bo s 50 dolarjev poletela na 55 dolarjev. Prodaja bo stekla 5. junija. Več na Slo-Techu.

Netflix povečal dobiček

• Matej Huš :: danes ob 00:03
• Rezultati

Slo-Tech - Netflix je v prvem letošnjem kvartalu ustvaril 10,5 milijarde dolarjev prihodkov, kar je dobrih 12 odstotkov več kot v enakem obdobju lani. Čisti dobiček se je povečal za četrtino na 2,9 milijarde dolarjev, ob čemer je bruto marža znašala 32 odstotkov. V prihodnjih mesecih pričakujejo nadaljevanje rasti. Več na Slo-Techu.

The Intel Integrated Sensor Hub "ISH" allows for offloading sensor polling and other tasks to a low-power co-processor to help reduce overall system power consumption for extending battery life with tablets, embedded devices, and 2-in1 laptops...

While the FFmpeg multimedia library merged Vulkan Video encode support last year, it was initially limited to H.264 and H.265 formats. With a new patch posted for review this week, AV1 encode support using the Vulkan Video API is now underway...

news about GNU/Linux and more

WWW-related leftovers

Development related picks

Canonical published today the Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) release, the latest stable version of their popular GNU/Linux distribution, featuring up-to-date components and new features.

hardware leftovers

Some IBM picks

the second batch

New Fire OS devices are still in the pipeline, though

Kdenlive is an open-source video editing suite you should consider trying

Watch: Google Hosts TED Talk and Demos Android XR Glasses

But [QRadioLink] decided to tackle a homebrew and open source DMR modem

GNU/Hurd has long struggled with hardware support and is still working on its x86_64 support while having a host of various hardware limitations but it also appears they are eager to explore Hurd on RISC-V platforms...

Engineers from Google are proposing that distributed ThinLTO build support be introduced for LLVM/Clang when compiling the Linux kernel. The distributed ThinLTO mode for link-time optimizations can lead to quicker build times than the current in-process ThinLTO mode while also being more convenient and work with kernel live-patching solutions...