Amazonova spletna trgovina je stara 30 let

• Matej Huš :: včeraj ob 22:37
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Slo-Tech - Kot mnogo drugih multinacionalk ima tudi Amazon več rojstnih dni, med katerimi je enega praznoval danes. Natanko pred 30 leti je zaživel Amazon kot spletna prodajalna knjig, dasiravno je podjetje leto dni starejše. Prva prodana knjiga je bila Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought, ki jo je napisal Douglas Hofstadter. Danes je Amazon daleč od nepomembnega knjigotržca, prerasel je celo okvire kateregakoli spletnega trgovca. Amazon je postal tehnološki gigant. Več na Slo-Techu.

Seagate prodaja 30-TB diske s toplotnim zapisom HAMR

• Matej Huš :: včeraj ob 22:37
• Diski

Seagate - Po dveh desetletjih razvoja je Seagate konec minulega leta na trg poslal prve diske s tehnologijo HAMR (heat-assisted magnetic recording), ki pa so bili namenjeni le za podatkovne centre. Sedaj je tehnologija prispela tudi do domačih uporabnikov. Seagate je začel prodajati diske s kapaciteto 30 TB, ki so na voljo navadnim uporabnikom in dosegajo kapaciteto 30 TB. Več na Slo-Techu.

Nvidia bo spet prodajala čipe H20 na Kitajsko

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Slo-Tech - Nvidii se je nasmehnila sreča oziroma ameriška administracija, saj bo po sestanku z ameriškim predsednikom Donaldom Trumpom dobila izvozno dovoljenje za čipe H20. Te bodo lahko spet prodajali na Kitajsko, česar od letošnjega aprila v praksi niso mogli. Zahtevo za izdajo licence so že vložili, dovoljenja pa še nimajo v roki, temveč zgolj trdna zagotovila. Izvršni direktor Jensen Huang jim verjame, saj je novo politiko že javno napovedal, in to kar v Pekingu. Več na Slo-Techu.

In addition to releasing Mesa 25.2-rc1 with its many new features to test, Mesa release manager Eric Engestrom today released Mesa 25.1.6 as the newest bi-weekly stable point release for last quarter's series...

Version 0.50.0 of Hyprland, a compositor for Wayland, has been released. Changes include a new render-scheduling option that "can drastically improve FPS on underpowered devices, while coming at no performance or latency cost when the system is doing alright", an option to exclude applications from screen sharing, a new test suite, and more.

Linux users who have Secure Boot enabled on their systems knowingly or unknowingly rely on a key from Microsoft that is set to expire in September. After that point, Microsoft will no longer use that key to sign the shim first-stage UEFI bootloader that is used by Linux distributions to boot the kernel with Secure Boot. But the replacement key, which has been available since 2023, may not be installed on many systems; worse yet, it may require the hardware vendor to issue an update for the system firmware, which may or may not happen. It seems that the vast majority of systems will not be lost in the shuffle, but it may require extra work from distributors and users.

Earlier this year when the Framework 13 was updated for the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series I ran benchmarks looking at the performance gains across different Linux distributions with Debian 13, Clear Linux, and CachyOS being the outstanding performers for that Strix Point hardware. With the recent launch of the Framework 12 2-in-1 laptop powered by Intel Raptor Lake you may be wondering what Linux distributions have the edge there. Here is an eight-way comparison of different Linux operating systems on the Framework 12 with Intel Core i5 1334U with the likes of Arch Linux, CachyOS, Clear Linux, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu.

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Mesa 25.2 is now branched and thus under a feature freeze and with Mesa 25.2-rc1 having just been released. This marks the start of weekly release candidates until the Mesa 25.2 stable release is ready to ship sometime in August...

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