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Linux 6.1 is in the patch merge phase, and a kernel developer asked Linus Torvalds if he missed a Git pull request. The Linux author confirmed on Sunday that he is now executing merge queues at a very slow rate due to memory issues. Torvalds’ main work computer is an AMD Threadripper 3970x workstation, which […]

The Pentagon has blacklisted 13 Chinese companies including Qihoo 360, Shenzhen DJI, Beijing Zhichuangyu and Zhongke Shuguang. Shenzhen-based DJI is the largest consumer drone maker, accounting for more than half of commercial drones, and the Pentagon’s blacklist, which represents the companies’ ties to the military, clears the way for the Biden administration to impose follow-up

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, along with Douglas Diamond of the University of Chicago and Philip Dybvig of the University of Washington, has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Economist for their research on the role of banks during the financial crisis. The Nobel committee said their findings improved how society responded to financial crises.

The Yangtze River Basin has experienced a record drought this year, and artificial rainfall has also been used frequently. According to the People’s Daily , at least 10 provinces in China dispatched planes about 90 times in August to spread rain-friendly materials. About 120,000 “rain booster bombs” to promote rainfall were also fired. It is

According to a study (PDF) published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, simulations suggest that the moon may have formed in a short period of time . A widely accepted hypothesis is that the Moon was formed by the collision of Earth with the Mars-sized planet Theia, a massive impact that may have created a vast debris

The boost the coronavirus pandemic has brought to the memory chip industry is fading . The drop in prices in recent months has led to pessimistic forecasts from the biggest memory makers such as Samsung Electronics Co and Micron Electronics Co. A number of other companies have pledged to cut capacity plans, fearing a deepening

Defenders of drug patents have for years claimed the need for patents and high drug prices because of the high cost of developing new drugs. But in fact a large part of the cost of new drug development is funded by the government (that is, taxpayers), and according to a study published in “JAMA Network

After Meta announced Make-A-Video, its text-to-video AI model, Google demoed its own equivalent, Imagen Video . It produces 1280×768 video at 24 frames per second based on written prompts. From text-to-text to text-to-video, AI diffusion models have made significant progress in the past six months. According to Google researchers, Imagen Video’s videos can express different

CommonSpirit Health, the fourth-largest hospital system in the United States, said on Tuesday that it had experienced IT security issues and that some systems were taken offline. It did not disclose further details. But people familiar with the matter confirmed it suffered a ransomware attack . The ransomware attack at CommonSpirit, which operates more than

Asteroid impact is one of the potential disasters facing human civilization in the future. About 200 large impact events have been recorded on Earth, and asteroid impacts thousands of meters in diameter are enough to cause mass extinctions. The impact flux has declined exponentially since the Earth was formed 4.5 billion years ago. So, has

The National Supercomputing Center in Changsha has launched the Tianhe new supercomputing , and the peak computing performance of double-precision floating-point has reached 200PFlops. I don’t know the name of the new supercomputer at the moment. According to a report by the Changsha Evening News, the new supercomputing “has an international advanced computing power level

On October 8, 2022, at 21:00 (17:30 GMT) Iran’s state-owned TV station was hijacked by hackers while broadcasting news. A mask appeared on the screen, then the head of Supreme Spiritual Leader Khamenei, surrounded by flames, There is a crosshair on the head. There is also text on the screen calling for people to join

U.S. software development company Chetu has fired an employee who refused to turn on the camera at work, with a Dutch court fined 75,000 euros for wrongful dismissal. The employee, who started working for Chetu in January 2019, was required to take part in a virtual training program called the Corrective Action Program after about