Category: Technologies

Baykar will complete the construction of a drone manufacturing plant in Ukraine by August 2025. The company plans to produce TB2 or TB3 drones.

Turkish drone manufacturer Baykar expects to complete the construction of a Ukrainian plant next summer. This was announced by the company's CEO Haluk Bayraktar, Reuters reports, UNN writes.

We have completed 80% of the construction and the machines are being ordered. The production date will be determined by the course of the war, but the facility will be ready in August 2025,

– He said.

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It is expected that the plant will produce a version of the TB2 drone or its TB3 variant. They differ in size, payload, and top speed, among other things.

According to the head of the company, Baykar is also working on developing its own engines – currently, Ukrainian-made engines are used to build Akinci and Kizilelma.

Recall

In February of this year, Turkish drone manufacturer Baykar announcedthat it was building a new factory near Kyiv that will employ 500 people to produce its TB2 and TB3 models.

Apple has announced an “exciting week” for Mac via a press release. The new Mac mini, iMac, and MacBook Pro with M4 processors are expected to be introduced.

For a long time, there have been rumors about new Macs with M4 processors. Most recently, Apple announced that it would introduce new products via a press release.

Writes to UNN with a link to the page of Apple's senior vice president of marketing in social network X.

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Apple's Greg Joswiak announced an “exciting week” of new Macs on Twitter. He hinted at the imminent appearance of devices based on M4 processors. It is reported that Apple is not likely to organize a large-scale product launch this October.

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Usually, Apple chooses a special event or press release for various Mac announcements. However, this week seems to be different, full of announcements, which is quite unique for Apple.

First devices with M4 processors

Rumors indicate that Apple is ready to present the first M4 computers. New models of Mac mini, iMac, and MacBook Pro are expected.

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They will be equipped with the M4 chip, which we already received earlier this year in iPad Pro models. The older MacBook Pro models will use M4 Pro and M4 Max chips, and the Mac mini will also get M4 Pro.

Recall

Apple has introduced a new iPad mini with support for Apple Intelligence and Pencil Pro.

It will be faster and will also have a new button and a new color: Apple has unveiled the new iPhone 16.

The Ukrainian computerized artillery range has been approved for operation by the Ministry of Defense. The compact simulator allows simulating combat missions and analyzing the actions of the units based on real-world experience.

The Ministry of Defense has codified and authorized the operation of a domestically produced computer artillery training ground designed to train artillery specialists, UNN reports citing the ministry.

This complex was developed by a group of Ukrainian programmers as an auxiliary digital tool for conducting training with combat crews of various types of artillery weapons. The algorithms of the computer program were created taking into account a significant amount of real combat experience of Ukrainian artillerymen gained during the war with the Russian aggressor

– the statement said.

According to the agency, the visual component of the computer training ground allows you to: simulate the execution of fire missions and analyze their performance, analyze the actions of each member of the combat team, and receive recommendations for correcting errors.

The Ukrainian-made computer training ground is compact. All equipment can be placed in a suitcase, which allows you to equip a classroom in any stationary room or in the field, the Ministry of Defense summarized.

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Former Intel CEO Paul Otellini tried to buy Nvidia for $20 billion, but the board of directors rejected the deal. In 20 years, Nvidia has become 30 times more expensive than Intel.

Former Intel CEO Paul Otellini wanted to buy chipmaker Nvidia in 2005, when the company was known only for producing chips for computer graphics and it had potential for data centers. This was reported by The New York Times with reference to sources, UNN writes.

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In 2005, Intel CEO Paul Otellini tried to make a deal to buy Nvidia. Intel's top managers believed that over time, the chipmaker's technology could be useful for data processing.

It was expected that $20 billion would be spent on the purchase of Nvidia. However, Otellini failed to convince Intel's board of directors of the importance of the deal.

According to the publication's sources, Intel's board of directors resisted the deal for several reasons. First, it would have been the most expensive acquisition in Intel's history; second, historically, Intel has not been very good at acquiring other companies.

Instead of buying Nvidia, Intel decided to focus on creating its own GPU: the Larrabee project was launched, led by current Intel CEO Patrick Helsinger. A few years later, the project was closed, as it failed to create a decent GPU.

Almost 20 years later, it turned out that Otellini was right: Nvidia technologies were indeed suitable for working with artificial intelligence. Nowadays, Nvidia's capitalization is about 30 times higher than Intel's.

Recall

Nvidia plans to report impressive financial results from AI chip sales in the second quarter of 2024. The company expects significant revenue growth from its next-generation Blackwell GPUs in the coming quarters.

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Scout Motors has announced two electric vehicles – the Traveler SUV and the Terra truck with prices starting at $60,000. The vehicles will have a range of up to 563 kilometers, and the versions with a gas generator will have a range of more than 800 kilometers.

Scout Motors, a subsidiary of Volkswagen Group, unveiled two electric vehicles on Thursday that it hopes will attract U.S. buyers with styling that seeks a point of contact between the modern and the rugged, where the digital doesn't supplant the mechanical, Tech Crunch reported, writes UNN.

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The company will also offer variants of its all-electric Scout Traveler SUV and Scout Terra truck that will feature an integrated gas generator using a system called Harvester, a reference to the brand's roots with the International Harvester Scout from the 1960s.

The Scout electric vehicles – a truck and SUV – won't be available until 2027 at the earliest. When they finally go into production, the vehicles will have a body-on-frame chassis, a non-split rear axle, front and rear mechanical interlocks, and a powertrain that will provide acceleration from zero to 96.5 km per hour in 3.5 seconds (in some configurations).

The company said Thursday that the all-electric models are expected to have a range of up to about 563 kilometers. The electric vehicles will also be equipped with Tesla's North American charging standard. But the company will also offer variants with an extended range of more than 804 kilometers, made possible by an integrated gas generator.

Prices

The Scout Traveler and Terra models will have a starting price of less than $60,000. Scout noted that those prices could be as low as $50,000 with available incentives. That's assuming the incentives outlined in the American Inflation Relief Act remain in place. Scout is poised to take advantage of these incentives because it will design the cars in Michigan and manufacture them in a new $2 billion plant capable of producing 200,000 electric cars a year in South Carolina.

Scout is also taking the controversial step of selling its electric vehicles directly to consumers, which will avoid the use of VW dealerships. The company said potential customers can pre-order to order the Scout Traveler SUV or Scout Terra truck for a refundable $100.

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ESA has published a video demonstrating the deformation of the Earth's magnetic field during the LaChampagne event 41,000 years ago. The planet's magnetosphere weakened to 5% of its current strength, allowing cosmic rays to penetrate the atmosphere.

Around 41,000 years ago, a temporary change in the Earth's magnetic poles, known as the Lacham Event, occurred. A new video shows how the Earth's magnetic field deformed during the “polar reversal event.

Writes UNN with reference to Live Science.

A fascinating new videoreleased on October 10 by the European Space Agency (ESA) shows how the Earth's magnetic field failed and almost completely disappeared during the last “polar shift” of our planet, which occurred about 41,000 years ago. The eerie soundtrack of “alien” creaking sounds emphasizes the strain on our planet's invisible shield.

For reference

The Earth's magnetic field, or magnetosphere, first formed up to 3.7 billion years ago and is generated by a swirling metallic ocean in the outer core of our planet. The magnetic bubble protects life on Earth from solar radiation and high-energy cosmic rays. However, from time to time, the Earth's internal dynamo weakens, allowing the planet's magnetic poles to reverse.

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Approximately 41,000 years ago, there was a temporary change in the Earth's magnetic poles known as the LaChampagne event. During this period, the planet's magnetic field weakened dramatically, allowing cosmic rays to penetrate the Earth's atmosphere, contributing to some climate change.

Past studies of fossilized tree rings have also shown that the magnetosphere was reduced to about 5% of its current capacity, allowing solar radiation to paint auroras across the equator.

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CERT-UA has detected a large-scale cyberattack on government agencies through phishing emails with fake Google spreadsheets. Attackers steal browser data and install malware through a fake bot scan.

The CERT-UA team, which operates under the State Special Communications Service, has detected a new large-scale cyberattack aimed at local governments in Ukraine, UNN reports with reference to the State Special Communications Service.

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According to the State Service for Special Communications, the attackers send phishing emails with the subject line "Replace Table" that contain a link to a supposedly Google spreadsheet. In fact, the link leads to a page with "instructions" for running a malicious command.

How the attack scheme works:

After receiving the email, the user clicks on the link and ends up on a page that simulates bot protection.

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After clicking on "I'm not a robot" and following the proposed "instructions", a malicious command is executed on the computer.

Executing the script will result in:

– downloading the program and creating a tunnel using it;

– theft of authentication and other browser data (Chrome, Edge, Opera, Firefox, etc.);

– installation of broadband access points.

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