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NVIDIA briefly overtook Alphabet on Wednesday to become the third-largest company in the US by market capitalization.

NVIDIA on Wednesday briefly overtook Alphabet, the parent company of Google, to become the third most valuable company in the United States, Yahoo Finance writes. This happened just hours after NVIDIA overtook Amazon in the same metric as investors and analysts awaited the upcoming quarterly report from the chipmaker that dominates the artificial intelligence technology market. […]

FreeNginx, a fork of Nginx created due to disagreement with F5 company policies, was introduced

Maxim Dunin, one of the three active key developers of Nginx, announced the creation of a new fork - FreeNginx. Unlike the Angie project, which also forked Nginx, the new fork will be developed solely as a non-profit community project. FreeNginx is positioned as the main descendant of Nginx - “taking into account the details - rather, the fork remained with F5.” The goal of FreeNginx is stated […]

Attack scenario for uninstalled application handler in Ubuntu

Researchers from Aqua Security drew attention to the possibility of an attack on users of the Ubuntu distribution kit, using the implementation features of the “command-not-found” handler, which provides a hint if an attempt is made to launch a program that is not in the system. The problem is that when evaluating commands to run that are not present in the system, “command-not-found” uses not only packages from standard repositories, but snap packages […]

Talk to machines: Nokia unveils MX Workmate AI assistant for industrial workers

Nokia has announced a specialized set of tools, MX Workmate, that allows industrial workers to “communicate” with machines. The solution is based on generative AI technologies and a large language model (LLM). It is noted that organizations around the world are facing a shortage of skilled labor. A study by consulting firm Korn Ferry suggests that by 2030, there will be a shortage of […]

Nginx 1.25.4 fixes two HTTP/3 vulnerabilities

The main branch of nginx 1.25.4 has been released, within which the development of new features continues. The parallel-maintained stable branch 1.24.x contains only changes related to the elimination of serious bugs and vulnerabilities. In the future, based on the main branch 1.25.x, a stable branch 1.26 will be formed. The project code is written in C and distributed under the BSD license. In the new version […]

Release of GhostBSD 24.01.1

The release of the desktop-oriented distribution GhostBSD 24.01.1, built on the basis of FreeBSD 14-STABLE and offering the MATE user environment, has been published. Separately, the community creates unofficial builds with Xfce. By default, GhostBSD uses the ZFS file system. Both work in Live mode and installation on a hard drive are supported (using its own ginstall installer, written in Python). Boot images are built for the architecture [...]

KeyTrap and NSEC3 vulnerabilities affecting most DNSSEC implementations

Two vulnerabilities have been identified in various implementations of the DNSSEC protocol, affecting the BIND, PowerDNS, dnsmasq, Knot Resolver, and Unbound DNS resolvers. The vulnerabilities could cause a denial of service for DNS resolvers that perform DNSSEC validation by causing a high CPU load that interferes with the processing of other queries. To carry out an attack, it is enough to send a request to a DNS resolver using DNSSEC, resulting in a call to a specially designed […]

The shutter of the SHERLOC spectrometer has failed on the Perseverance rover - NASA will try to fix it

NASA reported that the shutter protecting the optics of the SHERLOC ultraviolet spectrometer stopped opening normally. This is all the more offensive since the rover approached the place where an ancient river flows into a prehistoric lake. A team of specialists is investigating the problem to try to restore the functionality of the device. Image source: NASASource: 3dnews.ru