Author: ProHoster

The discovery of the oldest black hole in the Universe has been confirmed - it does not fit into our ideas about nature

The report on the discovery of the oldest black hole in the Universe was peer-reviewed and published in the journal Nature. Thanks to the space observatory. James Webb in the distant and ancient galaxy GN-z11 managed to discover a central black hole of a record mass for those times. It remains to be seen how and why this happened, and it seems that to do this we will have to change a number of […]

PixieFAIL - vulnerabilities in the UEFI firmware network stack used for PXE boot

Nine vulnerabilities have been identified in UEFI firmware based on the TianoCore EDK2 open platform, commonly used on server systems, collectively codenamed PixieFAIL. Vulnerabilities are present in the network firmware stack used to organize network boot (PXE). The most dangerous vulnerabilities allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute remote code at the firmware level on systems that allow PXE booting over an IPv9 network. […]

AMD has officially reduced the price of the Radeon RX 749 XT to $7900, and the Radeon RX 7900 GRE has dropped to $549

AMD has officially reduced the recommended price of the Radeon RX 7900 XT video card, TweakTown reports citing a company press release. Launched 13 months ago with an original MSRP of $899, this model is now available for $749, and in some cases even less. Apparently, AMD is thus preparing for the release of a direct competitor in the form of GeForce RTX […]

ThinkPad X201 support removed from Libreboot

Builds have also been removed from rsync and build logic has been removed from lbmk. This motherboard has been found to experience a fan control failure when using a cropped Intel ME image. This problem seems to only affect these older Arrandale machines; The issue was discovered on the X201, but is likely to affect the Thinkpad T410 and other laptops. This issue does not affect […]

MySQL 8.3.0 DBMS available

Oracle has formed a new branch of the MySQL 8.3 DBMS and published a corrective update to MySQL 8.0.36. MySQL Community Server 8.3.0 builds are prepared for all major Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Windows distributions. MySQL 8.3.0 is the third release formed under the new release model, which provides for the presence of two types of MySQL branches - “Innovation” and “LTS”. Innovation branches, to which […]

VirtualBox 7.0.14 release

Oracle has published a corrective release of the VirtualBox 7.0.14 virtualization system, which contains 14 fixes. At the same time, an update of the previous branch of VirtualBox 6.1.50 was created with 7 changes, including support for packages with the kernel from the RHEL 9.4 and 8.9 distributions, as well as the implementation of the ability to import and export images of virtual machines with NVMe drive controllers and media inserted into […]

GitHub has updated GPG keys due to an environment variable leak vulnerability

GitHub has disclosed a vulnerability that allows access to the contents of environment variables exposed in containers used in production infrastructure. The vulnerability was discovered by a Bug Bounty participant seeking a reward for finding security issues. The issue affects both the GitHub.com service and GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) configurations running on user systems. Log analysis and audit […]

Russian physicists have figured out how to create triangular and rectangular laser pulses - this will improve the control of quantum circuits

It is believed that in ordinary light pulses the electromagnetic field strength changes over time in a sinusoidal manner. Other field shapes were thought to be impossible until Russian physicists recently proposed a game-changing theoretical approach. The discovery will make it possible to generate triangular or rectangular light pulses, which will bring a lot of new things to the operation of quantum computer circuits. Image source: AI generation Kandinsky 3.0/3DNewsSource: 3dnews.ru