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Optane DC Persistent Memory - Optane in DIMM format

Last week at the Intel Data Center Tech Summit, the company officially unveiled Optane memory based on 3D XPoint modules in DIMM format, which is called Optane DC Persistent Memory (please do not confuse with Intel Optane Memory, a consumer line of caching drives). Memory sticks have a capacity of 128, 256 or 512 GB, the pinout complies with the DIMM standard, […]

Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory, a year later

Last summer, we announced on the Optane DC Persistent Memory blog, Optane memory based on 3D XPoint modules in DIMM format. As it was then stated, the supply of Optane bars began in the second quarter of 2019, by which time enough information had accumulated about them, which was so lacking then, at the time of the announcement. So, under the cut […]

Entropy protocol. Part 4 of 6. Abstragon

Before we drink the cup of fate Let us drink, dear, another cup, together It may turn out that we can take a sip before we die The sky in its madness will not allow us Omar Khayyam Spiritual Prisons The dinner was very tasty. It had to be admitted that the food here was excellent. Exactly half past three, as we agreed with Nastya, I was waiting for her on the alley from which […]

Websites of financial organizations are one of the main targets of cybercriminals

Positive Technologies has published the results of a study that examined the security situation of modern web resources. Web application hacking is reported to be one of the most commonly used methods of cyber attacks on both organizations and individuals. At the same time, one of the main targets of cybercriminals is the websites of companies and structures involved in financial transactions. These are, in particular, banks, [...]

Two games for PS Plus subscribers in July: PES 2019 and Horizon Chase Turbo

Recently, PlayStation Plus began distributing only two games per month to subscribers - for PlayStation 4. In July, players will be invited to take to the field and compete for the championship title in the football simulator PES 2019 or enjoy the classic arcade racing game in Horizon Chase Turbo. Subscription owners will be able to download these games starting July 2. […]

Half-Life remake: beta testing of the world of Zen from Black Mesa has begun

14 years of development for the updated 1998 cult classic Half Life are coming to an end. The Black Mesa project, with the ambitious goal of porting the original game to the Source engine while preserving the gameplay but deeply rethinking the level design, was carried out by a team of enthusiasts, the Crowbar Collective. In 2015, the developers presented the first part of the adventures of Gordon Freeman, releasing Black Mesa into early access. […]

Apple to quintuple the number of employees in Seattle by 2024

Apple plans to significantly increase the number of employees it will work at its new facility in Seattle. The company said at a news conference Monday that it would add 2024 new jobs by 2000, double the number previously announced. The new positions will focus on software and hardware. Apple currently has […]

Huawei Mate 30 Lite smartphone will carry the new Kirin 810 processor

This fall, Huawei, according to online sources, will announce the Mate 30 series smartphones. The family will include the Mate 30, Mate 30 Pro and Mate 30 Lite models. Information about the characteristics of the latter appeared on the Internet. The device, according to the published data, will have a display measuring 6,4 inches diagonally. The resolution of this panel will be 2310 × 1080 pixels. It is said that there is […]

Valve released an official statement about further support for Linux

Following the recent uproar caused by Canonical's announcement that it would no longer support 32-bit architecture in Ubuntu, and the subsequent abandonment of its plans due to the uproar, Valve has announced that it will continue to support Linux games. Valve said in a statement that they "continue to support Linux as a gaming platform" and "continue to invest significant efforts in driver development and […]

Valve will continue to support Ubuntu on Steam, but will begin to cooperate with other distributions

Due to Canonical's review of plans to end support for the 32-bit x86 architecture in the next release of Ubuntu, Valve has stated that it will likely continue support for Ubuntu on Steam, despite its previously stated intention to end official support. Canonical's decision to provide 32-bit libraries will allow the development of Steam for Ubuntu to continue without negatively impacting users of that distribution, […]

First release of the new Firefox Preview browser for Android

Mozilla has unveiled the first trial release of its Firefox Preview browser, codenamed Fenix, aimed at initial testing by interested enthusiasts. The release is distributed through the Google Play directory, and the code is available on GitHub. After stabilizing the project and implementing all the planned functionality, the browser will replace the current edition of Firefox for Android, the release of new releases of which will be stopped starting […]

Facebook, Google and others to develop tests for AI

A consortium of 40 technology companies, including Facebook, Google and others, intends to develop an assessment methodology and a set of criteria for testing artificial intelligence. By measuring AI products across these categories, companies will be able to determine the optimal solutions for them, learning technologies, and so on. The consortium itself is called MLPerf. The benchmarks, called MLPerf Inference v0.5, center around three common […]