Author: ProHoster

Nissan backs Tesla in ditching lidars for robo-cars

Nissan Motor announced Thursday that it will rely on radar sensors and cameras instead of lidar or light sensors for its self-driving technology due to their high cost and limited capabilities. The Japanese automaker unveiled its updated self-driving technology a month after Tesla CEO Elon Musk called lidar a "futile idea," criticizing the technology for […]

The processor will overclock optics to 800 Gb / s: how it works

The developer of telecommunications equipment Ciena presented an optical signal processing system. It will increase the data transmission rate in the fiber up to 800 Gbps. Under the cut - about the principles of its work. Photo - Timwether - CC BY-SA More fiber needed With the launch of next-generation networks and the proliferation of IoT devices, some estimates put the number at 50 billion […]

Running Bash in detail

If you found this page in a search, you are probably trying to solve some kind of bash startup problem. Perhaps your bash environment is not setting an environment variable and you don't understand why. You may have stuck something in various bash boot files or profiles or all files at random until it worked. In any case, the point […]

Toilet for Maine Coons

In the last article, based on the results of its discussions, I added that I would take care of the toilet for Maine Coons. It was the owners of these seals who showed increased interest in the topic. I took up this toilet and opened a special section on my website, which is called “Toilet for Maine Coons.” This section contained real-time materials about the process of its creation. […]

CI Games terminated the contract with the developers of Lords of the Fallen 2 - the game may not be released soon

The sequel to Lords of the Fallen was announced more than four years ago, but players have still not been shown a single screenshot. Apparently, the project’s situation is close to “production hell.” First, CI Games cut its development team, then transferred the action role-playing game to another studio, Defiant, and recently unexpectedly terminated its contract. Apparently, wait for the premiere [...]

ASUS cloud service spotted sending backdoors again

Less than two months have passed since computing platform security researchers again caught the ASUS cloud service sending backdoors. This time, the WebStorage service and software were compromised. With its help, the hacker group BlackTech Group installed Plead malware on victims’ computers. More precisely, Japanese cybersecurity specialist Trend Micro considers Plead software a […]

Comet Lake-U Generation Core i5-10210U First Tests: Slightly Faster than Current Chips

The next, tenth generation Intel Core i5-10210U mobile processor has been mentioned in the Geekbench and GFXBench performance test databases. This chip belongs to the Comet Lake-U family, although one of the tests attributed it to the current Whiskey Lake-U. The new product will be produced using the good old 14 nm process technology, perhaps with some further improvements. The Core i5-10210U processor has four cores and eight […]

Apple will release its own 5G modem only by 2025

There is no doubt that Apple is developing its own 5G modem, which will be used in future iPhones and iPads. However, it will take a few more years to create its own 5G modem. As The Information resource reports, citing sources from Apple itself, Apple will have its own 5G modem ready no earlier than 2025. Let us remind you that […]

Photo of the day: crash site of the Israeli lunar lander Beresheet

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) presented photographs of the crash area of ​​the Beresheet robotic probe on the surface of the Moon. Let us recall that Beresheet is an Israeli device intended to study the natural satellite of our planet. The probe, created by the private company SpaceIL, was launched on February 22, 2019. Beresheet was scheduled to land on the Moon on April 11. TO […]

Serverless by racks

Serverless is not about the physical absence of servers. This is not a container killer or a fleeting trend. This is a new approach to building systems in the cloud. In today's article, we will touch on the architecture of Serverless applications, see what role the Serverless service provider and open-source projects play. In the end, let's talk about the use of Serverless. I want to write the server part of the application (yes, at least an online store). […]

Intel Tried to Mitigate or Delay Publication of MDS Vulnerabilities with $120 "Reward"

Our colleagues from the TechPowerUP website, citing a publication in the Dutch press, report that Intel made an attempt to bribe researchers who discovered MDS vulnerabilities. Microarchitectural data sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities have been found in Intel processors that have been on sale for the last 8 years. The vulnerabilities were discovered by security specialists from the Free University of Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, VU […]

The first OneWeb satellites will arrive at Baikonur in August–September

The first OneWeb satellites intended for launch from Baikonur should arrive at this cosmodrome in the third quarter, as reported by the online publication RIA Novosti. The OneWeb project, we recall, provides for the formation of a global satellite infrastructure to provide broadband Internet access around the world. Hundreds of small spacecraft will be responsible for data transmission. The first six OneWeb satellites have successfully launched […]