On January 29, the technical committee of the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation), behind Kubernetes, Prometheus and other Open Source products from the world of containers and cloud native, announced the acceptance of the Rook project into its ranks. A great opportunity to get to know this “distributed storage orchestrator in Kubernetes” closer. What is Rook? Rook is a Go-based software […]
In driver files for video cards, you can regularly find references to new models of graphics accelerators that have not yet been officially presented. So in the AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 19.4.3 driver package, entries were found about the new Radeon RX 640 and Radeon 630 video cards. The new video cards received the identifiers “AMD6987.x”. Radeon RX graphics accelerators have identical identifiers, with the exception of the number after the dot […]
Information security experts have discovered a new vulnerability in Intel chips that can be used to steal sensitive information directly from the processor. The researchers called it "ZombieLoad". ZombieLoad is a side-by-side attack targeting Intel chips that allows hackers to effectively exploit a flaw in their architecture to obtain arbitrary data, but does not allow […]
I want to tell you how to safely store SSH keys on your local machine, without fear that some application may steal or decrypt them. The article will be useful to those who have not found an elegant solution after paranoia in 2018 and continue to store keys in $HOME/.ssh. To solve this problem, I suggest using KeePassXC, which is one of the best […]
When building Ethernet networks, various classes of switching equipment are used. Separately, it is worth highlighting unmanaged switches - simple devices that allow you to quickly and efficiently organize the operation of a small Ethernet network. This article provides a detailed overview of the EKI-2000 series of entry-level unmanaged industrial switches. Introduction Ethernet has long been an integral part of any industrial network. This standard, which came from the IT industry, allowed […]
The Chinese company Xiaomi has begun implementing a new scheme for selling mobile products - through specialized vending machines. The first Mi Express Kiosk devices appeared in India. They offer smartphones, phablets, as well as various accessories, including cases and headsets. In addition, fitness trackers, portable batteries and chargers are available in the machines. It should be noted that the machines offer […]
Another six months have passed and the Repology project, within which information about package versions in multiple repositories is regularly collected and compared, publishes another report. The number of supported repositories has exceeded 230. Added support for BunsenLabs, Pisi, Salix, Solus, T2 SDE, Void Linux, ELRepo, Mer Project, EMacs repositories of GNU Elpa and MELPA packages, MSYS2 (msys2, mingw), a set of extended OpenSUSE repositories. […]
Oddworld Inhabitants studio has published a gameplay trailer and the first screenshots of Oddworld: Soulstorm. Western journalists also got access to a demo of Oddworld: Soulstorm and described what kind of game it would be. Thus, according to information from IGN, the project is a 2,5D action adventure game in which you can act covertly or aggressively. The environment has several layers, and non-player characters are busy with their own affairs. Oddworld: Soulstorm […]
The launch of the long-awaited World of Warcraft Classic will take place at the end of summer, on August 27th. Users will be able to go back thirteen years ago and see what the world of Azeroth looked like back then in the legendary MMORPG. This will be the World of Warcraft as fans remember it at the time of the release of update 1.12.0 “Drums of War” - the patch was released on August 22, 2006. In Classic […]
Daedalic Entertainment and studios FakeFish and Undertow Games have announced that the multiplayer sci-fi submarine simulator Barotrauma will be released on Steam Early Access on June 5th. In Barotrauma, up to 16 players will take an underwater journey beneath the surface of one of Jupiter's moons, Europa. There they will discover many alien wonders and horrors. Players will have to control their ship […]
Amazon may yet make a comeback in the smartphone market, despite its high-profile failure with the Fire phone. Dave Limp, Amazon's senior vice president of devices and services, told The Telegraph that if Amazon succeeds in creating a "differentiated concept" for smartphones, it would make a second attempt at entering that market. “This is a large market segment […]
Testing of the new generation Alfa-X bullet train begins in Japan. The express, which will be produced by Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Hitachi, is capable of reaching a maximum speed of 400 km/h, although it will transport passengers at a speed of 360 km/h. The launch of the new generation Alfa-X is scheduled for 2030. Before this, as the DesignBoom resource notes, the bullet train will undergo tests […]
