Author: ProHoster

A vulnerability in vhost-net that allows bypassing isolation in systems based on QEMU-KVM

Information has been disclosed about a vulnerability (CVE-2019-14835) that allows you to escape the guest system in KVM (qemu-kvm) and execute your code on the host side in the context of the Linux kernel. The vulnerability has been codenamed V-gHost. The problem allows the guest system to create conditions for a buffer overflow in the vhost-net kernel module (network backend for virtio), executed on the side of the host environment. The attack could be […]

Debian revisits support for multiple init systems

Sam Hartman, Debian project leader, tried to sort out the controversy surrounding the distribution of the elogind package as part of the distribution. In July, the team responsible for preparing releases blocked the inclusion of elogind in the testing branch, since this package conflicts with libsystemd. As a reminder, elogind provides the interfaces needed to run GNOME without installing systemd. The project was founded as an offshoot [...]

Polygon: Apex Legends will add a new hero, Crypto, and the Charge Rifle rifle in the third ranked season

Polygon journalists published information about the expected direction of development of Apex Legends. According to the publication, with the start of the new rating season, the developers will add the hero Crypto and the Charge Rifle rifle to the shooter. They will appear in the game no earlier than October 1st. It is expected that the appearance of a new character will be the biggest innovation in the game. Users have already found it in the current game client. Despite […]

NVIDIA Saves Chiplets for Better Times

If you believe the statements of NVIDIA Chief Scientific Advisor Bill Dally in an interview with the Semiconductor Engineering resource, the company developed the technology for creating a multi-core processor with a multi-chip layout six years ago, but is still not ready to use it in mass production. On the other hand, to place HBM-type memory chips in close proximity to the GPU, the company […]

Apple has released two new trailers showcasing children's series from TV+

Perhaps the main announcements during the recent presentation were not new Apple devices like the iPad 10,2″, Apple Watch Series 5 and the iPhone 11 family, but subscription services: the gaming Arcade and streaming television TV+. The monthly cost of both, quite unexpectedly for Apple, was only 199 rubles in Russia (for comparison, in the USA the price is $4,99), […]

Xiaomi novelties for smart home: smart speakers and AC2100 router

Xiaomi has announced three new devices for the modern smart home - the XiaoAI Speaker and XiaoAI Speaker PRO smart speakers, as well as the AC2100 Wi-Fi Router. The XiaoAI Speaker has a white cylindrical body with a mesh bottom half. There are controls at the top of the gadget. It is claimed that the new product is capable of forming a sound field with a coverage of 360 […]

Noir strategy John Wick Hex will be released in EGS on October 8

Good Shepherd Entertainment has announced that the noir turn-based strategy game John Wick Hex will be released on PC on October 8, 2019, exclusively on the Epic Games Store. The game can already be pre-ordered for 449 rubles. In John Wick Hex you must think and act like John Wick, a professional hitman. The game combines elements of strategy and dynamic […]

Presented A Total War Saga: Troy, dedicated to ancient Greek myths

After a series of leaks, publisher Sega and developers from Creative Assembly presented their new game, which will become part of the A Total War Saga series. The project A Total War Saga: Troy, as the name suggests, is dedicated to the Trojan War. The launch is likely scheduled for November 27, 2020 - this date was listed on the project's Steam page for some time, but […]

Kubernetes 1.16 - how to upgrade and not break anything

Today, September 18, the next version of Kubernetes is released - 1.16. As always, many improvements and new products await us. But I would like to draw your attention to the Action Required sections of the CHANGELOG-1.16.md file. These sections publish changes that may break your application, cluster maintenance tools, or require changes to configuration files. In general, they require [...]

Soyuz-2.1a rocket will launch Korean mini-satellites into space for plasma research

State-owned Roscosmos Corporation announces that the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle has been selected by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) to launch its small CubeSats as part of the SNIPE mission. The SNIPE program (Small scale magNetospheric and Ionospheric Plasma Experiment) - “Research of local properties of magnetospheric and ionospheric plasma” - provides for the deployment of a group of four 6U CubeSat spacecraft. […]