Author: ProHoster

Drivers from major manufacturers, including Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA, are vulnerable to privilege escalation attacks

Specialists from Cybersecurity Eclypsium conducted a study that discovered a critical flaw in software development for modern drivers for various devices. The company's report mentions software products from dozens of hardware manufacturers. The discovered vulnerability allows malware to escalate privileges, up to unlimited access to equipment. A long list of driver providers that are fully approved by Microsoft […]

KDE Frameworks 5.61 release with security fix

The release of KDE Frameworks 5.61.0 has been published, providing a restructured and ported to Qt 5 core set of libraries and runtime components that underlie KDE. The framework includes more than 70 libraries, some of which can work as self-contained add-ons to Qt, and some of which form the KDE software stack. The new release fixes a vulnerability that has been reported for several days […]

China is almost ready to introduce its own digital currency

Although China does not approve of the spread of cryptocurrencies, the country is ready to offer its own version of virtual cash. The People's Bank of China said that its digital currency can be considered ready after the past five years of work on it. However, you shouldn’t expect it to somehow imitate cryptocurrencies. According to Deputy Head of the Payments Department Mu Changchun, it will use more […]

Firefox nightly builds add page lockdown mode

Nightly builds of Firefox, which will form the basis for the Firefox 70 release, have added support for the strong page isolation mode, codenamed Fission. When the new mode is activated, pages of different sites will always be located in the memory of different processes, each of which uses its own sandbox. In this case, the division by process will be carried out not by tabs, but by [...]

Huawei Unveils Cyberverse Mixed Reality Platform

The Chinese telecommunications and electronics giant Huawei presented at the Huawei Developer Conference 2019 event in the Chinese province of Guangdong a new platform for mixed VR and AR (virtual and augmented) reality services, Cyberverse. It is positioned as a multi-disciplinary solution for navigation, tourism, advertising and so on. According to the company's hardware and photography expert Wei Luo, this […]

Video: Rocket Lab showed how it will catch the first stage of a rocket using a helicopter

Small aerospace company Rocket Lab has decided to follow in the footsteps of larger rival SpaceX, announcing plans to make its rockets reusable. At the Small Satellite Conference held in Logan, Utah, USA, the company announced that it had set a goal to increase the frequency of launches of its Electron rocket. By ensuring the rocket's safe return to Earth, the company will be able to […]

Clipboard sync may appear in Chrome

Google may add cross-platform clipboard sharing support to Chrome so users can sync content across all platforms. In other words, this will allow you to copy a URL on one device and access it on another. This can be useful if you need to transfer a link from a computer to a smartphone or vice versa. Of course, all this works through an account [...]

The premiere of the smartphone LG G8x ThinQ is expected at IFA 2019

At the beginning of the year at the MWC 2019 event, LG announced the flagship smartphone G8 ThinQ. As the LetsGoDigital resource now reports, the South Korean company will time the presentation of a more powerful G2019x ThinQ device to the upcoming IFA 8 exhibition. It is noted that the application for registration of the G8x trademark has already been sent to the South Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO). However, the smartphone will be released […]

Photo of the day: real shots on a smartphone with a 64-megapixel camera

Realme will be one of the first to release a smartphone whose main camera will include a 64-megapixel sensor. The Verge resource was able to obtain real photos from Realme taken using this device. It is known that the new Realme product will receive a powerful four-module camera. The key sensor will be a 64-megapixel Samsung ISOCELL Bright GW1 sensor. This product uses ISOCELL technology […]

Alphacool Eisball: the original tank-sphere for coolant

The German company Alphacool is starting sales of a very unusual component for liquid cooling systems (LCS) - a reservoir called Eisball. The product has previously been demonstrated during various exhibitions and events. For example, it was displayed at the developer’s stand at Computex 2019. The main feature of Eisball is its original design. The reservoir is made in the form of a transparent sphere with a rim extending […]

Replacing the iPhone battery in an unofficial service will lead to problems

According to online sources, Apple has begun using software locking in new iPhones, which may indicate the entry into force of a new company policy. The point is that the new iPhones can only use Apple branded batteries. Moreover, even installing the original battery in an unauthorized service center will not avoid problems. If the user has independently replaced [...]

Service mesh data plane vs. control plane

Hello, Habr! I present to your attention a translation of the article “Service mesh data plane vs control plane” by Matt Klein. This time, I “wanted and translated” the description of both service mesh components, data plane and control plane. This description seemed to me the most understandable and interesting, and most importantly leading to the understanding of “Is it necessary at all?” Since the idea of ​​a “Service Network […]