Author: ProHoster

Russian cosmonauts will land on the moon in the next decade

Rocket and Space Corporation "Energia" named after. S.P. Koroleva presented a plan for the exploration of the Moon, which involves sending Russian cosmonauts to the Earth’s satellite in the period from 2031 to 2040. The plan was presented at the plenary session of the 15th International Scientific and Practical Conference “Manned Flights into Space,” which was held at the Cosmonaut Training Center named after. Yu.A. Gagarin. Image source: Guillaume Preat / pixabay.comSource: […]

Apple extends free satellite service for iPhone 14 by a year

When the satellite emergency text messaging feature debuted with the iPhone 14 announcement, Apple expected to provide access to it free of charge for the first two years after activation of the device, and then planned to introduce some kind of subscription fee. Now the company has extended the period of free use of satellite communications for another year, starting from now. […]

By 11

Without much fanfare, Purism released the Librem 11 tablet with PureOS (based on Debian) on board. In fact, this is the implementation of the very convergence that Canonical tried to do at one time. The hardware is quite ordinary: Intel N5100, 8GB of memory and 1TB of storage, screen resolution 2560x1600. Included is a detachable keyboard case. There are also cameras and a headphone hole. […]

Firefox includes full Wayland support

Starting with version 121, the Mozilla Firefox web browser will use native support for the new window system when launched in a Wayland session. Previously, the browser relied on the XWayland compatibility layer, and native Wayland support was considered experimental and hidden behind the MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND flag. You can track the status here: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D189367 Firefox 121 is scheduled to be released on December 19th. Source: linux.org.ru

Vulnerability in AMD CPUs that allows you to bypass the SEV (Secure Encrypted Virtualization) protection mechanism

Researchers at the Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA) have published a new CacheWarp attack method to compromise the AMD SEV (Secure Encrypted Virtualization) security mechanism used in virtualization systems to protect virtual machines from interference by the hypervisor or host system administrator. The proposed method allows an attacker with access to the hypervisor to execute third-party code and escalate privileges in a virtual machine […]

Cruise has suspended trips on unmanned taxis even with a driver behind the wheel

On October 3, a prototype of an automated Cruise taxi hit a woman in San Francisco after being hit by another vehicle, after which California authorities revoked the company's license to operate commercial transportation with such unmanned vehicles. This week, Cruise also phased out prototype rides that include a safety driver at the wheel. Image source: CruiseSource: XNUMXdnews.ru

xMEMS Unveils World's First Ultrasonic Silicon Speakers - Powerful Bass in In-Ear Headphones

One of the promising developers of MEMS speakers, the young company xMEMS, is preparing an interesting new product for demonstration at CES 2024 - silicon headphone speakers that demonstrate impressive volume at low frequencies. The development promises to become the basis of high-end audio headsets, will demonstrate impressive noise-canceling properties and intends to penetrate the world of speakers for laptops, cars and technology in general. Image source: xMEMS Source: 3dnews.ru

Reptar vulnerability affecting Intel processors

Tavis Ormandy, a security researcher at Google, has identified a new vulnerability (CVE-2023-23583) in Intel processors, codenamed Reptar, which mainly poses a threat to cloud systems running virtual machines of different users. The vulnerability allows the system to hang or crash when certain operations are performed on unprivileged guest systems. To test your […]