Author: ProHoster

SK hynix and TSMC will collaborate on HBM4 production

At the end of this work week, the South Korean company SK hynix announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the Taiwanese company TSMC in the field of cooperation in the production of the next generation HBM memory, which is HBM4. The Korean company will master its mass production in 2026, and this will allow it to maintain its leadership position in this market. Image source: SK hynixSource: […]

Toshiba is preparing to cut 5000 employees in Japan, or 7% of its workforce

This is not the first year in a row that the Japanese corporation Toshiba has been trying to get out of its debt hole, and the matter was not limited to the privatization that took place last year. The company's headcount in Japan, according to the Nikkei Asian Review, will be reduced by 5000 people, which corresponds to 7% of the full-time workforce. Image source: ToshibaSource: 3dnews.ru

GitHub intends to prohibit hosting projects for creating deepfakes

GitHub has published changes to its policies regarding the hosting of projects that can be used to create fictitious media content for the purpose of revenge porn and disinformation. The changes are still in draft status, available for discussion for 30 days (until May 20). A paragraph has been added to the terms of use of the GitHub service prohibiting the posting of projects that allow the synthesis and manipulation of multimedia content […]

M**a has added AI-generated images in real time to WhatsApp - currently in test mode

The M**a company began testing the M**a AI image generator based on artificial intelligence in the WhatsApp messenger. For now, the new feature is only available to US users. It works in real time: as soon as the user begins to add details to the request to create a picture, he immediately sees how the image changes in accordance with the specified details. Image source: pexels.comSource: […]

ugrep-indexer 1.0.0

The 1.0.0 release of the console utility ugrep-indexer, written in C++ and designed to speed up recursive searches using the ugrep utility (when using the -index key in it). Changelog: Loading the .ugrep-indexer configuration file from the working or home directory with user-specified default parameters; display current indexing settings (disabled with the --no-messages switch); improved output of indexing statistics; updating documentation; refactoring […]

Published Autodafe, a toolkit for replacing Autotools with a regular Makefile

Eric S. Raymond, one of the founders of the OSI (Open Source Initiative), who was at the origins of the open source movement, published the Autodafe toolkit, which allows you to convert the assembly instructions and scripts used by the Autotools utilities into one regular Makefile that can easily read and changed by developers. The project code is written in Python and distributed under the BSD license. Part […]

Vulnerability in flatpak that allows you to bypass sandbox isolation

A vulnerability has been identified in the Flatpak toolkit, designed to create self-contained packages that are not tied to specific Linux distributions and are isolated from the rest of the system (CVE-2024-32462). The vulnerability allows a malicious or compromised application supplied in the flatpak package to bypass the sandbox isolation mode and gain access to files on the main system. The problem only appears in packages that use Freedesktop portals (xdg-desktop-portal), which are used for […]

openSUSE Factory now supports repeatable builds

The openSUSE project developers have announced support for repeatable builds in the openSUSE Factory repository, which uses a rolling update model and serves as the basis for building the openSUSE Tumbleweed distribution. The openSUSE Factory build configuration now allows you to ensure that the binaries distributed in packages are built from the provided source code and do not contain hidden changes. For example, any […]

Pirated versions of AutoCAD and other Autodesk software have stopped working in Russia, but a solution has already been found

AutoCAD and other software from the American company Autodesk are rightfully considered one of the best for design and spatial modeling. The company suspended operations in Russia in 2022, and now there are reports that pirated versions of its programs have been blocked. Many engineers, architects and designers in Russia were left without their usual software. True, literally in a few hours the exit [...]