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US authorities intend to limit Chinese companies' access to their cloud services

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This month, US authorities tightened restrictions on the supply of cutting-edge NVIDIA accelerators to China, which are used to train artificial intelligence and high-performance computing models. Now it has become known that officials are considering the possibility of limiting the access of companies from China to the computing power of cloud services of companies from the United States. Image source: NVIDIA Source: 3dnews.ru

Many life-threatening asteroids still lurk in the darkness of space, NASA report shows

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NASA recently released an infographic that shows significant gaps in our knowledge about the asteroid threat from space. Planetary Defense Service suspects the existence of dozens of unknown asteroids that could cause global damage to the Earth, and guesses about thousands of smaller rocks, each of which is capable of wiping out an entire city from the face of the planet. Image source: PixabaySource: 3dnews.ru

India successfully launched a rocket with a mock-up of a manned capsule on its first attempt

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Today at 10:00 local time (08:00 Moscow time), the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched a rocket with a mock-up of the Gaganyaan manned spacecraft. The launch took place from the first launch pad of the spaceport in Sriharikota. The purpose of the test was to test the automatic system for emergency flight abort and rescue of the crew at the initial segment of the trajectory. The set goals were successfully achieved. Image source: […]

Server-side JavaScript platform Node.js 21.0 available

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Node.js 21.0 was released, a platform for running network applications in JavaScript. The Node.js 21.0 branch will be supported for 6 months. In the coming days, the stabilization of the Node.js 20 branch will be completed, which will receive LTS status and will be supported until April 2026. Maintenance of the previous LTS branch of Node.js 18.0 will last until September 2025, and the LTS branch of the year before […]

South Korea hopes to find alternative sources of graphite supply if problems arise with China

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Yesterday it became known that from December 1, the Chinese authorities will introduce a special control regime over the export of so-called “dual-use” graphite in order to protect national security interests. In practice, this may mean that problems with graphite supplies may arise in the United States, Japan, India and South Korea. The authorities of the latter country are convinced that they can find an alternative [...]

American officials believe sanctions can deprive China of its ability to produce advanced chips

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This week's changes to U.S. export controls are intended to further limit the supply of semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China, and industry experts believe they will restrict Chinese manufacturers from making 28nm products. The US Deputy Secretary of Commerce is convinced that new sanctions will sooner or later undermine China's progress in the field of lithography. Image source: Samsung ElectronicsSource: 3dnews.ru

Distribution of malware through advertising of a domain indistinguishable from the KeePass project domain

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Researchers from Malwarebytes Labs have identified the promotion of a fake website for the free password manager KeePass, which distributes malware, through the Google advertising network. A peculiarity of the attack was the use by the attackers of the “ķeepass.info” domain, which at first glance is indistinguishable in spelling from the official domain of the “keepass.info” project. When searching for the keyword “keepass” on Google, the ad for the fake site was placed in first place, before […]

MITM attack on JABBER.RU and XMPP.RU

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Interception of TLS connections with encryption of the instant messaging protocol XMPP (Jabber) (Man-in-the-Middle attack) was detected on the servers of the jabber.ru service (aka xmpp.ru) on hosting providers Hetzner and Linode in Germany. The attacker issued several new TLS certificates using the Let's Encrypt service, which were used to intercept encrypted STARTTLS connections on port 5222 using a transparent MiTM proxy. The attack was discovered due to [...]

KDE Plasma 6.0 is scheduled for release on February 28, 2024

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The release schedule for the KDE Frameworks 6.0 libraries, the Plasma 6.0 desktop environment and the Gear suite of applications with Qt 6 has been published. Release schedule: November 8: alpha version; November 29: first beta version; December 20: second beta; January 10: First preview release; January 31: second preview; February 21: final versions sent to distribution kits; February 28: full release of Frameworks […]

Interception of encrypted traffic jabber.ru and xmpp.ru recorded

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The administrator of the Jabber server jabber.ru (xmpp.ru) identified an attack to decrypt user traffic (MITM), carried out over a period of 90 days to 6 months in the networks of German hosting providers Hetzner and Linode, which host the project server and auxiliary VPS. environment. The attack is organized by redirecting traffic to a transit node that replaces the TLS certificate for XMPP connections encrypted using the STARTTLS extension. The attack was noticed […]

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