After three years of negotiations, Linus Torvalds adopted the bcachefs file system as part of Linux 6.7. Development has been carried out by Kent Overstreet over the past ten years. Functionally, bcachefs is similar to ZFS and btrfs, but the author claims that the file system design allows for higher levels of performance. For example, unlike btrfs, snapshots do not use COW technology, which allows […]
The Astian company, which absorbed the Midori project in 2019, introduced a new branch of the Midori 11 web browser, which switched to the Mozilla Gecko engine used in Firefox. Among the main goals of Midori development, concern for user privacy and lightness are mentioned - the developers set themselves the task of making a browser that is the most undemanding of resources among products based on the Firefox engine and is suitable for […]
Technology company Del Complex has announced the BlueSea Frontier Compute Cluster (BSFCC) project, which involves the creation of independent city-states in international waters, including powerful computing systems and not limited by the tightening laws of the United States and Europe regarding AI developments. Del Complex claims that within the framework of the BSFCC independent structures will be created that meet the requirements of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and […]
Many expected Apple to unveil new versions of its Mac accessories with USB-C ports along with the new MacBook Pro laptops at the Scary Fast event, but that didn't happen. The company still offers the Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad, and Magic Keyboard with Lightning ports for charging. Image source: 9to5mac.comSource: 3dnews.ru
Smartphones and tablet computers from Huawei, Honor and Vivo began to display warnings to users about the “security threat” that the Google application supposedly poses; it is suggested that it be removed as infected with the TrojanSMS-PA malware. When users click the “View Details” button on the alert, the system says: “This app has been detected to secretly send SMS, force users to pay for adult content, secretly download/install […]
An unscheduled maintenance release of VLC media player 3.0.20 is available, which fixes a potential vulnerability (CVE not assigned) that leads to data being written to a memory area outside the buffer boundary when parsing malformed network packets in the MMSH (Microsoft Media Server over HTTP) stream handler. The vulnerability could theoretically be exploited by attempting to download content from malicious servers using the “mms://” URL. […]
The release of the lightweight http server lighttpd 1.4.73 has been published, trying to combine high performance, security, compliance with standards and flexibility of configuration. Lighttpd is suitable for use on highly loaded systems and is aimed at low memory and CPU consumption. The project code is written in C and distributed under the BSD license. The new version provides detection and reflection in the logs of DoS attacks of the “Rapid” class […]
The second release of the Incus project has been presented, within which the Linux Containers community is developing a fork of the LXD container management system, created by the old development team that once created LXD. The Incus code is written in Go and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. As a reminder, the Linux Containers community oversaw the development of LXD before Canonical decided to develop LXD separately as an enterprise […]
Since Western Digital is planning a restructuring with division of business based on the type of drives produced for the second half of next year, it provided reports for the past quarter in the same form. Revenue, although down 26% year-on-year to $2,75 billion, grew 3% sequentially. In the cloud segment, revenue decreased sequentially by 12%, […]
The predominance of negative trends in Samsung's financial statements, which are heavily dependent on the state of the memory market, did not prevent investors from finding reasons for optimism. At least, the company's operating profit in the last quarter exceeded analysts' expectations; they were twice mistaken with the forecast for the degree of decline in net profit. Image source: Samsung ElectronicsSource: 3dnews.ru
Kaspersky Lab has developed neuromorphic chips that simulate the functioning of the human brain. Such processors will replace central and graphic processors in working with neural networks, which will significantly speed up AI calculations with disproportionately lower energy costs, RIA Novosti reports. Image source: PixabaySource: 3dnews.ru
Linus Torvalds approved the request to include the Bcachefs file system in the main Linux kernel and added the Bcachefs implementation to the repository in which the 6.7 kernel branch is being developed, which is expected to be released in early January. The patch added to the kernel includes about 95 thousand lines of code. The project has been developed for more than 10 years by Kent Overstreet, who also developed […]
