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New article: Review and testing of the APNX C1 case: no screws!

Our test laboratory has an original and spacious case with quick-release panels, four pre-installed fans with backlighting, dust filters and the ability to install a video card vertically. Let's try to understand the features of its design, test the cooling efficiency and measure the noise levelSource: 3dnews.ru

The best system programming developers have been identified in the Open OS Challenge 2023 competition

Last weekend, October 21-22, the final of the system programming competition for Linux-based operating systems took place at SberUniversity. The competition is designed to popularize the use and development of open system components, which are the basis for operating systems based on GNU and Linux Kernel components. The competition was held using the OpenScaler Linux distribution. The competition was organized by the Russian software developer SberTech (digital […]

Firefox 119 release

The Firefox 119 web browser was released and a long-term support branch update was created - 115.4.0. The Firefox 120 branch has been transferred to the beta testing stage, the release of which is scheduled for November 21. Key new features in Firefox 119: The Firefox View page has been redesigned to make it easier to access previously viewed content. The Firefox View page brings together information about [...]

Firefox 119

Firefox 119 is available. The contents of the Firefox View page are divided into sections “Recent browsing”, “Open tabs”, “Recently closed tabs”, “Tabs from other devices”, “History” (with the ability to sort by site or by date). The icon of the button that opens the Firefox View page has been changed. Recently closed tabs are now always persisted between sessions (browser.sessionstore.persist_closed_tabs_between_sessions). Previously, they were saved only if […]

Ubuntu LTS release support time extended to 10 years

Canonical has announced a 10-year update period for LTS releases of Ubuntu, as well as for base Linux kernel packages originally shipped in LTS branches. Thus, the LTS release of Ubuntu 22.04 and the Linux 5.15 kernel used in it will be supported until April 2032, and updates for the next LTS release of Ubuntu 24.04 will be generated until 2034. Previously […]

The Cascade toolkit was introduced, which made it possible to identify 29 vulnerabilities in RISC-V processors

Researchers from ETH Zurich have developed a fuzzing testing system called Cascade, aimed at identifying errors and vulnerabilities in processors based on the RISC-V architecture. The tools have already identified 37 errors in processors, of which 29 were classified as previously unknown vulnerabilities. The Cascade developers tried to take into account the shortcomings of the existing processor fuzzing testing systems, which were limited to […]

Sales of memory modules for 2022 fell by 4,6%

According to TrendForce, high inflation has led to a decrease in demand for consumer electronics. This brings global DRAM sales to $2022 billion in 17,3, down 4,6% year-over-year. The financial performance of different DRAM memory manufacturers varies significantly due to the fact that they operate in […]

A complete shutdown of 3G networks in Russia will happen before 2027

In Russia, the operation of 3G networks will last until 2027, writes TASS with reference to the statement of Dmitry Tur, director of the department of state regulation of the telecom market of the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation, at the Spectrum forum. Image source: PixabaySource: 3dnews.ru

Release of Kata Containers 3.2 with virtualization-based isolation

The release of the Kata Containers 3.2 project has been published, developing a stack for organizing the execution of containers using isolation based on full-fledged virtualization mechanisms. The project was created by Intel and Hyper by combining Clear Containers and runV technologies. The project code is written in Go and Rust, and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The development of the project is supervised by a working group created under the auspices of […]

nDPI Deep Packet Inspection 4.8 Released

The ntop project, which develops tools for capturing and analyzing traffic, has published a release of the nDPI 4.8 deep packet inspection toolkit, which continues the development of the OpenDPI library. The nDPI project was founded after an unsuccessful attempt to commit changes to the OpenDPI repository, which was left unmaintained. The nDPI code is written in C and distributed under the LGPLv3 license. The system allows you to determine the protocols used in traffic […]