Micron Technology's Crucial brand has unveiled its new P2 family of solid-state drives (SSDs) suitable for use in desktop and laptop computers. The products are made in M.2 2280 format based on QLC NAND flash memory microchips (four bits of information in one cell). The PCI Express 3.0 x4 interface (NVMe specification) is used for data exchange. Until now, in the family [...]
The Summer Olympic Games will start in Paris in 2024. An air taxi service may begin operating in the Paris region for this event. The main contender for providing aerial unmanned vehicles for the service is the German company Volocopter with VoloCity machines. Volocopter devices have been flying into the sky since 2011. Test flights of the VoloCity air taxi were carried out in Singapore, Helsinki and […]
Mesa project developers are discussing the possibility of using the Rust language to develop OpenGL/Vulkan drivers and graphics stack components. The initiator of the discussion was Alyssa Rosenzweig, who is developing the Panfrost driver for Mali GPUs based on the Midgard and Bifrost microarchitectures. The initiative is at the discussion stage; no specific decisions have been made yet. Proponents of using Rust highlight the opportunity to improve the quality of […]
Digital Ocean's annual Hacktoberfest event unwittingly resulted in a significant spam attack that left various projects developing on GitHub with a wave of small or useless pull requests. Changes in such requests usually amounted to replacing individual characters in Readme files or adding fictitious notes. The spam attack was caused by a publication on the YouTube blog CodeWithHarry, which has about 700 […]
This version is the result of four weeks of development since the release of 5.33.1. The changes were made by 19 authors to 260 files and amount to approximately 11,000 lines of code. However, perldelta has only one key innovation: the interpreter can be built with the experimental -Dusedefaultstrict switch, which enables the corresponding pragma by default. This setting does not apply to one-liners. […]
Our experience in investigating computer security incidents shows that e-mail is still one of the most common channels used by attackers to initially penetrate the attacked network infrastructures. One careless action with a suspicious (or not so) email becomes an entry point for further infection, so cybercriminals actively use social engineering methods, albeit with varying success. IN […]
Imagine this: you developed an application and then released it in several languages at once. But after the release, you found bugs in different language versions: a developer's worst nightmare. So that's exactly what localization testing is for, to avoid such unpleasant situations. Today, the US is no longer the largest player in the mobile app market. China […]
Which firmware version is the most “correct” and “working”? If the storage system guarantees 99,9999% fault tolerance, does it mean that it will work smoothly even without software updates? Or vice versa, to get maximum fault tolerance, you should always install the latest firmware? We will try to answer these questions based on our experience. A small introduction We all understand that in every […]
Seagate Technology has announced the start of mass deliveries of its flagship SkyHawk Artificial Intelligence (AI) hard drive for video surveillance systems with artificial intelligence (AI). The released drive is designed to store 18 TB of information. The device, which uses traditional magnetic recording (CMR) technology, is designed in a 3,5-inch format. The design includes a helium-filled housing. The connection uses a SATA 3.0 interface with […]
Forum user ResetEra under the pseudonym AshenOne noticed that the pre-order kit for the cooperative shooter Outriders on Steam now has an exact release date. Let us remind you that initially the premiere of the new game People Can Fly was expected in the summer of this year, but the release was subsequently postponed closer to the launch of the next generation of consoles - to the so-called holiday period (November–December). In the near future, according to [...]
If difficulties with the supply of GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3090 video cards could still be attributed to excessively high demand, then problems with capacitors on the first batch of video cards definitely worked against NVIDIA’s reputation. Under these conditions, the company decided to postpone the start of sales of the GeForce RTX 3070 from October 15 to October 29. A corresponding appeal to the audience of game lovers […]
The release of the Nextcloud Hub 20 platform has been presented, providing a self-sufficient solution for organizing collaboration between enterprise employees and teams developing various projects. At the same time, the underlying cloud platform Nextcloud Hub was published, Nextcloud 20, which allows you to deploy cloud storage with support for synchronization and data exchange, providing the ability to view and edit data from any device anywhere in the network (with […]
