Today it was announced that the Japanese company SoftBank will sell the British chip developer Arm to the American NVIDIA. Immediately after this, Arm co-founder Hermann Hauser called the deal a disaster that would destroy the company's business model. And a little later, he also launched a public campaign “Save Arm” and wrote an open letter to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, trying to attract […]
The Solaris 11.4 operating system update SRU 25 (Support Repository Update) has been published, which offers a series of regular fixes and improvements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the fixes offered in the update, just run the 'pkg update' command. In the new release: Added the lz4 utility Updated versions to eliminate vulnerabilities: Apache 2.4.46 Apache Tomcat 8.5.57 Firefox 68.11.0esr MySQL 5.6.49, 5.7.31 […]
After six months of development, Oracle released Java SE 15 (Java Platform, Standard Edition 15), which uses the open-source OpenJDK project as a reference implementation. Java SE 15 maintains backward compatibility with previous releases of the Java platform; all previously written Java projects will work without changes when run under the new version. Ready-to-install assemblies […]
The release of version 16 of VMWare Workstation Pro, a proprietary virtualization software package for workstations, also available for Linux, has been announced. The following changes have occurred in this release: Added support for new guest operating systems: RHEL 8.2, Debian 10.5, Fedora 32, CentOS 8.2, SLE 15 SP2 GA, FreeBSD 11.4 and ESXi 7.0 For guests Windows 7 and higher […]
A new version of the LSP Plugins effects package has been released, designed for sound processing during mixing and mastering of audio recordings. The most significant changes: Added a plugin that implements the crossover function (dividing the signal into separate frequency bands) - Crossover Plugin Series. Fixed a regression that caused the left and right channels of the limiter to become out of sync when oversampling was enabled (the change came from Hector Martin). Fixed a bug in [...]
Whatever a company does, DNS security should be an integral part of its security plan. Name services, which resolve network hostnames to IP addresses, are used by literally every application and service on the network. If an attacker gains control of an organization's DNS, they can easily: transfer control over shared resources redirect incoming […]
Hey habr! In October, OTUS is launching a new stream of the Linux Security course. In anticipation of the start of the course, we are sharing with you an article written by one of our teachers, Alexander Kolesnikov. In 2016, Microsoft introduced the IT community to the new WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) technology, which in the long term allowed to unite previously irreconcilable competitors who fought for […]
Hey Habr! Literally two days later, a virtual conference “Defeating Cybercriminals in Three Moves” dedicated to the latest approaches to cyber defense will take place. We will talk about the use of complex solutions, the use of AI and other technologies to counter new threats. The event will bring together CIOs from leading European companies, representatives of analytical agencies and […]
Publisher Microsoft and studio 343 Industries have announced that the PC version of Halo: The Master Chief Collection will be replenished with Halo 3: ODST next Tuesday, September 22. The developers accompanied the announcement with a one-minute trailer. There are practically no gameplay footage in the video, but there is a thick atmosphere, melancholic music and a feeling of doom. In the background of the video, the voice of Corporal Taylor […]
Tomorrow at XNUMX p.m., Apple will host a virtual event called “Time Flies,” which was previously expected to unveil new Apple Watch models. Now, authoritative analyst Mark Gurman from Bloomberg has reported that the Californian tech giant, along with the watch, will show a new iPad Air with a design similar to the iPad Pro. In addition, the insider shared his expectations regarding the announcements [...]
At the beginning of September, Intel introduced not only 10nm mobile processors from the Tiger Lake family, but also updated logos for a number of its products. Among them, the “Iris Xe Max” trademark flashed in the advertising video, which may be related to the most productive version of mobile graphics presented this season. Let us remind you that Intel Core i7 and Core i5 processors […]
The code that provides the ability to scroll back text has been removed from the text console implementation included in the Linux kernel (CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK). The code was removed due to the presence of errors, which there was no one to fix due to the absence of a maintainer overseeing the development of vgacon. In the summer, a vulnerability (CVE-2020-14331) was identified and fixed in vgacon, which could lead to a buffer overflow due to the lack of proper checks for available memory […]
