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Wine 5.15 and DXVK 1.7.1 release

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An experimental release of an open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 5.15 - took place. Since the release of version 5.14, 27 bug reports have been closed and 273 changes have been made. The most important changes: Added initial implementation of XACT Engine sound libraries (Cross-platform Audio Creation Tool, xactengine3_*.dll), including IXACT3Engine, IXACT3SoundBank, IXACT3Cue, IXACT3WaveBank and IXACT3Wave program interfaces; The formation of a mathematical library in MSVCRT has begun, implemented […]

Started production of a mini-supercomputer on the Baikal CPU

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The Russian company Hamster Robotics has modified its HR-MPC-1 minicomputer on the domestic Baikal processor and launched its serial production. After improvements, it became possible to combine computers into high-performance heterogeneous clusters. The release of the first production batch is expected at the end of September 2020. The company does not indicate its volume, counting on demand from customers at the level of 50-100 thousand units […]

3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable - Top Xeons of 2020

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The series of updates for the 2020 processor year has finally reached the largest, most expensive and server models - the Xeon Scalable. The new, now third generation Scalable (Cooper Lake family) still uses the 14nm process but is molded into the new LGA4189 socket. The first announcement includes 11 Platinum and Gold models for four- and eight-socket servers. Intel Xeon processors […]

Full-fledged Kubernetes from scratch on Raspberry Pi

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More recently, a well-known company announced that it is transferring its line of laptops to the ARM architecture. When I heard this news, I remembered: once again looking at the prices for EC2 in AWS, I noticed Gravitons with a very tasty price. The catch, of course, was that it was ARM. Then it never occurred to me that ARM is […]

Our First Internet Shutdown Review in Belarus

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On August 9, nationwide internet blackouts occurred in Belarus. Here's a first look at what our tools and datasets can tell us about the magnitude of these outages and their impact. The population of Belarus is about 9,5 million people, with 75-80% of them being active Internet users (figures vary depending on sources, see here, here and here). The main […]

Wind and solar energy is displacing coal, but not as fast as we would like

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Since 2015, the share of solar and wind energy in the global energy supply has doubled, according to think tank Ember. Currently, it accounts for about 10% of the total energy generated, approaching the level of nuclear power plants. Alternative energy sources are gradually replacing coal, whose production fell by a record 2020% in the first half of 8,3 compared […]

Intel will soon release Optane drives with PCIe 4.0, as well as SSDs based on 144-layer flash memory

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During Intel Architecture Day 2020, the company talked about its 3D NAND technology and provided updates on its development plans. In September 2019, Intel announced that it would skip the 128-layer NAND Flash that much of the industry had been developing and would focus on moving straight to 144-layer NAND Flash. Now the company has said that its 144-layer QLC NAND flash […]

"One-eyed" smartphone Vivo Y1s will be sold for 8500 rubles

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The Vivo company presented in Russia on the eve of the school season an inexpensive smartphone Y1s running the Android 10 operating system. There is no information about the new product on the company’s official website in Russia yet, but it is already known that it will go on sale on August 18 at a price of 8490 rubles. Vivo Y1s features a 6,22-inch Halo FullView display with […]

Moved Pocket PC to open hardware category

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The Source Parts company announced the discovery of developments related to the Pocket Popcorn Computer (Pocket PC) device. Once the device goes on sale, PCB design files, schematics, 3.0D printing models, and assembly instructions will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3 license. The published information will allow third-party manufacturers to use Pocket PC as a prototype for […]

Release of Mcron 1.2, implementations of cron from the GNU project

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After two years of development, the release of the GNU Mcron 1.2 project has been published, within the framework of which an implementation of the cron system written in the Guile language is being developed. The new release features a major code cleanup - all C code has been rewritten and the project now includes only Guile source code. Mcron is 100% compatible with Vixie cron and can […]

Mozilla announces new values ​​and lays off 250 employees

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Mozilla Corporation announced in a blog post a significant restructuring and related layoffs of 250 employees. The reasons for this decision, according to the organization's CEO Mitchell Baker, are financial problems associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and changes in the company's plans and strategy. The chosen strategy is guided by five basic principles: New focus on products. It is alleged that they have [...]

How the non-private Docker API and public images from the community are being used to distribute cryptocurrency miners

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We analyzed the data collected using honeypots - they were created by us to track threats. And we have detected significant activity of unwanted or unauthorized cryptocurrency miners deployed as rogue containers using a community-published image on Docker Hub. The image is used as part of a service that delivers malicious cryptocurrency miners. Additionally, programs for working with networks […]

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