Intel has begun sending out invitations to journalists from around the world to attend a private online event, which it plans to host on September 2 this year. “We invite you to an event where Intel will talk about new opportunities for work and leisure,” the invitation text says. Obviously, the only true guess as to what exactly this planned event is going to present […]
The developers of the Matrix client Riot announced that they have changed the name of the project to Element. The company developing the program, New Vector, created in 2017 by the key developers of the Matrix project, was also renamed Element, and the hosting of Matrix services in Modular.im became Element Matrix Services. The need to change the name is due to overlaps with the existing Riot Games trademark, which does not allow registering Riot's own trademark for […]
Oracle has published a planned release of updates to its products (Critical Patch Update), aimed at eliminating critical problems and vulnerabilities. The July update fixed a total of 443 vulnerabilities. Java SE 14.0.2, 11.0.8, and 8u261 releases address 11 security issues. All vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely without authentication. The highest danger level of 8.3 is assigned to problems in [...]
The developers of the Aurora mobile operating system (a fork of the Sailfish OS developed by the Open Mobile Platform company) shared an illustrative story about the elimination of a critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-6096) in Glibc, which appears only on the ARMv7 platform. Information about the vulnerability was disclosed back in May, but until recent days, fixes were not available, despite the fact that the vulnerability was assigned a high level of severity and […]
Nokia has introduced a new generation network operating system for data centers, called Nokia Service Router Linux (SR Linux). The development was carried out in alliance with Apple, which has already announced the start of using the new OS from Nokia in its cloud solutions. Key elements of Nokia SR Linux: runs on standard Linux OS; compatible […]
The parent company developing reference implementations of Matrix components was also renamed - New Vector became Element, and the commercial service Modular, which provides hosting (SaaS) of Matrix servers, is now Element Matrix Services. Matrix is a free protocol for implementing a federated network based on a linear history of events. The flagship implementation of this protocol is a messenger with support for signaling VoIP calls and […]
Many have probably heard about Anycast. With this method of network addressing and routing, a single IP address is assigned to multiple servers on a network. These servers can even be located in data centers that are remote from each other. The idea of Anycast is that, depending on the location of the request source, the data is sent to the nearest (according to the network topology, more precisely, the BGP routing protocol) server. So […]
On July 10, 2020, the Austrian company Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH provided a public beta version of a new backup solution. We have already covered how to use native backup methods in Proxmox VE and perform incremental backups using a third-party solution - Veeam® Backup & Replication™. Now, with the advent of Proxmox Backup Server (PBS), the backup process should become […]
In one of the previous articles in the series about the Proxmox VE hypervisor, we already talked about how to backup using standard tools. Today we will show you how to use the excellent Veeam® Backup&Replication™ 10 tool for the same purposes. “Backups have a clear quantum nature. Until you try to restore from a backup, it is in superposition. He is both successful and not.” […]
Created eight years ago, the British company Graphcore has already been noted for the release of powerful AI accelerators, warmly received by Microsoft and Dell. Accelerators developed by Graphcore are initially aimed at AI, which cannot be said about NVIDIA GPUs adapted for solving AI problems. And the new development of Graphcore, in terms of the number of transistors involved, eclipsed even the recently introduced king of AI chips, the NVIDIA A100 processor. NVIDIA A100 solution […]
Sharkoon has released the Light2 100 computer mouse, designed for users who enjoy gaming. The new product is already available for order at an estimated price of 25 euros. The entry-level manipulator is equipped with a PixArt 3325 optical sensor, the resolution of which is adjustable in the range from 200 to 5000 DPI (dots per inch). A wired USB interface is used to connect to a computer; polling frequency […]
Michael Hudson-Doyle of the Ubuntu Foundations Team announced the decision to remove the popcon (popularity-contest) package from the main Ubuntu distribution, which was used to transmit anonymized telemetry about package downloads, installations, updates, and removals. Based on the collected data, reports were generated on the popularity of applications and the architectures used, which were used by developers to make decisions about the inclusion of certain […]
