In release 6.0.0 of the hashcat program for selecting passwords using more than 320 types of hashes (using the capabilities of video cards), the developer introduced many improvements: A new interface for plugins with support for modular hash modes. New API supporting non-OpenCL APIs. CUDA support. Detailed documentation for plugin developers. GPU emulation mode - to run kernel code on the processor (instead of […]
On June 22, the anniversary version 0.20.2 of the popular free planetarium Stellarium was released, visualizing a realistic night sky as if you were looking at it with the naked eye, or through binoculars or a telescope. The anniversary of the release lies in the age of the project - 20 years ago Fabien Chéreau was puzzled by the issue of loading a new discrete video card. In total between [...]
A new take on an old toy, the tin can cordless phone takes last year's technology and pushes it into the present! Just yesterday I was having a serious phone conversation, when suddenly my banana phone stopped working! I got very upset. Well, that's it - the last time I miss a call because of this stupid phone! (Looking back, I have to admit that I […]
Last summer, 2019, Extreme Networks acquired Aerohive Networks, whose main products were wireless network solutions. At the same time, if everything is clear with the generations of 802.11 standards (we even analyzed the features of the 802.11ax standard, aka WiFi6 in our article), then the fact that clouds are different from clouds, and Cloud Management platforms have their […]
The working group started working on the standard back in 2014 and is currently working on draft3.0. Which is somewhat different from previous generations of 802.11 standards, because there all the work fit into two drafts. This happens due to a fairly large number of planned complex changes, which, accordingly, require more detailed and complex compatibility testing. Initially, the group faced […]
The announcement of the new Honor 30 Youth smartphone is expected in early July. They are going to introduce the new product for the Chinese market. However, the device will also appear on international sale, but with a different name - Honor 30 Lite 5G. The resource GSMArena reports that it came into possession of the first “live” photo of this smartphone, which, as indicated, was provided by a reliable source. In the photo of Honor […]
iPhone SE, introduced in mid-April, is Apple's most affordable device. In the US, the cost of the basic configuration starts at $399, while in many other regions the price of a smartphone is much higher due to local taxes. For example, in India, the iPhone SE sells for $159 more. The situation may change in the near future, as […]
Troubles in the form of a trade war with the United States and the coronavirus outbreak have been plaguing China for some time, but electronics manufacturers are trying to locate new plants outside the country, driven by purely economic factors. Samsung has long relied on Vietnam for the production of smartphones, and now the company is concentrating display production there. This year, Samsung Electronics intends to place additional […]
Apple has confirmed rumors that have been circulating for some time about plans to use its own ARM architecture processors in desktop computers and laptops. The reasons for the change in strategy are energy efficiency, as well as the need for a more high-performance graphics core than in existing offerings from Intel. New iMacs/MacBooks with ARM processors will be able to run iOS/iPadOS apps using macOS […]
The 55th edition of the ranking of the 500 most high-performance computers in the world has been published. The June rating was headed by a new leader - the Japanese Fugaku cluster, notable for its use of ARM processors. The Fugaku cluster is located at the RIKEN Institute of Physical and Chemical Research and provides a performance of 415.5 petaflops, which is 2.8 more than the leader of the previous ranking, which was pushed into second place. The cluster includes 158976 nodes based on Fujitsu SoC […]
The release of the decentralized file system IPFS 0.6 (InterPlanetary File System) has been published, forming a global versioned file storage deployed in the form of a P2P network formed from participant systems. IPFS combines ideas previously implemented in systems such as Git, BitTorrent, Kademlia, SFS and Web, and resembles a single BitTorrent “swarm” (peers participating in the distribution) exchanging Git objects. IPFS is characterized by content addressing, while […]
FPC 3.2.0 has been released! This version is a new major release and contains bugfixes and package updates, new features and new targets. It's been 3.0 years since FPC 5 was released, so it's recommended to update as soon as possible. New features: https://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_New_Features_3.2.0 List of changes that may break backward compatibility: https://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.2.0 List of new supported platforms: https://wiki.freepascal .org/FPC_New_Features_3.2.0#New_compiler_targets Download: https://www.freepascal.org/download.html […]
