Canonical has announced support for systems based on AMD EPYC Rome (Zen 2) server processors in all current releases of Ubuntu Server. Code to support AMD EPYC Rome was originally included in the Linux 5.4 kernel, which is only offered in Ubuntu 20.04. Canonical has now ported AMD EPYC Rome support to legacy packages […]
Hundreds of organizations and thousands of individuals directly related to open source software development or human rights activities have asked the US Congress not to deprive OTF of open source projects from the budget. Concerns about this among the signatories were caused by a number of recent personnel decisions of US President Donald Trump, as a result of which decisions with […]
Besides tcp/ip, there are many ways to synchronize time. Some require only a conventional telephone, while others require expensive, rare and sensitive electronic equipment. The vast infrastructure of time synchronization systems includes observatories, government institutions, radio stations, satellite constellations, and more. Today I will tell you how time synchronization works without the Internet and how […]
In our company, as in many other IT and not so IT companies, the possibility of remote access has existed for a long time, and many employees used it out of necessity. With the spread of COVID-19 in the world, our IT department, by decision of the company's management, began to transfer employees who returned from foreign trips to remote work. Yes, we started practicing home self-isolation from the very beginning […]
Introducing the first Windows Terminal Preview update! You can download the Windows Terminal Preview from the Microsoft Store or from the releases page on GitHub. The features introduced will be ported to Windows Terminal in July 2020. Check it out below to find out what's new! "Open in Windows Terminal" You can now launch the Terminal with your default profile in […]
While new coolers for central processors appear on the market quite regularly, new models of air cooling systems for graphics accelerators are now a rarity. But they still appear sometimes: Raijintek introduced a monstrous air cooler for NVIDIA and AMD video cards called Morpheus 8057. Unlike most cooling systems for video cards available on the market, which […]
Xiaomi introduced the Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro back in February, when the MWC conference, which was canceled at the last minute, was supposed to take place. What happened next, you know very well - due to the pandemic, the release of smartphones outside the Chinese market was greatly delayed. They are only reaching Russian retail now, three months later. But the chances of [...]
Apple has officially announced the transition of Mac series computers to processors of its own design. The head of the company, Tim Cook, called this event “historic for the Mac platform.” The transition is promised to be smooth within two years. With the transition to a proprietary platform, Apple promises new levels of performance and energy efficiency. The company is currently developing its own SoC based on the common ARM architecture, […]
Vladimir Palant, the creator of Adblock Plus, identified a vulnerability (CVE-2020-8102) in the specialized Safepay web browser based on the Chromium engine, offered as part of the Bitdefender Total Security 2020 antivirus package and aimed at increasing the security of the user’s work on the global network (for example, provided additional isolation when contacting banks and payment systems). The vulnerability allows websites opened in the browser to execute arbitrary […]
The next major version of Lemmy has been released - in the future a federated, but now a centralized implementation of a Reddit-like (or Hacker News, Lobsters) server - a link aggregator. This time, 100 problem reports were closed, new functionality was added, performance and security were improved. The server implements functionality typical for this type of site: communities of interest created and moderated by users - […]
On June 22, a new TOP500 of supercomputers was published, with a new leader. The Japanese supercomputer “Fugaki”, built on 52 (48 computing + 4 for the OS) A64FX core processors, took first place, overtaking the previous leader in the Linpack test, the supercomputer “Summit”, built on Power9 and NVIDIA Tesla. This supercomputer runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 with a hybrid kernel […]
In the data center industry, work continues despite the crisis. For example, the startup Nautilus Data Technologies recently announced its intention to launch a new floating DC. Nautilus Data Technologies became known a few years ago when the company announced plans to develop a floating data center. It seemed that this was another fix idea that would never be implemented. But no, in 2015 the company started […]
