The market has been suffering from shortages of Intel's 14nm processors since the middle of last year. The company has made huge efforts to rectify the situation, investing an additional $1 billion to expand production using a far from cutting-edge technology process; however, if this helped at all, it wasn't enough. According to Digitimes, Asian clients of Intel are again complaining about the inability to purchase [...]
Sean Larkin, a program manager for Microsoft’s web platform, has announced work on porting the Microsoft Edge browser to Linux. Details are still pending. Developers using Linux for development, testing, or daily activities are invited to participate in a survey and answer several questions regarding their usage of the browser, the platforms used, and installation preferences. Remember that […]
A beta release of the Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" distribution has been presented, marking the transition to the first stage of package freeze and shifting the focus of development from introducing new features to testing and bug fixing. Ready test images have been created for Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, and UbuntuKylin (the edition for China). The release of Ubuntu 19.10 [...]]
Researcher axi0mX discovered a vulnerability in the bootrom of Apple devices, which operates at the very first stage of booting and then hands control over to iBoot. The vulnerability is named checkm8 and allows for full control over the device. The published exploit can potentially be used to bypass firmware verification (Jailbreak), set up dual-booting of other operating systems, and various versions of iOS. This issue is notable because [...]
Good day! I have developed an auto-installer for PostgreSQL in both standalone and master-slave clustered configurations using Bash; clustering has currently been implemented in the script pcs+corosync+pacemaker. This application features: automatic installation of PostgreSQL; backup setup with built-in backup scripts; automatic optimization of database settings, with information on cores and RAM obtained automatically without your involvement; and the ability to install from either local [...]
The release of ReactOS 0.4.12 has been announced, aimed at ensuring compatibility with Microsoft Windows software and drivers. This is the twelfth release after the project transitioned to more rapid release cycles approximately every three months. For 21 years, this operating system has been in the 'alpha' stage of development. An installation ISO (122 MB) and a Live build (90 […] are available for download.
Friday is the end of the workday. Bad news always seems to come on Fridays at the end of the workday. Just as you are about to leave the office, 'ding,' a new email about yet another reorganization arrives in your inbox. Thank you xxxx, yyy, from today onwards you will be reporting to zzzz … And the Hugh team will ensure our products are accessible to people with disabilities. Oh, […]
Well, not exactly. This was a little dirty clickbait. However, at the RIPE NCC Days conference held on September 24-25 in Kyiv, the imminent end of /22 subnet allocations to new LIRs was announced. The exhaustion of the IPv4 address space has been discussed for a long time. It has been about 7 years since the last /8 blocks were allocated to regional registries. Despite […]
Preface It's been 2 days since the new version of the operating system CentOS was released, specifically CentOS 8. So far, there are quite few articles on the internet about how to do things in it, so I decided to fill this gap. I will explain not only how to install this couple of programs but also […]
The speed of internet access around the globe can differ by hundreds of times. We discuss projects aimed at delivering high-speed internet to remote areas. We will also talk about how access to the internet is regulated in Asia and the Middle East. / Unsplash / Johan Desaeyere There are still places with slow internet. There are points […]
The release of KnotDNS 2.8.3 has been announced, a high-performance authoritative DNS server (the resolver is implemented as a separate application) that supports all modern DNS features. The project is developed by the Czech domain registry CZ.NIC, written in C, and distributed under the GPLv3 license. The server is characterized by a focus on high performance in handling queries, utilizing a multithreaded and largely non-blocking implementation, and is well-scalable to […]
GitHub has introduced the CodeSearchNet project, which has prepared machine learning models and datasets necessary for parsing, classifying, and analyzing code in various programming languages. Similar to ImageNet, CodeSearchNet includes a large collection of code snippets, annotated to formalize the actions performed by the code. The components for training the models and examples of using CodeSearchNet are written in Python using […]