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Asus presented the ROG Thor 1600W Titanium III — a flagship power supply supporting the latest power standards. Unlike its predecessor, which lacked a dedicated 12+4-pin connector for graphics cards, the new ROG Thor III includes this connector. Image source: Asus Source: 3dnews.ru
Andreas Kling, the creator of the SerenityOS operating system, announced his resignation as the 'benevolent dictator for life' (BDFL) of the project and his shift to developing a fork of the Ladybird web browser, which was previously developed as part of SerenityOS. According to Andreas, for the past two years, he has stepped back from OS development and focused solely on advancing his own browser engine based on […]
The NixOS 24.05 distribution has been released, based on the Nix package manager, offering a range of proprietary developments that simplify the setup and maintenance of the system. For instance, in NixOS, all system configuration is done through a single configuration file (configuration.nix), allowing for quick rollback to a previous configuration version, supporting switches between different system states, and enabling individual users to install custom packages, […]
Hugging Face has disclosed details about a compromise of the Hugging Face Spaces platform's infrastructure, which provides tools for creating demonstration applications for machine learning models and supports a catalog of such applications. Hugging Face employees uncovered traces of unauthorized access to the platform, which could have led to a leak of users' confidential data, including keys and tokens. The affected tokens have been revoked, and users have been notified accordingly […]
After nearly three years of development, the release of the MATE desktop environment 1.28 has been officially announced, continuing the evolution of the GNOME 2.32 codebase while preserving the classic desktop paradigm. The release announcement is dated February, but the announcement on the project's website appeared just a few hours ago, after the new branch had only been mentioned as tags in the project's Git repository without explicit […]
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has warned about the growing security threats to mobile devices. Regularly turning off the phone, disabling Bluetooth when it's not needed, and using only trusted accessories are just a few recommendations made by the agency. Image source: Kandinsky Source: 3dnews.ru
Hello, LOR! As our experts predicted, the latest release of the Linux OS distribution NixOS 24.05, code-named 'Uakari', occurred on the last day of spring. NixOS features a declarative approach to software installation, allowing users to describe the desired state of the OS using the special Nix configuration language, and includes characteristics such as atomic system updates and reproducible builds. Among the changes in this release […]
An engineer from Intel, Noah Goldstein, has optimized the memset() function in the glibc library. This optimization provides a performance boost of about 7.5% on desktop versions of Skylake-X and Ice Lake architecture processors. The performance gain is slightly lower for server versions, primarily due to the lower overall performance of a single core. The previous implementation of the memset() function used the assembly instruction rep stosb. […]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a recently discovered issue in the Linux kernel to its catalog of actively exploited vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-1086 Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Vulnerability. This concerns the nf_tables component within the built-in netfilter firewall, which can be exploited for local privilege escalation. The error is related to improper interaction […]
Broadcom has archived the source code repository for the Greenplum database on GitHub, along with related utilities and projects, effectively halting collaborative development of this open-source product with the community. No comments have been made by the company. It is expected that further development of Greenplum will take place as a closed commercial project, VMware Tanzu Greenplum. The database […]
The release of the Eleventh ALT p11 platform (Salvia) has taken place. In the new stable branch, package builds are provided for the following architectures: x86_64; i586; aarch64; Elbrus: e2k (v3, 4C) and e2kv4 (8C/1C+), as well as e2kv5 (8CV) and the new e2kv6. The repository will retain multilib support for x86_64. A branch for 32-bit architectures mipsel, armh (armv7a), and 64-bit ppc64le is not being created. The platform is intended for development, […]
The release of Rocky Linux 8.10 distribution has been announced, aimed at creating a free build of RHEL that can take the place of classic CentOS, after Red Hat prematurely ended support for the CentOS 8 branch at the end of 2021, rather than in 2029 as originally planned. Rocky Linux builds are prepared for x86_64 and aarch64 architectures. Additionally, builds for cloud […]