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DDR5-8000/8400/8800 Modules Have Become Part of the JEDEC Standard

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The Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (JEDEC) released the DDR5 specification (JESD79) in 2020, defining parameters for the modules up to speed DDR5-6400. Now, the committee has introduced an updated specification, JESD79-JC5, which defines the characteristics of modules up to DDR5-8800, increasing peak memory bandwidth by 37.5% and adding some new security features designed to counter RowHammer attacks. Image source: unsplash.com Source: 3dnews.ru

Evaluation of the performance change of the PostgreSQL DBMS over the past 15 years.

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Ryan Marcus, a developer of the experimental Bao optimizer for PostgreSQL, which uses machine learning to optimize query execution, published the performance testing results of the built-in query optimizer of PostgreSQL. The testing covered PostgreSQL branches from 8.4 (2009) to 16 (2023). Performance was measured using the JOB (join order benchmark) collection, which includes over 100 complex queries […]

Release of the Relational-Graph Database EdgeDB 5.0

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The release of EdgeDB 5.0 is now available, implementing a relational-graph data model and EdgeQL query language, optimized for working with complex hierarchical data. The project develops as an extension to PostgreSQL, with code written in Python and Rust (parser and performance-critical parts), and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Client libraries are prepared for Python, Go, and Rust. […]

Deepin Linux Introduced AI-Based Features

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Developers of the Chinese distribution Deepin decided to challenge Microsoft Copilot and introduced AI-based features in the new Beta 2. The AI will assist users in editing images: adding background blur and removing it, scaling, coloring, enhancing resolution, turning your images into hand-drawn or 3D comic styles, and much more. Also in Deepin IDE – their […]

AWS Shuts Down Snowmobile Data Transport Service

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The cloud platform Amazon Web Services (AWS), according to Datacenter Dynamics, has shut down the Snowmobile service, which offered physical transportation services for massive data sets via trucks. Now, only Snowball and Snowcone offerings remain in the AWS Snow family. The Snowmobile service was launched in 2016. The idea was that clients could move their data […]

Release of Kata Containers 3.4 with Virtualization-Based Isolation

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The release of Kata Containers 3.4 has been announced, developing a stack for organizing container execution using full virtualization-based isolation mechanisms. The project was created by Intel and Hyper through the integration of Clear Containers and runV technologies. The project code is written in Go and Rust, and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The development of the project is overseen by a working group established under the auspices of […]

Release of Composite Server Niri 0.1.5, using Wayland

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The release of Composite Server Niri 0.1.5 has been published, developed under the inspiration of the GNOME extension PaperWM and implementing a tiling layout method, where windows are grouped in an endlessly scrollable ribbon on the screen. Opening a new window expands the ribbon, while previously added windows never change their size. The project code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Packages are built for Fedora, NixOS […]

Wine 9.7: Restructuring the Vulkan driver interface

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The Wine project, known for its ability to run Windows applications on Linux and macOS operating systems, has announced the release of version 9.7. This update comes just two weeks after the previous version 9.6 and introduces a number of improvements and fixes that enhance compatibility and performance of Windows applications on non-Windows platforms. Key innovations in Wine 9.7: Support for build system […]

Vulnerability in Glibc exploited via PHP scripts

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A vulnerability (CVE-2024-2961) has been discovered in the standard C library Glibc, leading to a buffer overflow when converting specially formatted strings in ISO-2022-CN-EXT encoding using the iconv() function. The researcher who uncovered the issue plans to present at the OffensiveCon conference on May 10, where the announcement mentions the possibility of exploiting the vulnerability through PHP applications. It is stated that the issue affects the entire PHP ecosystem and some applications. […]

New BIOS for Asus Z790 boards enhances stability of Intel chips but reduces their performance

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Asus has released a new version of the BIOS for motherboards based on the Intel Z790 chipset, which includes a basic profile of Intel settings. It resets all parameters for the motherboard to Intel's recommended settings, increasing the stability of 13th and 14th generation Core processors, which had previously reported issues. However, the flagship Core i9 chips show lowered performance after applying this profile […]

Mozilla has begun creating nightly builds of Firefox for Linux systems on ARM64 architecture

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Mozilla developers have announced the release of official binary deb packages and installation tar archives that allow users to install nightly builds of Firefox on Linux distributions for ARM64 (AArch64) architecture. The packages are available both through the traditional download page and from a specialized APT repository created for Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and other Debian-based distributions. After completing the implementation of automated testing for ARM64 builds […]

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