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Just five years ago, Intel was proud to offer a unified and traditional industry programming model based on x86-compatible instructions. This model encompassed mobile systems on Atom SoCs, Xeon Phi compute accelerators (conditionally graphical architecture ā formerly Larrabee), and processors. Today, the assertion that Ā«x86 is everything to usĀ» has become […]
The ninth generation of HPE ProLiant DL180 and DL160 servers did not earn public affection. This is because the benefits of purchasing themācompared to the older DL300 seriesāwere not so obvious. However, the company acknowledged past mistakes, and with the tenth generation Gen10, which was slightly delayed in its market release, everything was set right again. Now […]
We discuss what new developments may arise in data centers and beyond. / photo jesse orrico Unsplash It is believed that silicon transistors are nearing their technological limits. Last time, we talked about materials that could replace silicon and discussed alternative approaches to transistor development. Today, weāre talking about concepts that can transform the principles of traditional computing systems: […]
The Open Invention Network (OIN) organization, which protects the Linux ecosystem from patent claims, has announced that it has surpassed 3000 participants. Over the past two years, the number of OIN participants has increased by 50%. For example, just since the beginning of this year, 350 new companies, communities, and organizations have joined OIN, signing a licensing agreement for patent sharing. OIN participants commit not to […]
Microsoft has released the mimalloc library under the MIT license, which implements a memory allocation system originally created for the runtime components of the Koka and Lean languages. Mimalloc is adapted for use in standard applications without modifying their code and can serve as a transparent replacement for the malloc function. It supports operation in Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD, and other Unix-like systems. A key feature of mimalloc […]
Purism, the company developing the Librem 5 smartphone and the free distribution PureOS, has announced the release of the libhandy library 0.0.10, which includes a set of widgets and objects for creating user interfaces for mobile devices using GTK and GNOME technologies. The library is being developed as part of the effort to port GNOME applications for the Librem 5 smartphone environment. The project code is released under the GPL license […]
Dogs are very unusual creatures. They never inquire about your mood; they donāt care if you are rich or poor, foolish or wise, a sinner or a saint. You are their friend. That is enough for them. These words belong to the writer Jerome K. Jerome, known to many of us from the book 'Three Men in a Boat, Not Counting the Dog' and […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of Win32 API ā Wine 4.11 is now available. Since the release of version 4.10, 17 bug reports have been closed and 370 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: continuation of work on the DLL assembly by default with the built-in msvcrt library (provided by the Wine project, not the DLL from Windows) in PE (Portable Executable) format. Compared to […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has revealed information about a breach of its internal infrastructure that went undetected for nearly a year. Notably, the network was isolated from external threats, and the breach occurred internally via a Raspberry Pi board that was connected without authorization at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This board was used by staff as an entry point into the local […]
In the early 1970s, American writer Michael Hart gained unrestricted access to a Xerox Sigma 5 computer at the University of Illinois. To make good use of the machine's resources, he decided to create the first electronic book by reprinting the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Today, digital literature has become widespread, largely due to the proliferation of portable devices (smartphones, e-readers, laptops). This […]
Earlier on the blog, we wrote about the emergence of ebook formats DjVu and FB2. Today's topic is EPUB. Image: Nathan Oakley / CC BY History of the Format In the 90s, proprietary solutions dominated the ebook market, with many e-reader manufacturers developing their own formats. For instance, NuvoMedia used files with the .rb extension. This […]
Damien Miller (djm @) has added an improvement to OpenSSH aimed at enhancing protection against various side-channel attacks, such as Spectre, Meltdown, RowHammer, and RAMBleed. The added protection is designed to prevent the recovery of private keys residing in memory by exploiting data leaks through side channels. The essence of the protection is that private keys, during moments of inactivity, […