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TP-Link has released the Deco W2400 system, designed to deploy a Wi-Fi network in a large private house or apartment. The kit includes two routers. It is claimed that they can cover an area of up to 280 square meters with a quality Wi-Fi signal. If needed, the system can be supplemented with additional routers. The devices can operate in two frequency bands — 2.4 GHz and […]
It seemed that after the vulnerabilities Meltdown and Spectre discovered over a year ago, nothing could surprise fans and users of Intel processors anymore. Yet again, the company managed to astonish us. More precisely, it was the researchers of vulnerabilities in Intel's microarchitecture that surprised us. A new set of vulnerabilities collectively known as microarchitectural data sampling (MDS) threatens to put a halt to the technology of multithreaded computing or […]
An update for the virtualization system VirtualBox 6.0.8 has been released. Among the main changes: Fixes for errors during kernel module builds with non-standard configurations. Fixes for errors when attempting to restore from a saved VM state. UI change: full paths to files are now displayed in the New Medium window. UI change: fixes for issues with mouse click passthrough in multi-monitor VM configurations. […]
The future 'father' of Soviet cosmonautics, Sergey Korolev — in the center. His passion for aviation began in his youth when he joined a glider club. He will face many challenges ahead, but his youthful enthusiasm will stay with him for life. Note: the photograph has been colorized using a service from Mail.ru. Their neural network performed much better than, for example, […]
In 2017, more than a hundred countries became targets of the WannaCry virus. It hit Russia and Ukraine the hardest. At that time, computers running OS Windows 7 and server versions were affected. On Windows 8, 8.1, and 10, the built-in antivirus managed to neutralize WannaCry. The malware was a ransomware that demanded a ransom for access to data. By the way, […]
Oracle has released a corrective update for the VirtualBox virtualization system version 6.0.8, which includes 11 fixes. The addition of protection against attacks using the vulnerabilities from the MDS (Microarchitectural Data Sampling) class, disclosed yesterday, is not mentioned in the change log, despite VirtualBox being listed among the hypervisors susceptible to the attack. The fixes are likely included but, as before, are not reflected in the […]
Valve has released a build of the Proton 4.2-4 project, which is based on the work of the Wine project and aims to enable the running of gaming applications created for Windows on Linux, available in the Steam catalog. The project developments are distributed under the BSD license. As original Wine and related projects, such as DXVK and vkd3d, become ready, the changes developed in Proton are transferred. […]
Hans de Goede, a Fedora Linux developer working at Red Hat, has introduced the project 'Wayland Itches', aimed at fixing bugs and addressing issues that arise during everyday use of the GNOME desktop running on Wayland. Despite having had a GNOME session based on Wayland offered by default in Fedora for quite some time, the […]
Cybersecurity experts have discovered a new vulnerability in Intel chips that can be exploited to steal confidential information directly from the processor. Researchers have named it 'ZombieLoad'. ZombieLoad is a side-channel attack targeting Intel chips, allowing hackers to effectively exploit a flaw in their architecture to gain arbitrary data, but it does not allow for injection and […]
Another six months have passed, and the Repology project, which regularly collects and compares information about package versions across numerous repositories, has published its latest report. The number of supported repositories has surpassed 230. Support has been added for BunsenLabs, Pisi, Salix, Solus, T2 SDE, Void Linux, ELRepo, Mer Project, GNU Elpa, and MELPA package repositories, MSYS2 (msys2, mingw), and a set of extended OpenSUSE repositories. […]
Good day, esteemed Habr users and portal guests! Recently, I had the need to set up a small server for video conferencing. There weren't many options considered — BBB and Openmeetings, as only they met the functional requirements: Free desktop and document sharing, etc. Interactive work with users (shared whiteboard, chat, etc.) No additional software installation required […]
Intel has published information about a new class of vulnerabilities in its processors — MDS (Microarchitectural Data Sampling). Like previous Spectre-class attacks, these new issues can lead to the leakage of sensitive data from the operating system, virtual machines, and foreign processes. It is claimed that the problems were first identified by Intel employees and partners during an internal audit, after which the information was provided […]