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In the world of wildlife, hunters and prey are constantly playing catch-up, both literally and figuratively. As soon as a hunter develops new skills through evolution or other methods, the prey adapts to them so as not to be eaten. This is an endless game of poker with constantly increasing bets, the winner of which receives the most valuable prize - life. Recently we […]
Director of Academic Programs at Parallels Anton Dyakin shared his opinion on how raising the retirement age is related to additional education and what you should definitely learn in the next few years. The following is a first-person account. By the will of fate, I am living my third, and maybe fourth, full-fledged professional life. The first is military service, which ended with enrollment as a reserve officer […]
As part of the System Transparency project and partnership with Mullvad, the Supermicro X11SSH-TF server platform has been migrated to the coreboot system. This platform is the first modern server platform to feature the Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 processor, also known as Kabylake-DT. The following functions have been implemented: ASPEED 2400 SuperI/O and BMC drivers have been added. Added BMC IPMI interface driver. Loading functionality has been tested and measured. […]
Nvidia has begun publishing free documentation on the interfaces of its graphics chips. This will improve the open nouveau driver. The published information includes information about the Maxwell, Pascal, Volta and Kepler families; there is currently no information about Turing chips. The information includes data on BIOS, initialization and device management, power consumption modes, frequency control, etc. All published […]
This morning there were no signs of trouble. AMD announced in a laconic press release that after many years of absence, Rick Bergman, who saw the “best times” of the AMD graphics division immediately after purchasing the assets of ATI Technologies, is returning to the ranks of management. As a reminder, Bergman's responsibilities as AMD's executive vice president of Computing and Graphics will include overall management of the […]
Google has begun distributing the final, sixth beta version of its operating system. Android 10 Q. For now, it's only available for Google Pixel. However, on smartphones already running the previous version, the new build is being installed fairly quickly. It doesn't contain many changes, as the codebase is already frozen, and the OS developers are focused on fixing bugs. […]
Hello Games studio has released a release trailer for the Beyond add-on to No Man's Sky. In it, the authors demonstrated new capabilities. In the update, users will be able to ride alien beasts to get around. The video showed rides on giant crabs and unknown creatures resembling dinosaurs. In addition, the developers have improved the multiplayer, in which players will meet other users, and added support […]
WhatsApp messenger is used by about 1,5 billion users around the world. Therefore, the fact that attackers can use the platform to manipulate or falsify chat messages is quite alarming. The problem was discovered by the Israeli company Checkpoint Research, speaking about it at the Black Hat 2019 security conference in Las Vegas. As it turns out, the flaw allows you to control the quoting function by changing words, [...]
July has ended - the first month of the third quarter of 2019 - and analysts from the DRAMeXchange division of the TrendForce trading platform are in a hurry to share observations and forecasts about the price movement of NAND memory in the near future. This time it turned out to be difficult to make a forecast. In June, there was an emergency production shutdown at the Toshiba plant (shared with Western Digital), and the company […]
English speaking Linux Journal, which may be familiar to many readers of LOR, has closed permanently after 25 years of publication. The journal had been struggling for a long time, attempting to transform itself from a news resource into a place for publishing in-depth technical articles. Linux, but unfortunately, the authors were unsuccessful. The company has been closed. The website will be taken down in a few weeks. Source: linux.org.ru
Distribution update generated Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS, which includes changes related to improved hardware support, kernel updates Linux and graphics stack, with bug fixes in the installer and bootloader. The release also includes current updates for several hundred packages, addressing vulnerabilities and stability issues. Similar updates were also released for Kubuntu 18.04.3 LTS, Ubuntu Budgie […]
Cruise, a company specializing in automated driving technologies, has open-sourced the FwAnalyzer project, which provides tools for analyzing firmware images based on Linux and identify potential vulnerabilities and data leaks. The code is written in Go and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. It supports analysis of images using ext2/3/4, FAT/VFat, SquashFS, and UBIFS file systems. To disclose […]