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Foxconn will test its first satellites in orbit throughout 2024

Last month, the Taiwanese company Foxconn, with the help of a SpaceX mission, launched its first two experimental communications satellites into orbit, created and prepared for launch with the help of the National Central University of Taiwan and Exolaunch specialists. The satellites successfully made contact; the company intends to continue testing them until the end of next year, in order to then begin expanding its core business. Source […]

The Mesa radv driver now supports Vulkan extensions for h.265 video encoding

David Airlie, maintainer of the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) subsystem in the Linux kernel, announced the implementation in radv, supplied in the Mesa Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs, the ability to use Vulkan extensions for hardware acceleration of video encoding. For the h.265 video format, the implementation has already successfully passed all CTS (Compatibility Test Suite) tests, but for the h.264 format there is only one test that has failed. […]

Release of OpenSSH 9.6 with elimination of vulnerabilities

The release of OpenSSH 9.6 has been published, an open implementation of a client and server for working using the SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols. The new version fixes three security issues: A vulnerability in the SSH protocol (CVE-2023-48795, β€œTerrapin” attack), which allows a MITM attack to roll back the connection to use less secure authentication algorithms and disable protection against side-channel attacks that recreate input via […]

Terrapin - a vulnerability in the SSH protocol that allows you to reduce connection security

A group of researchers from the Ruhr University in Bochum (Germany) presented a new MITM attack technique on SSH - Terrapin, which exploits a vulnerability (CVE-2023-48795) in the protocol. An attacker capable of organizing a MITM attack has the ability, during the connection negotiation process, to block the sending of a message by configuring protocol extensions to reduce the connection security level. A prototype of the attack toolkit has been published on GitHub. In the context of OpenSSH, a vulnerability […]

LG announced a pair of smart monitors with 4K and WebOS platform

LG has announced the imminent release of LG MyView smart monitors - they will appear in South Korea at the end of December. The devices will have 32-inch displays with 4K resolution (3840 Γ— 2160 pixels) and will run the WebOS 23 operating system. Supported functions include Apple AirPlay 2 and streaming from Netflix or Apple TV. Except […]

Blue Origin fails to complete first New Shepard space launch in 15 months

Blue Origin on Monday, December 18, celebrated the first space launch of a rocket with the New Shepard spacecraft in the last 15 months. The launch was originally scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (17:30 p.m. Moscow time). However, after an hour-long delay due to adverse weather conditions near Blue Origin's launch site in West Texas, the suborbital launch was cancelled. Source […]

Windows 11 December update broke wireless Wi-Fi connections on some PCs and laptops

The recently released Windows 11 December Update (KB5033375), which contains a mandatory OS security update, fixes a number of operating system bugs. However, installing the mentioned update entails problems for some users, writes Windows Latest. As it turned out, the KB5033375 package can β€œbreak” the Wi-Fi wireless connection on some PCs and laptops. Image source: Windows LatestSource: 3dnews.ru