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The ninth generation of HPE ProLiant DL180 and DL160 servers did not earn public affection. This is because the benefits of purchasing them—compared to the older DL300 series—were 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 […]
Many IT systems have a mandatory rule for periodically changing passwords. This is perhaps the most hated and most useless requirement of security systems. Some users, as a life hack, simply change the digit at the end. This practice has caused numerous inconveniences. However, people had to endure it for the sake of security. Now this advice is completely outdated. In May 2019, even Microsoft […]
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, we’re 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 […]
The signal that helps airplanes find the runway can be faked using a radio for $600. The aircraft in the demonstration attacks the radio because of fake KGS signals, landing to the right of the runway. Almost any aircraft that has taken to the skies in the last 50 years—whether it’s a single-engine Cessna or a giant airliner with 600 seats—has relied on radio stations […]
Meetups for system administrators, Sysadminka, are held in Chelyabinsk, and at the last one, I presented our solution for running applications on 1C-Bitrix in Kubernetes. Bitrix, Kubernetes, and Ceph—an excellent mix? I’ll talk about how we put together a working solution from all of this. Let’s go! The meetup took place on April 18 in Chelyabinsk. You can read about our meetups on Timepad and view […]
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 […]
MIT has developed an architecture for a new photonic processor. It will increase the efficiency of optical neural networks by a thousand times compared to similar devices. The chip will reduce the amount of electricity consumed by data centers. Here’s an overview of its structure. Photo — Ildefonso Polo — Unsplash Why a New Architecture is Needed Optical neural networks operate faster than traditional solutions that use electronic components. Light does not require isolation of signal […]
Dogs are very unusual creatures. They never inquire about your mood; they don’t 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 — 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 […]