Month: January 2023
Intel has killed off its open-source RISC-V dev environment
Audio player loading… Intel appears to have quietly killed off its open source RISC-V developer environment, Pathfinder. The news may come as a shock to many SoC architects, software developers, and product research teams, primarily because Pathfinder was only announced in August 2022, however to others, it may have been…
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SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle could be used to evacuate ISS astronauts in an emergency
A SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle currently docked to the International Space Station (ISS) could be used to transport extra crew members back to Earth in the event of an emergency, NASA announced. Following a coolant leak in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked to the ISS in December, international space agencies…
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This brutal new malware could absolutely destroy your Windows PC
Audio player loading… A new cyberattack that appears to be targeted at Ukraine and is designed to overwrite crucial Windows files has been spotted by security firm ESET. “On January 25th #ESETResearch discovered a new cyberattack in Ukraine. Attackers deployed a new wiper we named #SwiftSlicer using Active Directory Group…
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Instagram’s AIM-like text status feature is expanding to Europe and Japan
Instagram Notes, the social network’s recently launched text status feature that reminds me of the AOL Instant Messenger away messages of my youth, is expanding to the EU, UK, and Japan this week, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced Monday. The rollout is beginning on Monday, spokesperson Christine Pai said in…
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Nvidia RTX 4060 and 4050 GPUs spotted – but don’t get your hopes up too much
Audio player loading… Nvidia’s RTX 4060 and 4050 desktop graphics cards – the Lovelace GPUs which are of keenest interest to most people given their (hopefully) affordable nature – could arrive sooner than expected. Tom’s Hardware (opens in new tab) spotted that RTX 4060 and 4050 models from Shangke Group…
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This is what caused the recent huge Microsoft 365 and Teams outage
Audio player loading… Microsoft has revealed its initial conclusions on what it thinks caused a major recent outage that affected some of its most popular software offerings. The outage saw workers across Europe and Asia unable to log into Microsoft 365 services for several hours, with the likes of Microsoft…
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