AMD EPYC “Rome” Server Processors to Feature 8 to 64 Cores

AMD EPYC “Rome” Server Processors to Feature 8 to 64 Cores

At Computex 2019, AMD demoed the Ryzen 3000 processors and the 64-core EYPC “Rome” chip which seemed way faster than the competing Intel Xeon part, all the while keeping the power draw within acceptable limits. Regardless, they ought to be much faster than the 1st and 2nd Gen EPYC lineups. Furthermore, this time around AMD is targeting all the segments of the server market with chips ranging from octa-core, all the way to the mighty 64-core monstrosity.

Source: www.techquila.co.in

Librem 5 June Software Update

Librem 5 June Software Update

The devkit image has support for the camera, too–and below you can see the devkit’s first selfie 🙂

Several areas of the kernel have seen major improvements, and we are now very close to some important milestones. One such area is forward porting patches so that the images built for the devkit can switch from a 4.18 to a 5.2 kernel, and we’re almost there! Since a compositor switch is coming soon, the team applied many improvements to the new compositor, phoc (phone compositor).

Source: puri.sm

Firefox zero-day was used in attack against Coinbase employees, not its users

Firefox zero-day was used in attack against Coinbase employees, not its users

Furthermore, the attacks used not one, but two Firefox zero-days, according to Philip Martin, a member of the Coinbase security team, which reported the attacks to Mozilla. “On Monday, Coinbase detected blocked an attempt by an attacker to leverage the reported 0-day, along with a separate 0-day Firefox sandbox escape, to target Coinbase employees,” Martin said. Several scenarios come to mind:
– the attackers discovered the same RCE bug on their own
– they obtained the info from an insider with access to Mozilla’s security bugs portal
– they compromised a Mozilla employee’s account and accessed the Bugzilla portal’s security section
– or, they hacked the Bugzilla portal, similar to an incident from 2015
Attackers targeted Coinbase and other cryptocurrency orgs
Fortunately, the two Firefox bugs, which were chained into one single exploit and deployed against Coinbase employees, was detected by Coinbase staffers.

Source: www.zdnet.com

MIPS R3000

MIPS R3000

The R3000 is a full 32 bit RISC microprocessor chipset developed by MIPS Computer Systems that implemented the MIPS I instruction set architecture (ISA). In addition to the CPU core, the R3000 microprocessor includes a Control Processor (CP), which contains a Translation Lookaside Buffer and a Memory Management Unit. [5] MIPS was a fabless semiconductor company, so the R3000 was fabricated by MIPS partners including Integrated Device Technology (IDT), LSI Logic, NEC Corporation, Performance Semiconductor, and others.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

Mux (API to instant video streaming) is hiring: engineers, PMs, and others

Mux (API to instant video streaming) is hiring: engineers, PMs, and others

The first product we launched was analytics and performance monitoring – think “NewRelic for Video” – used by major video streaming companies like PBS, Vimeo, CBS Interactive, and the New York Times to monitor and improve billions of streams. In early 2018, we launched Mux Video, a simple API to video hosting, encoding and streaming – think “Stripe for Video” – which uses our performance data, machine learning, and just-in-time encoding for unmatched video quality and efficiency. Our founders previously started (and sold) Zencoder, an early leader in cloud video technology.

Source: mux.com

Airbnb likely removed 31,000 homes from Canada’s rental market, study finds

Airbnb likely removed 31,000 homes from Canada’s rental market, study finds

THE GLOBE AND MAIL,
SOURCE: MCGILL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF URBAN PLANNING

Percentage of homes frequently
rented on Airbnb

While Airbnbs account for a small fraction of housing
in large cities, listings can be heavily concentrated in
certain neighbourhoods. THE GLOBE AND MAIL,
SOURCE: MCGILL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF URBAN PLANNING

Percentage of homes frequently rented on Airbnb

While Airbnbs account for a small fraction of housing in
large cities, listings can be heavily concentrated in certain
neighbourhoods. THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: MCGILL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF URBAN PLANNING

Percentage of homes frequently rented on Airbnb

While Airbnbs account for a small fraction of housing in
large cities, listings can be heavily concentrated in certain
neighbourhoods.

Source: www.theglobeandmail.com

Ramroot – Run Arch Linux Entirely from RAM

Ramroot – Run Arch Linux Entirely from RAM

If you use the most recent Ramroot version, the installed RAM size should be at least 500MB more than the size of root filesystem. If the size of the root filesystem is less than the installed memory, the latest Ramroot version won’t load the Root filesystem in your RAM. Finally, remove Ramroot from your Arch Linux system using commands:

If you have installed Ramroot from AUR, remove it using commands:

For more details, refer Ramroot help section:

Ramroot might be helpful for those who wants to do some testing on their Arch Linux box.

Source: www.ostechnix.com

Ask HN: Stuck with an unpronounceable product name

Ask HN: Stuck with an unpronounceable product name

Here’s the situation – we have a mature desktop product, IT-oriented, with a very good reputation and strong loyal following of people who know about it. This complicates things when trying to sponsor video channels and podcasts for obvious reasons, but these are one of our best options for reaching people we are interested in. Third option is to launch a clone of the product with a different name, use it for capturing the ad traffic and then direct it towards the original product.

Source: news.ycombinator.com

Publishing Simple Books with Jekyll

Publishing Simple Books with Jekyll

The theme (Jekyll Book Theme) will allow you to focus on your book’s content rather than wrestling with typography and page layouts. The example we will be referencing in this post is the open source Jekyll theme called “Jekyll Book Theme”. It should look like the following:

By default the Jekyll Book Theme template has this chapters collection implemented and working as intended.

Source: bradleytaunt.com

Basque and Armenian share a baffling litany of words and grammatical elements

Basque and Armenian share a baffling litany of words and grammatical elements

More contemporarily, Sargsyan’s collaborative work in 1998 with Armenian and Basque linguists identified almost 600-shared parallel words between the two languages, which Sargsyan suggested were introduced through metallurgy and farming via an ancient migration of Armenians to this area. “It’s no accident that the Armenian and Basque languages have a number of almost identical words relating to agriculture,” he wrote in a 2006 article in Yerevan Magazine, referring to the shared words ardi (sheep), urti (water-bearing) and gari (millet in Euskara; barley in Armenian). Xabier Kintana, head director at the Euskaltzaindia, told me that Sargsyan’s list of shared Armenian-Basque words “are taken very randomly from the different modern dialects of the Basque language” and “are surely old loans of Latin, Celtic and other languages, in their time neighbours of the Basque, which invalidates their comparison.”

Source: www.bbc.com