If you were disappointed that Intel’s latest gaming-fueled Tiger Lake-H35 processors only featured four cores and eight threads, we’ve got some good news for you this morning. The first signs of production laptops withTiger Lake-H45 processors have been spotted. While you probably surmised that Tiger Lake-H35 processors have a TDP of up to
Source: Hot Hardware – Intel 11th Gen 8-Core Tiger Lake-H45 Powered Lenovo Legion Laptop Leak With RTX 3080
Monthly Archives: February 2021
The Terminator Universe Is Back in a New Netflix Anime Series
He’s back and he’s two-dimensional. The Terminator universe is expanding into an anime series for Netflix, the first animated TV adaptation of the franchise.
Source: io9 – The Terminator Universe Is Back in a New Netflix Anime Series
Someone Recreated The Entire First Act Of Hamilton In Animal Crossing
Hamilton is one of the most popular musicals in the world. Animal Crossing is one of the most popular games around right now. I guess it only makes sense that someone would combine them, but I didn’t expect it to be so damn good.
Source: Kotaku – Someone Recreated The Entire First Act Of Hamilton In Animal Crossing
AMD EPYC 7004 Genoa Zen 4 CPU Allegedly Sports 12-Channel DDR5, Massive LGA-6096 Socket
AMD has not yet released its fourth generation EPYC “Milan” server processors based on its Zen 3 CPU architecture, but barring any last minute snags, those chips are coming any day now. Looking further down the road, a new leak highlights a possible fourth generation EPYC “Genoa” configuration based on Zen 4, with some interesting details.
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Source: Hot Hardware – AMD EPYC 7004 Genoa Zen 4 CPU Allegedly Sports 12-Channel DDR5, Massive LGA-6096 Socket
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Introducing Crowdsec: a Modernized, Collaborative Massively Multiplayer Firewall
Slashdot reader b-dayyy writes: CrowdSec is a massively multiplayer firewall designed to protect Linux servers, services, containers, or virtual machines exposed on the Internet with a server-side agent. It was inspired by Fail2Ban and aims to be a modernized, collaborative version of that intrusion-prevention tool.
CrowdSec is free and open-source (under an MIT License), with the source code available on GitHub. It uses a behavior analysis system to qualify whether someone is trying to hack you, based on your logs. If your agent detects such aggression, the offending IP is then dealt with and sent for curation. If this signal passes the curation process, the IP is then redistributed to all users sharing a similar technological profile to ‘immunize’ them against this IP.
The goal is to leverage the power of the crowd to create a real-time IP reputation database. As for the IP that aggressed your machine, you can choose to remedy the threat in any manner you feel appropriate. Ultimately, CrowdSec leverages the power of the community to create an extremely accurate IP reputation system that benefits all its users.
It was clear to the founders that Open Source was going to be one of the main pillars of CrowdSec. The project’s founders have been working on open-source projects for decades — they didn’t just jump on the train. Rather, they are strong Open Source believers. They believe that the crowd is key to the mass hacking plague we are experiencing, and that Open Source is the best lever to create a community and have people contribute their knowledge to the project, ultimately make it better and more secure.
The solution recently turned 1.x, introducing a major architectural change: the introduction of a local REST API.
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Source: Slashdot – Introducing Crowdsec: a Modernized, Collaborative Massively Multiplayer Firewall
Sunday Comics: I Outrank You!
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon.
Source: Kotaku – Sunday Comics: I Outrank You!
Linux 5.12 Features Intel Xe VRR, Nintendo 64 Port + Clang LTO + Much More
The Linux 5.12 merge window was off to a rough start due to winter storms preventing Linus Torvalds from merging changes for nearly one week, but in any case he appears to have caught up and the Linux 5.12-rc1 kernel is expected later today to end out the merge window. Here is a look at the many exciting changes coming for Linux 5.12.
Source: Phoronix – Linux 5.12 Features Intel Xe VRR, Nintendo 64 Port + Clang LTO + Much More
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All the little things that add up to make iPadOS productivity a pain
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The 12.9-inch 2020 iPad Pro with the Smart Keyboard and Magic Trackpad peripherals. [credit:
Samuel Axon ]
Rumor has it a new iPad Pro is around the corner, which means Apple is about to make another big pitch for the iPad as a productivity and content-creation device.
But while we’ve found in our iPadOS reviews that Apple has done a marvelous job with the big-picture changes to the OS aimed at making it real-work-friendly, there are still a bunch of minor annoyances or “nope, you can’t do that” limitations that sabotage Apple’s intentions.
For that reason, it makes sense to preempt that upcoming marketing push with a few key caveats—especially since Apple likely won’t announce a major iPadOS software update alongside new hardware in March. Significant new OS changes probably won’t be discussed until the company’s developer conference in June, and said updates probably won’t reach the public until September or October.
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Source: Ars Technica – All the little things that add up to make iPadOS productivity a pain
How to Keep Your Basement from Flooding When Snow and Ice Start to Melt
Over the past few weeks, many parts of the country have experienced serious winter weather—including areas that don’t normally see that kind of snow and ice. And eventually that snow and ice melts, creating more water than usual, and some homes can’t handle it. Fortunately, there are a few things you can do to prevent…
Source: LifeHacker – How to Keep Your Basement from Flooding When Snow and Ice Start to Melt
How to Verify SHA256 Checksum of File in Linux using sha256sum
The last week I intend to install Red Hat on my System. I was able to download and create a bootable device using the dd command without any hassle.If you know, Red Hat has options to Test media [he] Install Red Hat Enterprises, so I have selected those options[/he] while it’s verifying media, it shows the error of The file header checksum does not match computed checksum.
Source: LXer – How to Verify SHA256 Checksum of File in Linux using sha256sum
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How to Stop Birds From Pecking at Your Windows
Sometimes birds fly into windows. Other times, they might perch on the outside of your windowsill and peck a little. It might look like they’re trying to get your attention, and if you’ve been stuck inside for the past year, you might even be tempted to let it in for a quick chat. (But don’t.)
Source: LifeHacker – How to Stop Birds From Pecking at Your Windows
Vulkan Ray-Tracing Along With Other New/Updated Benchmarks For February
There have been plenty of new and updated benchmarks over the course of February ahead of upcoming CPU and GPU launches…
Source: Phoronix – Vulkan Ray-Tracing Along With Other New/Updated Benchmarks For February
Use This Visual Search Engine to Find Images With Similar Energy
Sometimes you see a pattern on something—like a piece of clothing you can’t afford, or vintage wallpaper in a historic home—and fall in love. Sure, you can snap a photo of it and use it as a comparison, but that only gets you so far. If only there was a way to search for images using an actual image, instead of…
Source: LifeHacker – Use This Visual Search Engine to Find Images With Similar Energy
Linux Mint's Update Manager To Encourage Users To Apply Security Updates
Last week the Linux Mint project shared the troubling news how many of its users are behind on important security updates or in some cases even running end-of-life versions. In trying to help address the issue, Linux Mint is working on improvements to its Update Manager to encourage users to apply updates…
Source: Phoronix – Linux Mint’s Update Manager To Encourage Users To Apply Security Updates
Nitrux 1.3.8 Is Here with KDE Plasma 5.21, Support for Linux Kernel 5.11 and Mesa-Git
Uri Herrera announced today the release and general availability of a new monthly update to the Nitrux Linux distribution, Nitrux 1.3.8, which comes with the latest GNU/Linux technologies and Open Source software.
Source: LXer – Nitrux 1.3.8 Is Here with KDE Plasma 5.21, Support for Linux Kernel 5.11 and Mesa-Git
Inside the stunning Black mythos of Drexciya and its Afrofuturist ’90s techno
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Art inspired by the Drexciyan mythos, as provided by the artist from his book 1989–2014: 25 Years of Techno Art. [credit:
Abdul Qadim Haqq ]
“ARE DREXCIYANS WATER-BREATHING, AQUATICALLY MUTATED DESCENDANTS OF THOSE UNFORTUNATE VICTIMS OF HUMAN GREED? … DID THEY MIGRATE FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO TO THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN AND ON TO THE GREAT LAKES OF MICHIGAN? DO THEY WALK AMONG US? ARE THEY MORE ADVANCED THAN US, AND WHY DO THEY MAKE THEIR STRANGE MUSIC? WHAT IS THEIR QUEST?”
With those all-caps words, musician and writer James Stinson wrote the constitution for the mythic, rhythmic nation of Drexciya—a world that he and partner Gerald Donald created in the liner notes of their experimental music project. Their combined work, in the form of five EPs of cutting-edge techno music, did not necessarily sound so politically or culturally charged. Because Stinson and Donald did not participate in interviews or widely tour in support of their albums, Drexciya’s listeners were left to look at the stories and questions that covered the liner notes and artwork printed on the releases’ vinyl and CD versions.
Should you merely pull up Drexciya on your favorite streaming service, you won’t hear those messages in the beats. So to understand this innovative group, it’s crucial to ask the above questions about the fictional Drexciyan quest. And in asking them, Stinson blurred a line between fiction and Black reality—and spoke to a quest of his own.
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Source: Ars Technica – Inside the stunning Black mythos of Drexciya and its Afrofuturist ’90s techno
America Authorizes Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 Vaccine For Emergency Use
America’s Food and Drug Administration just authorized Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, according to CBS News. “The vaccine is the third to be approved for use in the United States, and the first that requires only one shot…”
Among people who got the vaccine in clinical trials, there were no COVID-related deaths. Phase 3 clinical trials also showed protection against multiple emerging virus variants, including a more contagious strain that was first discovered in South Africa and has since been detected in the U.S.
The vaccine can be stored at standard refrigerator temperatures for up to three months.
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The company has agreed to provide the U.S. with 100 million doses by the end of June. The first doses could be available to the US public as early as next week. The U.K., EU and Canada have also ordered doses, and 500 million doses have also been ordered through the Covax scheme to supply poorer nations.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – America Authorizes Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 Vaccine For Emergency Use