Debian has used the web browser Iceweasel rather than Mozilla Firefox since 2006 because of licensing issues with the Mozilla Corporation. Debian was initially permitted to use the “Mozilla Firefox” name for its browser but could not use the logo as it contravened Debian’s free software guidelines. In 2006, permission to use the Mozilla name […]
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Skio is a company that helps brands on Shopify sell subscriptions and more. The company was founded in 2021 and is currently in the seed funding stage. They have a team size of 41 and are close to profitability. Skio stands out in several ways, including “regiciding” a $2.1 billion incumbent with product-market fit, using […]
Developers are working to add dynarec support for RISC-V architecture in the current development cycle of box64. Box64 allows x86_64 programs to run on RISC-V ISA, a CPU architecture that prioritizes simplicity and reduced instruction sets over complex opcode, which can use more CPU transistors. Using the VisionFive2 development board and thanks to external contributors […]
In response to a request for an article on how to become a systems engineer, the author acknowledges the ambiguity of the term and describes the real challenge of managing complex systems over their life cycles. Instead, the author provides advice on becoming a problem solver, stressing the importance of curiosity, research, and experimentation. Through […]
A new Philips Sonicare toothbrush not only reminds you when it’s time to switch brush heads, but also communicates with a handle and can be hacked. The toothbrush interacts with the insertion of a new brush head through an LED. A recent blog post details how the NFC technology in the brush head, which is […]
be careful with side effects in your code. It can also lead to bugs and make your code harder to reason about. Because evaluation happens outside of the instantiation phase, ES modules introduce a kind of asynchrony that wasn’t present in CommonJS modules. But this doesn’t mean that every part of the process needs to […]
Cybersecurity firm Eclypsium has detected a hidden mechanism in the firmware used by Taiwanese manufacturer Gigabyte in its motherboard components. The feature triggers an updater function that runs on a system creating a risk that it could upload malware on the computer. The mechanism is triggered outside of the operating system, making removal difficult. Eclypsium’s […]
RARBG, one of the largest torrent sites, has announced its shutdown after 15 years of operation. The site was a prominent source of new movie and TV show releases and had millions of monthly visitors from across the world. The shutdown was unexpected and was due to multiple reasons, including the impact of COVID that […]
NVIDIA has unveiled the NVIDIA DGX GH200, a supercomputer designed to tackle the most demanding artificial intelligence workloads. The DGX GH200 pairs the NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip with the NVLink Switch System to provide 144 terabytes of memory accessible to the GPU shared memory programming model at high speed over NVLink. The DGX GH200 is […]
A bug that caused queries via serverless platforms that only support WebSockets but not Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) to hang has been identified. Developer and writer Mark Dominus documented the process he took to debug the issue. The problem lay with undici, software for supporting WebSockets in Node.js 18. In trying to create a response […]