#Firefox + uBlock Origin will blow you away with speed and low memory/cpu use, if you're currently used to Chrome. They really stepped up the performance a few years ago with a mostly-new rendering engine, but they were already a distant afterthought by then. Most people didn't know there was anything but Chrome (and relatives) available.
📨 Latest issue of my curated #cybersecurity and #infosec list of resources for week #46/2023 is out! It includes the following and much more:
➝ 🔓 🇯🇵 #Toyota confirms breach after Medusa #ransomware threatens to leak data
➝ 🇺🇸 😂 Ransomware gang files #SEC complaint over victim’s undisclosed #breach
➝ 🔓 🪶 Attackers claim Plume Design, Inc data breach
➝ 🇺🇸 💰 #ICBC paid ransom after hack that disrupted markets, #cybercriminals say
➝ 🔓 #Dragos Says No Evidence of Breach After Ransomware Gang Claims Hack via Third Party
➝ 🔓 ✈️ Hackers swipe Booking.com, damage from attack is global
➝ 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian #CyberEspionage Group Deploys #LitterDrifter USB #Worm in Targeted Attacks
➝ 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 Israeli Man Who Made $5M From Hacking Scheme Sentenced to Prison in US
➝ 🇫🇮 ⚖️ Alleged Extortioner of Psychotherapy Patients Faces Trial
➝ 🇺🇸 💸 #LockBit ransomware exploits #CitrixBleed in attacks, 10K servers exposed
➝ 🇺🇸 ⚖️ #IPStorm botnet with 23,000 proxies for malicious traffic dismantled
➝ 👶🏻 🧨 Teens with “digital bazookas” are winning the ransomware war, researcher laments
➝ 💸 #Ethereum feature abused to steal $60 million from 99K victims
➝ 🇩🇰 🇷🇺 #Denmark Hit With Largest #Cyberattack on Record
➝ 🇨🇳 🇰🇭 Chinese Hackers Launch Covert #Espionage Attacks on 24 Cambodian Organizations
➝ 🇲🇾 Major Phishing-as-a-Service Syndicate '#BulletProofLink' Dismantled by Malaysian Authorities
➝ 🇪🇺 🥳 EU Parliament committee rejects mass scanning of private and encrypted communications
➝ 🩹 #ICS Patch Tuesday: 90 Vulnerabilities Addressed by Siemens and Schneider Electric
➝ 🦠 🐍 27 Malicious #PyPI Packages with Thousands of Downloads Found Targeting IT Experts
🇻🇳 🇮🇳 Vietnamese Hackers Using New #Delphi-Powered #Malware to Target Indian Marketers
➝ 🔐 #Google Adds #Passkey Support to New Titan Security Key
➝ 🐛 Zero-Day Flaw in #Zimbra Email Software Exploited by Four Hacker Groups
➝ 🩹 #SAP Patches Critical Vulnerability in Business One Product
➝ 🐛 New #Reptar CPU flaw impacts Intel desktop and server systems
➝ 🐛 New #CacheWarp AMD #CPU attack lets hackers gain root in Linux VMs
📚 This week's recommended reading is: "Tribe of Hackers: Cybersecurity Advice from the Best Hackers in the World" by @marcusjcarey and Jennifer Jin
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I discovered yesterday that, at some time, some #CPUs could have alternative instruction sets. I never heard of this before!
And I was wondering: could this technique be helpful given our current needs of performance mixed with low-power?
Could simple instructions get directly executed by a RISC core instead of having to be processed by a CISC core, while maintaining some sort of compatibility with the current software?
I can't help but think at some point this alternative instruction set thing could be reused in some way.
52 years ago on November 15, 1971, Intel introduced the Intel 4004.
Originating in a 1969 project with Busicom Corp., Intel aimed to design chips for an electronic calculator. Marcian Hoff proposed a more efficient CPU architecture based on RAM, leading to the 4004's development. By March 1971, the first fully operational 4004 was delivered to Busicom.
Great #CPU#performance and optional, dedicated graphics in an infinitely thin and light magnesium chassis, paired with a 16-inch 16:10 high-resolution display and a big 80 Wh #battery.
With Qualcomm's Oryon-based Snapdragon X Elite CPU seeming to be impressively powerful, many think that PC land is headed for an ARM transition starting in 2024. Or do you think there will be some kind of The Return of X86 anytime soon? #cpu#qualcomm#arm#x86#amd#intel#pc#linux
Woah, GamersNexus is pivoting back to heavy-duty text content on the web.
They're not pivoting away from video - that's where most of their audience is, so it still leads. But they've re-launched their own site, heavy on the text, and third-party ad-free.
(They pitch their own stuff, of course. But.)
I'm boosting because 1) fuck yeah I'm here for it 2) they're filling in data they had to cut for the YouTube algorithm so the website has more info and 3) this is where I see people saying JUST GIVE ME TEXT TO READ, and they are. Related videos are embedded, but the data's all there in text.
Während die #EU vermutlich noch jahrzehntelang sich in missglückte Cloud-Versuche verheddert (#GAIAX) und zögerlich mit vernünftigen und raschen Schritten in Richtung eigener #Hardware-Entwicklung dahindümpelt, machen die Chinesen schon längst Nägel mit Köpfen, wenn auch noch nicht auf Niveau der USA:
On my all #amd#linux systems I often switch the #cpu scaling governors from schedutil to performance (and back) via the command line. I remember that there once was a switch to do the same in the #gnome system menu (top right). I don't noticed when it vanished, but with #gnome44 on #manjaro using amd_pstate I don't see that option (anymore).
Does anyone know how this option might be re-enabled? 🤓️
I bet the high end M3 Max gives the M1 Ultra a run for its money. 12 20-30% faster cores should beat the 16 "slower" cores for most real world stuff. If I wasn't such a core, uhm fan, I'd seriously consider going to a regular Studio next round.
@applebaumian@paul I kid you not: I have provided service to clients that used a #RadeonProSSG|s with #Radeon#ProRender on @Blender simply because they would've otherwise not being able to do projects as fast as they want to as they exceeeded the VRAM capacity of anything else and would've otherwise only have the ability to render on #CPU which is way slower...
Is there a theoretical reason why #ARM chips would have to be less powerful than #x86 chips, or is it a case of resource allocation? That the market for high end chips has been dominated by x86 so that’s where all the development lies? Or is there something useful/necessary about that larger instruction set that makes it useful to retain?