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Elastic: Amazon is to blame for the open source end

In a blog post, CEO Shay Bannon justifies why Elasticsearch no longer appears as free software. Amazon is solely responsible for the step, whose behavior towards the developers of the search engine is unacceptable. Now, as the market leader, Elastic has to stand up to the group. Specifically, it is about AWS offering Elasticsearch without… Read more

Road load balancing

Should you stay in a traffic jam on the motorway or should you leave? It feels, however you do it, wrong. Classic navigation systems are not of great help here. If you recommend a detour, it will soon be congested as well – while the motorway may have long been clear again. “The traffic jam… Read more

AWS SDK for Go: Second version packages service clients as individual Go modules

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released the second major version of its Software Development Kit (SDK) for the Go programming language. According to the publisher, user feedback from the first version was incorporated and new features of the language were taken into account. Modularize service clients The revised modularization is new: Version 2 of the… Read more

Java Virtual Machine: GraalVM 21 starts the truffle search for Java

Oracle has released version 21. 0 of GraallVM. The release of the virtual machine mainly brings news for native images and the Truffle Language Implementation Framework. For the latter there is now an experimental implementation for Java, and the native images can now be serialized. The GraalVM relies on the Hotspot JVM ( Java Virtual… Read more

Google closes a critical gap in Chrome and finally throws Flash out

In Google’s Chrome web browser 88. 0. 4324. 96 the developers have closed 36 security holes. Most of the vulnerabilities are classified as ” high “. A gap (CVE – 2021 – 21117) is considered to be “critical”. It affects the Cryptohome component. The warning message hardly contains any further details about this and the… Read more

Malwarebytes hacked and accessed internal company emails

by Antonio Delgado Ago 15 minutes … As the cybersecurity company itself has recognized in a statement, Malwarebytes has been attacked by nationally organized cybercriminals detected in other past attacks whose origin could be the Russian government, according to the US recently pointed out. The attackers gained access to internal Malwarebytes emails The attack affected… Read more

DNSpooQ: Vulnerabilities discovered in DNS / DHCP server Dnsmasq

Security researchers from JSOF have found seven vulnerabilities in the DNS / DHCP server Dnsmasq. Attackers could attack devices equipped with them and manipulate DNS entries, for example, in order to redirect victims to websites they control. 2008 the computer scientist Dan Kaminsky presented such a DNS attack for the first time. The execution of… Read more

NASA SLS: First details emerge on test problems and there would be good news

NASA SLS test, as we know, it did not last the expected time (about 8 minutes). After a little more than a minute there was a shutdown due to a stop of the procedure. NASA has now explained some details. by Mattia Speroni published 20 January 2021 , at 00: 21 in the Science channel… Read more

Space travel: aim high in 2021

Nothing went as planned in the space sector either 2019. Like almost all sectors, space activities have been hit hard by the pandemic. Observers were particularly looking forward to the start of seven planned space missions, some things went great: SpaceX sent astronauts into space, China brought moon rocks back to Earth. But many other… Read more

We don’t object to this Reddit bot that turns arguments into Ace Attorney videos

Someone had to do it: there’s now a bot that turns Reddit arguments into scenes from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, complete with music and the iconic “OBJECTION!” intercuts. It’s from those moments that it draws its name: objection-bot. Users can summon the bot by typing “!objection-bot” under a thread that would work as an Ace… Read more

Regional social court: Job center has to pay computers and accessories for schoolgirls

The State Social Court of Thuringia has obliged the job center to take over the purchase of an internet-enabled PC with accessories for an eighth grader whose family receives Hartz IV. The equipment that should enable the student to take part in the corona-related online lessons include a computer, screen, keyboard, mouse, printer and three… Read more

ownCloud Infinite Scale: Go instead of PHP, microservices instead of LAMP

In a quiet little room, ownCloud has been working on the new version of its software for over a year and is now showing its new Infinite Scale project for the first time – but the developers are not slow, they have big plans. Up to and including ownCloud X, the software is a classic… Read more

Homeschooling: Call for digital sovereignty through free software

The Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) is concerned that many schools are using “proprietary software solutions that are questionable under data protection law” against the background of the corona crisis and the current level of suffering in homeschooling. Above all, programs that transfer data from those affected to third countries such as the USA are questionable… Read more

AWS is planning a new open source design system for the graphical user interface

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has converted the graphical user interface (UI) of the porting assistant for .NET into open source. The tool itself was already open source, but not its UI: From now on, your source code is also available under the Apache 2.0 license. .NET developers can now view, change and edit the source… Read more

New Intel boss wants to compete again with “lifestyle company” Apple

The freshly baked new Intel boss does not want to be stolen from the bread in Apple’s processor business. In an address to employees reported by the Oregonian local newspaper in the US state, Patrick P. Gelsinger said his company had to deliver “better products” to the PC ecosystem as “every possible thing a lifestyle… Read more