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Rust makes Kata Containers 2.0 faster and more compact

The Kata Containers community project supported by the Open Infrastructure Foundation (formerly OpenStack Foundation) is available as a major release 2.0. The new version of the open source container runtime promises higher performance with a significantly reduced size. To do this, the development team has completely rewritten the Kata Containers Agent in Rust and shrunk… Read more

Snyk promises quick static application security testing

Snyk, provider of a security platform, has used its snykcon, which is currently in session, to announce a number of innovations. The main focus here is on expanding our own cloud platform to include a SAST (Static Application Security Testing) offer and partnerships with Docker, IBM and Datadog. Fast Static Application Security Testing The SAST… Read more

heise + | Graphics card history: from the early stages to the modern GPU

Graphics card history: from the early phase to the modern GPU Tube fibrillation The Voodoo King The first GPU ATI’s surprise hit PCI Express and SLI Article in c’t 27/2020 read Graphics cards in the PC were ridiculed for a long time, because the PC was mainly used as a work device and the monitor… Read more

Karl Klammer: The first proactive office assistant

Some nasty tongues claimed that Karl Klammer and the other assistants introduced with Office 97 had become an intern can let off steam. This is true of the Solitaire game, but behind the little digital helpers who really wanted to write letters was an ambitious research project called PERSONA. The team was led by Eric… Read more

OSGi Alliance hands over projects to the Eclipse Foundation and dissolves

The OSGi Alliance, which was founded over twenty years ago, will be dissolved and its projects will be handed over to the Eclipse Foundation. In the OSGi blog, the president of the organization announces the step that will take place in line with the EclipseCon 2020. Like most events this year, the latter will take… Read more

IBM quarterly figures: only the cloud business is growing

IBM Z mainframes are currently in little demand. Accordingly, IBM has to report another significant drop in sales to the corporate department Systems . In the third quarter it was 16 percent less than a year earlier. Global Financing reports – 17%, Global Technology Services (including Infrastructure Services and Tech Support) -4%, Global Business Services… Read more

On the 25th birthday: Unix derivative OpenBSD 6.8 supports POWER9

Lean, correct code and therefore maximum security are principles that the developers of the BSD operating system (Berkeley Software Distribution) OpenBSD have adhered to since 25 years. Yesterday, Sunday, OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt published the 49. Version of the free Unix derivative with freely accessible source code. OpenBSD 6.8 runs on POWER9 Among many… Read more

Adaptive traffic lights to save fuel: this is the project being studied in the USA

A collaboration between various universities, supported by the United States Department of Energy, will study the possibility of regulating road intersections in such a way as to allow less expensive and less polluting movements by Andrea Bai published on 17 October 2020 , at 11: 31 in the Technology channel The Center for Urban Informatics… Read more