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Announcement From SK hynix: 300 TB SSD, Technologies For Data Centers, and AI
May 9, 2024
Announcement From SK hynix: 300 TB SSD, Technologies For Data Centers, and AI

SK hynix, a leading semiconductor memory company, presented its developments in data center functioning and artificial intelligence (AI). One of the key innovations presented is a solid-state drive (SSD) with an exceptional capacity of 300 TB.

This SSD will become part of SK hynix's technologies aimed at high-performance computing. High-capacity data storage is in demand, so SK hynix's 300TB SSD was created as a market response to it in a compact form factor.

SSL Handshake Capture with tcpdump
May 8, 2024
SSL Handshake Capture with tcpdump

​SSL is by far the most common protocol protocol that is used for encrypted data transmission over TCP connections. During this procedure, both parties must exchange different kinds of information, including public keys, encryption algorithms, protocol versions, and many others.

NGINX Package Comparison
May 8, 2024
NGINX Package Comparison

​Nginx is a popular high-performance web server that is known for its simple setup, easy configuration, multitude of features, and reliability. Nginx is of an open-source nature and can serve for reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, and media streaming.

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D displayed 192 MB L3 cache
May 7, 2024
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D displayed 192 MB L3 cache

A user posted a screenshot of AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, which is supposed to have 128 MB of L3 cache, having 192 MB of L3 cache.

GitHub to Release Copilot Workspace, a Developer Environment, in a Week
May 1, 2024
GitHub to Release Copilot Workspace, a Developer Environment, in a Week

Before the annual GitHub Universe conference in San Francisco, GitHub announced Copilot Workspace, a developer environment powered by OpenAI GPT-4 Turbo.

MS-DOS 4.0 code on GitHub appeared broken due to UTF-8 and timestamps
Apr 30, 2024
MS-DOS 4.0 code on GitHub appeared broken due to UTF-8 and timestamps

In April, Microsoft posted the MS-DOS 4.0 code on GitHub. This version is the first MS-DOS release posted on GitHub, but this particular release was posted with some critical bugs, namely UTF-8 encoding and timestamps. According to words Michal Nekasek, a developer and blogger of OS/2 Museum, these features are critical and literally spoil the whole release.

Shell tips: Detecting Empty Directories
Apr 30, 2024
Shell tips: Detecting Empty Directories

​Administration of the Linux system is not a simple task and for doing it effectively, you would rather know commands and understand the main aspects of the processes. For instance, the important thing is to know if the directory is empty prior to dealing with any crucial operations.

nginx 1.26.0 has been released
Apr 25, 2024
nginx 1.26.0 has been released

The release of the previous version 1.25.0 took place in May last year and the multiprotocol and high-performance nginx 1.26.0 was released on April 23, 2024.

According to existing reports, the new version will address vulnerabilities as well as all bugs that have been discovered. 

Samsung started the manufacturing of V-NAND memory, with 33% higher performance and 10% higher energy efficiency
Apr 24, 2024
Samsung started the manufacturing of V-NAND memory, with 33% higher performance and 10% higher energy efficiency

Samsung announced the start of mass production of V-NAND flash memory with 33% higher performance than the currently available. TCL V-NAND which will be launched this month will feature 1 Tbit capacity while QLC V-NAND is announced for the second half of 2024.

Linux Command Line Basics: Base64 Encoding and Decoding Strings
Apr 24, 2024
Linux Command Line Basics: Base64 Encoding and Decoding Strings

​Among a variety of methods for representing binary data in ASCII string format, Base64 is one of the most common ones, employed particularly for the encoding of images as other documents in email attachments and in URLs as well as other cases, where there is a need of converting something into pure text. In the following, we are going to show you how to use command terminal tools in Linux for encoding and decoding Base64 strings.