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Releases are available for Joomla versions 4.4.7 and 5.1.3, they mainly have fixes for major bugs of previous branches, as well as fixing some vulnerabilities.
ARM, previously known for producing mobile processors, is preparing to release its own gaming graphics card. According to rumors, the company is preparing to compete with NVIDIA.
CHIP and Science Act made a decision to support the Korean semiconductor industry so the company will receive $450M for their construction needs. The fabrication and research building will be located in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Every six months, the Rust project plans to update its task list, and a 26-item action plan has already been created for the 2nd half of 2024.
Among the key goals on this list are to remove the main obstacles for the Linux kernel on Rust, to make the 4th release of the project, and to slightly change the experience of asynchronous Rust.
Although Intel has experienced some financial bottlenecks recently, they still dominate the global market of processors, holding around 70% of the market share for desktop PC, mobile devices, and data center processors. Nevertheless, the role of AMD on the market continues to increase as well.
AMD has officially announced that some processors have a serious vulnerability. Many chips released since 2006 have significant issues that make it much easier for hackers to intrude into the system. Unfortunately, not all chips with the Sinkclose vulnerability will receive the appropriate update.
The supply chain of the tech hardware has only recently fully recovered from the consequences of the COVID on the industry. Everything with the supply chain seemed stable, but now information appeared about some issues with the supply of GPUs in the data centers.
Micron's new solid-state drives feature speeds exceeding 26GB/sec. This maximum read performance is well ahead of all the current models.
The current best speeds found in PCIe Gen 5 drives are at 14GB/s and Micron Crucial T705 at 14,500MB/s.
On August 5th, Microsoft's Azure cloud service experienced another outage that affected Azure Front Door CDN services in North America and Latin America.
In the beginning of August, the first major version of SeaORM was released, being the project of an open-source relational ORM (Object-Relation Mapping) intended to provide assistance in creating Rust-based web services through the use of dynamic languages. The source code of the project is written on Rust and is to be found on GitHub under MIT and Apache licenses. The project supports MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite и MSSQL databases.