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Etched Startup announced a new high-speed, transformer-specialized chip – Sohu
Jun 26, 2024
Etched Startup announced a new high-speed, transformer-specialized chip – Sohu

An American startup called Etched announced a new Chip that they are going to release under the name Sohu. The chip is strictly specialized for transformer AI-models, which are the most widely used in today’s market, and is manufactured using TSMC's 4 nm process technology.. The transformer architecture is burnt directly into the chip, dramatically improving its efficiency for this particular model while making the chip unsuitable for other models like CNN, LSTM, or SSM. According to Etched, a 8x Sohu server can be as powerful as a 160 NVIDIA H100 server.

Method to Accurately Locate VPN Server Locations
Jun 18, 2024
Method to Accurately Locate VPN Server Locations

​Technology is evolving, and so are the intricacies of cybersecurity threats that carry the chance of compromising privacy and security. VPN has long been a preventative measure against those types of threats. However, the true location of the server a VPN operates on can be crucial to the sufficiency of protection the virtual private network provides.

Rust 1.79 release
Jun 18, 2024
Rust 1.79 release

On June 13 2024, Rust 1.79.0 programming language was released. The source code was published on GitHub by Rust Foundation developers.

If you have the previous stable version of Rust, 1.78, which was released on May 2, and you installed it through rustup, you can update it just by using the rustup update stable command.

Top 7 Whiteboard Applications Tailored for Linux Systems
Jun 17, 2024
Top 7 Whiteboard Applications Tailored for Linux Systems

​We have tested most of the available whiteboard applications and found the best ones among this huge diversity. This information will be extremely beneficial because now you should not check anything, you can just review our article and choose the application that works better for you. All these whiteboard apps are tailored for Linux systems and are open-source tools.

Top 5 Privacy-Focused Linux Distributions
Jun 13, 2024
Top 5 Privacy-Focused Linux Distributions

​Privacy and security are of increasing importance because of massive data collection by corporations, and many instances of hacking attempts. While Windows and macOS are secure to some degree, especially when you combine them with VPN technology, there are many Linux distributions with a specific focus on security and privacy.

FreeBSD's Shift Away from 32-bit Platforms in Future Releases
Jun 13, 2024
FreeBSD's Shift Away from 32-bit Platforms in Future Releases

​According to the official information that is available online, FreeBSD decided to shift away from 32-bit platforms, this relates to all of the following releases. If speaking directly about the exact transitions in version 16.0, there will be excluded armv7, and version 15.0 of FreeBSD will no longer have PowerPC platforms, armv6, and i386.

Complete Periodic Table of DevOps Tools
Jun 12, 2024
Complete Periodic Table of DevOps Tools

​In the past, developers worked separately from other divisions and had their own isolated view of the scope of the project. Then the DevOps area of production emerged, which combines both the developmental and operational processes that cut through different areas related to product development.

Step-by-step Guide to Monitoring Debian Server with Netdata
Jun 10, 2024
Step-by-step Guide to Monitoring Debian Server with Netdata

​Monitoring your server is one of the essential practices that can help you regularly take measures to improve the performance of your website, reveal its weak spots to enhance its security, and figure out, how to increase the number of its visitors, achieve better SEO optimization, etc.

NGINX Proxies: Serving Multiple Endpoints in a Location
Jun 7, 2024
NGINX Proxies: Serving Multiple Endpoints in a Location

​Prior to diving into all the details about the configuration and way more, let’s start with the basic things. Nginx is a rather powerful web server that can be applied as a reverse proxy, load balancer, or forward proxy. Just for general information on this topic, let’s discuss the principle of the load balancer because this terminology might be really confusing. So, this balancer shares the requests among a group of servers and only after that relays the response from the server to the client.

Intel's Lunar Lake architecture is introduced
Jun 6, 2024
Intel's Lunar Lake architecture is introduced

During the Intel Tech Tour 2024, Lunar Lake was presented, and the main modifications became unrevealed. These processors were primarily designed for laptops, but some of the improvements can be transferred to Arrow Lake and used on PCs.

To achieve the desired level of performance and power, the new Lunar Lake architecture has undergone important optimizations. The most significant changes were made to the Skymont and E-cores. The integrated Xe2 graphics also had a considerable impact on the performance of the video chip.