Markets go down and up, America is changing the political leaders, but that can´t stop us. Coolhousing goes on and as a proud courier of Ponny Express provides to you a summary of the most interesting news from the world of IT this Friday. Yes and it's cool!
Microsoft becomes a member of the Linux Foundation
So pigs can fly! What else can tell. Let us leave the vain and empty words. Microsoft has joined the Linux Foundation! It happened at the instigation of Satya Nadella, who has a positive relationship to open source software and would like more converged both worlds. At the same time it can be expected that there will be closer a business and technological cooperation between development teams of Linux and Windows. The importance of Microsoft’s entry is confirmed by the fact that Windows became a platinum partner in the Linux Foundation (Google is the only gold!) And to the board of directors was promoted John Gossman, chief architect Azure. More information
Wish you something, Google is falling!
If you spent some time in a cave without any information from the outside world, so we have another big information for you. Google has enjoyed the longest outage of services in Czech republic ever. While the offices of seznam.cz had probably a massive party in the style of the Wolf of Wall Street, users of google demanded some information about outage, however without success. Eventually it turned out that technical error in routing could made this problem, due to all Google services, including Gmail, Youtube, were out of service nearly two hours. Report doesn´t inform about number of technicians with heart attack. More information
Low-profile 1050 GTX comes to market
And finally something for touched guys, resp. hardware enthusiasts. MSI has finally released the long-awaited version of the low-profile graphics cards with nVidia GeForce GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti, which can usable for example in systems HTPC. Both chips consume only 75 watts. MSI further attempts to impress the eye of an experienced IT guys by choice of quality components certified to MIL-STD-810G. More information
Important safety errors
Terrible boa blasts terror
Popular Python leaks like a sieve! Well, we won´t terrify you. Library smtplib doesn´t send back error in the case of StartTLS failure. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to run fraud code. More information
Few vulnerabilities in Firefox
The ex-popular Firefox web browser has similar problem. In Firefox several serious vulnerabilities have been discovered. Through them an attacker can run malicious code on a user’s computer. More information
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Author: Jirka Dvořák
