We had not been lazy and we collected interesting IT news for you. The most interesting and the most cool news we summarize in a traditional overview for you.
GitHub was bought by Microsoft
Probably the most important news of the past week was the purchase of GitHub by Microsoft. It could be a total impossible step few years ago, however reality is different now – Microsoft supports open source and, according to its director, Satya Nadella, intends to continue and the GitHub should remain an independent project. Microsoft has paid $ 7.5 billion. More information
AMD prepares Threadripper 2
Do you wonder, why Intel rushed with its 28-core CPU Skylake XCC? The reason is simple. AMD is preparing a new generation of Threadripper processors that will have up to 32 cores. And that’s not all, AMD boosted its dominance by the introduction of the new 7-nm technology in CPU Radeon and 32GB in HBM2 memory, as well. More information
LibreOffice is now available for Haiku OS
Fans of BeOS can be happy. The LibreOffice was also introduced for the successor project of this system, Haiku OS. It is not official, nor final version and therefore minor errors could be expected. However, it is largely functional and move possibilities of this system to practical use. More information
Security news
Malware VPNFilter also attacks another routers
We have a bad news for all network specialists. Compared to the original information, VPNFilter malware, which has attacked more than half a million routers in recent months, also attacks ASUS, D-Link, Huawei, Ubiquiti, UPVEL and ZTE. The list of threatened devices was increased from 16 to 71. More information
Beware of Drupal
Are you Drupal user? Then be careful about Druppalgeddon2. It is not something new, but this vulnerability still affects more than 115,000 Drupal installations. The problem concerning version 7 and 8. More information
News from Coolhousing
New dedicated server offer
Coolhousing Data Center comes with a brand new offer of HPE and SuperMicro dedicated servers. If you look for mailserver, storage or performed server for virtualization, dedicated servers from Coolhousing will entirely satisfied your demand. More information
Author: Jirka Dvořák
