Between storm and hailstorm, we bring a new Cool IT News. So let's see what the week gave us...
Intel prepares GPU
The market with graphics chips is pretty boring, isn´t it? Nvidia, AMD … What else? Well, Intel will join soon. Yes, Intel prepares its own graphics chips, which will be available about two years. Sure, Intel already makes graphics cores – but they are always integrated within a processor. But now it is separate graphics chips. It could be very interesting step… More information
ZOO Hackaton is coming
Another ZOO Hackaton will take place in June 23 and 24. Have not you heard about it, yet? Every good programmer can contribute to save endangered species of animals by open source projects. The event will take place in cooperation with EAZA (European Association of Zoos and Aquariums) and the best ideas will be rewarded with purchase IoT checks in the total value of CZK 30,000. More information
X.Org migrate on GitLab
Along with many other large projects, X.Org heads to GitLab. This is a longer-planned action to ensure a better development environment. After all, GitLab has a much better system for code inspection, error reporting, and hosting itself than Cgit and Bugzille, where development still continue. More information
Security news
MyHeritage in danger
Attention! Attention. If you belong among the geeks who search in all possible archives, you probably have not missed the MyHeritage project – the largest genealogical project for tracking and building a family tree. A database of users has been leaked, including their passwords hashs. Therefore, we recommend to change your password. More information
ARM 32bit gets mitigate for Spectre v1 and v2
ARM 64-bit version has been corrected for several months against the Specter, but the 32-bit version has had to wait until now! New version against Specter 1 a 2 should appear in the kernel 4.18. Unfortunately, we can expect a performance decreasing in these processors – how big it is still in the stars. 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
