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Submission + - Rumors of Intel's Alder Lake include taller socket (tomshardware.com)

Submitted by UnknowingFool
UnknowingFool writes: Intel recently revealed details of their Comet Lake CPUs to be released sometime this year and that the new architecture will use a new socket, LGA 1200. There are rumors that Alder Lake which will follow Rocket Lake (LGA 1200) will switch to a new socket, LGA 1700. Intel changing the socket every two generations is not new but the new socket appears to be rectangular and not square. This may have some ramifications in that current coolers may also be incompatible. The lack of forward compatibility has been a major complaint of the Intel platform.

Submission + - Why many employees are hoping to work from home even after the pandemic is over (cnbc.com)

Submitted by gollum123
gollum123 writes: nearly 43% of full-time American employees say they want to work remotely more often even after the economy has reopened, according to a survey released by business publishing company getAbstract. Of the more than 1,200 employees surveyed between April 16 and April 17, nearly 20% said their employer is actively discussing how they can make remote work more of an option in the future. one of the biggest reasons why employees prefer to work remotely is because they get to save time on their daily commute. On average, Americans spent roughly 27 minutes on their one-way commute to work in 2018, according to the Census Bureau. This equates to over 200 hours spent commuting per year. According to a joint CNBC/Change Research survey of more than 5,000 voters in swing states, 47% said the time they would normally spend on commuting has now been used to spend more time with their family. The survey, which gathered responses between April 17 and April 18, also found that employees have been spending the time they save on their commute to sleep more, focus on various hobbies and get more work done.

Submission + - Security experts raise concerns over British contact tracing app (businessinsider.com) 2

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: A group of 177 cybersecurity experts have signed a joint open letter calling on the UK government voicing concerns about the NHS' plan to roll out a contact tracing app designed to tell people when they've come into contact with suspected coronavirus patients. NHSX, the NHS' digital experimental arm, says the app will be rolled out in Britain in the next two to three weeks.

The UK has taken the decision to eschew the contact tracing API being built by Apple and Google for use by governments. This decision is partly down to the fact that the UK has decided it wants to centralize users' data on an external server, making it easier to analyze, rather than keeping processing limited to people's devices. Apple and Google's API stipulates that apps use the decentralized method, which is more privacy-conscious.

Submission + - Hackers breach LineageOS servers via unpatched vulnerability (zdnet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Hackers have gained access to the core infrastructure of LineageOS, a mobile operating system based on Android, used for smartphones, tablets, and set-top boxes. The intrusion took place last night, on Saturday, at around 8 pm (US Pacific coast), and was detected before the attackers could do any harm, the LineageOS team said in a statement published less than three hours after the incident.

The LineageOS team said the operating system's source code was unaffected, and so were any operating system builds, which had been already paused since April 30, because of an unrelated issue. Signing keys, used to authenticate official OS distributions, were also unaffected, as these hosts were stored separately from the LineageOS main infrastructure.

LineageOS developers said the hack took place after the attacker used an unpatched vulnerability to breach its Salt installation.

Submission + - QEMU version 5.0.0 released (qemu.org)

Submitted by syn3rg
syn3rg writes: Hot on the heels of the 4.0 release (from a major release perspective), the QEMU team has released version 5.0. This version has many changes, including:
  • Live migration support for external processes running on QEMU D-Bus
  • Support for using memory backends for main/”built-in” guest RAM
  • block: support for compressed backup images via block jobs
  • ARM: support for the following architecture features: ARMv8.1 VHE/VMID16/PAN/PMU ARMv8.2 UAO/DCPoP/ATS1E1/TTCNP ARMv8.3 RCPC/CCIDX ARMv8.4 PMU/RCPC
  • ARM: support for Cortex-M7 CPU
  • ARM: new board support for tacoma-bmc, Netduino Plus 2, and Orangepi PC
  • MIPS: support for GINVT (global TLB invalidation) instruction
  • PowerPC: ‘powernv’ machine can now emulate KVM hardware acceleration to run KVM guests while in TCG mode
  • PowerPC: support for file-backed NVDIMMs for persistent memory emulation
  • RISC-V: experimental support for v0.5 of draft hypervisor extension
  • s390: support for Adapter Interrupt Suppression while running in KVM mode

Not a current user, but I'm happy to see the project advancing

Submission + - Intel unveils Comet Lake CPUs and pricing (pcgamer.com) 1

Submitted by UnknowingFool
UnknowingFool writes: Intel released more information about their next generation CPUs code named Comet Lake. Overall, CPUs will get more cores and threads and slight speed boosts. Price wise, Intel is cutting prices to be more competitive with AMDâ(TM)s Rzyen processors. Some of the downsides include requiring new socket (thus new MBs), LGA 1200 and lack of PCIE 4.0 compatibility. No specific benchmarks were released however Intel claims to have the fastest gaming CPUs.

Submission + - TweetDeck is experiencing outage, issues (cnet.com)

Submitted by sombragris
sombragris writes: TweetDeck, the popular tweet management console owned by Twitter, began experiencing several issues at about 18:00 EST. Currently it is down for many users worldwide. There is no yet comment from Twitter on the issue.

Submission + - Richard Stallman resigns from FSF, CSAIL

Submitted by sombragris
sombragris writes: Richard Stallman has resigned as president and member of the board of directors of the Free Software Foundation. In addition, Stallman himself reported he resigned from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), "due to pressure on MIT and me over a series of misunderstandings and mischaracterizations."

Seems like more fallout from the Epstein scandal.

Whatever the reasons, Stallman's exit from FSF leadership signals the end of an era.

Comment A/C is rather a necessity where I live (Score 1) 575

by sombragris (#58873852) Attached to: Germany Scorned Air Conditioning -- Then Came the Heat Wave

I live in Paraguay (South America). During summer, max temps usually reach 39 or 40 C. But that's not the real issue; the problem is not exactly the highs themselves, but the lows being too high. That is, you may have a 40 C high, but if temperatures go down at night to something about 22 C, that might be bearable. But in high summer the lows can reach 30 C easily. That means that the whole day the temperature is over 30 and you feel like you have no respite from the heat. Thus, A/C units are seen here as a necessity. Moreover, prices have dropped and also the new split units consume much less energy than the classic boxy units, so now having A/C is practically mandatory here.

I understand the Germans' reluctance to use air conditioning; their summers are usually mild and short-lived. But they are also humid; and heat with humidity makes one feel miserable. One sweats profusely but there is no evaporation and thus there is no body cooling. They should get used to it. Working in an air-conditioned area can improve dramatically your productivity and well-being.

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