If you are a user of Debian 8 Jessie and wish to continue receiving security updates, you must update to the latest version, Debian 9 Stretch as soon as possible. The previous release of this Linux distro, which was released in 2015 has stopped to have support and, therefore, will no longer receive regular security updates.
After the soaring problems with the Meltdown and Specter, Intel is once again experiencing security-related issues. This time it is a vulnerability called Lazy FP State Restore, which affects the Intel processors with X86 architecture from Sandy Bridge.
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) of the Department of Energy of the United States has presented what they claim is the most powerful and intelligent scientific supercomputer in the world. It is called Summit and is able to perform no less than 200,000 trillion calculations per second.
The use of desktop virtualization is spreading more and more thanks to the fact that these IT infrastructures are increasingly profitable and simpler to design, implement and maintain. This follows the annual survey conducted by VDI Like a PRO, in which 755 respondents participated. Of which, 82% say they are using VDI this year, compared to 77% last year.
Microsoft Corp. has confirmed that it has reached an agreement to buy GitHub, the most popular software development platform to date, used by more than 28 million developers to exchange knowledge, share and collaborate on different projects.
