Collaborate Disseminate
As far as I got we have arena for every thread and if we have too many threads they start sharing arenas using locks to avoid race conditions. For me that sounds pretty fair taking into consideration that we can create up to 8*CPUs arenas … Continue reading Heap question: tcache vs arena per thread
Isovalent, a startup that aims to bring networking into the cloud-native era, today announced that it has raised a $29 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Google. In addition, the company today officially launched its Cilium Enterprise platform (which was in stealth until now) to help enterprises connect, observe and secure their […] Continue reading With $29M in funding, Isovalent launches its cloud-native networking and security platform
Over the course of the last few years, Microsoft started adding the concept of ‘data types’ to Excel, that is, the ability to pull in geography and real-time stock data from the cloud, for example. Thanks to its partnership with Wolfram, Excel now features over 100 of these data types that can flow into a […] Continue reading Microsoft now lets you bring your own data types to Excel
My friend uses Microsoft Phone 8.1 mobile for a tax accountancy firm. As it hasn’t received security updates for five years I believe that is a significant information security risk. However, the principal of the firm does not believe it t… Continue reading What is the risk of using Windows Phone 8.1 now?
When building my own Docker container, if I use a base image such as Debian 10.6 (stable) there are times when high vulnerabilities are found in the OS packages, that have not been fixed in this stable release, yet.
At the point of getting… Continue reading Managing vulnerabilities in continuous delivery
As companies have moved to work from home this year, working on the internet has become the norm, and it turns out that Chrome OS was an operating system built for cloud-based applications. But most enterprise use cases are a bit more complex, and Google introduced some new features today to make it easier for […] Continue reading Google announces slew of Chrome OS features to help extend enterprise usage
A few years ago, I left a new laptop at a sketchy computer shop to downgrade the OS to Windows 7. The experience was a disaster. My goal now is to install Cinnamon Linux on the laptop and remove Windows entirely.
I put the Kaspersky .iso … Continue reading Wiping a hard drive before reinstallation
Imagine you are given a brand new OS, how would you try to hack it and why that particular place? You can target any particular component of course if you want.
I was wondering if someone could explain to me the technical process when bricking a system. I refer as bricking a system when sending or receiving fraudulent hardware updates in an offensive manner.
My question is how can you avoid this.
… Continue reading Bricking a system through updates [closed]
Cortana may have failed as a virtual assistant for consumers, but Microsoft is still betting on it (or at least its brand) for business use cases, now that it has rebranded it as a ‘personal productivity assistant’ as part of Microsoft 365. Today, at its Ignite conference, Microsoft launched and announced a number of new […] Continue reading Microsoft launches new Cortana features for business users