October 2023

NASA celebrates 40 years of Discovery, the longest-serving Space Shuttle 19/10/2023 at 12:48 By Richard Speed OV-103 was there for Hubble and the assembly of the ISS Never one to ignore a bit of history, NASA this week marked the 40th anniversary of Space Shuttle Discovery’s public debut during a rollout at the Palmdale manufacturing

In-memory database Redis wants to dabble in disk 19/10/2023 at 11:31 By Lindsay Clark Aims to lower costs and broaden appeal of system popular with devs Redis, the go-to in-memory database used as a cache and system broker, is looking to include disk as part of a tiered storage architecture to reduce costs and broaden

HashiCorp CEO talks license changes and the role of foundations 19/10/2023 at 11:20 By Richard Speed Open Source or Source Available? Does anyone really care? Interview  Controversial cloud wrangler HashiCorp came out swinging last week at its San Francisco HashiConf shindig when the topic of licensing came up.… This article is an excerpt from The

Mars chilled for aeons, but stayed so stressed it gets crusty marsquakes 19/10/2023 at 11:20 By Simon Sharwood Multiple orbiters failed to find a crater matching rumble. Boffins now blame Red planet’s internal problems Mars doesn’t have tectonic activity but still manages to have marsquakes, according to a paper that probed a 2022 shake detected

Microsoft Warns of North Korean Attacks Exploiting TeamCity Flaw 19/10/2023 at 10:16 By North Korean threat actors are actively exploiting a critical security flaw in JetBrains TeamCity to opportunistically breach vulnerable servers, according to Microsoft. The attacks, which entail the exploitation of CVE-2023-42793 (CVSS score: 9.8), have been attributed to Diamond Sleet (aka Labyrinth Chollima) and Onyx Sleet (aka

Amazon unveils new drone design, plans liftoff of aerial delivery in UK, Italy 19/10/2023 at 09:33 By Laura Dobberstein Smaller, quieter, and expected to deliver millions of packages in coming years Amazon on Thursday released photos of its newest delivery drone, the MK 30, and announced will expand its Prime Air drone delivery operations to

India courts IBM, Intel, and Tower for chip partnerships – all in one day 19/10/2023 at 08:03 By Simon Sharwood Big Blue in early talks to advance local RISC-V designs India’s pursuit of a slice of the world’s semiconductor industry has seen it court three major players – Intel, Tower Semiconductors, and IBM – on

Google TAG Detects State-Backed Threat Actors Exploiting WinRAR Flaw 19/10/2023 at 07:33 By A number of state-back threat actors from Russia and China have been observed exploiting a recent security flaw in the WinRAR archiver tool for Windows as part of their operations. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2023-38831 (CVSS score: 7.8), which allows attackers to execute