The company has partially explained its security-related motives for experimenting with Rust, but hasn't gone into much detail about the broader reasons for its move. SEE: How to build a successful developer career (free PDF) All Windows users know that on the second Tuesday every month, Microsoft releases patches to address security flaws in Windows. Microsoft recently revealed that the vast majo

A tiny and relatively unknown TLS library written in Rust, an up-and-coming programming language, outperformed the industry-standard OpenSSL in almost every major category. The findings are the result of a recent four-part series of benchmarks [1, 2, 3, 4] carried out by Joseph Birr-Pixton, the developer behind the Rustls library. Benchmark resultsThe findings showed that Rustls was 10% faster whe

VoCore2 is an open source Linux computer and a fully-functional wireless router that is smaller than a coin. It can also act as a VPN gateway for a network, an AirPlay station to play lossless music, a private cloud to store your photos, video, and code, and much more. The Lite version of the VoCore2 features a 580MHz MT7688AN MediaTek system on chip (SoC), 64MB of DDR2 RAM, 8MB of NOR storage, an

Using data from millions of drive days in Google datacenters, a new paper offers production lifecycle data on SSD reliability. Surprise! SSDs fail differently than disks - and in a dangerous way. Here's what you need to know. SSDs are a new phenomenon in the datacenter. We have theories about how they should perform, but until now, little data. That's just changed. The FAST 2016 paper Flash Reliab

HP to begin charging for firmware updates and service packs for servers HP server customers are about to get an unwelcome surprise when they need to update firmware or apply a service pack. Effective later this month, those downloads, which often fix critical bugs, will require either a current warranty or an extended support agreement. February 9, 2014: Updated to include additional details of IB

One month after the release of OS X Mavericks and the disclosure of 48 vulnerabilities in Mountain Lion, Apple has not released any updates to fix these or any other problems in Mountain Lion. One month ago today, Apple killed off OS X 10.8, a.k.a. Mountain Lion. It wasn't a big, or even small news story at the time. There was no mournful funeral procession, no clamor to find out whodunnit. In fac

Yes, virtualization is faster (sometimes) than native hardware Three studies show that in some circumstances VMware vSphere can deliver faster performance than native computing. It's a computing truism that when it comes to delivering the fastest possible speeds with high-performance computing (HPC), you must use native computing instead of virtualization. Recent studies have shown that, in some c

The problem dates back to an Android bug first uncovered in December 2009. Did you know that the time displayed on most Android handsets is wrong? Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains why to Joshua Topolsky in the latest episode of On The Verge. Tyson talks about the issue at the 15m 20s mark. Most Android devices set the time based on the data they receive from GPS signals. While the clocks on the GP

A hacker associated with the Anonymous collective and the 'AntiSec' movement has released VMware's ESX Server kernel source code online, available through torrent networks. Hackers associated with the Anonymous collective have leaked the source code for the VMware ESX Server kernel on the Web. Dutch hacker, going by the name "Stun," tweeted a link to a torrent file earlier today, which downloads a

It's hard to say what the most popular Linux distributions are. There are no good surveys. But, these are the ones that have been getting the most buzz in recent months. These conclusions are not from a formal survey. Why? IDG and Gartner figures only look at pre-installed server operating systems, and Web browser surveys -- such as StatCounter and NetMarketShare -- don't drill down far enough to

Termineter, an open-source tool designed to assess the security of smart meters, has been released. SecureState, an information security firm, on Thursday announced the public release of Termineter, an open-source framework written in Python that allows users to assess the security of Smart Meter utility meters over the optical interface. The company is calling it the first framework designed to g

North Korea ships malware-infected games to South Korean users, uses them to launch DDoS attacks Seoul's Metropolitan Police Agency has intercepted a cyber attack plot orchestrated by North Korea's Reconnaissance General Bureau, which successfully shipped malware-infected games to South Korean users. According to an independent report published in Korea's JoongAng Daily, Seoul's Metropolitan Polic

In an attempt to combat fake IDs, some nightclub bouncers are now asking for Facebook identification. BBC Newsbeat, UK, reports that some nightclub security staff now demand access to clubber's smartphones in order to verify individual identities, rather than rely on ID cards. It is claimed to be a means to ensure underage party-goers are not able to enter the establishments, and as the majority o

Security firm Kaspersky says the Duqu Trojan was partly written in a programming language it does not recognize. The company is asking the programming community for help to identify the code. The Duqu Trojan, referred to by some as Stuxnet 2.0, was partly written using an unknown programming language. The payload DLL, which communicates exclusively with the Command and Control (C&C) server so that

Microsoft has contributed source code under the GPLv3 to Samba, the file server software that enables Linux servers to share files with Windows PCs. No, I'm not making this up. Freak snowstorm reported in hell. Tea party agrees Obama is the best candidate for 2012 presidential election. Microsoft submits open-source code under the GPLv3 to Samba. Those are all pretty unlikely, but Microsoft really

Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux Editor's note: this post was originally published in July of 2008. It's been updated with current information. Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alter