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Digest No. 0003

Another eventful week is behind us, which means we have something to tell you! We will not talk about the corporate circus in the fires around Twitter, Amazon and Google, all the Internet is already full of this news. As well as there will be no meta-irony about the rethinking of the values ​​​​of Meta Platforms Inc. Instead, we will talk about a little more specific things.

It will be a little difficult in places, so Reader discretion is advised.

Thirteen and a half million cores

It took the gentlemen from Cerebras Systems 3 days and about $30 million to deploy and launch the Andromeda computing complex in the California city of Santa Clara, in the Colovore data center.

Andromeda is a supercomputer designed for computing with a performance of over 1 Eflops based on 284 single-socket servers with AMD EPYC 7713 processors. You can read about chips, cores, 16 Cerebras CS-2 blocks and other iron details in
official press release.

We were struck by the statement that working with GPT models scales well, almost perfectly linearly: a multiple increase in CS-2 blocks leads to a multiple decrease in model training time. Almost.

Some people from our editorial office tried to get through and find out if it was possible to mine at least something on this, but apparently they forgot about the difference in time zones.

Upgrade Race: Chrome and Fox

What could be interesting in the news about browsers, you ask? But nevertheless, there are some interesting things, especially since the eye caught on the rapidly approaching numbers of versions – 106 and 107. So, what’s new.

Chrome Release 107

Chrome is, first of all, stealthy. Leaks: Information in the User-Agent HTTP header and JavaScript navigator parameters can be used to passively identify the user. Therefore, the information has been reduced. In the User-Agent line, platform and processor information was shrunk for desktop users.

Further develops ESNI (Encrypted Server Name Indication), used in encrypting information about the parameters of TLS sessions. The key difference between the new feature ECH (Encrypted Client Hello) ECH and the previous ESNI is that in ECH, instead of encryption at the level of individual fields, the entire ClientHello TLS message is encrypted, which allows blocking leaks through PSK (Pre-Shared Key) type fields, which ESNI did not cover.

They allowed desktop users not to fence the garden through Google Password Manager, but gave direct import of passwords in CSV format. In addition, they thanked the users by the fact that now you can snitch on the epileptic flashing site, and the chromosists there will disable the automation of pop-up pushes.

Secondly, it brings improvements for web developers. Improved memory inspection of C/C++ WebAssembly application objects.

API updates. Added properties to Screen Capture related to setting up screen sharing: selfBrowserSurface, surfaceSwitching and displaySurface. The renderBlockingStatus property has been added to Performance to determine which resources are causing page rendering to stop.

In the Origin Trials mode, a declarative PendingBeacon API has been added that allows you to control the sending of data that does not require a response (beacon) to the server.

Firefox Release 106

On display, the foxes allowed Windows 10 and Windows 11 owners to pin and tint in the window pane those with private browsing. It would seem, where does the rule 34?

New Firefox View feature: Colorways browser colorization and magic button. When you click on the button, a service page opens with a list of recently closed tabs and – mind you – an interface for viewing tabs on other devices.

The built-in PDF reader has an editing mode enabled by default, which allows you to draw multi-colored lines and leave text comments. Added support for text recognition and text copying for texts on images.

And under the hood, the Wayland protocol is being developed: WebRTC support has been significantly improved (libwebrtc library, version 103), RTP performance has been improved, statistics provided have been expanded, compatibility with various services has been improved, and tools for providing screen access in Wayland environments have been improved. For Linux-basins, support for a control gesture is implemented, which allows you to slide left and right on the touchpad.

In addition, foxes caught eight vulnerabilities, two of which are dangerous: CVE-2022-42927 (bypassing same-origin restrictions that allows access to the redirect result) and CVE-2022-42928 (memory corruption in the JavaScript engine).

Pictures from the depths of space

To begin with, let’s show a beautiful one – a snapshot of the protostar L1527, which was taken by our old friend the James Webb space telescope with its mirrors, already fairly battered in clashes with meteorites. The protostar is only 100 thousand years old and is located at a distance of about 460 light years from our planet.

Another favorite of ours is the Orion ship from the Artemis big lunar mission we mentioned in
pilot issue of our Digest – after all, it successfully launched on November 16 and is already quite successfully working out the flight program. Thanks to the achievements of modern cybernetics, we can follow everything that happens on
interactive model courtesy of NASA.

And let’s finish the space block with news about the small – only 6 meters long – and the remote Indian rocket Vikram-S, which made Friday’s suborbital flight to a height of 89.5 km. Notable in this news is that the rocket was developed by startup Skyroot Aerospace, which was founded in 2018 by former Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) employees Pawan Kumar Chandana and Naga Bharat Dhaka.

And the organization of this startup very suspiciously successfully coincided with the reform of the Indian space industry that started in 2020.

Be that as it may, this is another argument in the treasury of the effectiveness of private space companies. SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic will not let you lie.

Transportation Security: K8s + Red Hat

Moving DevOps to the cloud is a very ambitious initiative for the development team. Among the complexities is security management, and in highly distributed Kubernetes environments, the stakes are even higher. The need to secure containerized environments has led Red Hat to offer what it calls “a comprehensive cloud security management platform.”

During KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Detroit, Red Hat spoke about the company’s latest efforts to combine its own Kubernetes security capabilities with Red Hat’s offerings. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security (ACS) Cloud Service Preview offers comprehensive support and security management for Kubernetes. After Red Hat bought the StackRox platform and decided to open source it, StackRox became known as the full Kubernetes security lifecycle.

StackRox allows you to manage security by minimizing risk through policy configuration and vulnerability discovery, and helps implement security best practices in DevOps. It also integrates with other development tools including the CI system.

The architecture of the platform, in general terms, is as follows.

The central service component collects and displays information from other components, manages data storage, API interaction, and user interface access. The admission controller communicates with the Kubernetes API server and prevents the creation of workloads that do not comply with security policies.

The event collector monitors and collects data about container activities (container runtime and network activity). Containers are grouped into clusters. Each of the clusters has a sensor, it collects and supplements data from the event collector for subsequent transmission to the scanner (one for several clusters).

The central component sends requests to the scanner to inspect the container. The scanner analyzes all image layers in the container to check for known vulnerabilities. Upon request, the scanner retrieves the snapshot layers from the appropriate registry, verifies the snapshots, and identifies the installed packages in each layer. It then compares the identified packages and programming language dependencies against lists of vulnerabilities and sends the information back to the center.

An alternative explanation for the little ones: there is a conveyor that moves sea containers. Inside the sea container are stacked boxes with discs and a built-in disc player. Some of the discs have tie-ins with viruses. The essence of StackRox: a turnstile is installed on the loading of the container, which does not let the container in which the disk is found, which looks like a virus carrier. A moderator connects to each disc player and looks through the discs, if a virus is found inside, the container is urgently thrown into the blue sea.

Other features of StackRox:

• Network Graphing: Ability to visualize allowed network connections and routes between namespaces and deployments.
• Network policy definition: Generate network policy configuration files (YAML) based on network flows in the environment over a specified period.
• Network Policy Simulation: Load new network policy configuration files and preview network policies.

Texas Court and Intel

Action-packed Santa Barbara develops around Intel, a real thriller. In short, the well-known Intel Corporation has been fighting off lawsuits from an unknown (and even inactive) company VLSI for several years with varying degrees of success.

The intrigue revolves around the patent owned by VLSI (owned by the investment agency Fortress Investment Group)
US7247552B2 (previously purchased from NXP Semiconductors), which, according to the plaintiff (do you feel the tension by the number of brackets?), was maliciously violated by Intel right up to 2019of the year.

Ultimately, VLSI won a $2.2 billion lawsuit last year, though Intel has appealed the ruling. One case was won, two more lawsuits are pending, and the most recent court case ended against Intel – the sufferers are waiting for a check in the amount of 949 million. However, Intel plans to appeal this decision.

In Texas, as you know from the old joke, everything is big. Compensation amounts too.

We are following the story with the whole editorial office without registration and SMS, replenishing stocks of popcorn.

Network transformations: Diagrams as Code

The topic is caused by the personal pain of a member of the editorial board.

The abundance and constant multiplication of layers of abstractions in the development process requires the simplification of the presentation of information about the architecture. Fortunately, tools are being developed that allow you to display software architecture in the form of diagrams. The main benefit of using this concept is that most Diagrams as Code tools can be scripted and integrated into the built-in pipeline to automatically generate documentation. Another advantage of DaC is the ability to use text tools from the arsenal of developers: text is easier to control and version. Let’s take a quick look at a couple of DaC implementations.

The Diagrams app allows you to draw cloud system architecture in Python and trace the diagram in any SCM. When building diagrams, you can import OnPrem, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, etc. nodes. And if you can’t find something, you can always use a custom module.

Diagrams supports custom Graphviz point attribute options. Graphviz is an open source graph visualization software. It has several graph layout programs, web and interactive GUIs, as well as auxiliary tools, libraries, and language bindings.

Graphviz’s layout programs take text-language plot descriptions and create charts in several common formats: images and SVG for web pages, Postscript for inclusion in PDF; or allow display in an interactive graphical browser (Graphviz also supports GXL, a dialect of XML).

The second option is a small self-written Javascript library that allows you to generate DaC. Define the scheme, add nodes, define the node connectivity method and send it for rendering.

Available node types: Client, Server, ServerCluster, Database, DatabaseCluster, Mysql, MysqlCluster, Oracle, OracleCluster, PostgreSql, PostgreSqlCluster, Elasticsearch, ElasticsearchCluster, Ec2, Ec2Cluster, Rds, RdsCluster, Elb, S3, DynamoDb, Redshift, Cloudwatch, Elasticache, Iam, SimpleDb, Swf, Cloudfront, Sqs, Sns, Route53, StorageGateway, CloudFormation, CloudSearch, Glacier, ElasticBeanstalk, Ebs, Lambda, ApiGateway.

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NEW PLATFORMS. ACCESS Linux Platform: from exhibition to exhibition.

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We continue the story of PalmSource’s business and its new project – the ACCESS Linux Platform operating system. The beginning can be read here: http://artykul.livejournal.com/45091.html

So, ACCESS announced its participation in the Barcelona 3GSM congress, promising, as usual, to demonstrate something new. User expectations were not deceived: the release of the first full version of the ALP 1.0 platform finally took place in Barcelona. At the same time, they announced that the name ACCESS Linux Platform will continue to be used (previously it was said that this is only a working name). Performance was demonstrated on two processors: Marvell PXA3xx (codename Monahans-P), belonging to the ARM11-based processor family, and Texas Instruments OMAP3430 (ARM Cortex-A8 family). This “Texas Lobster” is said to be the first 65nm mobile processor to deliver three times the performance of ARM11 processors at comparable power consumption. Markus Tremmel, TI Mobile Division Manager, said at the show, “The combination of the ACCESS Linux Platform and the OMAP3430 processor provides a complete, flexible and customizable system. ” The minimum processor frequency should be at least 200 MHz, but it is recommended to use a “stone” with a frequency of 400 MHz, as well as at least 64 MB of RAM and the same amount of flash memory. The standard OS resolution is 240×320 pixels, but 320×480 (HVGA), 480×640 (VGA) and 480×800 (WVGA) modes are also supported. The network capabilities of the platform are represented by WiFi (802.11b/g), Bluetooth 2.0 (with EDR support), IrDA, USB, serial port and TCP/IP stack implementation. In addition to the start of licensing the ALP itself, it was also announced the start of sales of the PDK (Product Development Kit – a device developer kit), which includes all platform components (including the Linux kernel sources), a driver development kit, a set of secondary applications, a developer toolkit based on Eclipse and complete technical documentation. A little later, the company planned to start selling the SDK (a software toolkit that allows third parties to develop software – companies that are not directly involved in the release of devices based on the platform) and the Garnet VM Compatibility Kit toolkit, which will ensure full compatibility with ALP of all applications for PalmOS 5 Garnet. Together, these two sets will significantly replenish the software base for the new operating system. ALP was shown on at least three devices. The first is a special display stand the size of a decent suitcase.

When unfolded, it looked more like a strong safe.

The stand was equipped with a touch screen, a FasTap-type telephone keypad (when small letter keys are located at the corners of the number buttons in a QWERTY layout), a huge motherboard and connected speakers.

The second device is an internal engineering sample of the company, made in the spirit of SoftBank’s long Japanese monoblocks. He could see a standard telephone keypad, a small screen (presumably with a resolution of 240×320 pixels), a memory card slot, a camera window for video telephony, and an unusually elongated status LED.

The third device is already familiar to us with its appearance.

Let me think… Well, of course: this is the Russian Rover G5!

Alexandre Abian, a journalist from the French online publication Mobinaute, made a detailed photo and video recording of the operation of the operating system.

If ​​the representatives of the developer company actually managed to port their Linux to a communicator that was originally running Windows Mobile, then the technical characteristics of the Rover will remain valid for the machine, and here they are. Processor – Intel XScale PXA 272 with a frequency of 520 MHz, 64 megabytes of RAM, 128 “meters” of permanent memory and a miniSD slot, a 2.7-inch QVGA screen with a display of 262 thousand colors, support for GPRS, EDGE, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Fi, MP3 player, FM radio and 2 megapixel camera. It’s hard to understand why the Japanese developers chose blue as the main color of the interface: this achieves a significant similarity with both Symbian and Windows Mobile. Some applications and windows look exactly the same as those in WM – a dialer application, for example, or an error message with the usual white cross inside a red circle.

Be that as it may, it is worth recognizing that ACCESS Linux Platform runs on at least three smartphones, of which two (Haier N60 and Rover G5 – let’s leave it that name) are serial devices.
Less than a month later, the EclipseCon conference took place in Santa Clara, California, to which everyone who uses the Eclipse developer toolkit was invited. ACCESS Systems Americas is an affiliate member of the Eclipse Foundation and is actively involved in the development of the Eclipse ecosystem. As mentioned above, the toolkit of the same name is included in the PDK for ALP. No wonder that at this conference, ACCESS found something to show the public. And this time she presented the ALP Development Suite (a set or, if you like, a developer’s luggage), which includes both the long-awaited SDK and Developer Tools – developer tools (oh, how confusing everything turns out; in a word, almost a complete set for application development by third parties). For these same “third-party developers”, a special Early ACCESS Program was launched, which provides support for companies that want to be the first to break into the market with applications written using the ALP Development Suite and Garnet VM Compatibility Kit (a tool for ensuring compatibility with GarnetOS, which, moreover, time has not yet been released). Larry Berkin, Senior Director of the Eclipse Developers Board for ALP, said: “We are working to provide programmers with the ultimate software development kit that will enable them to develop and bring to market superior and innovative mobile applications. Because ALP includes three distinct application runtime environments, the platform is a very attractive opportunity for third-party developers to express themselves. Programmers can create native applications for ALP, PalmOS and Java, which no other mobile platform allows anymore.”
At the end of March, it became known about the expansion of another initiative promoted by the efforts of ACCESS. It is called the ACCESS Connect Ecosystem Partner Program, and was created to bring together telecommunications and media companies to conquer the market with converged solutions developed by ACCESS and partner companies. Initially, it had 45 members, now ten more have joined, including Omron Software (known for its mobile applications for recognizing the owner from a photo), SanDisk (manufacturing of memory cards, card readers, etc. ), Zi Corporation (mentioned above with its systems predictive input and text recognition). “ACCESS is committed to the growth and development of the mobile Linux market. We believe that the key to success is a strong and vibrant ecosystem that includes operators, device manufacturers, software developers, semiconductor manufacturers and content providers. We are proud to be a leading companies in the industry share their views and join our program.” In short, it can be explained as follows: ACCESS has gathered around itself more than fifty companies to promote its platform and thus capture the market for mobile Linux platforms. Let’s see how they do it, especially considering that the Japanese-American company postpones the release of its products so often. It was only in the second half of April that the ALP Garnet VM Compatibility Kit was presented, which is a PalmOS emulator for the ALP platform. Why is it needed, after all, and so all programs, according to the promises of ACCESS, should run normally on their platform? And it is needed so that programmers who are going to write new applications for the old PalmOS 5 Garnet can immediately check how their “software” will behave in the ACCESS Linux Platform environment. The emulator can run on Windows and Linux desktop operating systems. Two versions of the kit are available: a simplified version and a Debug version that reports compatibility errors in detail. In the future, the full version of the emulator will ship immediately with the SDK.
Then, for almost four months, the developers of the new platform disappear from the news feeds, and only in August 2007 they started talking about them again. To promote its operating system, ACCESS was able to launch a separate website, the bulk of the content of which is documentation, screenshots and abundant descriptions of the advantages of ALP over other platforms and systems. It is not clear what prevented the creation of such a site earlier (by the way, it is not so separate: its exact address is alp.access-company.com). And on key issues (partnership in ACE, joining the number of developers), the site even sends to the main page of the parent company ACCESS. Simultaneously with the presentation of the site, it was announced that the number of partners of the ACCESS Connect Ecosystem program increased by another ten and reached 65. To demonstrate some activity, the company posted regular screenshots of its system. Perhaps the voice of reason was still heard, because the color scheme changed from blue to black. Now there is no obvious similarity with Windows Mobile and Symbian, but somehow it turned out gloomy.

Perhaps, such a design may appeal to avid Linux users who are used to working with the command line and console programs. These screenshots are still on the site, and this gives some reason to say that finished products, if they appear, will welcome the owner with a launcher and other programs in black colors.
In November 2007, two representatives of ACCESS – Albert Chu and Brian Purdy – especially for Brighthand journalist Ed Hardy staged a presentation of ALP. In general, the observer repeats the above: the platform is ready, working, and it’s time to bring it to the market. It may seem interesting that this time the demonstration of the platform’s capabilities was carried out on the next engineering sample of a smartphone made for testing by potential customers. We can definitely say that this is not the same engineering device that was shown at the 3GSM Congress at the beginning of the year. There are two more buttons around the navigation key: these are the keys to return one level up and to the main menu. Ed Hardy does not give detailed technical characteristics of the device, noting only that it runs on a Marvel Xscale processor with a frequency of 400 MHz. A photo of the device matches this meager description: it looks like the author of the review made it his mobile phone, and even in the dark.

In the meantime, it seems that someone is seriously interested in the development of ACCESS. In mid-December, ACCESS, NTT DoCoMo, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications, and ESTEEMO signed a memorandum for these companies to study the ALP platform and consider its implementation as the main Linux platform for mobile phones and operator equipment of NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s largest mobile operator. The current realities are such that market models are changing frequently, and the requirements for mobile devices and software developments are increasingly increasing. Therefore, the operator is forced to look for a flexible and dynamic mobile platform that could replace the platform that DoCoMo uses now – MOAP (Mobile Oriented Application Platform, a software platform for mobile devices). This MOAP platform is a Japanese variation of the Symbian operating system and, in terms of the number of different models released, is clearly the leader among all other user interfaces (S60/70/80/90 and UIQ). The development of ACCESS, in addition to achieving its goals, must also satisfy the requirements of the LiMO Foundation. This independent non-profit organization was created just under the auspices of NTT DoCoMo and aimed to promote Linux in the mobile industry by creating its own platform (we’ll talk about this next time). ACCESS believes that the result of cooperation between the five companies in the form of finished commercial products will appear during the 2009 fiscal year, which will begin as early as the middle of this calendar year. Says Toru Arakawa, president of ACCESS: “The agreement between NTT DoCoMo, NEC, Panasonic Mobile and ESTEEMO to join our initiative and discuss the development of an open Linux platform will accordingly lead to the effective development of new generation handsets with a friendly user interface, and this is only possible with Linux”. The leaders of the affiliated companies spoke in the same spirit. It is worth noting that back in the summer of 2006, an article about the current affairs and prospects of ACCESS appeared in the authoritative edition of the International Herald Tribune. The newspaper cited data that at that time devices on PalmOS occupied 4% of the market and that Microsoft saw ACCESS as its main competitor. Tomihisa Kamada, the technical director of the Japanese company, expressed confidence that the acquisition of PalmSource will allow them to bring their market share to 30% by 2010. Until now, the affairs of the merged companies have been neither shaky nor rolly, the constant postponement of releases has not increased this presence by a percentage. But with the signing of the mentioned memorandum, ACCESS seems to have a real chance to capture a significant part of the market – at least in Japan.
And then the next Barcelona exhibition came up. This year it changed its name to Mobile World Congress (and that’s right: not GM alone). Of course, ACCESS could not miss such an event and announced its plans to participate in the event. The most intriguing announcement was that the company was going to showcase ALP on a variety of mobile devices. In addition, the proprietary NetFront browser will come up with new features. The new module from Digital Aria, optimized for viewing Flash-content, will allow you to view videos from YouTube and other similar sites directly on the screen of your mobile phone. Widgets provide quick access to weather reports, currency quotes, news, videos, music, and more. A version of the browser with the ability to watch digital television in DVB-H format will also be shown. In a word, as usual, users were intrigued and promised a lot of things.
Can you guess what followed? That’s right: nothing! No presentation of “various mobile devices” based on ALP, no new screenshots, no new details about the operating system. Instead, the company made several new announcements. The first concerned the fact that ACCESS and the mentioned MontaVista merge their software platforms, as a result of which it will be possible to run native applications under PalmOS on devices running MontaVista Mobilinux, and there are a lot of them (for example, the so-called Linux-smartphones from Motorola). The second statement said pretty much the same thing, only this time about WindRiver, another very large Linux vendor. At the same time, the company opened a special Internet portal for developers ACCESS Developer Network. In many ways, the site repeats what was said on alp.access-company.com, but still the portal is intended specifically for developers – here you can download all the documentation and the actual developer kits – ALP Development Suite and Garnet VM Compatibility Kit, as well as emulators, simulators and application sets programs for writing software for PalmOS 5 Garnet. In addition, here all developers can chat in thematic forums.
And the most surprising statement, which can be found on the ALP platform website, says that in the middle of the year the first market smartphone running the ACCESS Linux Platform will be on sale. Moreover, this is not an official statement by ACCESS, but a link to the Brighthand online publication we have already mentioned. The same Ed Hardy is talking about a joint statement by Samsung and Orange. The device will allegedly be called Samsung i800 – that’s all the details. It’s not the first time Ed Hardy has been so laconic in describing technical specifications. However, Ed did not invent the news: the joint statement of the operator, phone manufacturer and platform developer actually took place. On the day of the start of the Mobile World Congress, Orange joined the LiMo Foundation and called it a step forward compared to its participation in the LiPS affiliate program. By the way, the operator was not only accepted into LiMo as a regular member, but was offered the position of the founder of this fund. That’s when Yves Maitre, senior vice president of Orange devices, and made a few suggestions about what it threatens the consumer. “Orange was one of the first carriers to make significant progress in the Open Source movement. Our admission as a founding member of LiMo and today’s announcement of the Samsung i800 shows that we are truly committed to mobilizing Linux.” Chul-Hwan Lee, Senior Vice President of Devices at Samsung, echoed him, but did not say anything specific about the device: “At Samsung, the need to understand the needs of our customers and meet these needs through continuous innovation is a priority.