

Computers
Another very serious security flaw on Mac allows you to spy on your Google account
Safari is back in the spotlight. A few days ago, operators were furious about a new function that would prevent blocking web pages or knowing the browsing history of users. Now, a bug in Safari allows a attacker know all your history and your unique identifier from your Google account.
The vulnerability was discovered by the fraud detection service FingerprintJS, who contacted the creators of the affected WebKit and offered the code for free and openly to fix it. The bug has not been fixed, and for this reason the Fingerprint JS team has decided to make the vulnerability public to speed up its patching.
The bug is not patched
The fault lies in a bad implementation of the IndexedDB API. This API is designed so that documents or scripts originated from a site do not interact with resources from other sources. A website opened in one tab should not be able to share data with another tab, all of them always being isolated from each other. Otherwise, a malware could know, for example, our bank details.
However, the Safari vulnerability allowed separate web pages to interact with each other. if you use Safari 15, what do you use IndexedDB, every time a web interacts with a database, a new empty one with the new name is created with all active frames, tabs and windows in the same browser session. The consequence is that other websites can access the names of the databases, being able to know, for example, information about a Google account.
Among that information is the unique identifier of a Google account. With this, an attacker can obtain personal information, and identify multiple accounts that the user has separately. The team of researchers has discovered that, of the 1,000 most visited websites In the world according to the Alexa ranking, there are 30 that use vulnerable indexed databases. Browsing in incognito mode or private mode does not solve the problem, although it does help limit the amount of information available.
Avoid using Safari while it’s being patched
The team that discovered the vulnerability has created a demo to identify sites that a user with a Google account has recently opened or accessed. The web searches for 20 specific web pages on which the vulnerability works if used Safari 15 with macOS, iOS 15, or iPadOS 15.
As it is not patched, the only thing that can be done to avoid being affected is block javascript, do not use google accounts, or use another web browser. Interestingly, Apple refused in June 2020 to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari’s WebKit arguing that they could represent a problem for privacy. However, many argued that this move was made to force users to use native iOS apps.

Components
When the GeForce RTX 4080 and Ryzen 9 7950X3D were placed in a sneaker. Unusual computer Cooler Master Sneaker X goes on sale

More than six months after its announcement, the unusual Cooler Master Sneaker X PC sneaker is finally going on sale. Moreover, the basic version turned out to be much cheaper than previously stated, although the PC is still very expensive.
The cheapest version is the one with Core i7-13700K and RTX 4070 – they ask for $3,500. The modification with RTX 4080 and Ryzen 9 7950X3D turned out to be the most expensive. They are asking 4,700 euros for this one, but in the USA, apparently, it simply won’t be available.
The configuration also always includes at least 32 GB of RAM and a 2 TB SSD. The power supply always has a power of 850 W.
It is difficult to understand from the photo what the dimensions of the PC are, so it is worth noting that it is 650 x 305 x 650 mm.
Computers
A neuromorphic computer is being created at the Kurchatov Institute

President of the Kurchatov Institute Mikhail Kovalchuk announced that the research center is creating a neuromorphic computer – a computing machine capable of working in much the same way as the brain works. In the future, such a computer could surpass artificial intelligence.
“You don’t actually reproduce intelligence and you can’t… You take an array of data and make it so that you can simultaneously process a huge amount of data… This is, roughly speaking, artificial intelligence. These are pure electrical costs… Therefore, it is necessary to develop energy and create a neuromorphic computer, that is, a computer that will be similar to the brain… This is what we are doing at the Kurchatov Institute“- said Mikhail Kovalchuk.
There are no technical details about the project, but the president of the Kurchatov Institute touched upon the topic of regulating advanced technologies. He believes that any technology is dangerous, so state control is needed.
Computers
Raspberry Pi 5 was overclocked a day after the announcement: the performance of the single-board computer was increased by 25%

Raspberry Pi 5 was presented last Thursday, and the result of overclocking the latest version of the single-board computer has already been published. As it turns out, you can squeeze an additional 25% performance out of the Broadcom BCM2712 SoC.
It should be noted right away that the experiment was carried out with an optional cooling system called Active Cooler (price – only $5). It consists of a low-profile aluminum radiator and a small fan. Obviously, without its use, such a result would hardly have been achieved.
As a result of the experiment, the CPU frequency was raised by 600 MHz – up to 3.0 GHz. The frequency of the VideoCore VII GPU was increased by 300 MHz – up to 1.1 GHz. After this, the computer ran the Stressberry test for five minutes without any problems. In the stress test, the consumption was 10 W, the temperature was 69-74 ° C. In standby mode, consumption decreased to 3 W, temperature – to 46 ° C.
The performance increase was recorded in the Sysbench application: the single-threaded test result was 3423 points, the multi-threaded test was 13681 points. Both results are 25% higher than the regular version of Raspberry Pi 5, and almost twice as high as Raspberry Pi 4.
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