PCI-SIG has just released revision 0.7 of the draft specifications, and members are likely scrutinizing every detail. There have been minimal changes since the 0.5 version released last April, which is a positive sign that the core technology is stable. Assuming no major issues arise, 2025 could be the year PCIe 7.0 is officially ratified.

Deep below the surface of our world, far beyond our feeble reach, enigmatic processes grind and roil.

Every now and then, the Earth disgorges clues to their nature: tiny chthonic diamonds encasing skerricks of rare mineral. From these tiny fragments we can glean tidbits of information about our planet’s interior.

A diamond unearthed in a diamond mine in Botswana is just such a stone. It’s riddled with flaws containing traces of ringwoodite, ferropericlase, enstatite, and other minerals that suggest the diamond formed 660 kilometers (410 miles) below Earth’s surface.

Beneath the sandstone floor of a French rock shelter lies a stunning artifact—what could be the world’s oldest 3D map. Its intricate carvings model water flows, valleys, and lakes in ways that defy expectations of Paleolithic capabilities. But how did early humans achieve such precision? And what mysteries do the map’s symbols still hold?

Researchers have built an optical clock using an array of trapped ions—an architecture that can be scaled up to boost the clock’s precision.

Henri Poincarés major work on a theory of the electron is “Sur la dynamique de l’électron”.¹ It is considered, by some, as evidence that Poincaré, more than anyone else in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries, anticipated Einstein’s 1905 theory of relativity.²

Music: Frontline Assembly — Synthetic FormsAlbum: Implode ℗ 1999 Metropolis RecordsComposer, Writer: Bill Leeb / Chris Peterson Released on: 1999/04/27.

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A hidden microcontinent, the Davis Strait, lies beneath the North Atlantic. Formed 33–61 million years ago, it reveals Earth’s tectonic secrets and reshapes geology.

Over 660,000 exposed Rsync servers are potentially vulnerable to six new vulnerabilities, including a critical-severity heap-buffer overflow flaw that allows remote code execution on servers.

Rsync is an open-source file synchronization and data transferring tool valued for its ability to perform incremental transfers, reducing data transfer times and bandwidth usage.

It supports local file systems transfers, remote transfers over secure protocols like SSH, and direct file syncing via its own daemon.

A severe flaw in the W3 Total Cache plugin installed on more than one million WordPress sites could give attackers access to various information, including metadata on cloud-based apps.

The W3 Total Cache plugin uses multiple caching techniques to optimize a website’s speed, reduce load times, and generally improve its SEO ranking.

The flaw is tracked as CVE-2024–12365 despite the developer releasing a fix in the latest version of the product, hundreds of thousands of websites have still to install the patched variant.