 Following a partial U.S. government shutdown caused by a deadlock on the issue of the Mexican border wall between the Democratic Party and Donald Trump, tens of government websites can no longer be accessed or have become insecure because their TLS certificates have not been renewed. The websites of the U.S. Department of Justice, NASA, and the Court of Appeals are some of the ones hit by the government's failure to extend around 80 TLS certificates used on .gov domains. .gov websites with expired certificates on the HSTS preload list now inaccessible One of the websites affected by this mishap is Department of Justice's ows2.usdoj.gov, which displays an error message warning visitors that the connection is not private or secure, depending on the used web browsers. To make things worse, because ows2.usdoj.gov is also on Chromium's HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) preload list, the website will not be accessible given that both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox will automatically hide the button allowing users to temporarily ignore the warning and open the website. Furthermore, seeing that most other web browsers also use their own HSTS preload lists based on the Chrome one, there is nothing users can do to load the .gov websites temporarily broken by the expired TLS certificates. The government sites not on the HSTS preload list will open after users click on the 'Advanced" button at the end of the warning and choose to proceed, but there are risks involved in doing that. Check out OUR FORUM for more.  A modern smartphone needs more than a front-facing camera in facing the user. In fact, the most common front-facing sensor is the light and proximity sensor, and now a major Apple iPhone supplier has created the technology which allows this sensor to be buried behind the screen. ams, a leading worldwide Austrian supplier of high-performance sensor solutions announced the release of the TCS3701, an RGB light and IR proximity sensor IC which can accurately measure the intensity of ambient light from behind an OLED screen. This capability supports today’s industrial design trend to maximize smartphone display area by eliminating front-facing bezels, where an ambient light/proximity sensor is typically located. By developing this ‘Behind OLED’ ambient light/proximity sensor, ams enables smartphone manufacturers to achieve the highest possible ratio of the display area to body size while retaining crucial touchscreen disablement and automatic display brightness/color adjustment functions, which require an RGB/infrared light sensor. Despite the constraint of operating behind an emissive OLED display screen, the TCS3701 senses the addition of the ambient light passing through the display to light emitted by the display’s pixels located just above the sensor. ams has developed unique algorithms which enable accurate detection of ambient light levels without knowledge of the display pixel brightness above the sensor. Light transmission through an OLED screen is limited by its opacity, but the TCS3701’s ultra-high sensitivity to light means that it can still produce accurate light measurements in all lighting conditions. Read more on OUR FORUM.  It’s day 1 of CES 2019 and we have already seen amazing technology and hardware from some of the big companies. AMD is rumored to launch the highly anticipated Ryzen processors which meet its competition as Intel has launched new 9th Gen desktop CPUs along with their 10mm Ice Lake processors. The company has announced that it will be adding six more 9th-gen Core processors, ranging from Core i3 to Core i9, set to release soon. Intel didn’t reveal details about the new processors but TechRadar did some research and found out details about the new processors. You can head below to take a look at the list of the new processors that Intel plans to roll out to the market. These new processors ditch the integrated GPUs in favor of reduced pricing which will allow Intel to compete with AMD Ryzen. While GPUs are important, users assembling their own desktop usually add a dedicated GPU which makes the Intel’s GPU useless. With the new F-series Intel is cutting down costs by removing GPUs so the system relies solely on the dedicated GPU installed by the user. For more visit OUR Forum. |
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