The US Navy Has Run Out of Pants
Plus: The US intelligence community formally blames Iran for Trump campaign hack, aircraft-tracking platform FlightAware says a “configuration error” exposed sensitive user data, and more.
Month: August 2024
Bangladeshis taking refuge in emergency shelters after heavy flooding
Nearly 300,000 people forced to flee after monsoon rains, which have killed 42 people in India and BangladeshNearly 300,000 Bangladeshis are taking refuge in emergency shelters from floods that inundated vast areas of the country, disaster officials sa…
White House Says Gaza Deal ‘Closer Than We’ve Been’
SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW – With talks on a ceasefire deal for the war in Gaza in what U.S. officials have called an “endgame,” phase and […] More
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High container rates, port congestion entice some shippers back to MPVs
Most of the recent interest from shippers is for mode-malleable cargo — freight that can be easily switched between breakbulk and container modes.
The Adversarial
Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below. *** China Tensions flared again this week between the …
Event Security Guards And Crowd Management: Ensuring Order And Safety
Events bring people together, creating memorable experiences and fostering connections. However, without proper security measures, these gatherings can quickly turn chaotic and unsafe. This is where event security guards come in. They work tirelessly behind the scenes to ensure that every event runs smoothly. From managing crowds to handling emergencies, event security is essential for […]
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August 2024 Web Server Survey
In the August 2024 survey we received responses from 1,107,785,375 sites across 270,065,795 domains and 13,011,016 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 3.6 million sites, a loss of 364,061 domains, and an increase of 119,600 web-facing computers.
Cloudflare experienced the largest gain of 2.7 million sites (+2.14%) this month, and now accounts for 11.5% (+0.20pp) of sites seen by Netcraft. Google made the next largest gain of 1.2 million sites (+2.11%).
OpenResty experienced the largest loss of 12.1 million sites (-10.02%) this month, reducing its market share to 9.84% (-1.13pp). nginx suffered the next largest loss, down by 5.6 million sites (-2.45%).
Vendor news
- nginx 1.27.1 was released on August 14th, containing security and bug fixes.
- Amazon announced the general availability of the new EC2 G6e instance family on August 15th, which uses NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs and is designed for machine learning and spatial computing.
- Amazon also announced the general availability of its new AWS Region in Malaysia on August 21st.
| Developer | July 2024 | Percent | August 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nginx | 228,626,175 | 20.71% | 223,025,645 | 20.13% | -0.57 |
| Apache | 208,999,470 | 18.93% | 203,825,341 | 18.40% | -0.53 |
| Cloudflare | 124,366,036 | 11.26% | 127,028,522 | 11.47% | 0.20 |
| OpenResty | 121,083,375 | 10.97% | 108,954,196 | 9.84% | -1.13 |
| Developer | July 2024 | Percent | August 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nginx | 34,630,677 | 17.86% | 37,946,892 | 19.54% | 1.68 |
| Apache | 36,313,526 | 18.73% | 35,401,145 | 18.23% | -0.50 |
| Cloudflare | 29,463,646 | 15.19% | 30,353,097 | 15.63% | 0.44 |
| 19,361,526 | 9.99% | 19,914,940 | 10.26% | 0.27 |
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| Developer | July 2024 | Percent | August 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | 230,344 | 23.03% | 232,823 | 23.28% | 0.25 |
| nginx | 204,303 | 20.43% | 202,769 | 20.28% | -0.15 |
| Apache | 194,581 | 19.46% | 192,880 | 19.29% | -0.17 |
| Microsoft | 45,186 | 4.52% | 44,580 | 4.46% | -0.06 |
| Developer | July 2024 | Percent | August 2024 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nginx | 5,000,672 | 38.79% | 5,037,328 | 38.72% | -0.07 |
| Apache | 3,171,258 | 24.60% | 3,194,165 | 24.55% | -0.05 |
| Microsoft | 1,168,997 | 9.07% | 1,186,646 | 9.12% | 0.05 |
| Developer | July 2024 | Percent | August 2024 | Percent |
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Modi tells Zelenskiy he is ready to work ‘as a friend’ to bring about peace deal
Indian PM says he respects and supports ‘sovereignty and territorial integrity’ of Ukraine during historic visit India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, made a historic visit to Kyiv on Friday and told Volodymyr Zelenskiy he was ready to work “as a frie…
World Model + Next Token Prediction = Answer Prediction
Table of Contents A new way to explain LLM-based AI > The 5 Levels of LLM Understanding > Answers as descriptions of the world > Human vs. absolute omniscience…