Photonics integrated circuits or optical chips potentially offer numerous advantages over their electronic counterparts, such as reduced power consumption and lower latency in computations. This is why many researchers believe they could be extremely effective in machine learning tasks and artificial intelligence (AI) development. Intel also sees significant potential for the application of silicon photonics in […]
Microsoft continues to release fresh updates for Edge on the Dev and Canary channels. The latest patch includes minor changes, including a fix for an issue that could lead to high CPU usage during browser idle time, along with a few other improvements. The most significant enhancement in Canary 76.0.168.0 and Dev Build 76.0.167.0 is the built-in translator, which will allow users to read text from any website […]
Mozilla developers have decided to disable the handling of userContent.css and userChrome.css files by default, which allow users to override the styling of websites or the Firefox interface. The reason for this default disabling is to reduce the browser's startup time. Modifying behavior through userContent.css and userChrome.css is extremely rare among users, and loading these CSS files consumes additional resources (optimization eliminates unnecessary access to […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 4.9 — is now available. Since the release of version 4.8, 24 bug reports have been closed and 362 changes have been made. Key changes include: Initial support for installing Plug and Play drivers; The ability to build 16-bit modules in PE format; Various functions have been moved to a new DLL called KernelBase; Several fixes have been made related to […]
Changes have been incorporated into the code of the window manager Mutter, developed as part of the GNOME 3.34 development cycle, allowing for the automation of XWayland startup when attempting to run an application based on the X11 protocol in a graphical environment based on the Wayland protocol. The difference from the behavior of GNOME 3.32 and earlier releases is that, previously, the XWayland component was constantly running and required […]
We continue to discuss the technological innovations presented at the VMware EMPOWER 2019 conference in Lisbon. Our materials on this topic on Habr: Key topics of the conference, Summary report of the first day, IoT, AI systems, and networking technologies, Virtualization of storage systems is reaching a new level. The third day at VMware EMPOWER 2019 began with an overview of the company's plans for the development of the vSAN product and other […]
Reflections on where the desire to pass the AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification comes from. Motivation one: “Axes”. One of the most useful principles for any professional is 'Know your tools' (or in one of the variations 'Sharpen the saw'). We’ve been in the cloud for a long time, but until now, they were just monolithic applications with databases deployed on EC2 instances — […]
Background It so happened that the server was attacked by ransomware, which, by a 'happy coincidence,' partially left .ibd files (raw data files of InnoDB tables) untouched, while completely encrypting .fpm files (structure files). The .idb files could be divided into: those recoverable through standard means and guides. For such cases, there is a great article; partially encrypted […]
A few days ago, it was reported that Microsoft began deploying the Windows 10 May 2019 Update to all PCs worldwide. And while the complete cycle will take time, it is already known that the update has issues. If users try to install update 1903 on a device with incompatible drivers and software, there is a chance that the update will not appear, and the assistant […]
In this article, I will list the most interesting conclusions and checklists that I found in Raf Koster's book 'Theory of Fun for Game Design.' But first, just a bit of background information: — I liked the book. — The book is short, easy and interesting to read. Almost like a novel. — Raf Koster is an experienced game designer, who […]
Today, we decided to talk about the tools that IT companies and IaaS providers use for automating work with networks and engineering systems. / Flickr / Not4rthur / CC BY-SA Implementing software-defined networks It is expected that with the launch of 5G networks, IoT devices will find truly widespread adoption — according to some estimates, their number will exceed 50 billion by 2022. Experts note that […]
Another user wants to write a new piece of data to the hard drive, but they do not have enough free space for that. They also don't want to delete anything, as "everything is very important and necessary." So what should we do with them? This problem is faced by more than just them. Terabytes of information are lying on our hard drives, and this amount is not shrinking […]