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The Android-x86 project has released a build of Android 9 for the x86 platform

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The developers of the Android-x86 project, within which an independent community is developing a port of the Android platform for the x86 architecture, have published the first stable release of the build based on the Android 9 platform (android-9.0.0_r53). The build includes fixes and additions that improve the performance of Android on x86 architecture. Universal Live builds of Android-x86 9 for x86 32-bit (706 MB) and x86_64 architectures have been prepared for download […]

Rostelecom began substituting its advertising into subscriber traffic

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Rostelecom, the largest broadband access operator in the Russian Federation, serving about 13 million subscribers, has quietly introduced a system for substituting its advertising banners into subscribers’ unencrypted HTTP traffic. Since the JavaScript blocks inserted into the transit traffic included obfuscated code and access to dubious sites unaffiliated with Rostelecom (p.analytic.press, d.d1tracker.ru, dmd.digitaltarget.ru), at first there was a suspicion that the provider’s equipment had been compromised […]

Vulnerability in Cypress and Broadcom Wi-Fi chips that allows decrypting traffic

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Researchers from Eset disclosed at the RSA 2020 conference taking place these days information about a vulnerability (CVE-2019-15126) in Cypress and Broadcom wireless chips that allows decryption of intercepted Wi-Fi traffic protected using the WPA2 protocol. The vulnerability has been codenamed Kr00k. The problem affects FullMAC chips (the Wi-Fi stack is implemented on the chip side, not the driver side), used in a wide range of […]

New rules for issuing SSL certificates for the .onion domain zone have been adopted

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The voting on amendment SC27v3 to the Basic Requirements, according to which certification authorities issue SSL certificates, has ended. As a result, the amendment allowing, under certain conditions, to issue DV or OV certificates for .onion domain names for Tor hidden services, was adopted. Previously, only the issuance of EV certificates was allowed due to the insufficient cryptographic strength of the algorithms associated with domain names of hidden services. After the amendment comes into force, [...]

IBM developerWorks Connections dies

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Wikis, forums, blogs, activities and files hosted on this platform were affected. Save important information. Content removal is scheduled for March 31, 2020. The stated reason is to reduce the number of redundant customer portals and simplify the user experience with IBM's digital side. As an alternative to posting new content, […]

Short Scholarship Programs for Programming Students (GSoC, SOCIS, Outreachy)

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A new round of programs aimed at involving students in open-source development is starting. Here are some of them: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ - a program from Google that gives students the opportunity to participate in the development of open-source projects under the guidance of mentors (3 months, scholarship 3000 USD for students from the CIS). Money is paid to Payoneer. An interesting feature of the program is that students themselves can propose to organizations [...]

How Competitors Can Easily Block Your Site

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We recently ran into a situation where a number of antiviruses (Kaspersky, Quttera, McAfee, Norton Safe Web, Bitdefender and a few lesser known ones) started blocking our website. Studying the situation led me to the understanding that getting on the block list is extremely simple, just a few complaints (even without justification). I will describe the problem in more detail later. The problem is quite serious, since now almost […]

Streaming column data with Apache Arrow

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The translation of the article was prepared specifically for students of the Data Engineer course. Over the past few weeks, Nong Li and I have added a binary stream format to Apache Arrow, complementing the existing random access/IPC file format. We have Java and C++ implementations and Python bindings. In this article, I will explain how the format works and show how you can achieve […]

NDA for development - "residual" clause and other ways to protect yourself

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Customized development is practically impossible without the transfer of confidential information (CI) to the developer. Otherwise, what is it customized. The larger the customer, the more difficult it is to negotiate the terms of a confidentiality agreement. A standard contract with a probability close to 100% will be redundant. As a result, along with the minimum amount of information necessary for work, you can get a bunch of responsibilities - to store and protect as your own, […]

Tactical shooter Insurgency: Sandstorm will be released on consoles on August 25

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New World Interactive and Focus Home Interactive have announced the release date for multiplayer tactical shooter Insurgency: Sandstorm on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game will go on sale on August 25th. The authors failed to comply with the previously announced plan. Recall that the premiere was originally planned for the spring of this year, but the transfer of the shooter to consoles took more time. The reason […]

Action-platformer Panzer Paladin from the creators of Mercenary Kings is coming to PC and Switch this summer

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Tribute Games, the studio behind the action-platformer Mercenary Kings, has announced that Panzer Paladin is coming to PC and Nintendo Switch this summer. Panzer Paladin was announced in March 2019. It's an action-platformer with intuitive fencing mechanics. Of the 16 levels, the player himself chooses in what order to go through the first 10, the remaining 6 will be sequential. The protagonist pilots […]

Newzoo: esports industry to surpass $2020 billion in revenue in 1

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Newzoo has published forecasts regarding the development of the esports sector in 2020. Analysts predicted audience and earnings growth for the industry, with industry-wide revenue forecast to exceed $1 billion. In the coming year, the industry will earn $1,1 billion excluding advertising revenue on broadcast platforms. This figure is 15,7% more than a year earlier. The main source of income will come from […]

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