Author: Yuri Gagarin

Breach of Docker Hub infrastructure with a possible compromise of related repositories

Users of Docker Hub, the official container catalog for the Docker system, received a notification about a breach of the project's infrastructure. As a result of the attack, a database of accounts containing information on 190,000 service users was compromised, including hashes of their passwords and tokens for accessing repositories on GitHub and Bitbucket. To prevent the spread of the attack, assembly creation has been paused, and tokens […]

Release of Wine 4.7

An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 4.7 is now available. Since the release of version 4.6, 34 bug reports have been closed and 264 changes made. The most significant changes include support added to ntdll for loading embedded libraries (provided by the Wine project rather than native Windows DLLs) in the PE (Portable Executable) format, including on Unix-like platforms. […]

DockerHub Hacked

A few hours ago, some DockerHub users received emails stating: “On Thursday, April 25, 2019, we discovered unauthorized access to one of the DockerHub databases that stores some non-financial user data. After discovery, we immediately took all necessary measures to secure user data. We would now like to share the information, […]

Development and testing process with Docker and Gitlab CI

I invite you to review the report by Alexander Sigachev from Inventos titled 'The Development and Testing Process with Docker + Gitlab CI.' Those who are just starting to implement the development and testing process based on Docker + Gitlab CI often ask basic questions. Where to start? How to organize? How to test? This report is beneficial as it systematically describes the development process and […]

"Google's Easter egg will let everyone feel like Thanos"

Without a doubt, the number one premiere worldwide today is the release of the film ‘Avengers: Endgame.’ Google decided not to miss such an event: the company dedicated another doodle to it — a whimsical 'Easter egg' on the search page. If you enter queries like ‘Thanos,’ ‘Infinity Gauntlet,’ and so on in Russian, English, and obviously, […]

The 2D-layering method brings us closer to printing living organs.

Aiming to make biomanufacturing more accessible, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are combining 2D bio-printing, a robotic arm for 3D assembly, and instant freezing in a method that could one day allow for the printing of living tissues and even entire organs. By printing organs as thin sheets of tissue and then freezing them and stacking them sequentially, the new technology enhances the survival rate […]

Be patient: 10nm Intel processors for desktops won't arrive until 2022.

According to leaked documents regarding Intel's upcoming plans in the processor market, the company's future appears anything but bright. If the documents are accurate, the increase in core counts in mainstream processors to ten will not occur before 2020, and 14nm processors will dominate the desktop segment until at least 2022, while the situation has become a sticking point [...].

The NetBeans project became a Top-Level project in the Apache Foundation

After three releases in the Apache Incubator, the NetBeans project became a Top-Level project in the Apache Software Foundation. In 2016, Oracle handed over the NetBeans project to ASF. According to the accepted procedure, all projects transferred to Apache first enter the Apache Incubator. During their time in the incubator, projects are aligned with ASF standards. An inspection for licensing [...].

Support for case-insensitive file system operations has been integrated into the Linux kernel for the Ext4 filesystem.

Ted Ts’o, the author of the ext2/ext3/ext4 file systems, has accepted a set of changes into the Linux-next branch, which will form the basis for the release of Linux kernel 5.2, implementing case-insensitive operations support in the Ext4 file system. The patches also add support for UTF-8 characters in file names. The case-insensitive mode can be optionally enabled for individual directories using [...].

OpenBSD 6.5

The OpenBSD 6.5 version has been released. Here are the changes in the system: 1. Support for new devices has been added: 1. The clang compiler is now available on mips64 2. Support for the OCTEON GPIO controller has been added. 3. A paravirtualized clock driver has been added in the KVM virtualization system. 4. Support for Intel Ethernet 700 series has been added to the ix(4) driver. 2. Changes in the networking subsystem: 1. [...].

Android updates are being rolled out more slowly despite Google's efforts.

The latest version of Android 9 was released in August 2018. In October, 81 days after its launch, when Google published its latest public statistics, this version of the OS was installed on less than 0.1% of devices. The previous version, Oreo 8, released in August 2017, was running on 21.5% of devices 431 days after its launch. After a lengthy 795 days [...].

DevOpsForum 2019. You can't afford to wait to implement DevOps.

I recently attended the DevOpsForum 2019 organized by Logrocon. At this conference, participants sought solutions and new tools for effective collaboration between businesses and IT development and technology maintenance specialists. The conference was a success: there were many valuable presentations, interesting formats, and plenty of interaction with the speakers. Importantly, no one tried to sell me anything, […]

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