Author: ProHoster

Where to go: upcoming free events for IT professionals in Moscow (January 14–18)

Events with open registration: AI & Mobile NeurIPS New Year Afterparty R Moscow Meetup #5 Frontend Meetup in Moscow (Gastromarket Balchug) Machine learning training in Avito 2.0 AI & Mobile January 14, 19:00-22:00, Tuesday We invite you to the meetup about artificial intelligence, its application on mobile devices and the most important technological and business trends of the new decade. IN […]

And finally, the relay

Other articles in the cycle: History of the relay The method of "rapid transmission of information", or the birth of the relay Long-ranger Galvanism Entrepreneurs And finally, the relay The talking telegraph Simply connect The forgotten generation of relay computers The electronic era The history of electronic computers Prologue ENIAC Colossus The electronic revolution The history of the transistor darkness From the crucible of war Repeated reinvention The history of the Internet The backbone […]

Tableau in retail, really?

The time for reporting in Excel is rapidly disappearing - the trend towards convenient tools for presenting and analyzing information is visible in all areas. We have been internally discussing the digitalization of reporting for a long time and chose the Tableau visualization and self-service analytics system. Alexander Bezugly, head of the analytical solutions and reporting department of the M.Video-Eldorado Group, spoke about the experience and results of building a combat dashboard. I’ll say right away, not [...]

Digital events in Moscow from January 13 to 19

A selection of events for the week. NeurIPS New Year Afterparty January 15 (Wednesday) L Tolstoy 16 free On January 15 at the Moscow office of Yandex we will discuss the work presented at the recent NeurIPS (formerly NIPS) conference. It is one of the most prestigious international conferences on machine learning and neural networks. Automation of software testing (Java) January 16 (Thursday) - February 16 (Sunday) […]

Lie to me if you can: features of conducting a sociotechnical pentest

Imagine this situation. Cold October morning, design institute in the regional center of one of the regions of Russia. Someone from the HR department goes to one of the vacancy pages on the institute’s website, posted a couple of days ago, and sees a photo of a cat there. The morning quickly ceases to be boring... In this article, Pavel Suprunyuk, technical head of the audit and consulting department of Group-IB, […]

How we raised a systems analyst from scratch

Are you familiar with the situation when the needs of your business are growing, but there are not enough people to implement them? What to do in this case? Where to look for people with the necessary competencies and is it worth doing it at all? Since the problem, frankly speaking, is not new, there are already ways to solve it. Some companies resort to outstaffing schemes and attracting specialists [...]

Mozilla implements CRLite to check problematic TLS certificates

Mozilla has announced that it has begun testing a new mechanism for detecting revoked certificates, CRLite, in nightly builds of Firefox. CRLite allows you to organize effective certificate revocation checking against a database hosted on the user's system. The CRLite implementation developed by Mozilla is published under the free MPL 2.0 license. The code for generating the database and server components are written in Python and Go. Added […]

Root rights will be removed from Kali Linux by default

For many years, Kali Linux had a default user root policy that was inherited from BackTrack Linux. On December 31, 2019, the Kali Linux developers decided to switch to a more “classic” policy - the absence of root rights for the user in the default session. The change will be implemented in the 2020.1 release of the distribution, but, if desired, you can […]

First release of wasm3, a fast WebAssembly interpreter

The first release of wasm3 is available, a very fast WebAssembly intermediate code interpreter primarily designed for use in running WebAssembly applications on microcontrollers and platforms that do not have a JIT implementation for WebAssembly, do not have enough memory to run JIT, or cannot create the executable memory pages needed for JIT implementations. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the […]

The size of the Internet audience in Russia is approaching 100 million

The GfK company, according to RBC, summed up the results of a study of the Russian Internet market last year: the number of web audiences in our country continues to grow. It is reported that at the end of 2019, the number of Internet users among Russians over 16 years of age reached 94,4 million. This is approximately 3,7% more than in 2018, when the size of the web audience in our country was 91,0 million [ …]

Linux in 2020 will finally be able to provide normal temperature control of SATA drives

One of the problems with Linux for more than 10 years has been temperature control of SATA/SCSI drives. The fact is that this was implemented by third-party utilities and daemons, and not by the kernel, so they had to be installed separately, given access, and so on. But now it looks like the situation will change. It is reported that in the Linux kernel 5.5 in the case of NVMe drives it is already possible to do without […]

Habra-analysis: when is the best time to publish your post?

You go to Habr more than once a day, right? Not to read something useful, but just to scroll through the main page in search of “what to add to the list to read later”? Ever noticed that posts published in the middle of the night get fewer views and ratings than those published during the day? What can you say about publications that appeared in the middle of the weekend? When I published the previous […]