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NVIDIA Ampere: Turing successor will not be released until the second half of the year

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NVIDIA representatives are very reluctant to talk about the timing of the appearance of next-generation graphics solutions, while at the same time calling not to link them with the transition to 7-nm manufacturing technology. Information on this topic has to be gleaned from unofficial sources, but they are just ready to claim that the preliminary phase of the announcement of the new architecture will take place in the current quarter, and representatives of the Ampere family […]

Arch Linux switched to zstd archives: 1300% unpacking speed

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Arch Linux developers have announced that they have changed the package packaging scheme from the algorithm. Previously, the xz algorithm (.pkg.tar.xz) was used. Now zstd (.pkg.tar.zst) is enabled. This made it possible to increase the unpacking speed by 1300% at the cost of a slight increase in the size of the packages themselves (approximately 0,8%). This will speed up the process of installing and updating packages on the system. At the moment there is talk of transferring to [...]

2019 sales of Samsung 5G smartphones exceed expectations

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Despite the fact that the next-generation mobile communication technology 5G has not yet become widespread, sales of Samsung 5G smartphones in 2019 exceeded all the company's expectations, amounting to 6,7 million units. Samsung was the first in the world to release a 5G smartphone - the Galaxy S10 5G, the release of which was timed to coincide with the launch of 5G networks in South Korea in April last year. WITH […]

AMD may take up to 25% of the desktop processor market this year

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Experts like to use indicators of AMD's market share in the server processor segment, since it is in this area that the company has set itself a clear goal - to overcome the ten percent mark in the second quarter of this year. At its best, AMD products accounted for up to 25% of all desktop processors sold, and company management sees no reason why this maximum cannot […]

Happy New Year!

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Another year has come to an end, and with it an entire decade. For the IT industry, 10 years is a huge time. During this time, computers have become many times more powerful, the images in games have become closer to cinematic, and in the mobile industry, smartphones have replaced regular phones. Smart watches appeared, and drones became available for purchase by ordinary people. Mobile […]

Myths and legends of the ancient Fediverse

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Yes, exactly ancient. Last May, the global decentralized social network Fediverse turned 11 years old! Exactly so many years ago, the founder of the Identi.ca project published his first post. Meanwhile, a certain anonymous person wrote on a respected resource: “The problem with Fediverse is that two and a half diggers know about it.” What a ridiculous problem. Let's fix it! […]

Iridium is willing to pay to remove failed satellites from orbit

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Global satellite operator Iridium Communications completed the disposal of the last of its 28 obsolete satellites on December 65. At the same time, there are still 30 of its inactive satellites in orbit, which have turned into ordinary space debris, with which something also needs to be resolved. The McLean, Virginia-based company has begun launching its first constellation of satellites, built by Motorola and […]

Oracle itself copied the API from Amazon S3, and this is completely normal

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Oracle lawyers compare re-implementation of the Java API in Android to copying the contents of Harry Potter, pdf Early this year, the US Supreme Court will consider the important case Oracle v. Google, which will determine the legal status of the API in accordance with intellectual property law. If the court sides with Oracle in its multibillion-dollar lawsuit, it could stifle competition and […]

About online security

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This article was written several years ago, when blocking the Telegram messenger was actively discussed in the community and contains my thoughts on this matter. And although today this topic is almost forgotten, I hope that perhaps it will still be of interest to someone. This text appeared as a result of my thoughts on the topic of digital security, and I doubted for a long time whether it was worth […]

“What corporations have been turning your privacy on”, Artur Khachuyan (Tazeros Global)

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Personal Data Protection Day, Minsk, 2019. Organizer: human rights organization Human Constanta. Presenter (hereinafter - B): - Arthur Khachuyan is engaged in... Can we say “on the dark side” in the context of our conference? Arthur Khachuyan (hereinafter – AH): – On the side of corporations – yes. Q: – He collects your data and sells it to corporations. AH: – Actually no... […]

Starting a VPN server behind a provider's NAT

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An article about how I managed to run a VPN server behind the NAT of my home provider (without a white IP address). I’ll make a reservation right away: that the performance of this implementation directly depends on the type of NAT used by your provider, as well as by the router. So, I needed to connect from my Android smartphone to my home computer, both devices are connected to the Internet through provider NATs, plus the computer is connected […]

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