Alexander Chistyakov is in touch, I’m an evangelist at vdsina.ru and I’ll tell you about the 9 best technological events of 2019. In my assessment, I relied more on my taste than on the opinion of experts. Therefore, this list, for example, does not include driverless cars, because there is nothing fundamentally new or surprising in this technology. I didn't sort the events in the list by […]
Wacom is primarily known for its professional graphics tablets, which are used by animators and designers around the world. However, the company does not only do this. It also sells its components to other technology companies, such as ONYX, which produces e-readers. We decided to take a short excursion into the past and tell you why Wacom technologies have conquered the world market, and […]
The developer's website contains an update to the cash register program for Linux OS DANCY:CASH, which supports working with labeling of such product categories as: tobacco products; shoes; cameras; perfume; tires and tyres; light industrial goods (clothing, linen, etc.). At the moment, this is one of the first solutions on the cash register software market that supports working with product categories, mandatory […]
A selection of graphs and results of various studies with short annotations. I love such graphs because they excite the mind, although at the same time I understand that this is no longer about statistics, but about conceptual theories. In short, the computing power needed to train AI is growing seven times faster than before, according to OpenAI. That is, it moves us away from “Big Brother” [...]
A new release of ASCII Patrol 1.7, a clone of the 8-bit arcade game Moon Patrol, has been published. The game is a console game - it supports work in monochrome and 16-color modes, the window size is not fixed. The code is written in C++ and distributed under the GPLv3 license. There is an HTML version for playing in the browser. Binary assemblies will be prepared for Linux (snap), Windows and FreeDOS. Unlike the game [...]
This article is a response to a post in which they suggest choosing courses based on the conversion rate of students from those admitted to those accepted. When choosing courses, you should be interested in 2 numbers - the proportion of people who reached the end of the course and the proportion of graduates who got a job within 3 months after completing the course. For example, if 50% of those who start a course complete it, and [...]
In the source code of the Linux kernel there are about 4 thousand comments describing defects that require correction, plans and tasks postponed for the future, identified by the presence of the expression “TODO” in the text. Most of the "TODO" comments are present in the driver code (2380). In the crypto subsystem there are 23 such comments, code specific to the x86 architecture - 43, ARM - 73, code for […]
On December 22, the version of “ASCII Patrol,” a clone of the 1.7-bit arcade game “Moon Patrol,” was upgraded to 8. The game is open-free (GPL3). Console, monochrome or 16-color, window size is not fixed. Unlike the well-known Moon Buggy - with shooting, UFOs (including triangular ones), mines, tanks, catch-up missiles, predatory plants. And all sorts of joys missing from the 1980s original, including new opponents, a high score table […]
After six months of development, the release of the Firejail 0.9.62 project is available, within which a system is being developed for isolated execution of graphical, console and server applications. Using Firejail allows you to minimize the risk of compromising the main system when running untrustworthy or potentially vulnerable programs. The program is written in C language, distributed under the GPLv2 license and can run on any Linux distribution […]
New builds of BlackArch Linux, a specialized distribution for security research and studying the security of systems, have been published. The distribution is built on the Arch Linux package base and includes more than 2400 security-related utilities. The project's maintained package repository is compatible with Arch Linux and can be used in regular Arch Linux installations. The assemblies are prepared in the form of a 13 GB Live image [...]
The Bluetooth SIG database has information about a new tablet that the South Korean giant Samsung is preparing to release. The device appears under the code designation SM-T307U and the name Galaxy Tab A4 S. It is known that the new product will be a mid-range gadget. The tablet, according to available information, will have a display measuring 8 inches diagonally. The software platform will be […]
Experts from Kaspersky Lab have identified a series of hacker attacks aimed at telecommunications and financial companies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. As part of this campaign, attackers tried to seize funds and financial data from victims. The report states that hackers tried to withdraw tens of millions of dollars from the accounts of the attacked companies. In each of the recorded cases, hackers used [...]
