Author: ProHoster

The .ORG domain zone is being sold to a private company. Public Urges ICANN to Terminate Contract

The American non-profit organization The Internet Society (ISOC) is selling its assets, including the operator Public Interest Registry (PIR), which manages the .org domain zone. Created in the “public interest” for public organizations, the domain zone is being transferred to the hands of the commercial firm Ethos Capital for an unknown amount. The deal is planned to be closed in the first quarter. 2020 (see press release). Thus, a roster of 10 […]

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Open API and fingerprint login. What's new in the Cloud-Clout security application The Cloud-Clout application for secure storage and exchange of data in clouds opens its API. Still from the series “Silicon Valley” Good afternoon, Habr! First of all, the application developers want to thank all Habrousers for their response to the first publication on the Cloud-Clout blog. They carefully read all the comments, responded [...]

9 Approaches for Anomaly Detection

In the previous article we talked about time series forecasting. A logical continuation would be an article on identifying anomalies. Application Anomaly detection is used in such areas as: 1) Prediction of equipment breakdowns Thus, in 2010, Iranian centrifuges were attacked by the Stuxnet virus, which set the equipment to non-optimal operation and disabled some of the equipment due to accelerated wear. If […]

56 Open Source Python Projects

1. Flask This is a micro-framework written in Python. It has no validations for forms and no database abstraction layer, but does allow you to use third party libraries for common functionality. And that's why it's a micro framework. Flask is designed to make creating applications simple and fast, while also being scalable and lightweight. It is based on the Werkzeug and Jinja2 projects. You can […]

Easy unconditional return service. Post office

Good day, Habr! Not long ago, Russian Post launched the “Easy Return” service, but not everyone knows about it yet, even in post offices. And here the question is not even “when?”, but “who?” screws up and loses my parcel. I’ll write right away that the epic has just begun and how it will end is not yet clear. Hachiko waited, and you will wait (c) […]

Keylogger with a surprise: keylogger analysis and its developer's deanon

In recent years, mobile Trojans have been actively replacing Trojans for personal computers, so the emergence of new malware for the good old “cars” and their active use by cybercriminals, although unpleasant, is still an event. Recently, CERT Group-IB's XNUMX/XNUMX information security incident response center detected an unusual phishing email that concealed a new PC malware that combined […]

A timeless classic: what modern action games can learn from DOOM

How many games have become so popular that they have been installed on more computers than Microsoft Windows? The success and impact of DOOM on the industry has been studied for over 25 years, trying to understand what was special about this 1993 title. We can talk endlessly about DOOM: starting with technical achievements, speedruns, mods and ending with the level design of the game. Not a single article contains this [...]

December IT Events Digest

The time has come for the final review of IT events in 2019. The last car is filled, for the most part, with testing, DevOps, mobile development, as well as a whole scattering of meetups from a variety of language communities (PHP, Java, Javascript, Ruby) and a couple of hackathons for those involved in machine learning. IT Night Tver When: November 28 Where: Tver, st. Simeonovskaya, 30/27 Conditions of participation: free, registration required […]

Release of GNU Mes 0.21, a self-contained distribution toolkit

The release of the GNU Mes 0.21 toolkit has been introduced, providing a bootstrap process for GCC. The toolkit solves the problem of verified initial compiler assembly in distribution kits, breaking the chain of cyclical rebuilding (to build the compiler, executable files of an already assembled compiler are required). GNU Mes offers a self-hosting interpreter for the Scheme language, written in C, and a simple compiler for the C language (MesCC), […]

Anniversary, 50th version of TIA text editor released

The rate of release of new versions of TIA has increased, version 49 was recently born, in which a grandiose shoveling of the code was carried out for the upcoming compatibility with Qt6, and now the world is illuminated with the radiance of the 50th version. Visible. A new, alternative interface has appeared called “Docking” (it is turned off by default, so that the editor remains familiar) - different parts of the interface can be moved and even […]

PHP 7.4 programming language release

After a year of development, the release of the PHP 7.4 programming language was presented. The new branch includes a series of new features, as well as several changes that break compatibility. Key improvements in PHP 7.4: Typed Properties - Class properties can now include type declarations, for example: class User { public int $id; public string $name; } Shortened syntax for defining functions “fn(parameter_list) => expr” with […]

Creators of Microsoft Flight Simulator: VR is a high priority for the project

While virtual reality has been making more noise than usual lately thanks to the announcement of Half-Life: Alyx, there's another studio looking to incorporate VR into its big-budget game. In a recent interview with AVSIM, Microsoft Flight Simulator director Jorg Neumann said that virtual reality is given a very high priority when creating a civil aviation flight simulator. No Man's […]