The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT with the new RDNA graphics architecture was introduced with its younger brother in July this year. Already at the beginning of August, the XFX company prepared its version of the accelerator with a double cooler THICC II in a signature classic design, inspired by cars of the mid-last century. And in early October, XFX released the same accelerator already […]
After weeks of rumors, Apple recently unveiled the AirPods Pro, which offered active noise cancellation and improved sound. They cost $249, are powered by Apple's H1 chip, and the company says the H1's extremely low latency audio processing delivers simultaneous real-time noise cancellation, high-quality audio using adaptive technology, and support for Siri voice requests. How […]
Hello, Habr! I present to your attention a translation of the article “An Open Source License That Requires Users to Do No Harm” by Klint Finley. China is using facial recognition technology to identify Uyghur Muslims. The US military is using drones to kill suspected terrorists, as well as nearby civilians. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement - the same ones who held […]
How do you know if you need Docker and not a VM? You need to determine what exactly you want to isolate. If you want to isolate a system with guaranteed dedicated resources and virtual hardware, then the choice should be a VM. If you need to isolate running applications as separate system processes, you will need Docker. So what is the difference between Docker containers and VMs? Virtual […]
In this article, I propose to take an excursion into sociobiology and talk about the evolutionary origins of altruism, kin selection and aggression. We will briefly (but with references) review the results of sociological and neuroimaging studies that show how recognizing relatives in people can influence sexual behavior and promote cooperation and, on the other hand, recognizing a member of someone else's social […]
Good afternoon, dear readers! Thanks to your feedback on the previous article on the IT industry of Armenia, the idea has matured to create another publication that will give the most detailed answer about the real practice of IT specialists in the South Caucasus state. In this publication, I will introduce you to the “luminaries” of Armenia, who not only live and work on the territory of the state, but are also actively increasing the volume of startups, […]
Distributed source control system Git 2.24.0 is now available. Git is one of the most popular, reliable and high-performance version control systems, providing flexible non-linear development tools based on branching and merging. To ensure the integrity of history and resistance to retroactive changes, implicit hashing of the entire previous history in each commit is used, and digital authentication is also possible […]
In our posts, we have repeatedly said that after the finals of the Digital Breakthrough competition, successful teams will be able to finalize projects within the pre-accelerator and make products for the market. The program started on September 30, and we can already sum up the first results. But first, we’ll tell you what its meaning is and why a pre-accelerator is necessary for companies, investors and […]
NVIDIA has presented the first release of a new stable branch of the proprietary NVIDIA 440.31 driver. The driver is available for Linux (ARM, x86_64), FreeBSD (x86_64) and Solaris (x86_64). The branch will be developed as part of a long support cycle (LTS) until November 2020. The main innovations of the NVIDIA 440 branch: A warning about the presence of unsaved changes in […]
A guide for absolute tea beginners. (Note per .: these are tips from an Indian author, but they seem to be practical. Please add in the comments.) A month is a lot of time. If you spend 6-7 hours studying every day, you can do a lot. Goal for the month: Familiarize yourself with the basic concepts (variable, condition, list, loop, function) Master more than 30 programming problems in practice Collect two […]
The release of FreeBSD 12.1 is presented, which is prepared for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, sparc64 and armv6, armv7 and aarch64 architectures. Additionally, images have been prepared for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and Amazon EC2 cloud environments. Key innovations: The base system includes the BearSSL cryptographic library; Support for NAT64 CLAT (RFC6877), implemented by engineers from Yandex, has been added to the network stack; […]
The new feature currently has the status “experimental”. It allows you to use very cheap hardware keys for authentication, connected via USB, Bluetooth and NFC. For example, YubiKey Security Key or Thetis FIDO U2F Security Key with Bluetooth cost about 100 euros. The manual for enabling this authentication is here. Source: linux.org.ru
