Author: ProHoster

The authorities heard the arguments of "Yandex" about the draft law on significant Internet resources

The Yandex company believes that the government has heard its arguments against the bill introduced by State Duma deputy from United Russia Anton Gorelkin, which proposes to limit the rights of foreigners to own and manage Internet resources that are informationally significant for the development of infrastructure. Arkady Volozh, founder and CEO of the Yandex group of companies, which “immediately spoke out against the bill in its original form,” during a conference call with investors after […]

Job Search in the USA: "Silicon Valley"

I decided to summarize my more than ten years of experience searching for work in the US in the IT market. One way or another, the issue is quite topical and often discussed in Russian countries abroad. For a person unprepared for the realities of competition in the US market, many considerations may seem quite exotic, but, nevertheless, it is better to know than to be ignorant. Basic requirements Before […]

New sponsors of the Blender project

Following NVIDIA, AMD joined the Blender Development Fund at the level of the main sponsor (Patron). Blender's sponsors also included Embark Studios and Adidas. Embark Studios joined as a Gold sponsor and Adidas as a Silver sponsor. Source: linux.org.ru

“OPEN SOURCE - a new business philosophy” free seminar on open source software, October 25, 2019.

At the seminar you will learn: how to create corporate versions of open source software systems how to launch reliable and compatible solutions for creating software-implemented infrastructure how to isolate a program from the network settings of the system other issues In addition to the reports, there will be a competition and prize draw. A light buffet will be served upon completion. When: October 25 at 15:00 Seminar duration: 2 hours Venue: […]

Vulnerability in php-fpm that allows remote code execution on the server

Corrective releases of PHP 7.3.11, 7.1.33 and 7.2.24 are available, which eliminate a critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-11043) in the PHP-FPM extension (FastCGI process manager), which allows you to remotely execute your code on the system. To attack servers that use PHP-FPM in conjunction with Nginx to run PHP scripts, a working exploit is already publicly available. The attack is possible in nginx configurations in which forwarding to PHP-FPM […]

The Last of Us Part II has been postponed to May 29, 2020

Sony Interactive Entertainment and Naughty Dog studio announced the postponement of the release of The Last of Us Part II for PlayStation 4. The new premiere date is May 29, 2020. Post-apocalyptic action adventure The Last of Us Part II was scheduled to be released on February 21, 2020. This was announced less than a month ago. But suddenly […]

CSE: Kubernetes for those in vCloud

Hi all! It so happened that our small team, not to say that recently, and certainly not suddenly, has grown to move some (and in the future all) products to Kubernetes. There were many reasons for this, but our story is not about holivar. We had little choice regarding the infrastructure base. vCloud Director and vCloud Director. We chose the one that [...]

Backup Part 7: Conclusions

This note completes the cycle about backup. It will discuss the logical organization of a dedicated server (or VPS), convenient for backup, and will also offer an option for quickly restoring a server from a backup without much downtime in the event of a disaster. Initial data A dedicated server most often has at least two hard drives used to organize a RAID array […]

Samsung begins to fix the fingerprint scanner of flagship smartphones

Last week it became known that the fingerprint scanner of a number of Samsung flagship smartphones may not work correctly. The fact is that when using some plastic and silicone protective films, the fingerprint scanner allowed anyone to unlock the device. Samsung acknowledged the problem, promising to quickly release a fix for this error. Now the South Korean company has officially announced […]

Server-side JavaScript Node.js 13.0 release

The release of Node.js 13.0, a platform for running network applications in JavaScript, is available. At the same time, the stabilization of the previous branch of Node.js 12.x has been completed, which has been transferred to the category of long-term support releases, updates for which are released for 4 years. Support for the previous LTS branch of Node.js 10.0 will last until April 2021, and support for the last LTS branch 8.0 until January 2020. Basic […]

The eleventh update of the UBports firmware, which replaced Ubuntu Touch

The UBports project, which took over the development of the Ubuntu Touch mobile platform after Canonical pulled away from it, published an OTA-11 (over-the-air) firmware update for all officially supported smartphones and tablets that were equipped with firmware based on Ubuntu. The update is for OnePlus One, Fairphone 2, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 2013, Meizu […]

Bloomberg: Cyberpunk 2077 will reach 20 million copies sold in the first year - many times faster than The Witcher 3

In four years, CD Projekt RED has sold over 20 million copies of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The third part was significantly ahead of the rest of the games in the series - together they have fewer units sold. However, according to analysts, the best is yet to come for the Polish studio: Matthew Kanterman from Bloomberg believes that Cyberpunk 2077 will surpass the 20 […]