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Tor shuts down 800 out of 6000 nodes due to outdated software

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The developers of the anonymous Tor network have warned of a major purge of nodes that use outdated software that has been discontinued. On October 8, about 800 outdated nodes operating in relay mode were blocked (in total there are more than 6000 such nodes in the Tor network). The blocking was accomplished by placing blacklist directories of problem nodes on the servers. Excluding bridge nodes that have not been updated from the network […]

Firefox code is completely free of XBL

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Mozilla developers have reported the successful completion of work to remove XML Binding Language (XML) components from Firefox code. The work, which has been ongoing since 2017, removed approximately 300 different XBL bindings from the code and rewrote approximately 40 lines of code. These components were replaced with analogues based on Web Components, written […]

The possibility of changing the numbering and the method of forming X.Org Server releases is being considered

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Adam Jackson, who was responsible for preparing several past releases of X.Org Server, proposed in his report at the XDC2019 conference to switch to a new release numbering scheme. In order to more clearly see how long ago a particular release was published, by analogy with Mesa, it was proposed to reflect the year in the first number of the version. The second number will indicate the serial number of the significant […]

A Song of Ice (Bloody Enterprise) and Fire (DevOps and IaC)

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The topic of DevOps and IaC is very popular and is developing quickly. However, most authors deal with purely technical problems along this path. I will describe the problems characteristic of a large company. I don’t have a solution - the problems, in general, are fatal and lie in the area of ​​bureaucracy, auditing, and “soft skills”. Since the title of the article is like that, Daenerys will act as the cat, […]

America's banks to shed 200 jobs in coming years

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It's not just supermarkets that are trying to replace their employees with robots. Over the next decade, US banks, which are now investing more than $150 billion a year in technology, will use advanced automation to lay off at least 200 workers. This will be "the largest transition from labor to capital" in industrial history. This is stated in a report by analysts at Wells Fargo, one of the largest banking […]

Why corporate blogs sometimes turn sour: some observations and advice

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If a corporate blog publishes 1-2 articles per month with 1-2 thousand views and only half a dozen pluses, this means that something is being done wrong. At the same time, practice shows that in most cases blogs can be made both interesting and useful. Perhaps now there will be many opponents of corporate blogs, and in some ways I agree with them. […]

Wolfram Technology Essentials Course: 13+ Hours of Video Lectures, Theory and Challenges

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All course documents can be downloaded here. I taught this course a couple of years ago to a fairly large audience. It contains a lot of information about how Mathematica, the Wolfram Cloud, and the Wolfram Language work. However, of course, time does not stand still and a lot of new things have appeared lately: from advanced capabilities for working with neural networks […]

PyTorch 1.3.0 released

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PyTorch, the popular open source machine learning framework, has updated to version 1.3.0 and continues to gain momentum with its focus on serving the needs of both researchers and application programmers. Some changes: experimental support for named tensors. You can now refer to tensor dimensions by name, instead of specifying an absolute position: NCHW = ['N', 'C', 'H', 'W'] images = torch.randn(32, 3, […]

NASA's Curiosity rover discovers evidence of ancient salt lakes on Mars

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NASA's Curiosity rover, while exploring Gale Crater, a vast dry ancient lake bed with a hill in the center, discovered sediments containing sulfate salts in its soil. The presence of such salts indicates that there were once salt lakes here. Sulfate salts have been found in sedimentary rocks formed between 3,3 and 3,7 billion years ago. Curiosity analyzed other […]

Global tablet shipments will continue to decline in the coming years

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Analysts from Digitimes Research believe that global shipments of tablet computers will decline sharply this year amid declining demand for branded and educational devices in this category. According to experts, by the end of next year the total number of tablet computers supplied to the world market will not exceed 130 million units. In the future, supplies will be reduced by 2–3 […]

Acer introduced in Russia laptop ConceptD 7 worth more than 200 thousand rubles

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Acer presented the ConceptD 7 laptop in Russia, designed for specialists in the field of 3D graphics, design and photography. The new product is equipped with a 15,6-inch IPS screen with UHD 4K resolution (3840 × 2160 pixels), with factory color calibration (Delta E<2) and 100% coverage of the Adobe RGB color space. The Pantone Validated Grade certificate guarantees high-quality color rendering of the image. In the maximum configuration, the laptop […]

Guidelines for running Buildah inside a container

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What's the beauty of decoupling the container runtime into separate tooling components? In particular, these tools can begin to be combined so that they protect each other. Many people are attracted to the idea of ​​building containerized OCI images within Kubernetes or a similar system. Let's say we have a CI/CD that constantly collects images, then something like Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes was […]

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