A study conducted by Kaspersky Lab suggests that stalker software is rapidly gaining popularity among online attackers. Moreover, in Russia the growth rate of attacks of this type exceeds global indicators. So-called stalker software is special surveillance software that claims to be legal and can be purchased online. Such malware can operate completely unnoticed [...]
Ubisoft has removed sets of microtransactions with cosmetics, skill unlocks and experience multipliers from the shooter Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. As a company employee reported on the forum, the developers accidentally added these kits ahead of time. A Ubisoft representative emphasized that the company wants to maintain in-game balance so that users do not complain about the impact of microtransactions on gameplay. “On October 1st, some […]
Budgie desktop 10.5.1 has been released. In addition to bug fixes, work was done to improve the UX and adaptation to GNOME 3.34 components was carried out. Main changes in the new version: added settings for font smoothing and hinting; compatibility with components of the GNOME 3.34 stack is ensured; displaying tooltips in the panel with information about the open window; in the settings the option has been added [...]
The PostgreSQL team has announced the release of PostgreSQL 12, the latest version of the open source relational database management system. PostgreSQL 12 has significantly improved query performance - especially when working with large volumes of data, and has also optimized the use of disk space in general. Among the new features: implementation of the JSON Path query language (the most important part of the SQL/JSON standard); […]
Google has warned of a change in its approach to handling mixed content on pages opened over HTTPS. Previously, if there were components on pages opened via HTTPS that were loaded from without encryption (via the http:// protocol), a special indicator was displayed. In the future, it has been decided to block the loading of such resources by default. Thus, pages opened via “https://” will be guaranteed to contain only resources loaded […]
The developers of the Linux distribution Solus presented the release of the Budgie 10.5.1 desktop, in which, in addition to bug fixes, work was done to improve the user experience and adaptation to the components of the new version of GNOME 3.34. The Budgie desktop is based on GNOME technologies, but uses its own implementations of the GNOME Shell, panel, applets, and notification system. The project code is distributed under the license [...]
Mastodon is called a “decentralized Twitter,” in which microblogs are scattered across many independent servers interconnected into one network. There are a lot of updates in this version. Here are the most important ones: OStatus is no longer supported, the alternative is ActivityPub. Removed some obsolete REST APIs: GET /api/v1/search API, replaced by GET /api/v2/search. GET /api/v1/statuses/:id/card, the card attribute is now used. POST /api/v1/notifications/dismiss?id=:id, instead of […]
Today, Wednesday, the next release of Kubernetes will take place - 1.16. According to the tradition that has developed for our blog, this is the tenth anniversary time we are talking about the most significant changes in the new version. Information used to prepare this material was taken from the Kubernetes enhancements tracking table, CHANGELOG-1.16 and related issues, pull requests, and Kubernetes Enhancement Proposals […]
Note transl.: The article was written by Scott Lowe, an engineer with extensive experience in IT, who is the author/co-author of seven printed books (mainly on VMware vSphere). He now works for its VMware subsidiary Heptio (acquired in 2016), specializing in cloud computing and Kubernetes. The text itself serves as a concise and easy-to-understand introduction to configuration management […]
We present to your attention the third part of the translation of material about the path that Dropbox took when implementing a type checking system for Python code. → Previous Parts: One and Two Reaching 4 Million Lines of Typed Code Another major challenge (and the second most common concern among those surveyed internally) was increasing the amount of code at Dropbox, […]
Hi all. In this note, I decided to list the main data structures used to store graphs in computer science, and I will also talk about a couple more such structures that somehow “crystallized” for me. So, let's begin. But not from the very beginning - I think what a graph is and what they are like (directed, undirected, weighted, unweighted, with multiple edges […]
I think many people already heard Sign In with Apple (SIWA for short) after WWDC 2019. In this article I will tell you what specific pitfalls I had to face when integrating this thing into our licensing portal. This article is not really for those who have just decided to understand SIWA (for them I have provided a number of introductory links at the end […]
