Did you know that the smallest voice recorder in the world, included three times in the Guinness Book of Records for its miniature size, was made in Russia? It is produced by the Zelenograd company Telesystems, whose activities and products have for some reason not been covered in any way on Habré. But we are talking about a company that independently develops and produces world-class products in Russia. […]
I wrote about the Zelenograd company Telesystems, which produces the smallest voice recorders in the world, back in shaggy 2010; At the same time, Telesystems even organized a small excursion for us to the production. The Weeny A110 voice recorder from the new Weeny/Dime line measures 29x24 mm, weighs 4 grams and is 4 mm thick. At the same time, in the Weeny line there is also a thinner […]
At the beginning of September, the developers of the Exim mail server notified users that they had identified a critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-15846), which allows a local or remote attacker to execute their code on the server with root rights. Exim users have been advised to install the 4.92.2 unscheduled update. And already on September 29, another emergency release of Exim 4.92.3 was published with the elimination of another critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-16928), allowing […]
Purism has released a video demonstration of its Librem 5 smartphone, the first modern and completely open (hardware and software) Linux smartphone aimed at privacy. The smartphone has a set of hardware and software that prohibit user tracking and telemetry. For example, to turn off the camera, microphone, Bluetooth/WiFi, the smartphone has three separate physical switches. The operating system is […]
Humble Bundle presented a new set (bundle) of e-books from the publishing house O'Reilly on the topic of GNU/Linux and UNIX. As always, the buyer has the opportunity to pay any amount starting from one dollar. For $1 the buyer will receive: Classic Shell Scripting Linux Device Drivers Introducing Regular Expressions grep Pocket Reference Learning GNU Emacs Unix Power Tools For $8 the buyer will […]
The hashrate of the Bitcoin network dropped significantly on September 30. It turned out that this was due to a major fire at one of the mining farms, as a result of which equipment worth about $10 million was destroyed. According to one of the first Bitcoin miners, Marshall Long, a major fire occurred on Monday at the mining center. owned by Innosilicon. Although […]
The Internet of Things by its nature means that devices from different manufacturers using different communication protocols will be able to exchange data. This will allow you to connect devices or entire processes that were previously unable to communicate. Smart city, smart grid, smart building, smart home... Most smart systems either emerged as a result of interoperability or were significantly improved by it. As an example […]
Advances in technology have had a significant impact on the architecture of access control systems. By tracing the path of its development, we can predict what awaits us in the near future. The Past Once upon a time, computer networks were still a rarity. And the access control systems of that time were built as follows: the master controller served a limited number of controllers, and the computer acted as a terminal for its programming and display […]
Istio is a convenient tool for connecting, securing and monitoring distributed applications. Istio uses a variety of technologies to run and manage software at scale, including containers to package application code and dependencies for deployment, and Kubernetes to manage those containers. Therefore, to work with Istio, you must know how an application with multiple services on […]
Last Thursday, a previously announced open day took place at the Zelenograd company Telesystems. Habra people and simply interested readers from Habr were shown the production of the famous miniature voice recorders, video recorders and SMS-guard systems, and also took an excursion to the company's holy of holies - the development and innovation department. We’ve arrived. The Telesystem office is located, not exactly nearby; it’s a short journey from the River Station by […]
Journalists from Nintendo Voice Chat spoke with the head of Larian Studios, Swen Vincke. The conversation touched on the topic of Baldur's Gate 3 and the possible release of the game on Nintendo Switch. The studio director explained why the project most likely will not appear on a portable-stationary console. Sven Vincke commented: “I have no idea what the new iterations of the Nintendo Switch will be like. […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2019-16729) has been identified in the PAM module provided by the pam-python project, which allows you to connect authentication modules in Python, which makes it possible to increase your privileges in the system. When using a vulnerable version of pam-python (not installed by default), a local user can gain root access by manipulating the environment variables handled by Python by default (for example, you can trigger a file save […]
