At the end of August, Sonos plans to hold an event dedicated to the presentation of the new device. While the company is keeping the event program secret for now, rumors claim that the event's focus will be on a new Bluetooth-enabled speaker equipped with a built-in battery for portability. Earlier this month, The Verge confirmed that one of two devices registered by Sonos with the Federal […]
Andrey Konovalov from Google discovered 15 vulnerabilities in USB drivers offered in the Linux kernel. This is the second batch of problems found during fuzzing testing - in 2017, this researcher found 14 more vulnerabilities in the USB stack. Problems can potentially be exploited when specially prepared USB devices are connected to the computer. An attack is possible if there is physical access to the equipment and [...]
The time and place of Richard Stallman's performance in Moscow have been determined. On August 27 from 18-00 to 20-00, everyone will be able to attend Stallman’s performance absolutely free of charge, which will take place at st. Bolshaya Semenovskaya, 38. Auditorium A202 (Faculty of Information Technologies of Moscow Polytechnic University). The visit is free, but pre-registration is recommended (registration is required to obtain a pass to the building, those who […]
Companies developing autopilot algorithms for cars are usually forced to independently collect data to train the system. To do this, it is desirable to have a fairly large fleet of vehicles operating in heterogeneous conditions. As a result, development teams that want to put their efforts in this direction are often unable to do so. But recently, many companies developing autonomous driving systems have begun to publish […]
The Internet Development Institute (IDI) has selected games that are proposed to be included in the school curriculum for children. These include Dota 2, Hearthstone, Dota Underlords, FIFA 19, World of Tanks, Minecraft and CodinGame, and classes are planned to be held as electives. It is assumed that this innovation will develop creativity and abstract thinking, the ability to think strategically, etc. […]
Players enjoyed conquering the extreme Siberian off-road terrain in MudRunner, released a couple of years ago, and last summer Saber Interactive announced a full-fledged sequel to this project. Then it was called MudRunner 2, and now, since there will be a lot of snow and ice under the wheels instead of dirt, they decided to rename it SnowRunner. According to the authors, the new part will be much more ambitious, large-scale and [...]
Futhark is a concurrency programming language that belongs to the ML family. Added: The internal representation of parallel structures has been revised and optimized. With rare exceptions, this can have a significant impact on performance. There is now support for structurally typed sums and pattern matching. But there remain some problems with sum-type arrays, which themselves contain arrays. Significantly reduced compilation time [...]
FreeBSD has fixed a vulnerability (CVE-2019-5611) that could cause a kernel crash (packet-of-death) by sending specially fragmented ICMPv6 MLD (Multicast Listener Discovery) packets. The problem is caused by missing a necessary check in the m_pulldown() call, which can result in non-contiguous strings of mbufs being returned, contrary to what the caller expected. The vulnerability was fixed in updates 12.0-RELEASE-p10, 11.3-RELEASE-p3 and 11.2-RELEASE-p14. As a security workaround, you can […]
This is a difficult, controversial and sore subject. But I want to try to discuss it. I can’t tell you something great and sparkling about myself, so I’ll refer to a rather sincere (among the heap of hypocrisy and moralizing on this issue) speech by mathematician, doctor of sciences, Alexey Savvateev. (The video itself is at the end of the post.) 36 years of my life were very closely connected with alcohol. […]
Moderator's comment. This article was in the Sandbox and was rejected during pre-moderation. But today an important and difficult question was raised in the article. And this post reveals the signs of personality decay and may be useful to those who, as the author of the mentioned article put it, are a meter from a waterfall. Therefore, it was decided to release it. Hello, dear readers! I am writing to you in a state [...]
1. The cost of a labeling machine for weight products is comparable to the cost of a project to implement an MES system. For simplicity, let both of them cost 7 million rubles. 2. The payback of marking lines is quite easy to calculate and is clear to the person at whose expense the banquet is paid: A team of 4 markers marks about 5 tons per shift; With an automated line accompanied by 3 […]
According to online sources, the Tesla Roadster and the Starman dummy, sent into space on the Falcon Heavy rocket last year, made their first orbit around the Sun. Let us recall that in February 2018, SpaceX successfully launched its own Falcon Heavy rocket. To demonstrate the rocket's capabilities, it was necessary to provide a "dummy load". As a result, a roadster went into space […]
