Author: ProHoster

Habr Weekly #13 / 1,5 million dating service users are under threat, Meduza investigation, deanon of Russians

Let's talk about privacy again. We have been discussing this topic in one way or another since the beginning of the podcast and, it seems, for this episode we were able to draw several conclusions: we still care about our privacy; the important thing is not what to hide, but from whom; we are our data. The reason for the discussion was two materials: about a vulnerability in a dating application that exposed the data of 1,5 million people; and about services that can de-anonymize any Russian. There are links inside the post […]

Cisco Training 200-125 CCNA v3.0. Day 13 VLAN setup

Today's lesson we will devote to VLAN settings, that is, we will try to do everything that we talked about in previous lessons. Now we will look at 3 questions: creating a VLAN, assigning VLAN ports, and viewing the VLAN database. Let's open the Cisco Packer tracer program window with the logical topology of our network drawn by me. The first switch SW0 is connected to 2 computers PC0 and […]

Alan Kay recommends reading old and forgotten but important programming books

Alan Kay is the Master Yoda for IT geeks. He was at the forefront of the creation of the first personal computer (Xerox Alto), the SmallTalk language and the concept of “object-oriented programming”. He has already spoken extensively about his views on Computer Science education and recommended books for those who want to deepen their knowledge: Alan Kay: How I Would Teach Computer Science 101 […]

The method of organizing the collective study of theory during the semester

Hi all! A year ago I wrote an article about how I organized a university course on signal processing. Judging by the reviews, the article has many interesting ideas, but it is large and difficult to read. And I have long wanted to break it down into smaller ones and write them more clearly. But somehow it doesn’t work to write the same thing twice. In addition, […]

Huawei Unveils Cyberverse Mixed Reality Platform

The Chinese telecommunications and electronics giant Huawei presented at the Huawei Developer Conference 2019 event in the Chinese province of Guangdong a new platform for mixed VR and AR (virtual and augmented) reality services, Cyberverse. It is positioned as a multi-disciplinary solution for navigation, tourism, advertising and so on. According to the company's hardware and photography expert Wei Luo, this […]

Clipboard sync may appear in Chrome

Google may add cross-platform clipboard sharing support to Chrome so users can sync content across all platforms. In other words, this will allow you to copy a URL on one device and access it on another. This can be useful if you need to transfer a link from a computer to a smartphone or vice versa. Of course, all this works through an account [...]

Photo of the day: real shots on a smartphone with a 64-megapixel camera

Realme will be one of the first to release a smartphone whose main camera will include a 64-megapixel sensor. The Verge resource was able to obtain real photos from Realme taken using this device. It is known that the new Realme product will receive a powerful four-module camera. The key sensor will be a 64-megapixel Samsung ISOCELL Bright GW1 sensor. This product uses ISOCELL technology […]

Replacing the iPhone battery in an unofficial service will lead to problems

According to online sources, Apple has begun using software locking in new iPhones, which may indicate the entry into force of a new company policy. The point is that the new iPhones can only use Apple branded batteries. Moreover, even installing the original battery in an unauthorized service center will not avoid problems. If the user has independently replaced [...]

“Changing shoes on the go”: after the announcement of the Galaxy Note 10, Samsung deletes a video with a long-standing Apple trolling

Samsung has not been shy about trolling its main competitor Apple for a long time to advertise its own smartphones, but, as often happens, everything changes over time and the old jokes no longer seem funny. With the release of the Galaxy Note 10, the South Korean company has actually repeated the iPhone feature that it once actively ridiculed, and now the company's marketers are actively removing the old video […]

Xfce 4.14 user environment release

After more than four years of development, the release of the Xfce 4.14 desktop environment has been prepared, aimed at providing a classic desktop that requires minimal system resources to operate. Xfce consists of a number of interconnected components that can be used in other projects if desired. Among these components: a window manager, a panel for launching applications, a display manager, a manager for managing user sessions and […]

Nmap Network Security Scanner 7.80 Released

Almost a year and a half since the last release, the release of the network security scanner Nmap 7.80, designed to conduct a network audit and identify active network services, has been presented. 11 new NSE scripts are included to provide automation of various actions with Nmap. Signature databases have been updated to identify network applications and operating systems. Recently, the main work has been focused on [...]

Danish bank pays extra to customers for taking a mortgage loan

Jyske Bank, Denmark's third-largest bank, said last week that its customers will now be able to take out a 10-year mortgage with a fixed interest rate of -0,5%, meaning customers will pay back less than they borrowed. In other words, if you bought a house with a $1 million loan and paid off the mortgage in 10 […]