The other day we reported that the Russian Earth remote sensing satellite (ERS) Meteor-M No. 2 had several onboard instruments fail. And now it has become known that a failure was recorded in another domestic remote sensing device. We are talking about the Elektro-L satellite No. 2, which is part of the Elektro geostationary hydrometeorological space system. The device was launched into orbit in December 2015 […]
The Roscosmos State Corporation announces that Russia has approved the Federal Law “On the ratification of the agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the People's Republic of China on cooperation in the field of application of the global navigation satellite systems GLONASS and Beidou for peaceful purposes.” The Russian Federation and China will jointly implement projects in the field of satellite navigation. In particular, we are talking about [...]
A recent update (2.3-3ubuntu9.4) in Ubuntu 18.04 breaks the normal operation of the DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) system used to build third-party kernel modules after updating the Linux kernel. A sign of a problem is the message “/usr/sbin/dkms: line### find_module: command not found” when manually installing modules, or suspiciously different sizes of initrd.*.dkms and the newly created initrd (this can be checked by unattended-upgrade users) . […]
The first unofficial firmware for the LineageOS platform has been published for the Nintendo Switch game console, allowing the use of an Android environment on the console instead of the standard FreeBSD-based environment. The firmware is based on LineageOS 15.1 (Android 8.1) builds for NVIDIA Shield TV devices, which, like the Nintendo Switch, are based on the NVIDIA Tegra X1 SoC. Supports operation in portable device mode (output to built-in […]
After nearly two years of development, the free 3D modeling package Blender 2.80 has been released, becoming one of the most significant releases in the project's history. Main innovations: The user interface has been radically redesigned, which has become more familiar to users who have experience working in other graphics packages. A new dark theme and familiar panels with a modern set of icons instead of text […]
A year ago, NVIDIA introduced the first video cards with support for hardware acceleration of ray tracing, after which games that use this technology began to appear on the market. There are not too many such games yet, but their number is growing steadily. According to NVIDIA research scientist Morgan McGuire, around 2023 there will be a game that […]
Google researchers have discovered six vulnerabilities in iOS software, one of which has not yet been fixed by Apple developers. According to online sources, the vulnerabilities were discovered by Google Project Zero researchers, with five of the six problem areas being fixed last week when the iOS 12.4 update was released. The vulnerabilities discovered by the researchers are “non-contact”, meaning they […]
Hello! We made a small game to break the stereotype that there is no rock and roll in the life of programmers. Click on the picture to take the test. PS: we are sincerely sorry that we could not embed the game directly into Habr, the button will take you to our website. Source: www.habr.com
“Work fills the time allotted for it.” Parkinson's Law Unless you are a British official from 1958, you don't have to follow this law. No work has to take up all the time allotted for it. A few words about the law Cyril Northcote Parkinson is a British historian and brilliant satirist. An essay published by […]
We continue the series of publications about the best mobile applications of SAMSUNG IT SCHOOL graduates. Today – a word from young developers from Novosibirsk, winners of the VR application competition “SCHOOL VR 360” in 2018, when they were first-year students. This competition concluded a special project for graduates of the “SAMSUNG IT SCHOOL”, where they taught development in Unity3d for Samsung Gear VR virtual reality glasses. All gamers are familiar with [...]
Purism has published the full specification of Librem 5. Main hardware and characteristics: Processor: i.MX8M (4 cores, 1.5GHz), GPU supports OpenGL/ES 3.1, Vulkan, OpenCL 1.2; RAM: 3 GB; Internal memory: 32 GB eMMC; MicroSD slot (supports memory cards up to 2 TB); Screen 5.7" IPS TFT with a resolution of 720×1440; Removable battery 3500 mAh; Wi-Fi: 802.11abgn (2.4GHz + […]
We analyze opinions regarding the features of DNS over HTTPS, which have recently become a “bone of contention” among Internet providers and browser developers. / Unsplash / Steve Halama The essence of the disagreement Recently, large media and thematic platforms (including Habr) often write about the DNS over HTTPS (DoH) protocol. It encrypts queries to the DNS server and responses to […]
