Hey Habr. One day we were sitting, doing our very productive business, when SUDDENLY it turned out that for some unknown reason, at least the wonderful Rostelecom and the equally wonderful FIORD Research and Development Center were connected to the Telegram infrastructure as a peer. List of peers Telegram Messenger LLP, you can see for yourself How did it happen? We decided to ask Pavel Durov […]
Checking smartphones and laptops at airports is becoming the norm for many countries. Someone considers it a necessity, others - an invasion of privacy. We discuss the situation, the latest developments on the topic and tell you how you can act in the new circumstances. / Unsplash / Jonathan Kemper The issue of privacy at the border In 2017 alone, US Customs conducted 30 […]
Free service for monitoring and protecting websites. Idea In 2017, our CARKA team began to develop a tool for monitoring the entire cyberspace in the national domain zone .KZ, which was about 140 websites. The task is difficult: it was necessary to quickly check each site for traces of hacks and viruses on the site and display a […]
The Internet of Things is an uptrend, the technology is used everywhere and everywhere: in industry, business, everyday life (hello to smart light bulbs and refrigerators that order food themselves). But this is just the beginning - there are a lot of tasks that can be solved with the help of IoT. In order to visually show the capabilities of the technology to developers, GeekBrains, together with Rostelecom, decided to hold an IoT hackathon. The task was one […]
It took the corporate messenger Slack just five years to gain popularity and gain a user audience of 10 million people. Now online sources are writing that the company intends to enter the New York Stock Exchange with a valuation of about $15,7 billion, with an initial price of $26 per share. The message states that […]
Intel has introduced a new utility called Intel Performance Maximizer, which should help simplify overclocking of proprietary processors. The software reportedly analyzes individual CPU settings, then uses “hyper-intelligent automation” technology to allow flexible performance adjustments. Essentially, this is overclocking without having to configure the BIOS settings yourself. This solution is not entirely new. AMD offers a similar […]
Germany will back three company alliances with €1 billion in target funds for local battery production to reduce automakers' dependence on Asian suppliers, Economy Minister Peter Altmaier (pictured below) told Reuters. Among the more than 30 companies that contacted the German Ministry of Economic Affairs about government funding were car makers Volkswagen […]
The Taiwanese company CMC Magnetics has further strengthened its own position as a world leader in the production of optical disks for data storage. Recently, CMC Magnetics, together with the Japanese company Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC), issued a press release announcing an agreement reached to buy the Mitsubishi Chemical Media division - Verbatim. The transaction value is $32 million. Completion of the transaction and transfer […]
Samsung is still keeping secret the final release dates for the Galaxy Fold folding smartphone, the release of which had to be postponed due to a number of deficiencies. However, there is now every reason to assume that we won’t have to wait long for the start of deliveries of the innovative new product. According to the South Korean resource The Investor, Samsung Display Vice President Kim Seong-cheol, speaking in Seoul at a […]
Stripe, a company specializing in the development of platforms for online payments, has opened the source code of the Sorbet project, within which a static type checking system has been prepared for the Ruby language. The code is written in C++ and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Type information in code can be calculated dynamically, and can also be specified in the form of simple annotations that can be specified in the code […]
Facebook's plans to create a global cryptocurrency with the involvement of international financial institutions will be subject to scrutiny on July 16 by the US Senate Banking Committee. The Internet giant's project has attracted the attention of regulators around the world and made politicians cautious about its prospects. The committee announced on Wednesday that the hearing will examine both the Libra digital currency itself and […]
Iconic music videos are true works of art that continue to influence people across generations. Like priceless paintings and sculptures kept in museums, music videos sometimes need updating. It has become known that as part of a joint project between YouTube and Universal Music Group, hundreds of iconic videos of all times will be remastered. This is done for [...]
