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Facebook to appear before the US Senate over its cryptocurrency

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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 […]

YouTube and Universal Music will update hundreds of music videos

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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 [...]

The new Microsoft Edge is available for Windows 7

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Microsoft has expanded the reach of its Chromium-based Edge browser to Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 users. The developers have released preliminary builds of Canary for these OSes. Allegedly, the new products received almost the same functionality as the version for Windows 10, including compatibility mode with Internet Explorer. The latter should be of interest to business users who need […]

End of support for i386 in Ubuntu will lead to problems with the distribution of Wine

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The developers of the Wine project have warned of problems with the delivery of Wine for Ubuntu 19.10 if support for 32-bit x86 systems is discontinued in this release. When deciding not to support the 32-bit x86 architecture, Ubuntu developers were counting on shipping a 64-bit version of Wine or using the 32-bit version in a container based on Ubuntu 18.04. The problem is […]

What's at ITMO University — IT festivals, hackathons, conferences and open seminars

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We talk about events held with the support of ITMO University. Photo tour of the robotics laboratory of ITMO University 1. Lecture by Alexander Surkov on the Internet of Things When: June 20 at 13:00 Where: Kronverksky pr., 49, ITMO University, room. 365 Alexander Surkov - IoT architect of Yandex.Cloud and one of the leading experts in the field of Internet of things - gives an introductory lecture on […]

ISTQB Certification: Benefits and Features

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The success of an IT project largely depends on how well the testing and quality assurance (QA) system is organized at all stages of its life cycle. For a QA specialist, one of the most reliable ways to confirm his professional qualities is to have an international ISTQB certificate. Today we’ll talk about what such certification gives to the employee, the employer and the business, and […]

Ubuntu stops packaging for 32-bit x86 architecture

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Two years after the end of the creation of 32-bit installation images for the x86 architecture, Ubuntu developers decided to completely end the life cycle of this architecture in the distribution kit. Starting with the fall release of Ubuntu 19.10, packages in the repository for the i386 architecture will no longer be generated. The last LTS branch for users of 32-bit x86 systems will be Ubuntu 18.04, support for which will continue […]

Percona open meetups in Russia June 26 – July 1

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The Percona company is organizing a series of open events on the topic of open source DBMS in St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don and Moscow from June 26 to July 1. June 26, St. Petersburg at the Selectel office, Tsvetochnaya, 19. Reports: “10 things a developer should know about databases”, Pyotr Zaitsev (CEO, Percona) “MariaDB 10.4: review of new features” - Sergey […]

Percona will hold open meetups in St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don and Moscow

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The Percona company is holding a series of open meetups in Russia from June 26 to July 1. Events are planned in St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don and Moscow. June 26, St. Petersburg. Selectel office, Tsvetochnaya, 19. Meeting at 18:30, presentations start at 19:00. Registration. Access to the site is provided with an ID card. Reports: “10 things a developer should […]

New AMD EPYC Rome benchmarks show performance improvement

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There is not much time left before the release of the first server processors based on the AMD Zen 2 architecture, codenamed Rome - they should appear in the third quarter of this year. In the meantime, information about new products is seeping into the public space drop by drop from various sources. Recently, on the Phoronix website, known for its database of real […]

Ansible: updates in key solutions for automating your world

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The Ansible community is constantly delighting with new content - plugins and modules - and creating a lot of new work for those involved in maintaining Ansible, since new code needs to be integrated into the repositories as quickly as possible. Meeting deadlines is not always possible, and the launch of some products that are quite ready for release is postponed until the next official version of Ansible Engine. Until recently […]

Sysadmin in a non-IT company. The unbearable burden of being?

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Being a system administrator in a small non-IT company is an adventure. The manager considers you a parasite, employees in bad times - the deity of the network and hardware, in good times - a lover of beer and tanks, accounting - an application to 1C, and the whole company as a driver for the successful operation of printers. While you're dreaming of a good cisca, and […]

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