Author: ProHoster

Leading Japanese manufacturer backs Washington's measures against Chinese firms

The Japanese technology company Tokyo Electron, which ranks third in the world ranking of suppliers of equipment for the production of chips, will not cooperate with Chinese firms blacklisted by the United States. This was reported to Reuters by one of the company's top managers, who wished to remain anonymous. The decision shows that Washington's calls to ban technology sales to Chinese firms, including Huawei Technologies, have found adherents […]

Analysts have changed their forecast for the all-in-one PC market from neutral to pessimistic

According to the updated forecast of the analytical company Digitimes Research, supplies of all-in-one PCs in 2019 will decrease by 5% and amount to 12,8 million units of equipment. Experts' previous expectations were more optimistic: it was assumed that there would be zero growth in this market segment. The main reasons for lowering the forecast were the growing trade war between the United States and China, as well as the ongoing deficit […]

How we found a cool way to connect business and DevOps

The philosophy of DevOps, when development is combined with software maintenance, is no surprise to anyone. A new trend is gaining momentum - DevOps 2.0 or BizDevOps. It already merges three components into a single whole: business, development and support. And just as in DevOps, engineering practices form the basis of the relationship between development and support, so in business devops, analytics […]

Introduced a new technique for hidden system and browser identification

A team of researchers from the Technical University of Graz (Austria), previously known for developing the MDS, NetSpectre and Throwhammer attacks, has disclosed a new side-channel analysis technique that can determine the exact version of the browser, the operating system used, the CPU architecture and the use of add-ons to combat hidden attacks. identification. To determine these parameters, it is enough to run JavaScript code prepared by researchers in the browser. […]

PDK "Elbrus" 4.0 for x86-64 processors is available for download

The MCST company has posted on its website links to download the latest version of the developer platform for Elbrus processors: PDK Elbrus 4.0. The platform is available free of charge for PCs based on processors with x86-64 architecture. It allows you to engage in cross-platform software development and adaptation. If the application was able to be built from source code on x86-64, then it should be built without problems on […]

Crytek is hosting a free weekend in online shooter Hunt Showdown

Crytek has announced that online first-person shooter Hunt Showdown will be available to everyone for free this weekend. The promotion is running on Steam and will end on June 17 at 20:00 Moscow time. All that is required from the player is to go to the game page and click on the “Play” button. The full version of Hunt Showdown will automatically appear in your library. […]

League of Legends will have its own Dota Auto Chess — Teamfight Tactics

Riot Games has announced a new turn-based mode for League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics (TFT). In Teamfight Tactics, eight players battle it out in 1v1 matches until the last one remains - the winner. In this mode, Riot Games aims to give casual and hardcore players a "deep" gameplay experience, but not as action-packed as other League of Legends modes. […]

WSJ: Facebook Cryptocurrency Debuts Next Week

The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook has enlisted the help of more than a dozen major companies to launch its own cryptocurrency, Libra, which is set to be officially unveiled next week and launched in 2020. The list of companies that have decided to support Libra includes such financial organizations as Visa and Mastercard, as well as large online platforms PayPal, Uber, Stripe […]

Is the Machine Learning Bubble Bursting or the Beginning of a New Dawn

An article was recently published that does a good job of showing the trend in machine learning in recent years. In short: the number of machine learning startups has plummeted in the last two years. Well. Let’s look at “whether the bubble has burst”, “how to continue to live” and talk about where this squiggle comes from in the first place. First, let's talk about what was the booster of this curve. Where did she come from? They will probably remember everything [...]

Projection of corporate conflict on network connectivity

A corporate conflict arose on June 10.06.2019, 14.06.2019 due to an increase in the cost of SMS delivery to users of the VimpelCom network by Mail.RU Group. As a response, Mail.RU Group stopped “serving” direct Russian IP channels towards the VimpelCom network. Below is a brief analysis of the situation from the perspective of a network engineer. Update: 18/45/XNUMX XNUMX:XNUMX - emphasis on Russian routes to the VimpelCom network, conclusions corrected, Sergey’s explanation added […]

Sinus lift and simultaneous implantation

Dear friends, in previous articles, we discussed what types of wisdom teeth there are and how the removal of these same teeth goes. Today I would like to digress a little and talk about implantation, and in particular single-stage implantation - when the implant is installed directly into the socket of an extracted tooth and about sinus lifting - increasing the volume of bone tissue […]

Network fabric for the Cisco ACI data center - to help the administrator

With the help of this magical piece of Cisco ACI script, you can quickly set up a network. The network fabric for the Cisco ACI data center has existed for five years, but nothing really is said about it on Habré, so I decided to fix it a little. I’ll tell you from my own experience what it is, what its benefits are and where its rake is. What […]