Author: ProHoster

Release of BackBox Linux 6, Security Testing Distribution

The release of the Linux distribution BackBox Linux 6 is available, based on Ubuntu 18.04 and supplied with a collection of tools for checking system security, testing exploits, reverse engineering, analyzing network traffic and wireless networks, studying malware, stress testing, and identifying hidden or lost data. The user environment is based on Xfce. The iso image size is 2.5 GB (i386, x86_64). The new version has updated the system […]

CRUX 3.5 Linux Distribution Released

After a year of development, the release of the independent lightweight Linux distribution CRUX 3.5 has been prepared, developed since 2001 in accordance with the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) concept and aimed at experienced users. The goal of the project is to create a simple and transparent distribution for users, based on BSD-like initialization scripts, having the most simplified structure and containing a relatively small number of ready-made binary packages. […]

Topology verification in the cloud for AMD's largest 7nm GPU took just 10 hours

The fight for the customer is forcing contract semiconductor manufacturers to move closer to the designers. One option to allow customers from all over the world to benefit from certified EDA tools with all the latest changes is to deploy services in public clouds. Recently, the success of this approach was demonstrated by a service for checking the topology of chip design, deployed on the Microsoft Azure platform by TSMC. The decision is based […]

Tupperware: Facebook's Kubernetes Killer?

Efficient and Reliable Cluster Management at Scale with Tupperware Today at Systems @Scale we unveiled Tupperware, our cluster management system that orchestrates containers across millions of servers that run almost all of our services. We first deployed Tupperware in 2011, and since then our infrastructure has grown from 1 data center to as many as 15 geo-distributed data centers. […]

The first wave was affected by the Exim vulnerability. Script for treatment

The RCE vulnerability in Exim has already made a lot of noise, and has pretty much rattled the nerves of system administrators around the world. On the wave of mass infections (many of our clients use Exim as a mail server), I quickly threw in a script to automate the solution of the problem. The script is far from ideal and full of sub-optimal code, but it's a quick combat […]

Telephony with Snom: for those who work from home

I recently talked about three cases where companies built large telephone networks based on boxed telephone systems and Snom sets. And this time I will share examples of creating IP telephony for employees working at home. IP telephony solutions can be very beneficial for companies that use remote workers. Such solutions can be easily integrated with existing communication systems, […]

Building Outbound sales in an IT service company

In this interview we will talk about lead generation in IT using non-standard methods. My guest today is Max Makarenko, founder and CEO at Docsify, sales & marketing growth hacker. Max has been in B2B sales for over ten years. After four years of working in outsourcing, he moved into the grocery business. Now he is also engaged in sharing [...]

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga will include all nine Star Wars films

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, TT Games, The LEGO Group and Lucasfilm have announced a new LEGO Star Wars game - the project is called LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. The word “Saga” is in the title for a reason - according to the developers, the new product will include all nine films in the series. “The biggest game in the LEGO Star Wars series awaits you, […]

Video: a lot of details and three videos of Gears 5 from E3 2019

During E3 2019, Mcirosoft Corporation revealed a lot of details about the upcoming cooperative action game Gears 5, which will be released on Xbox One and PC (including Steam) on September 10, 2019 (will be available to Xbox Game Pass subscribers on the day of release). However, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate users or Gears 5 Ultimate Edition buyers will be able to […]

E3 2019: ray tracing trailer for Control action

Remedy Entertainment, the company behind Max Payne, Alan Wake and Quantum Break, is preparing to release Control on August 27 this year. The new third-person action-adventure takes place in a shape-shifting Federal Bureau of Control building taken over by the otherworldly force Hiss. During E3 2019, the developers allowed journalists behind closed doors to preview Control with tracing enabled […]

NASA opens the ISS to tourists - for only $35 thousand per day

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced a new multi-part plan that will significantly expand access to the International Space Station (ISS) for commercial companies, equipment and even private astronauts. NASA already allows some commercial research to be carried out on the ISS, but now the agency has announced its desire to expand the list of proposals for companies […]

NVIDIA on the development of the autopilot: it is not the number of miles traveled that matters, but their quality

NVIDIA delegated Danny Shapiro, responsible for the development of the automotive systems segment, to the RBC Capital Markets event, and during his speech he adhered to one interesting idea related to simulating tests of “robotic cars” using the DRIVE Sim platform. The latter, we recall, allows you to simulate in a virtual environment tests of a car with active driver assistance systems under different conditions […]