The GnuPG 2.2.16 (GNU Privacy Guard) toolkit was released, compatible with OpenPGP (RFC-4880) and S/MIME standards, and providing utilities for data encryption, working with electronic signatures, key management and access to public key stores. Recall that the GnuPG 2.2 branch is positioned as a development release in which new features continue to be added; only corrective fixes are allowed in the 2.1 branch. […]
The Firefox Add-ons Directory (AMO) has recorded a massive publication of malicious add-ons disguised as well-known projects. For example, the directory contains malicious add-ons “Adobe Flash Player”, “ublock origin Pro”, “Adblock Flash Player”, etc. As such add-ons are removed from the catalog, attackers immediately create a new account and re-post their add-ons. For example, a few hours ago an account was created […]
Good afternoon, dear Khabrovites, friends and acquaintances. As a preface, I want to talk about the implementation of one interesting project, or, as it is now fashionable to say, one interesting case regarding the deployment of a VDI infrastructure. It seemed that there were a lot of articles on VDI, there was a step-by-step, and a comparison of direct competitors, and again a step-by-step, and again a comparison of competitive solutions. It seemed that you can offer something new? […]
Along with the new Cortex-A77 processor core, ARM introduced a graphics processor designed for next-generation mobile SoCs. The Mali-G77, which should not be confused with the new Mali-D77 display processor, marks the transition from the ARM Bifrost architecture to Valhall. ARM declares a significant increase in graphics performance of the Mali-G77 - by 40% compared to the current generation of Mali-G76. […]
Well-known manufacturer of computer components and peripherals Cooler Master announced a number of new products that will be presented at Computex 2019. In particular, Cooler Master will show at the exhibition two new cases Silencio S400 and Silencio S600 from the series of well-known silent cases Silencio. Another MasterCase series was replenished with the MasterCase H100 case in the mini-ITX form factor, equipped with a large […]
If you go to the “Laptops and PCs” section, you will see that our website contains reviews of mainly gaming laptops with Intel and NVIDIA components. Of course, we couldn’t ignore such solutions as the ASUS ROG Strix GL702ZC (the first laptop based on AMD Ryzen) and the Acer Predator Helios 500 PH517-61 (a system with Radeon RX Vega 56 graphics), […]
This is Leslie Lamport - the author of fundamental works in distributed computing, and you can also know him by the letters La in the word LaTeX - "Lamport TeX". It was he who first introduced the concept of sequential consistency back in 1979, and his article “How to Make a Multiprocessor Computer That Correctly Executes Multiprocess Programs” won the Dijkstra […]
Recently, two events on the development of multithreaded and distributed systems were announced at once: the Hydra conference (July 11-12) and the SPTDC school (July 8-12). People who are close to this topic understand that the arrival in Russia of Leslie Lamport, Maurice Herlihy and Michael Scott is a major event. But other questions arose: What to expect from the conference: "academic" or "production"? How do schools compare […]
ABBYY announced the release of a new mobile application FineScanner AI for iOS and Android, designed to solve problems related to scanning documents. The product created by a Russian developer allows you to create PDF or JPG files from any printed documents (invoices, certificates, contracts, personal documents). The program has built-in OCR technology, which recognizes texts in 193 languages and preserves formatting […]
This week, the shooter Blood & Truth was released exclusively for PlayStation VR, and has already received a lot of high marks in the press. As it turned out, after the release the game’s authors are not going to sit idly by - they plan to release several free updates. Buyers of Blood & Truth can expect online leaderboards, new time trials, New Game+ mode, […]
Microsoft has not officially confirmed the existence of the Windows Lite operating system. However, the software giant is dropping hints that this OS will appear in the future. For example, Nick Parker, corporate vice president for sales of consumer products and devices at Microsoft, speaking at the annual Computex 2019 exhibition, spoke about how the developer sees a modern operating system. […]
Along with the announcement of the Epic Games Store, a list of games that will be distributed through the new digital platform was published. It featured Journey, which is exclusive to Sony consoles. The project page in EGS appeared a long time ago, but the release date of the PC version became known only now. The publisher Annapurna Interactive, which will distribute this version of the game, posted a message on Twitter: “The critically acclaimed Journey will be released […]
