Late this week, it was announced that California authorities have allowed light-duty trucks to be tested on public roads. The State Department of Transportation has prepared documents that outline the licensing process for companies planning to test driverless trucks. Vehicles weighing no more than 4,5 tons will be allowed for testing, including pickups, […]
What the study is about Links to other parts of the study Information security of bank non-cash payments. Part 1 - Economic fundamentals. Information security of bank non-cash payments. Part 2 - Typical bank IT infrastructure. Information security of bank non-cash payments. Part 3 - Formation of requirements for the protection system. Information security of bank non-cash payments. Part 4 - Review of Threat Modeling Standards. Information […]
Recently I shared my experience in searching for a solution for organizing centralized access to electronic security keys in our organization. The comments raised a serious issue of information security of USB over IP hardware solutions, which worries us very much. So, first, let's decide on the initial conditions. A large number of electronic security keys. Access to them is necessary from different geographical […]
The IGN portal interviewed Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, in which he learned about the state of development of Beyond Good & Evil 2. It seems that the game is still very far from completion. Last December, Ubisoft revealed a lot of information about Beyond Good & Evil 2, and also said that it would conduct beta testing in 2019. But […]
The Visa company, according to the RIA Novosti online publication, has launched a pilot project in Russia to withdraw cash at the cash desks of stores. The new service is currently being tested in the Moscow Region. The Russian Parmesan cheese dairies and Rosselkhozbank are participating in the project. In order to get cash at the checkout of the store, you need to make a purchase and pay for the […]
Last year, the non-profit organization OpenAI pitted its artificial intelligence system against Dota 2 professionals. And then the machine could not outperform humans. Now the system has taken revenge. In San Francisco, the OpenAI Five championship was held over the weekend, during which the AI met with five esports players from the OG team. This team in 2018 took the highest […]
Relatively recently, it was discovered that ordinary fiber optic cables can work as seismic activity sensors. Vibrations in the earth's crust affect the cable laid in the activity zone and cause deviations in the degree of scattering of the light beam in the waveguides. The equipment picks up these deviations and identifies them as seismic activity. In experiments carried out a year ago, for example, using […]
Hisense, a company specializing in the production of household appliances and electronics, held a press conference in Moscow dedicated to the start of smartphone sales on the Russian market. Among the first smartphones, the company offered Russians the flagship models A6 and U30, as well as budget devices Hisense F16 and F25. Sales of smartphones began on April 11 in the Hitbuy chain of stores, and then from federal partners. […]
When the shortage of personnel becomes unbearable, digital companies go different ways: someone, under the guise of “courses”, opens their own forge of personnel, someone comes up with tempting conditions and hunts specialists from their competitors. But what if neither the first nor the second is suitable? That's right - "grow". When a lot of tasks accumulate in the queue, and there is a risk of “layering” some projects in the production schedule […]
[:en] On March 30, 2019, a new version of Trinity DE (DE), a fork of KDE 3, was released. This version mainly contains bug fixes. Of the most important announced changes, we can mention more correct work with third-party display managers. Source linux.org.ru [:en] On March 30, 2019, a new version of Trinity DE (DE), a fork of KDE 3, was released. […]
[:ru] After two months of development, the release of the system manager systemd 242 is presented. Among the innovations, we can note support for L2TP tunnels, the ability to control the behavior of systemd-logind when restarting through environment variables, support for extended XBOOTLDR boot partitions for mounting /boot, the ability to boot from the root partition in overlayfs, as well as a large number of new settings for different types of units. Major changes: In […]
[:ru] The developers of the platform for decentralized messaging Matrix announced an emergency shutdown of the Matrix.org and Riot.im servers (the main client of Matrix) due to hacking of the project infrastructure. The first outage took place last night, after which the servers were restored and the applications rebuilt from reference sources. But a few minutes ago the servers were compromised for the second time. The attackers placed on [...]
