Author: ProHoster

Roscosmos expects to completely switch to domestic components by 2030

Russia continues to implement the program of import substitution of electronic component base (ECB) for spacecraft. Currently, many components for Russian satellites are purchased abroad, which creates dependence on foreign companies. Meanwhile, the stability of communications and the country’s defense capability depend on the presence of its own production. The state corporation Roscosmos, as reported by the online publication RIA Novosti, expects to completely switch to […]

Huawei Y5 2019 smartphone is coming: Helio A22 chip and HD+ screen

Network sources have published information about the characteristics of the inexpensive Huawei Y5 2019 smartphone, which will be based on the MediaTek hardware platform. It is reported that the “heart” of the device will be the MT6761 processor. This designation hides the Helio A22 product, which contains four ARM Cortex-A53 computing cores with a clock speed of up to 2,0 GHz and an IMG PowerVR graphics controller. It is known that the new product will receive a display [...]

Flexible and transparent: LG designs a unique smartphone

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted LG Electronics a patent for what it calls the Mobile Terminal. The document is about a unique smartphone. He, as planned by the South Korean company, will receive a flexible design and a transparent display. It is noted that flexible screens will be located both in front and behind. Such a design will theoretically allow the implementation of a wide variety of […]

Thermodynamics of black holes

Happy Cosmonautics Day! We submitted “The Little Book of Black Holes” to the printing house. It was during these days that astrophysicists showed the whole world what black holes look like. Coincidence? We don’t think so 😉 So wait, an amazing book will appear soon, written by Steven Gabser and France Pretorius, translated by the wonderful Pulkovo astronomer aka Astrodedus Kirill Maslennikov, scientifically edited by the legendary Vladimir […]

About 5.5% of sites use vulnerable TLS implementations

A team of researchers from the University of Ca' Foscari (Italy) analyzed 90 thousand hosts associated with the 10 thousand largest sites ranked by Alexa, and concluded that 5.5% of them had serious security problems in their TLS implementations. The study looked at problems with vulnerable encryption methods: 4818 of the problematic hosts were found to be […]

Cisco Live 2019 EMEA. Technical sessions: external simplification with internal complication

I'm Artem Klavdiev, technical leader of the hyperconverged cloud HyperCloud project at Linxdatacenter. Today I will continue the story about the Cisco Live EMEA 2019 global conference. Let's immediately move from the general to the specific, to the announcements presented by the vendor at specialized sessions. This was my first participation in Cisco Live, the mission is to attend technical program events, immerse myself in the world of advanced technologies and […]

Everything is very bad or a new type of traffic interception

On March 13, the RIPE Abuse Working Group received a proposal to consider BGP hijacking (hjjack) as a violation of RIPE policy. If the offer was accepted, the ISP attacked by intercepting traffic would be able to send a special request to bring the attacker to clean water. If the expert group gathers enough supporting evidence, then such an LIR, which is the source of the BGP intercept, […]

Firefox for Windows 10 ARM enters beta testing

Mozilla has released the first public beta version of Firefox for computers based on Qualcomm Snapdragon chips and the Windows 10 operating system. We are talking about laptops, so now the list of programs for such devices has expanded a little. The browser is expected to move from beta testing to release in the next two months, meaning users will be able to use it in early summer. We note […]

The creators of Hitman 2 spoke about two new locations and other upcoming content

IO Interactive studio talked about what new content Hitman 2 fans can expect this year. Almost everything will be available only to owners of the Silver Edition and Gold Edition. The first gives access to the debut content update, and the second gives access to both. By the end of spring, it is planned to add the Hantu Port map for sniper mode - it will be unlocked […]

Fake clouds or have such “providers” landed on the Moon?

Today, on Cosmonautics Day, we decided to dispel all doubts about whether there is something real in landing a client on a fake cloud. The term “Fake cloud” appeared against the backdrop of a growing number of enthusiasts who are ready to become worthy competitors from their garage. What is the difference between Rolexes from Alibaba and Rolexes? What is the difference between Fake Cloud and Cloud4Y? • Guy, in the basement […]

The Chef configuration management system has become a fully open project

Chef Software has announced a decision to stop using the Open Core business model, in which only the basic components of the system are freely distributed, and advanced features are delivered as part of a commercial product. All components of the Chef configuration management system, including the Chef Automate management console, infrastructure management tools, the Chef InSpec security management module, and the Chef Habitat delivery automation and orchestration […]

Zabbix 4.2 released

The release of the free open source monitoring system Zabbix 4.2 has taken place. Zabbix is ​​a universal system for monitoring the performance and availability of servers, engineering and network equipment, applications, databases, virtualization systems, containers, IT services, web services. The system implements a full cycle from data collection, processing and transformation, analysis of the received data, and ending with the storage of this data, visualization and […]