Author: ProHoster

"Router for pumping": tuning TP-Link equipment for Internet providers 

According to the latest statistics, more than 33 million Russians use broadband Internet. Although the growth of the subscriber base is slowing down, the income of providers continues to grow, including through improving the quality of existing services and the emergence of new ones. Seamless Wi-Fi, IP television, smart home - to develop these areas, operators need to switch from DSL to higher speed technologies and update network equipment. In that […]

The Libra Association keeps trying to get regulatory approval to launch Libra cryptocurrency in Europe

It has been reported that the Libra Association, which plans to launch the Facebook-developed digital currency Libra next year, continues to negotiate with EU regulators even after Germany and France categorically spoke out in favor of banning the cryptocurrency. The director of the Libra Association, Bertrand Perez, spoke about this in a recent interview. Let us remind you that […]

.NET Core 3.0 available

Microsoft has released a major version of the .NET Core runtime. The release includes many components, including: .NET Core 3.0 SDK and Runtime ASP.NET Core 3.0 EF Core 3.0 Developers note the following main advantages of the new version: Already tested on dot.net and bing.com; other teams at the company are preparing to move to .NET Core 3 soon […]

Soon half of the calls will be from robots. Tip: don't answer (?)

Today we have an unusual material - a translation of an article about illegal automated calls in the USA. From time immemorial, there have been people who used technology not for good, but to fraudulently profit from gullible citizens. Modern telecommunications are no exception; spam or outright scams can overtake us via SMS, mail, or telephone. Phones have become even more fun, [...]

The Huawei Video platform will work in Russia

The Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei intends to launch its video service in Russia in the coming months. RBC reports this, citing information received from Jaime Gonzalo, vice president of mobile services for Huawei's consumer products division in Europe. We are talking about the Huawei Video platform. It became available in China approximately three years ago. Later, promotion of the service began on the European […]

The first batch of the Librem 5 smartphone has been produced. Preparing the PinePhone

Purism has announced the readiness of the first batch of the Librem 5 smartphone, notable for the presence of software and hardware to block attempts to track and collect information about the user. The smartphone provides the user with full control over the device and is equipped only with free software, including drivers and firmware. Let us remind you that the Librem 5 smartphone comes with a completely free Linux distribution PureOS, using a package base […]

We make our own Google Call Screening based on Voximplant and Dialogflow

You may have heard or read about the Call Screening feature that Google rolled out for its Pixel phones in the US. The idea is great - when you receive an incoming call, the virtual assistant begins to communicate, while you see this conversation in the form of a chat and at any time you can start speaking instead of the assistant. This is very useful in [...]

NVIDIA began to bargain with suppliers, wanting to reduce costs

In August of this year, NVIDIA reported financial results for the quarter that exceeded expectations, but for the current quarter the company gave an ambiguous forecast, and this could alert analysts. Representatives of SunTrust, who are now being quoted by Barron's, were not included in their number. According to experts, NVIDIA has a strong position in the segment of server components, gaming video cards and […]

Patent lawsuit filed against GNOME Foundation

The GNOME Foundation announced the start of litigation initiated by Rothschild Patent Imaging LLC. The lawsuit alleges infringement of the 9,936,086 patent in Shotwell's photo manager. The GNOME Foundation has already hired a lawyer and intends to vigorously defend itself against the baseless accusations. Due to the ongoing investigation, the organization is currently refraining from commenting in more detail on the chosen defense strategy. Featured […]

Backup, part at the request of readers: Overview of UrBackup, BackupPC, AMANDA

This review note continues the cycle on backup, written at the request of readers, it will talk about UrBackup, BackupPC, and AMANDA. UrBackup review. At the request of member VGusev2007, I am adding a review of UrBackup, a client-server backup system. It allows you to create full and incremental backups, can work with device snapshots (Win only?), and can also create […]

Jim Keller: Future Intel microarchitectures will provide significant performance gains

As follows from the information that Jim Keller, senior vice president of technology and system architecture at Intel, told the world, his company is currently working on creating a fundamentally new microarchitecture, which should become “significantly larger and closer to a linear dependence of performance on the number of transistors,” than the modern design of Sunny Cove. Apparently, this should be interpreted in this way, [...]

Release of Mesa 19.2.0, a free implementation of OpenGL and Vulkan

The release of the free implementation of the OpenGL and Vulkan API - Mesa 19.2.0 - has been presented. The first release of the Mesa 19.2.0 branch has an experimental status - after the final stabilization of the code, a stable version 19.2.1 will be released. Mesa 19.2 provides full OpenGL 4.5 support for i965, radeonsi and nvc0 drivers, Vulkan 1.1 support for Intel and AMD cards, and […]