At the end of August, Sonos plans to hold an event dedicated to the presentation of the new device. While the company is keeping the event program secret for now, rumors claim that the event's focus will be on a new Bluetooth-enabled speaker equipped with a built-in battery for portability. Earlier this month, The Verge confirmed that one of two devices registered by Sonos with the Federal […]
There is a problem - it is difficult to generate a random number in a decentralized network. Almost all blockchains have already encountered this. Indeed, in networks where there is no trust between users, creating an undeniable random number solves many problems. In this article we tell you how we managed to solve the problem using games as an example. The first of them was Waves Xmas Tree. For development we needed [...]
We recently launched Kubernetes 1.9 on AWS using Kops. Yesterday, while smoothly rolling out new traffic to the largest of our Kubernetes clusters, I started noticing unusual DNS name resolution errors logged by our application. They talked about this on GitHub for quite a long time, so I decided to look into it too. In the end, I realized that […]
Note transl.: The author of this material is Cindy Sridharan, an engineer from imgix, involved in API development and, in particular, testing microservices. In this material, she shares her detailed vision of current problems in the field of distributed tracing, where, in her opinion, there is a lack of truly effective tools for solving pressing problems. [Illustration borrowed from another material about distributed […]
I was thinking that it would be great to cover events from international conferences. And not just in a general overview, but to talk about the most interesting reports. I bring to your attention the first hot ten. – Waiting for a friendly tandem of IoT attacks and ransomware – “Open your mouth, say 0x41414141”: Attack on medical cyberinfrastructure – A toothy exploit on the cutting edge of contextual advertising […]
This is a difficult, controversial and sore subject. But I want to try to discuss it. I can’t tell you something great and sparkling about myself, so I’ll refer to a rather sincere (among the heap of hypocrisy and moralizing on this issue) speech by mathematician, doctor of sciences, Alexey Savvateev. (The video itself is at the end of the post.) 36 years of my life were very closely connected with alcohol. […]
Hi all! Today I wanted to tell you about a new interesting project – a service for creating video for business Voxgun. This tool allows you to create video content with professional voiceovers and animation in less than 10 minutes and without specialized skills. How it works Using the video editor, the user can select pre-animated scenes and recorded voice clips, voiced by professional […]
Moderator's comment. This article was in the Sandbox and was rejected during pre-moderation. But today an important and difficult question was raised in the article. And this post reveals the signs of personality decay and may be useful to those who, as the author of the mentioned article put it, are a meter from a waterfall. Therefore, it was decided to release it. Hello, dear readers! I am writing to you in a state [...]
Denuvo, a company engaged in the creation and development of DRM protection of the same name, has introduced a new program for mobile video games. According to the developers, it will help protect projects for mobile systems from hacking. The developers said that the new software will not allow hackers to study files in detail. Thanks to this, studios will be able to retain revenue from mobile video games. According to them, it will work around the clock, and its […]
IBM has announced that it is making the Power instruction set architecture (ISA) open source. IBM had already established the OpenPOWER consortium in 2013, providing licensing opportunities for POWER-related intellectual property and full access to specifications. At the same time, royalties continued to be collected for obtaining a license to produce chips. From now on, creating your own modifications of chips […]
The gaming exhibition Gamescom 2019 in Cologne turned out to be rich in announcements. For example, during a live broadcast, the publishing house THQ Nordic announced the revival of the once famous helicopter simulator Comanche and showed a short video with excerpts of the gameplay of this interesting project. The trailer promises intense multiplayer dogfights with a focus on completing objectives. One of the most interesting details revealed by the teaser […]
The idea of import substitution does not leave the minds of officials in high offices. According to Vedomosti, the Central Bank can integrate its Fast Payment System (FPS) into the domestic messenger Seraphim. This program is developed for state-owned companies and is a kind of analogue of the Chinese WeChat. At the same time, it is curious that it allegedly involves only domestic crypto-algorithms. Whether this is true or not is unclear, but the app […]
