Censorship views the world as a semantic system in which information is the only reality, and what is not written about does not exist. — Mikhail Geller This digest is intended to increase the Community’s interest in the issue of privacy, which in the light of recent events is becoming more relevant than ever before. On the agenda: “Medium” completely switches to Yggdrasil “Medium” creates its own […]
Researchers from Check Point revealed details of a new attack technique against applications using vulnerable versions of SQLite at the DEF CON conference. The Check Point method considers database files as an opportunity to integrate scenarios for exploiting vulnerabilities in various internal SQLite subsystems that are not directly exploitable. Researchers have also prepared a technique for exploiting vulnerabilities with exploit coding in the form of […]
Canonical has released an update to the Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS distribution, which has received a number of innovations to improve performance. The build includes updates to the Linux kernel, graphics stack, and several hundred packages. Errors in the installer and bootloader have also been fixed. Updates are available for all distributions: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS, Kubuntu 18.04.3 LTS, Ubuntu Budgie 18.04.3 LTS, Ubuntu MATE 18.04.3 LTS, […]
Man of Medan, the first chapter in Supermassive Games' horror anthology The Dark Pictures, will be available at the end of the month, but we were able to see the first quarter of the game at a special private press screening. The parts of the anthology are not connected in any way by plot, but will be united by a common theme of urban legends. The events of Man of Medan revolve around the ghost ship Ourang Medan, […]
Recently, publisher 505 Games and developers from Remedy Entertainment began publishing a series of short videos designed to introduce the public to the upcoming action movie Control without spoilers. The first were videos dedicated to the environment, the background of what was happening in the Oldest House and some enemies. Now comes a trailer highlighting the combat system of this metroidvania adventure. While moving through the back streets of the twisted Old One […]
The latest AGESA microcode update (AM4 1.0.0.3 ABB), which AMD has already distributed to motherboard manufacturers, deprives all motherboards with Socket AM4.0 that are not built on the AMD X4 chipset from supporting the PCI Express 570 interface. Many motherboard manufacturers have independently implemented support for the new, faster interface on motherboards with system logic of the previous generation, that is […]
One step forward, two steps back. If you can only dream about a NAND flash cell with 16 bits written to each cell, then you can and should talk about writing five bits per cell. And they say. At the Flash Memory Summit 2019, Toshiba presented the idea of releasing a 5-bit NAND PLC cell as the next step after mastering the production of NAND QLC memory. […]
The resource Winfuture.de reports that the smartphone, previously listed under the name Motorola One Pro, will debut on the commercial market under the name Motorola One Zoom. The device will receive a quad rear camera. Its main component will be a 48-megapixel image sensor. It will be complemented by sensors with 12 million and 8 million pixels, as well as a sensor for determining the depth of the scene. Front 16 megapixel camera […]
So, you graduated from university. Yesterday or 15 years ago, it doesn’t matter. You can exhale, work, stay awake, shy away from solving specific problems and narrow your specialization as much as possible in order to become an expensive professional. Well, or vice versa - choose what you like, delve into various fields and technologies, look for yourself in a profession. I’m done with my studies, finally [...]
In 2008, BigData was a new term and fashionable trend. In 2019, BigData is an object of sale, a source of profit and a reason for new bills. Last fall, the Russian government initiated a bill to regulate big data. Individuals may not be identified from information, but may do so at the request of federal authorities. Processing BigData for third parties – only after […]
On August 3 in Moscow, between 12:00 and 14:30, the Rostelecom AS12389 network experienced a small but noticeable subsidence. NetBlocks considers what happened to be the first “state shutdown” in the history of Moscow. This term refers to the shutdown or restriction of access to the Internet by authorities. What happened in Moscow for the first time has been a global trend for several years now. Over the past three years, 377 targeted […]
All schoolchildren know that planet Earth is divided into three (or four) large layers: the crust, the mantle and the core. This is generally true, although this generalization does not take into account several additional layers identified by scientists, one of which, for example, is the transition layer within the mantle. In a study published on February 15, 2019, geophysicist Jessica Irving and master's student Wenbo Wu […]
