A few days ago, Nizhny Novgorod hosted a classic event of the "limited Internet" era - Linux Install Fest 05.19. This format has been supported for a long time (~2005) by NNLUG (Linux Regional Users Group). Today it is no longer customary to copy “from screw to screw” and distribute blanks with fresh distributions. The Internet is available to everyone and shines literally from every kettle. IN […]
Yandex has become the official supplier of software for multimedia car systems of Renault, Nissan and AVTOVAZ. We are talking about the Yandex.Auto platform. It provides access to various services - from a navigation system and browser to music streaming and weather forecast. The platform involves the use of a single, well-thought-out interface and voice control tools. Thanks to Yandex.Auto, drivers can interact with intelligent […]
The US sanctions policy puts Huawei in a difficult position. Against the background of the refusal of a number of American companies from further cooperation with Huawei, the vendor’s position is worsened even more. The advantage of American companies in the field of semiconductor and software technologies does not allow manufacturers around the world to completely abandon supplies from the United States. Huawei has a certain stock of key components that should […]
The acting head of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Neil Jacobs, said that interference from 5G smartphones could reduce the accuracy of weather forecasting by 30%. In his opinion, the harmful influence of 5G networks will return meteorology decades ago. He noted that weather forecasts were 30% less […]
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has published Intel's patent application for "Technologies for hinges for dual screen devices." We are talking about laptops that have a second screen in place of the usual keyboard. Intel already demonstrated prototypes of such devices at last year’s Computex 2018 exhibition. For example, a computer codenamed […]
The Firefox browser on Android has been losing popularity lately. That's why Mozilla is developing Fenix. This is a new web browser with an improved tab management system, a faster engine and a modern look. The latter, by the way, includes a dark design theme that is fashionable today. The company has not yet announced an exact release date, but has already released a public beta version. […]
My apologies to Patrick McKenzie. Yesterday Danny asked about some interesting facts about Unix time, and I remembered that sometimes it works completely unintuitively. These three facts seem eminently reasonable and logical, don't they? Unix time is the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC. If you wait exactly one second, the Unix time will change […]
Whenever a cultural phenomenon becomes popular enough, someone is bound to reimagine it as an 8-bit NES game - which is exactly what happened with John Wick. With the third installment of the Keanu Reeves-starring action movie hitting theaters, Brazilian indie game developer known as JoyMasher and his friend Dominic Ninmark have created a […]
A selection of events for the week Apache Ignite Meetup #6 May 21 (Tuesday) Novoslobodskaya 16 free We invite you to the next Apache Ignite meeting in Moscow. Let's look at the Native Persistence component in detail. In particular, we will discuss how to configure a “large topology” product for use on small amounts of data. We will also talk about the Apache Ignite machine learning module and its integrations. Seminar: “Online-to-offline […]
The recent disclosure of another vulnerability in Intel processors, called MDS (or Zombieload), has served as an impetus for another escalation of debate about how much performance degradation users will have to put up with if they want to take advantage of the proposed fixes for hardware problems. Intel published its own performance tests, which showed very little impact of the fixes on performance even when Hyper-Threading technology was disabled. […]
Development of the original Grand Theft Auto, released in 1997, was not easy. Instead of fifteen months, the Scottish studio DMA Design, which later became Rockstar North, worked on it for several years. But the action game was released anyway and became so successful that the studio was sold to Rockstar Games, within whose walls it turned into a real phenomenon. A unique opportunity to be transported back to 1996 […]
Regional Internet registries and their service areas. The Scam Described Occurred in the ARIN Zone In the early days of the Internet, IPv4 addresses were distributed to the public in large subnets. But today, companies are lining up at the regional registrar to get at least a small address space. On the black market, one IP is worth between $13 and $25, so registrars are struggling with a lot of shady brokers […]
