Author: ProHoster

Floppy disks in 2021: why has Japan lagged behind in computerization?

At the end of October 2021, many were surprised by the news that these very days Japanese officials, bank and corporate employees, as well as other citizens, are being forced to refuse to use floppy disks. And the aforementioned citizens, especially the elderly and those in the provinces, are outraged and resist… no, not the violation of the traditions of the era of classic cyberpunk, but the long-familiar and widely used method […]

GlobalFoundries production capacity fully booked until 2023

Semiconductor contract manufacturer GlobalFoundries, owned by UAE-based Mubadala Investment, completed its public offering this week. Against the backdrop of this event, the company's market capitalization rose to $26 billion. Now it has become known that the production capacity of GlobalFoundries will be loaded with orders until 2023. Image: Mary Thompson/CNBC

Anyone can help NASA make rovers smarter

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) invites everyone to help train an AI algorithm that can recognize the features of the surface of Mars. To do this, it is necessary to view photographs of the Red Planet, which are sent by the Perseverance rover, and note the features of the relief on them, which may be important when planning the movements of the rover. Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS

Sniffglue 0.14.0 traffic analyzer release

The sniffglue 0.14.0 network analyzer has been released, performing traffic analysis in passive mode and using multithreading to distribute the work of parsing packets across all processor cores. The project aims to perform securely and reliably when intercepting packets on untrusted networks, as well as to display the most useful information in the default configuration. The product code is written […]

The PostgREST project develops a RESTful API daemon for PostgreSQL

PostgREST is an open web server that allows you to turn any database stored in a PostgreSQL DBMS into a full-fledged RESTful API. The motivation for writing PostgREST was the desire to get away from manual CRUD programming, as this can lead to problems: writing business logic often duplicates, ignores or complicates the database structure; object-relational mapping (ORM mapping) is an unreliable abstraction that leads to […]

DMCA Exceptions Allowed to Replace Router Firmware

Human rights organizations Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) achieved amendments to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), adding firmware to routers to the list of exceptions that are not subject to restrictions DMCA.

X.Org Server 21.1.0

Three and a half years after the release of the last significant version, X.Org Server 21.1.0 was released. The version numbering system has been changed: now the first digit means the year, the second is the serial number of a major release in the year, and the third is a corrective update. Significant changes include the following: xvfb has added support for Glamor 2D acceleration. Added full support for the Meson build system. […]

Acronis Cyber ​​Incident Digest #13

Hey Habr! Today we will talk about the next threats and incidents that create a lot of problems for people around the world. In this issue, you will learn about the new victories of the BlackMatter group, attacks on agricultural companies in the United States, as well as the hacking of the network of one of the clothing designers. In addition, we will talk about critical vulnerabilities in Chrome, new […]

Relational DBMS: history of appearance, evolution and prospects

Hey Habr! My name is Azat Yakupov, I work as a Data Architect at Quadcode. Today I want to talk about relational DBMS, which play an important role in the modern IT world. Most readers probably understand what they are and what they are for. But how and why did relational DBMSs appear? Most of us are aware of this […]

New article: Age of Empires IV - Return of the Queen. Review

The release of any real-time strategy is already a holiday for fans of the genre abandoned by the big developers. What can we say about the continuation of the legendary series, which once set the tone, was a pillar and guide for others. Did Age of Empires IV achieve the same greatness, we tell in our review