On May 22, 2020, an article by scientists from research and academic institutions in Australia, China, and Canada titled "Ultra-dense optical data transmission over standard fibre with a single chip source" was published in Nature Communications. Naturally, such a title wasn't suitable for a wider audience, so news coverage focused on the record of 44.2 Tb/s achieved (some […
The head of ION LANDS, Marko Dieckmann, published the first-ever footage of the first-person mode in the cyberpunk adventure Cloudpunk on the studio's official microblog. Currently, the ability to switch cameras in Cloudpunk is in the testing phase. To try the feature yourself, switch to the beta version of the game through its properties in the Steam library. The transition from third-person […]
According to reports from online sources, the Google Messages app, which serves as the default messaging tool on Android smartphones, might soon introduce support for end-to-end encryption. Mentions of this feature were discovered in the code of one of the app's beta versions. Enthusiasts examined the code of internal build Google Messages version 6.2 and found references to several new features, most notably […]
Developers of the Chromium project analyzed 912 dangerous and critical vulnerabilities detected in stable releases of Chrome since 2015, concluding that 70% of them were caused by unsafe memory handling (pointer errors in C/C++ code). Half of these issues (36.1%) were due to buffer access after the associated memory had been released […]
Other articles in the series: History of relays The "fast information transfer" method, or The birth of the relay Long-distance writer Galvanism Entrepreneurs And finally, the relay Talking telegraph Just connect Forgotten generation of relay computers Electronic era History of electronic computers Prologue Colossus ENIAC The electronic revolution History of the transistor Groping in the dark From the crucible of war Multiple reinventions History of the Internet Backbone network Dissolution, […]
SQLite 3.32.0 has been released, a lightweight DBMS presented as a plug-in library. The SQLite code is released into the public domain, meaning it can be used without restrictions and free of charge for any purpose. Financial support for the SQLite developers is provided by a specially formed consortium that includes companies like Adobe, Oracle, Mozilla, Bentley, and Bloomberg. Key changes: An approximate version of the command has been implemented […]
After three and a half years since the last release, the GoboLinux 017 distribution has been formed. GoboLinux uses a stack-based model for creating the directory tree instead of the traditional file hierarchy found in Unix systems, where each program is installed in a separate directory. The installation image size is 1.9 GB, which can also be used to explore the capabilities of the distribution in live mode. The root in GoboLinux […]
Hello, Habr! My name is Maxim Vasiliev, and I work as an analyst and project manager at FINCH. Today, I would like to share how we processed 15 million queries in 6 minutes using ElasticSearch and optimized the daily load on the website of one of our clients. Unfortunately, I have to skip names as we have an NDA, but we hope that […]
Information technology allows us to access incredibly cool educational resources with just one click. For free. I'm currently tackling the challenge of how to sift through a massive amount of vital content to figure out what should be tried first, how to 'mark up the data' so that the neural network of the younger generation learns more effectively. (ontol.org, 'Burnout', 'Remote Work', Telegram channel). I present to you a complete selection of all free courses from […]
I 'scanned' 560 posts on Habr and (preliminarily) highlighted the top 10 most useful materials on emotional/professional burnout for myself. Social architecture: 'Emotional Burnout of Open Source Contributors' Maxim Dorofeyev: 'The Principle of Thought Fuel Economy' Ilya Yakyamsev: 'Efficiency Doesn't Work' Sam Altman: 'Productivity. Experience from the Best Startups of Y Combinator' Aaron Harris(YC): 'Coping with Founder Depression' Jonathan Blow: 'Techniques for Dealing […]
The Children and Youth Center for Technical Creativity and Information Technologies, in partnership with Calculate Linux, is holding the first open competition for children and teenagers in GNU/Linux. Participants will be offered theoretical questions and practical tasks of varying complexity. The competition will start online in Russian on May 25, 2020, at 1 PM Moscow time. Participation is free. All participants will receive diplomas. […]
'If you're not ashamed of the first version of your product, you've entered the market too late' Hello everyone, I’ve been dragging my feet for a long time, and now I've decided to share not even an MVP, but the idea I’m currently working on. It crystallized a year ago, following 7 years of writing on Habr. Many have heard of the pyramid 'data-information-knowledge-wisdom.' Interestingly, the number of projects about data […]
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