Author: ProHoster

Yandex will test an unmanned tram in Moscow

The Moscow City Hall and Yandex will jointly test the capital's unmanned tram. This is stated in the department’s Telegram channel. The plans were announced after the visit of the head of the capital’s transport department, Maxim Liksutov, to the company’s office. “We believe that unmanned urban transport is the future. We continue to support new technologies, and soon the Moscow Government, together with the Yandex company […]

Precursor platform for creating free mobile devices introduced

Andrew Huang, a well-known free hardware activist and winner of the 2012 EFF Pioneer Award, introduced Precursor, an open platform for creating concepts for new mobile devices. Similar to how the Raspberry Pi and Arduino allow you to create devices for the Internet of Things, Precursor aims to provide the ability to design and build various mobile […]

Seagate releases 18TB HDD

Seagate has launched a new model of the Exos X18 hard drive family. Enterprise-class HDD capacity - 18 TB. You can buy the disc for $561,75. In addition, the Exos Application Platform (AP) 2U12 and the new controller for AP 4U100 systems are introduced. Capacious storage and computing resources are combined in one platform. AP also offers built-in […]

Russian storage system on domestic Elbrus processors: everything you wanted, but were afraid to ask

BITBLAZE Sirius 8022LH Not so long ago, we published the news that a domestic company has developed a data storage system on Elbrus with a localization level of> 90%. We are talking about the Omsk company Promobit, which managed to achieve the inclusion of its Bitblaze Sirius 8000 series storage system in the Unified Register of Russian Radio-Electronic Products under the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The material caused a discussion in the comments. Readers were interested […]

A domestic company has developed a Russian storage system on Elbrus with a localization level of 97%

The Omsk company Promobit was able to achieve the inclusion of its storage system on Elbrus in the Unified Register of Russian Radio-Electronic Products under the Ministry of Industry and Trade. We are talking about the Bitblaze Sirius 8000 series storage system. The registry includes three models of this series. The main difference between models from each other is a set of hard drives. The company can now supply its storage system for municipal and state needs. […]

Deathloop turns out to be a temporary PlayStation 5 console exclusive

One of the most anticipated games for the PlayStation 5 turned out to be a temporary console exclusive. We are talking about the adventure shooter Deathloop from the creators of the Dishonored series, Arkane studio. This became known from the Bethesda Softworks blog. At the recent PlayStation 5 presentation, Bethesda Softworks and Arkane studio presented a new Deathloop trailer and told more about the game. About this you […]

Rumors: Marvel's Spider-Man PS4 Owners Won't Get Free PS5 Upgrade

Marvel Games Development Director Eric Monacelli, in a conversation with a concerned fan, commented on the situation surrounding the availability of the Marvel's Spider-Man remaster for PS5. Let us remind you that at the moment the only officially announced option for obtaining Marvel's Spider-Man: Remastered is as part of the complete edition of Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales worth 5499 rubles. Apparently, there are no exceptions to this rule: [...]

An ammonia leak was recorded on the American segment of the ISS, but there is no danger to astronauts

An ammonia leak has been detected at the International Space Station (ISS). RIA Novosti reports this, citing information received from a source in the rocket and space industry and from the state corporation Roscosmos. The ammonia exits outside the American segment, where it is used in the space heat rejection system loop. However, the situation is not critical, and the health of the astronauts is not in danger. “Experts have recorded [...]

The development of the uMatrix project has been stopped

Raymond Hill, the author of the uBlock Origin blocking system for unwanted content, has switched the repository of the uMatrix browser add-on to archive mode, which means stopping development and making the code available in read-only mode. As the reason for stopping development, Raymond Hill mentioned in a comment published two days ago that he could not and would not waste his time on […]

Announcing Google Cloud Next OnAir EMEA

Hey Habr! Last week ended our online conference dedicated to cloud solutions Google Cloud Next '20: OnAir. Despite the fact that the conference had a lot of interesting things, and all the content is available online, we understand that one global conference cannot satisfy the interests of all developers and companies around the world. That is why, in order to meet the unique needs of users […]

A practical example of connecting Ceph-based storage to a Kubernetes cluster

Container Storage Interface (CSI) is a unified interface between Kubernetes and storage systems. We have already talked about it briefly, and today we will take a closer look at the combination of CSI and Ceph: we will show how to connect Ceph storage to a Kubernetes cluster. The article contains real, albeit slightly simplified for ease of perception examples. Installation and configuration of Ceph and Kubernetes clusters […]

Features of mobile device firmware updates

To update or not to update the firmware on a personal phone, everyone decides on their own. Someone puts CyanogenMod, someone does not feel like the owner of the device without TWRP or jailbreak. In the case of updating corporate mobile phones, the process should be relatively uniform, otherwise even Ragnarok will seem like fun to IT people. Read about how this happens in the "corporate" world under the cut. Brief LikBez […]