The Qbs 1.17 build tools release has been announced. This is the fourth release since the Qt Company left the development of the project, prepared by the community interested in continuing the development of Qbs. To build Qbs, Qt is required among the dependencies, although Qbs itself is designed to organize the assembly of any projects. Qbs uses a simplified version of QML to define project build scripts, allowing […]
The KDE Akademy Awards, awarded to the most outstanding members of the KDE community, were announced at the KDE Akademy 2020 conference. In the “Best Application” category, the award went to Bhushan Shah for developing the Plasma Mobile platform. Last year the prize was awarded to Marco Martin for the development of the Kirigami framework. The Non-Application Contribution Award goes to Carl Schwan for […]
NVIDIA announced the conclusion of a deal to purchase Arm Limited from the Japanese holding Softbank. The transaction is expected to be completed within 18 months after receiving regulatory approval from the UK, China, the EU and the US. In 2016, the Softbank holding acquired ARM for $32 billion. The deal to sell ARM to NVIDIA is worth $40 billion, […]
Facial recognition in access control systems meets the growing demand for contactless identification solutions. Today, this method of biometric identification is a global trend: the average annual growth of the market for systems based on face recognition is estimated by analysts at 20%. According to forecasts, in 2023 this figure will increase to 4 billion USD. Integration of terminals with access control system Recognition […]
This article will be useful to those who are familiar with Check Point technologies for file emulation (Threat Emulation) and proactive file cleaning (Threat Extraction) and want to take a step towards automating these tasks. Check Point has a Threat Prevention API that works both in the cloud and on local devices, and is functionally identical to […]
<< Before: The Age of Fragmentation, Part 4: The Anarchists In 1990, John Quaterman, a networking consultant and UNIX expert, published a comprehensive overview of the state of computer networks at the time. In a short section on the future of computing, he predicted a single global network for “email, conferencing, file transfer, remote login—so […]
The range of Motorola smartphones, according to Internet sources, will soon be supplemented by a model codenamed Kiev: it will be a relatively inexpensive device with the ability to work in fifth-generation mobile networks (5G). It is known that the silicon “brain” of the device will be the Qualcomm Snapdragon 690 processor. The chip combines eight Kryo 560 cores with a clock frequency of up to 2,0 GHz, an Adreno 619L graphics accelerator […]
Sharp Corporation has expanded its range of smartphones by announcing a very interesting new product - the Aquos Zero 5G Basic model: this is one of the first commercial devices running the Android 11 operating system. The device is equipped with a 6,4-inch Full HD+ OLED display with a resolution of 2340 × 1080 pixels. The panel has the highest refresh rate of 240 Hz. A fingerprint scanner is built directly into the screen area. […]
The term Zoombombing has become widely known since the video conferencing app Zoom gained popularity amid the coronavirus pandemic. This concept refers to the malicious actions of individuals entering Zoom conferences through loopholes in the service’s security system. Despite numerous product improvements, such situations still occur. However, yesterday, September 10th, Zoom finally presented an effective solution to the problem. Now video conference administrators […]
Amazon has announced the final release of Bottlerocket, a specialized distribution for running containers and efficiently managing them. Bottlerocket (by the way, this is how small homemade black powder rockets are called) is not the first OS for containers, but it is likely that it will become widespread due to default integration with AWS services. While the system is focused on the Amazon cloud, the open source […]
VictoriaMetrics is a fast and scalable DBMS for storing and processing data in the form of a time series (a record forms a time and a set of values corresponding to this time, for example, obtained through a periodic polling of the status of sensors or collecting metrics). My name is Pavel Kolobaev. DevOps, SRE, LeroyMerlin, everything is like code - it's all about us: about me and about other […]
Once in one of the old and already abandoned articles, I wrote about how easily and naturally you can broadcast video from canvas via websockets. That article briefly talked about how to capture video from a camera and sound from a microphone using the MediaStream API, how to encode the resulting stream and send it via websockets to the server. However, in […]
