Author: ProHoster

Fedora IoT, a complete solution for the Internet of Things, becomes the official edition of Fedora.

Starting with the 33rd release of Fedora, the Fedora IoT (Internet of Things) project, positioned as a comprehensive solution for the Internet of Things, will receive the status of the official edition of the distribution. Over the past few years, the Fedora team has been working on a distribution tailored for the Internet of Things. This fall, with the release of Fedora 33, this project will have its first official release. […]

Paper beat: creating mechanical memory from origami

"Blade Runner", "Con Air", "Heavy Rain" - what do these representatives of popular culture have in common? In all, to one degree or another, there is an ancient Japanese art of folding paper - origami. In movies, games and in real life, origami is often used as a symbol of certain feelings, some memories, or a kind of message. It's more of an emotional […]

5. NGFW for small businesses. SMP cloud management

I welcome readers to our series of articles, which is dedicated to SMB Check Point, namely the 1500 series model range. The first part mentioned the ability to manage your SMB series NGFWs using the Security Management Portal (SMP) cloud service. Finally, it's time to talk about it in more detail, show the available options and administration tools. For those who have just joined […]

Grafana+Zabbix: Visualization of the production line

In this article, I want to share my experience of using open source Zabbix and Grafana systems to visualize the work of production lines. The information may be useful to those who are looking for a quick way to visually display or analyze the collected data in industrial automation or IoT projects. The article is not a detailed guide, it is rather a concept of a monitoring system based on open source software […]

Bankrupt OneWeb receives approval to launch 1280 more satellites

Bankrupt telecommunications satellite company OneWeb has secured support from the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch 1280 more satellites for its future Internet service. OneWeb already received the go-ahead from the FCC in June 2017 to launch a constellation of 720 satellites. The first 720 satellites, of which OneWeb has launched 74, will be in low Earth orbit at an altitude of 1200 km. For […]

For the American segment of TikTok they are asking for almost $ 30 billion

According to informed sources of the CNBC resource, the TikTok video service is close to concluding an agreement to sell its assets in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, which may be announced as early as next week. CNBC sources claim that the deal amount is in the range of $20–$30 billion. In turn, the Wall Street Journal announced ByteDance’s intention to […]

Action-platformer Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World will be a remake of Monster World IV and will be released on PC

Studio Artdink has announced that the action-platformer Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World is a full-fledged remake of Monster World IV. The game will be released on PC along with previously confirmed versions for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in early 2021. Monster World IV was developed by Westone Bit Entertainment and published by SEGA on the Sega Mega Drive […]

Malicious activity detected in fallguys NPM package

The NPM developers warned about removing the fallguys package from the repository due to the detection of malicious activity in it. In addition to displaying a splash screen in ACSII graphics with a character from the game “Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout,” the specified module included code that attempted to transfer some system files via a webhook to the Discord messenger. The module was published in early August, but only managed to get 288 downloads before […]

Seventh scientific and practical conference OS DAY

On November 5-6, 2020, the seventh scientific and practical conference OS DAY will be held in the main building of the Russian Academy of Sciences. This year's OS DAY conference is dedicated to operating systems for embedded devices; OS as the basis for smart devices; trusted, secure infrastructure of Russian operating systems. We consider embedded applications to be any situation in which the operating system is used for a specific […]

Nick Bostrom: Are We Living in a Computer Simulation (2001)

I collect all the most important texts of all times and peoples, influencing the worldview and the formation of a picture of the world ("Ontol"). And here I thought and thought and put forward a daring hypothesis that this text is more revolutionary and important in our understanding of the structure of the world than the Copernican revolution and the works of Kant. In Runet, this text (full version) was in a terrible state, […]

Project iron: how we built a room with a hacker quest

A couple of weeks ago, we held an online quest for hackers: we built a room that we filled with smart devices and launched a YouTube broadcast from it. Players could control IoT devices from the game's website; the goal was to find a weapon hidden in the room (a powerful laser pointer), hack it and arrange a short circuit in the room. To add to the action, we put a shredder in the room, into which we loaded […]

Who stopped the shredder or how it was necessary to complete the quest with the destruction of the server

A couple of days ago, we wrapped up one of the most emotionally charged events we've been lucky enough to host on a blog - an online hack game that destroys a server. The results exceeded all our expectations: the participants not only took part, but quickly organized themselves into a well-coordinated community of 620 people on the discord, which literally took the quest by storm in two days without […]