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Malicious activity detected in fallguys NPM package

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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 […]

Samsung has opened pre-orders for the Galaxy Z Fold 2 in the UK. Price set at £1799

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The South Korean company Samsung announced a new smartphone with a flexible display, Galaxy Z Fold 2, earlier this month, without disclosing the release date of the device or its retail price. However, now in the official Samsung online store in the UK it is possible to pre-order the Galaxy Z Fold 2 for £1799, and the smartphone will be available in the country […]

The first ever fully Russian crew can go to the ISS in the spring

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It is possible that next year the first expedition in its history, consisting exclusively of Russian cosmonauts, will go to the International Space Station (ISS). RIA Novosti reports this, citing a source in the rocket and space industry. It is expected that three Russians will fly into orbit next spring on the Soyuz MS-18 manned spacecraft. The launch of this device using the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle was previously […]

Processors with more than 64 cores AMD will only offer in the Zen 4 generation

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New data from confidential AMD documentation makes it possible to verify that, within the framework of 5nm technology, the company will take the long-awaited step - increasing the maximum number of cores of one processor in the server segment. In connection with the upcoming change in design, other innovations will be implemented. Earlier this week, AMD updated its investor presentation on its website. Although the document itself […]

Wine 5.16 release

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An experimental release of an open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 5.16 - took place. Since the release of version 5.15, 21 bug reports have been closed and 221 changes have been made. The most important changes: Support for x86 AVX registers has been added to ntdll. Improved ARM64 support for macOS. Work continues to restructure console support. Error reports related to the operation of games and applications are closed: Memorex […]

Mailing list management as a barrier to entry of young developers

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Sarah Novotny, a member of the governing board of Microsoft's Linux Foundation, raised questions about the archaic nature of the Linux kernel development process. According to Sarah, using a mailing list (LKML, Linux Kernel Mailing List) to coordinate kernel development and submit patches discourages young developers and is a barrier to new maintainers joining. With increasing core size and […]

Pleroma 2.1

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The community of enthusiasts is pleased to introduce a new version of Pleroma, a text-based blogging server written in Elixir and using the W3C standardized ActivityPub federated network protocol. This is the second most common server implementation. Compared to its closest competitor, Mastodon, written in Ruby and running on the same ActivityPub network, Pleroma boasts a small […]

How the backend of a hacker game about destroying a server was created

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We continue to tell how our laser quest with the destruction of the server was arranged. Beginning in the previous article about the clue to the quest. In total, the backend of the game had 6 architectural units, which we will analyze in this article: The backend of game entities that were responsible for the game mechanisms The backend and platform data exchange bus on the VPS The translator from backend requests (game elements) […]

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