Author: ProHoster

Robotic vessel completes three-week mission in the Atlantic

The UK's 12-metre uncrewed surface vessel (USV) Maxlimer has provided an impressive demonstration of the future of robotic maritime operations, completing a 22-day mission to map an area of ​​the Atlantic seafloor. The company that developed the device, SEA-KIT International, controlled the entire process via satellite from its base in Tollesbury in eastern England. The mission was partly funded by the European Space Agency. Robotic ships […]

Financing of the federal project "Artificial Intelligence" was reduced four times

The budget of the federal project “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) will be reduced several times at once. The Kommersant newspaper reports this, citing a letter from Deputy Head of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications Maxim Parshin to federal executive authorities. This initiative has been in preparation for about a year, and its passport must be approved by August 31. The main goals of the project are: ensuring growth in demand for products and services created […]

In a few years, EPYC processors will bring AMD up to a third of all revenue

According to AMD’s own estimates, which are based on IDC statistics, by the middle of this year the company managed to overcome the 10% bar for the server processor market. Some analysts believe this figure will rise to 50% in the coming years, but more conservative forecasts are limited to 20%. Intel's delay in mastering 7nm technology, according to some industry experts, will […]

MX Linux 19.2 Edition Available with KDE Desktop

A new edition of the MX Linux 19.2 distribution has been introduced, supplied with the KDE desktop (the main edition comes with Xfce). This is the first official build of the KDE desktop in the MX/antiX family, created after the collapse of the MEPIS project in 2013. Let us recall that the MX Linux distribution was created as a result of the joint work of communities formed around the antiX and MEPIS projects. Release […]

Parrot 4.10 distribution release with a selection of security checkers

A release of the Parrot 4.10 distribution is available, based on the Debian Testing package base and including a selection of tools for checking the security of systems, conducting forensic analysis and reverse engineering. Several iso images with the MATE environment (full 4.2 GB and reduced 1.8 GB), with the KDE desktop (2 GB) and with the Xfce desktop (1.7 GB) are offered for download. Parrot distribution […]

Chrome 86 introduces protection against insecure web form submissions

Google has announced that protection against insecure web form submissions will be available in the upcoming release of Chrome 86. The protection concerns forms displayed on pages loaded over HTTPS, but sending data without encryption over HTTP, which creates the threat of data interception and spoofing during MITM attacks. For such mixed web forms, three changes have been implemented: Auto-filling of any mixed input forms is disabled, according to [...]

Kdenlive release 20.08

Kdenlive is a free program for non-linear video editing, based on the KDE (Qt), MLT, FFmpeg, frei0r libraries. In the new version: named workspaces for different stages of work on the project; support for multiple audio streams (signal routing will be implemented later); manage cached data and proxy clip files; Zoombars in the clip monitor and effects panel; stability and interface improvements. This version received […]

Introducing Contour: Directing traffic to applications in Kubernetes

We are excited to share the news that Contour is hosted in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project incubator. If you haven't heard of Contour, it's a simple and scalable open source ingress controller for routing traffic to applications running on Kubernetes. We will take a detailed look at how it works, show the development roadmap at upcoming Kubecon conferences […]

Quad Funding

A distinctive feature of public goods is that a significant number of people benefit from their use, and limiting their use is impossible or inappropriate. Examples include public roads, security, research and open source software. The production of such goods, as a rule, is not profitable for individuals, which often leads to insufficient […]

Startup Pains: How to Develop IT Infrastructure Properly

According to statistics, only 1% of startups survive. We will not talk about the reasons for this level of mortality, this is not our business. Rather, we will tell you how to increase the likelihood of survival with the help of competent IT infrastructure management. In the article: typical mistakes of startups in IT; how a managed IT approach helps to avoid these mistakes; instructive examples from practice. What is wrong with IT at startups […]

Alibaba could be next target for US sanctions

Alibaba could be the next target for US sanctions as President Donald Trump confirmed his intention to begin putting pressure on other Chinese companies like the tech giant following the TikTok ban. When asked by a journalist at a press conference on Saturday whether there were other companies from China on the agenda that he was considering for […]