A distribution kit for creating firewalls OPNsense 20.7 has been released, which is a fork from the pfSense project, created with the goal of creating a completely open distribution kit that could have functionality at the level of commercial solutions for deploying firewalls and network gateways. Unlike pfSense, the project is positioned as not controlled by one company, developed with the direct participation of the community and […]
Some RHEL 8 and CentOS 8 users encountered problems after installing yesterday's GRUB2 bootloader update that fixed a critical vulnerability. Problems manifest themselves in the inability to boot after installing the update, including on systems without UEFI Secure Boot. On some systems (for example, HPE ProLiant XL230k Gen1 without UEFI Secure Boot), the problem also appears on […]
IBM has announced the open source of the FHE (IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption) toolkit with the implementation of a full homomorphic encryption system for processing data in encrypted form. FHE allows you to create services for confidential computing, in which the data is processed encrypted and does not appear in open form at any stage. The result is also generated encrypted. The code is written in [...]
Today, on the last Friday of July, according to a tradition started on July 28, 1999 by Ted Kekatos, a system administrator from Chicago, System Administrator Appreciation Day, or System Administrator Day, is celebrated. From the author of the news: I would like to sincerely congratulate the people who support telephone and computer networks, administer servers and workstations. A stable connection, bug-free hardware and, of course, [...]
It was close to the New Year. Children all over the country have already sent letters to Santa Claus or made gifts for themselves, and their main performer, one of the largest retailers, was preparing for the apotheosis of sales. In December, the load on its data center increases several times. Therefore, the company decided to upgrade the data center and put into operation several dozen new servers instead of […]
We will be using k8s-native Argo Rollouts deployment controller and GitlabCI to run Canary Deployment to Kubernetes https://unsplash.com/photos/V41PulGL1z0 Articles of this series Canary Deployment to Kubernetes #1: Gitlab CI (This article) Canary Deployment using Istio Canary Deployment using Jenkins-X Istio Flagger Canary Deployment We hope you have read the first part where we briefly explained what Canary Deployments are. […]
We at the Dentsu Aegis Network communication group conduct the Digital Society Index (DSI) survey every year. This is our global research in 22 countries, including Russia, about the digital economy and its impact on society. This year, of course, we could not ignore COVID-19 and decided to look at how the pandemic has affected digitalization. As a result, DSI […]
The German studio King Art Games and the publishing house Deep Silver, through the IGN portal, presented a new, this time cinematic trailer for their dieselpunk strategy Iron Harvest. Let us remind you that the events of Iron Harvest will unfold in an alternative Europe of the 1920s, where, along with the equipment familiar to that period, walking combat robots are used. Iron Harvest will tell about the confrontation between three fictional, but […]
All In! Games and Ovid Works have announced that first-person puzzle platformer Metamorphosis will be released on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch on August 12th. If you'd like to try the game out first, a demo is already available on Steam. Metamorphosis is a surreal adventure inspired by the extraordinary works of Franz Kafka. One day, waking up as an ordinary [...]
Rare studio has presented a major monthly update to the adventure pirate action game Sea of Thieves called Ashen Winds. The mighty Ashen Lords arrive at sea in raging flames, and their skulls can be used as fiery weapons. The update is already out and available to all users on PC (Windows 10 and Steam) and Xbox One. The antics of Captain Flameheart with the Bookmaker […]
The analytical company RedMonk has published a new edition of the rating of programming languages, based on an assessment of the combination of popularity on GitHub and the activity of discussions on Stack Overflow. The most notable changes include Rust entering the top 20 most popular languages and Haskell being pushed out of the top twenty. Compared to the previous edition, published six months ago, C++ is also moved to the fifth […]
The developers of the Redox operating system, written using the Rust language and the microkernel concept, announced the implementation of the ability to debug applications using the GDB debugger. To use GDB, you should uncomment the lines with gdbserver and gnu-binutils in the filesystem.toml file and run the gdb-redox layer, which will launch its own gdbserver and connect it to gdb via IPC. Another option involves launching a separate […]
