GitHub has announced the decision to stop supporting password authentication when connecting to Git. Direct Git operations that require authentication will only be possible using SSH keys or tokens (personal GitHub tokens or OAuth). A similar restriction will also apply to REST APIs. New authentication rules for the API will be applied on November 13, and stricter access to Git […]
The release of the Thunderbird 78.1 email client, developed by the community and based on Mozilla technologies, is available. Thunderbird 78 is based on the code base of the ESR release of Firefox 78. The release is available for direct download only, automatic updates from previous releases will only be generated in version 78.2. The new version is considered suitable for widespread use and supports end-to-end encryption […]
I've finally earned my AWS Solution Architect Associate certification and want to share my thoughts on preparing for and taking the exam itself. What is AWS First, a few words about AWS - Amazon Web Services. AWS is the same cloud in pants that can offer, probably, almost everything that is used in the IT world. I want to store terabyte archives, so […]
All users take fast launch and responsive UI in mobile applications for granted. If the application starts for a long time, the user starts to feel sad and angry. It is easy to spoil the client experience or completely lose the user even before he has started using the application. Once we found that the Dodo Pizza application launches on average 3 seconds, and some […]
DNS tunneling turns the domain name system into a hacker's weapon. DNS is essentially the Internet's huge phone book. DNS is also the underlying protocol that allows administrators to query the DNS server database. So far everything seems to be clear. But cunning hackers have realized that it is possible to communicate with the victim computer covertly by injecting control commands and data into the DNS protocol. This […]
FuturLab studio and Curve Digital publisher announced at the end of April an adventure with puzzle elements Peaky Blinders: Mastermind. The game is based on the famous TV series Peaky Blinders and will be released on August 20, 2020 on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. The developers announced this in the latest trailer for the project. The new video mixes moments […]
Wargaming has announced an amnesty for previously blocked World of Tanks players in honor of the tenth anniversary of the online action game. In honor of the holiday, the developer wants to give users a second chance in hopes of a fix. Starting from August 3, Wargaming will begin a large-scale unblocking of user accounts that were banned in the period up to March 25, 2020 2:59 Moscow time. However, they will not forgive [...]
Pre-orders for Microsoft Flight Simulator have started collecting on Steam. At the same time, the release date of the civil aviation simulator Asobo Studio in Valve’s digital distribution service also became known. Let us remind you that the version of Microsoft Flight Simulator for Windows 10 is announced for release on August 18 of this year. As it turned out thanks to the opening of pre-orders, […]
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, [...]
