New rumors and leaks appear almost daily about the upcoming mid-price smartphone OnePlus Nord, which is not surprising, since its announcement is expected on July 21. This time, the famous leak source Evan Blass, also known as @evleaks, published images of the new product, thereby fully revealing its appearance. On published […]
Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) has added a new small form factor computer to its product range - the SF110 Q470 model, based on the Intel Comet Lake hardware platform. The device is housed in a case with a volume of only 1,19 liters: dimensions are 205 × 176 × 33 mm. It is possible to install a tenth generation Core processor in the LGA 1200 version with a TDP of 35 or 65 W. The system can be […]
After a year of development, the Slackel 7.3 distribution was released, built on the developments of the Slackware and Salix projects, and fully compatible with the repositories offered in them. A key feature of Slackel is the use of the constantly updated Slackware-Current branch. The graphical environment is based on the Openbox window manager. The size of the boot image, capable of working in Live mode, is 1.9 GB (32 and 64 bits). The distribution may […]
The Digicert certification authority intends to revoke about 11 thousand EV (Extended Validation) TLS certificates on July 50. Certificates issued through accredited certification centers that are not included in audit reports are subject to revocation. EV certificates confirm the stated identification parameters and require a certification center to verify documents confirming domain ownership and the physical presence of the owner of the resource. The rules governing the activities of certification centers prescribe [...]
Corrective releases of the Tor toolkit (0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6 and 4.4.2-alpha) used to organize the operation of the Tor anonymous network are presented. New versions eliminate a vulnerability (CVE-2020-15572) caused by accessing a memory area outside the bounds of the allocated buffer. The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause the tor process to crash. The problem only appears when building with the NSS library (by default, Tor is built with OpenSSL, and […]
Transcription of Bruce Momjian's 2020 talk "Unlocking the Postgres Lock Manager". (Note: You can get all SQL queries from the slides at this link: http://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/locking.sql) Hello! It's great to be here in Russia again. I'm sorry that I couldn't come last year, but this year Ivan and I have big plans. I hope, […]
Many companies today are concerned about the issue of ensuring the information security of their infrastructure, some do it at the request of regulatory documents, and some from the moment the first incident occurs. Recent trends show that the number of incidents is growing, and the attacks themselves are becoming more sophisticated. But you don't have to go far, the danger is much closer. This time I would like […]
In our blog, we already talked about how to create your own Minecraft server, but 5 years have passed since then and a lot has changed. We share with you the actual ways of creating and optimizing the server part of such a popular game. In its 9-year history (if you count from the release date), Minecraft has earned an amazing amount of fans and haters from both casual gamers and […]
In the modern world, video communication has become very important for many companies. But to ensure comfortable communication in video conferencing with high-quality picture and sound, you need special equipment. And Cisco, together with Samsung, are ready to offer such equipment to corporate clients. Recent months have clearly shown many companies that holding negotiations and meetings or meeting with clients is not […]
Creative has announced that by the end of July, sales of the SXFI Gamer gaming headset will begin on the Russian market, the first samples of which were demonstrated in January at CES 2020. The new product is equipped with 50 mm emitters with neodymium magnets. The CommanderMic microphone is used and is claimed to provide the highest clarity comparable to the characteristics of professional equipment. Super X-Fi technology has been implemented for the second […]
Last month, the Huawei Enjoy 20 Pro smartphone debuted with a 5G MediaTek Dimensity 800 processor, a 6,57-inch 90Hz Full HD+ display and a triple camera (48+8+2 million pixels). Now, web sources have revealed information about a sister device, Enjoy 20, which is expected to be announced soon. In particular, a render of the upcoming new product has been released. The device, according to available information, will have a frameless screen with [...]
Nick Desaulniers, who works at Google to support building the Linux kernel using the Clang compiler and also helps fix bugs in the Rust compiler, proposed a session at the Linux Plumbers Conference 2020 to discuss making it possible to develop kernel components in Rust. Nick is running a micro-conference on LLVM and thinks it would be a good idea to […]
