Biostar Product Manager Vicky Wang gave an interview to the Korean publication Brainbox, where she talked about the upcoming motherboards from the company featuring new AMD and Intel chipsets. Interestingly, shortly after the interview was published, Biostar stated that the information in it was incorrect, but did not specify what exactly was wrong. Brainbox also removed part of the interview regarding the future motherboards, but […]
Microsoft is discussing with both its own and third-party studios the creation of exclusive games for the cloud service Project xCloud. Company representative Kareem Choudhry confirmed this information at the X019 conference in London during an interview with Australian agencies, emphasizing: "For now, we are not ready to share details about specific projects. However, developing a new game and intellectual property requires […]
Trustwave specialists, who work in the field of information security, reported the discovery of a large-scale spam campaign aimed at delivering ransomware to the PCs of victims disguised as updates for the Windows operating system. Microsoft never sends emails about the need to update Windows. Clearly, this new campaign to spread malware targets individuals who are not […]
The new branch of the open-source platform webOS Open Source Edition 2, designed for smart device integration, has been presented. The platform is being developed in a public repository under the Apache 2.0 license, with the development supervised by a community following a collaborative management model. The Raspberry Pi 4 boards are considered as the reference hardware platform. The webOS platform was acquired by LG from Hewlett-Packard in 2013 and […]
The release of Tcl/Tk 8.6.10 has been announced, a dynamic programming language distributed alongside a cross-platform library of basic graphical user interface elements. Although Tcl is primarily used for creating user interfaces and as an embedded language, it is also suitable for other tasks such as web development, creating network applications, system administration, and testing. In the new version: The implementation in Tk has been revamped […]
Hello everyone! The task is as follows—there is a flow represented in the image above, which needs to be rolled out across N servers with Apache NiFi. The flow is a test that generates a file and sends it to another NiFi instance. Data transmission occurs using the NiFi Site to Site protocol. NiFi Site to Site (S2S) is a secure, easily configurable way to transfer […]
The CentOS project has introduced the release of the minimalist operating system CentOS Atomic Host 7.1910, which is provided as a monolithic, fully-updatable image and offers a basic environment that contains only the minimal set of components (systemd, journald, docker, rpm-OSTree, geard, etc.) necessary for launching and managing isolated Docker containers. All packages needed for running end-user applications are delivered directly within the containers, […]
The release of the free 3D modeling package Blender 2.81 has been published, which includes over a thousand fixes and improvements made in the four months since the significant branch of Blender 2.80 was formed. Major changes: A new interface for navigating the file system has been proposed, implemented as a pop-up window with a layout typical of file managers. Different viewing modes (list, thumbnails), filters, and dynamic […]
Cloudflare has announced the release of the source code for the Flan Scan project, which scans hosts on the network for unpatched vulnerabilities. Flan Scan is an extension of the Nmap network security scanner, turning it into a fully functional tool for identifying vulnerable hosts in large networks. The project code is written in Python and is distributed under the BSD license. Flan Scan allows […]
Hello, Habr! I present to you a translation of the article "Language Layers" by Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob). I am currently spending time playing an old game called "Lunar Lander" from 1969. It was written by Jim Storer, a high school student. He developed it on the PDP-8 in FOCAL. Here is what the program looks like: And here is the source code in FOCAL: Jim Storer was […]
The world around us is filled with various information, which our brain continuously processes. It receives this information through the senses, each responsible for its share of signals: eyes (sight), tongue (taste), nose (smell), skin (touch), vestibular system (balance, spatial position, and weight sensation), and ears (sound). By collecting signals from all these organs, our brain […]
When one of our employees told his sysadmin friend, "We now have a new service—VDS with a graphics card," the friend chuckled in response, "What, are you going to push the office folks into mining?" At least he didn’t joke about gaming, that’s something. He doesn’t understand much about a developer's life! But deep down, we cherish the thought that […]