Mikhail Chinkov has been living and working in Berlin for two years. He shared with us how the work of a developer differs between Russia and Germany, whether DevOps engineers are in demand in Berlin, and how to find time for travel. About the Move Since 2018, you’ve been living in Berlin. How did you make that decision? Did you consciously choose the country and company in advance? […]
The first prototype of object storage appeared in 1996. Ten years later, Amazon Web Services launches Amazon S3, and the world begins to gradually lose its mind over flat address spaces. Thanks to its work with metadata and its ability to scale without faltering under load, object storage quickly became the standard for most cloud data storage services, and […]
The formation of experimental builds of the new Live distribution FuryBSD, based on FreeBSD 12.1 and the Xfce desktop, has begun. The project was founded by Joe Maloney, who works at iXsystems, which oversees TrueOS and FreeNAS, but FuryBSD is positioned as a community-supported independent project, not affiliated with iXsystems. The live image can be written to both DVD and USB Flash. A stationary mode is available […]
It has been about two years since the mobile browser Firefox Rocket was launched, which was a lightweight version of the standard browser, featuring a range of exclusive functionalities and was released in select Asian markets. Later, the app was renamed to Firefox Lite, and now the developers have introduced a new version of the software product. The browser is called Firefox Lite 2.0, and it has all […]
The LinuxBoot project has been around for nearly two years, achieving significant progress during this time. This project is positioned as an open alternative to proprietary UEFI firmware. However, until recently, the system was quite limited. Now, Chris Koch from Google has presented a new version at the Security Summit 2019. It is reported that the new build of LinuxBoot supports booting […]
For the second consecutive year, research conducted by Forbes and the non-profit research group Just Capital shows that Microsoft is the most ethical public company in the USA. Just Capital researchers surveyed over 4,000 Americans, gathering opinions on 1,000 of the country’s most profitable corporations across 29 questions, including wage pay, benefits, prioritizing diversity, and accommodating individual abilities, while […]
Red Hat has announced the formation of a new open project Quay, which will continue the development of the previously closed-source container image registry of the same name that underpins the Red Hat Quay and Quay.io services. The project came under Red Hat’s ownership after the acquisition of CoreOS and was opened as part of an initiative to convert proprietary products of acquired companies into open-source software. […]
After six months of development, the release of the web content management system WordPress 5.3 has been announced. The main changes in the new release are related to the modernization of the visual block editor, which now offers more intuitive management, new layout options, enhanced style support, and improved support for inserting high-resolution images. For those who prefer keyboard management, new […]
Researchers from Graz University of Technology (Austria) have disclosed details about a new side-channel attack method, ZombieLoad 2.0 (CVE-2019-11135), which enables the extraction of confidential information from other processes, the operating system, virtual machines, and secure enclaves (TEE, Trusted Execution Environment). The issue affects only Intel processors. Components to mitigate this problem were proposed in yesterday's microcode update. This issue falls under the MDS class […]
In this article, we will discuss functional dependencies in databases — what they are, where they are applied, and what algorithms exist for their discovery. We will consider functional dependencies in the context of relational databases. To put it simply, in such databases, information is stored in the form of tables. We will further use approximate concepts, which in […]
Security comes at a price, and its absence has to be paid for. Winston Churchill To everyone involved in the security field, we congratulate you on your professional day, wishing you higher salaries, calmer users, and appreciation from management! But what is this holiday? There is a portal Sec.ru that, due to its focus, proposed to declare November 12 a holiday — Day […]
The XML language was invented in 1996. As soon as it appeared, its application possibilities began to be misunderstood, and it was not the best choice for the purposes for which it was being adapted. It is not an exaggeration to say that the overwhelming majority of XML schemas I have encountered represent impractical or incorrect uses of XML. Moreover, […]