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Ontol (= most useful) about remote work [a selection of 100+ articles]

“If you're not ashamed of the first version of the product, you entered the market too late” Hello everyone, I've been dragging on for a long time, and now I decided to post not even an MVP, but an idea that I'm working on now. It crystallized a year ago, following the results of 7 years of writing on Habré. Many have heard of the pyramid "data-information-knowledge-wisdom". Interestingly, the number of projects about data […]

We invite you to Zabbix online meetup

Zabbix 5.0 is out and we are doing our best to tell the user community what has been changed and improved. We regularly hold webinars, including in Russian, and also organized a series of online meetups, where we invite you to take part. Meetup for the Russian-speaking community of users will take place on May 26, starting at 10:00 Moscow time. By […]

Apple Mac and fancy devices. LTO, SAS, Fiber Channel, eSATA

The topic of this article is connecting external devices to the Mac via SAS, Fiber Channel (FC), eSATA interfaces. Let's make a reservation right away that in order to solve the problem of access to such devices, there is a way for a healthy person: to assemble a cheap PC, plug in an HBA SAS or FC controller card (for example, the simplest LSI adapter), connect your devices to this controller, install any […]

Chase the ball under the Black Eyed Peas: street power football arcade announced

Maximum Games and the studios SFL Interactive and Gamajun have announced Street Power Football, an arcade street football simulator for PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, which will be released this summer. Street Power Football will offer several stages and six modes: freestyle dance, 3 on 3, Trick Shot, cage battles, dodgeball and story campaign. […]

Kaspersky Lab: the number of attacks is falling, but their complexity is growing

The amount of malware has decreased, but cybercriminals have begun to practice increasingly sophisticated hacker attack schemes targeting the corporate sector. This is evidenced by a study conducted by Kaspersky Lab. According to Kaspersky Lab, in 2019, malicious software was detected on the devices of every fifth user in the world, which is 10% less than the year before. Also in […]

Google Maps makes it easier to find wheelchair accessible places

Google has decided to make its mapping service more convenient for wheelchair users, parents with strollers and the elderly. Google Maps now gives you a clearer picture of which places in your city are wheelchair accessible. “Imagine planning to go somewhere new, driving there, getting there, and then being stuck on the street, unable to […]

iOS bug prevents apps from running on iPhone and iPad

It became known that some iPhone and iPad users encountered a problem when launching a number of applications. When you try to open some apps on devices running iOS 13.4.1 and iOS 13.5, you receive the following message: “This app is no longer available to you. To use it, you must purchase it from the App Store." On various forums and […]

By the end of the year, Noctua will release a huge passive CPU cooler

The Austrian company Noctua is not a manufacturer that quickly implements all its conceptual developments, but this is compensated by the quality of engineering calculations in the preparation of serial products. Last year, she showed a prototype of a passive radiator weighing one and a half kilograms, but the heavyweight will go into production only by the end of this year. About this with reference to comments from representatives [...]

The release of the Pixel 4a smartphone is again delayed: now the announcement is expected in July

Internet sources report that Google has once again postponed the official presentation of its new relatively budget smartphone Pixel 4a, which has already become the subject of numerous rumors. According to available information, the device will receive a Snapdragon 730 processor with eight computing cores (up to 2,2 GHz) and an Adreno 618 graphics accelerator. The RAM capacity will be 4 GB, the flash drive capacity will be […]

New article: First impressions of Huawei Y8p and Y6p smartphones

Three new products were released at once: the ultra-budget Y5p and the simply inexpensive Y6p and Y8p. In this article we will talk specifically about the new “six” and “eight”, which received triple rear cameras, front cameras in teardrop cutouts, 6,3-inch screens, but did not receive Google services: instead, Huawei mobile services. This is where, perhaps, what these two models have in common ends - [...]

Checkpoint Offers Safe-Linking Protection Technique to Complicate Exploitation of Vulnerabilities

Checkpoint introduced Safe-Linking protection to make it more difficult to create exploits that manipulate the definition or modification of pointers to buffers allocated during a malloc call. Safe-Linking does not completely block the possibility of exploiting vulnerabilities, but with minimal overhead it significantly complicates the creation of certain categories of exploits, since in addition to the exploitable buffer overflow, it is necessary to find another vulnerability that causes information leakage […]