Author: ProHoster

The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications demanded from socially significant resources to create versions without video

The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications has issued a decree obliging TV channels and social networks from the list of socially significant resources to create versions of their websites without streaming video. Kommersant writes about this. The new requirement applies to the social networks VKontakte, Odnoklassniki and major television channels (First, NTV and TNT). One of the operators participating in the testing explained that after developing sites without video, companies are required to transfer the IP addresses of new […]

Leaked image confirms lidar on iPhone 12 Pro

An image of the upcoming Apple iPhone 12 Pro smartphone has appeared on the Internet, which has received a new design for the main camera on the rear panel. As with the 2020 iPad Pro tablet, the new product is equipped with a lidar - Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), which allows you to determine the travel time of light reflected from the surface of objects at a distance of up to five meters. An image of the unannounced iPhone 12 […]

Russian telescope sees black hole 'awakening'

The Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI RAS) reports that the Spektr-RG space observatory has recorded a possible “awakening” of a black hole. The Russian X-ray telescope ART-XC, installed on board the Spektr-RG spacecraft, discovered a bright X-ray source in the region of the center of the Galaxy. It turned out to be a black hole 4U 1755-338. It is curious that the named object was discovered back in the early seventies of the first […]

Tesla created a ventilator using automotive components

Tesla is among the auto companies that will use some of its capacity to produce ventilators, which have become in short supply due to the coronavirus pandemic. The company designed the ventilator using automotive components, which it has no shortage of. Tesla released a video demonstrating a ventilator created by its specialists. It uses an in-vehicle infotainment system [...]

Microsoft proposes a Linux kernel module to check the integrity of the system

Developers from Microsoft presented a mechanism for checking the integrity of IPE (Integrity Policy Enforcement), implemented as an LSM module (Linux Security Module) for the Linux kernel. The module allows you to define a general integrity policy for the entire system, indicating which operations are allowed and how the authenticity of components should be verified. With IPE you can specify which executable files are allowed to run and ensure […]

Crystal 0.34.0 released

A new version of Crystal has been released, a compiled programming language with Ruby syntax, the main features of which are runtime with a “built-in” event loop, in which all I/O operations are asynchronous, support for multithreading (as long as it is enabled by a flag during compilation) and extremely simple and convenient operation with libraries in C. Starting with version 0.34.0, the language officially begins to move towards the first […]

Firefox 75

Firefox 75 is available. The Quantum Bar address bar, which debuted in Firefox 68, has received its first major update: The address bar size increases significantly when it receives focus (browser.urlbar.update1). Before the user starts typing, the top sites are displayed in a drop-down menu (browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus). The https:// protocol is no longer displayed in the drop-down menu with the history of visited resources. Using a secure connection in [...]

Monitoring network equipment via SNMPv3 in Zabbix

This article is devoted to the features of monitoring network equipment using the SNMPv3 protocol. We will talk about SNMPv3, I will share my experience in creating full-fledged templates in Zabbix, and I will show what can be achieved when organizing distributed alerting in a large network. The SNMP protocol is the main one when monitoring network equipment, and Zabbix is ​​great for monitoring a large number of objects and […]

It's not just you. Internet around the world is slowing down due to increased traffic

Have you noticed something strange has been going on with the network lately? For example, my Wi-Fi regularly turns off, my favorite VPN has stopped working, and some sites take five seconds to open, or as a result do not contain images. The governments of many countries have introduced quarantine and limited people's exit from home during the coronavirus. The result is a significant increase in Internet traffic on all fronts. […]

We save time, nerves and man-hours

Our projects are usually regional, and the clients are usually ministries. But, in addition to the public sector, private organizations also use our systems. There are practically no problems with them. So, the main projects are regional, and sometimes there are problems with them. For example, with performance, when in regions there are more than 20k of our precious users during the period of rolling out new functionality on product servers. […]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone Season 3 Launch Trailer - New Maps and More

The launch of the third season of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is almost here, so Infinity Ward and Activision have presented a fresh trailer to stimulate the interest of players in an action-packed video. It is worth noting that this video covers both the main game and the free-to-play battle royale Warzone. Starting tomorrow, the season starts on all platforms at once - this time […]

Below Gets PS4 Version And Simplified Mode, But Not Everywhere Yet

Capybara Games announced on its microblog the release of its atmospheric roguelike Below on PlayStation 4. Along with another target platform, the game has acquired an “Exploration” mode, but not everywhere yet. The version for the home console from Sony will cost ordinary users 1799 rubles. For subscribers of the PlayStation Plus service, a 10 percent […]