The high rate of spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus required quarantine and minimal contact between doctors and patients. Modern technologies could have helped with this long ago. Unfortunately, time was lost, and the topic of telemedicine - remote medical services - is only now beginning to gain momentum. As part of the CARES Act signed a couple of days ago by US President Donald Trump in the amount of $2,2 […]
A selection of April Fools' jokes: The GNU Guix project, which develops a package manager and a GNU/Linux distribution based on it, announced its intention to stop using the Linux kernel in favor of the GNU Hurd kernel. It is noted that the use of Hurd was the original goal of the Guix project and now this goal has become a reality. Continuing support for the Linux kernel in Guix was considered inappropriate, since the project does not […]
From April 7 to July 21, the Slurm training center will conduct a free theoretical course on the free Kubernetes container orchestration platform. The classes will provide administrators with enough understanding of the basics to join multifunctional DevOps teams using Kubernetes to organize the work of high-load projects. For developers, the course will help gain knowledge about the capabilities and limitations of Kubernetes that affect application architecture, and will also […]
The release of the nftables 0.9.4 packet filter has been published, which is developing as a replacement for iptables, ip6table, arptables and ebtables due to the unification of packet filtering interfaces for IPv4, IPv6, ARP and network bridges. The nftables package includes packet filter components that run in user space, while the kernel level is provided by the nf_tables subsystem, which is part of the Linux […]
On the evening of December 9, 2019, the pre-holiday shopping of visitors to the Eaton Center shopping center in Toronto was interrupted by an unexpected blackout. The shopping galleries were plunged into darkness, and the only source of light was the Christmas tree - many hastened to post its photo on social networks as a completely mystical phenomenon. However, among the tweets there were also those where the mysticism was explained easily and simply: the Christmas tree […]
The task was simple, install Docker on my work laptop with Windows, which already has a zoo. I installed Docker Desktop, created containers, everything was ok, but I quickly discovered that VMWare Workstation stopped launching virtual machines with the error: VMware Workstation and Device/Credential Guard are not compatible. VMware Workstation can be run after disabling Device/Credential Guard. Work stopped, [...]
Hi all! My name is Masha, I work as a quality assurance engineer at the Tinkoff group of companies. QA work involves a lot of communication with different people from different teams, and I was also a manager and lecturer of educational programs, so my communication map was as wide as possible. And at some point I exploded: I realized that I was no longer [...]
No sooner had we reported that hackers were using fake Zoom domains to distribute malware, but a new vulnerability in the online conferencing program became known. It turns out that the Zoom client for Windows allows attackers to steal user credentials in the operating system through a UNC link sent to the interlocutor in the chat window. Hackers can use the UNC injection attack to obtain […]
Graphics experts from Digital Foundry released a technical analysis of the console editions of the Resident Evil 3 remake and came to the conclusion that the retail build is not much different from the demo version in terms of performance. As with the trial version, the updated Resident Evil 3 behaves most consistently on PS4 Pro: there, at 1620p resolution, the FPS counter rarely drops […]
Making a neural network run through simple video games is an ideal way to test the effectiveness of its training, thanks to the simple ability to evaluate the results of the completion. Developed in 2012 by DeepMind (part of Alphabet), the benchmark of 57 iconic Atari 2600 games became a litmus test for testing the capabilities of self-learning systems. And here is Agent57, an advanced RL agent (Reinforcement Learning) […]
The independent Canadian studio Cellar Door Games, which became famous thanks to the action platformer Rogue Legacy, clearly hinted at the second part on its microblog. The image released by the developers shows the iconic sword from the first game with a large number 2 on top. The concept art is accompanied by the hashtag #April2nd (April 2). Despite the fact that the tweet was published on the 2nd Moscow time, […]
The Netmarketshare web resource, which tracks the level of distribution of operating systems and browsers in the world, published statistics for March 2020. According to the resource, last month the Microsoft Edge browser became the second most popular browser in the world, second only to the long-time leader Google Chrome. The source notes that the Microsoft Edge browser, which for many is the successor to Internet Explorer, continues to gain […]
