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Covid19, your society and you - from the point of view of Data Science. Translation of an article by Jeremy Howard and Rachel Thomas (fast.ai)

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Hey Habr! I present to your attention the translation of the article “Covid-19, your community, and you - a data science perspective” by Jeremy Howard and Rachel Thomas. From a translator In Russia, the problem of Covid-19 is not so acute at the moment, but it should be understood that in Italy two weeks ago there was no such critical situation. And better […]

Interview with Sergey Mnev - professional modder and founder of the Tech MNEV team

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Western Digital products are extremely popular not only among retail consumers and corporate clients, but also among modders. And today you will find truly unusual and interesting material: especially for Habr, we have prepared an interview with the founder and head of the Tech MNEV (formerly Techbeard) team, specializing in creating custom PC cases, Sergei Mnev. Hello, Sergey! […]

GSM IoT provider in housing and communal services (Part 1)

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I read articles by the author of Interfer about difficulties in IoT and decided to talk about my experience as an IoT provider. The first article is not advertising, most of the material does not include equipment models. I will try to write details in the following articles. I don’t see any problems with using GSM modems to collect data from metering devices since I took part in the creation of a collection system from 795 residential buildings, the frequency […]

Microsoft announces new features for the Teams communications platform

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Microsoft has introduced new functionality for the Teams communication platform, designed to improve the efficiency of employee interaction in a corporate environment. Microsoft Teams is designed for collaboration between company employees, integrated with Office 365 applications and positioned as a working tool for corporate interaction. Users of this service can unite into teams, within which they can create open channels for groups […]

No more than an hour a day: in the Japanese prefecture of Kagawa, children's time in games was limited

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In mid-January 2020, authorities in the Japanese prefecture of Kagawa expressed a desire to limit the time children spend playing video games. Using this method, the government decided to combat addiction to the Internet and interactive entertainment among young people. Recently, the authorities confirmed their intentions by adopting a rule that prohibits minors from spending more than one hour a day playing games. Prefectural Council […]

Grand Theft Auto IV returns to Steam today, but it won't be available for purchase until next week

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In anticipation of the return of the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV to digital shelves, Rockstar Games announced the game's re-release schedule on its official website. As it turned out thanks to an update to the February instructions, on March 19, the full edition of Grand Theft Auto IV on Steam will be available only to those users who already own the game or a set of add-ons for it. Next Tuesday, […]

Google temporarily stops updating Chrome and Chrome OS

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The coronavirus outbreak, which continues to spread around the world, is impacting all tech companies. One of these impacts is the transfer of employees to remote work from home. Google today announced that due to the transfer of employees to remote work, it will temporarily stop releasing new versions of the Chrome browser and the Chrome OS software platform. The developers published a corresponding notice in [...]

Steam has an interactive advisor - an alternative to the standard search

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Valve has announced an interactive advisor on Steam, a new feature designed to make it easier to find potentially interesting games. The technology is based on machine learning and constantly monitors what projects users launch on the site. The essence of an interactive advisor is to offer games that are in demand among people with similar tastes and habits. The system does not directly take into account [...]

FuryBSD 12.1 Release, FreeBSD Live Builds with KDE and Xfce Desktops

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The release of the Live-distribution FuryBSD 12.1, built on the basis of FreeBSD and supplied in assemblies with the Xfce (1.8 GB) and KDE (3.4 GB) desktops, has been published. The project is being developed by Joe Maloney of iXsystems, which oversees TrueOS and FreeNAS, but FuryBSD is positioned as a community-supported independent project not associated with iXsystems. The live image can be burned to a DVD, [...]

Firefox plans to completely remove support for FTP

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Firefox developers have presented a plan to completely stop supporting the FTP protocol, which will affect both the ability to download files via FTP and view the contents of directories on FTP servers. The June 77 release of Firefox 2 will disable FTP support by default, but will add a "network.ftp.enabled" setting to about:config to bring FTP back. ESR builds of Firefox 78 support FTP via […]

Tor 0.3.5.10, 0.4.1.9 and 0.4.2.7 update fixes DoS vulnerability

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Corrective releases of the Tor toolkit (0.3.5.10, 0.4.1.9, 0.4.2.7, 0.4.3.3-alpha), used to organize the operation of the Tor anonymous network, are presented. The new versions eliminate two vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-10592 - can be used by any attacker to initiate a denial of service to relays. The attack can also be carried out by Tor directory servers to attack clients and hidden services. An attacker can create […]

Java SE 14 release

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Java SE 17 was released on March 14. The following changes were introduced: Switch statements in the form case VALUE -> {} were permanently added, which break the default condition and do not require a break statement. Text blocks delimited by three quotation marks """ have entered the second preliminary stage. Control sequences have been added, which do not add […]

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