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In the art of management, there are many conflicting recipes, and the best managers in the world stick to their own rules. Are they right, and why is the hiring process structured in leading market companies the way it is? Should one strive to overcome their shortcomings at all costs? Why do self-managed teams often fail? Where should managers spend more time — on […]
Organizational change has two key challenges — starting and not giving up. Interestingly, not giving up is more difficult than starting. Starting is tough when the changes planned are substantial. This issue can be resolved simply — begin gradually, in small increments. For the experts, I’ll remind you — this is called agile, and also — fail fast, fail cheap. Take a step, evaluate, either discard, […]
Google has revealed plans to implement tools in Chrome for blocking annoying notifications, similar to those recently offered to users in Firefox 72. Google acknowledged that a large number of notifications related to authority verification appear in an intrusive manner. Instead of displaying such notifications when there is a real need, websites typically request authority confirmation […]
The libmdbx library is a significantly revamped descendant of LMDB — an extremely high-performance, compact embedded key-value database. The current version v0.5 is a technical release, marking the end of any enhancements and transitioning to the phase of public final testing and stabilization, leading up to the formation of the first full release of the library. LMDB is a well-known transactional embedded DBMS of the key-value type based on B+ tree […]
Tails is an operating system that can be run on almost any computer using a USB drive or DVD. It is designed to protect your privacy and anonymity and assists you in doing so. This release fixes numerous vulnerabilities. You should update as soon as possible. Improvements to Automatic Updates We have worked on significant improvements to the automatic update feature, which has been causing […]
The release of the Firefox 72 web browser has taken place, along with the mobile version Firefox 68.4 for the Android platform. Additionally, an update for the long-term support branch 68.4.0 has been generated. The Firefox 73 branch will soon enter beta testing, with a release scheduled for February 11 (the project has shifted to a 4-week development cycle). Key innovations: In the default standard blocking mode […]
Researchers from the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) have presented the Shambles attack method (PDF), which is touted as the first practical implementation of an attack on the SHA-1 algorithm that can be used to create spoofed digital signatures for PGP and GnuPG. The researchers believe that now all practical attacks on MD5 can also be applied to […]
As is known, Windows 10 version 2004 (20H1) is close to reaching release candidate status. This means the codebase is frozen and bugs are being fixed. One of the steps is optimizing the load on the processor and hard disk during searches. Microsoft claims to have conducted extensive research over the past year to identify critical issues in the Windows search system. The culprit turned out to be […]
NFP founder Sergey Lozhkin explained to me what simulation modeling is, digital twins, why our developers are cheap and great for Europe, and why Russia has a high level of digitization. Come along if you want to learn how it works, who needs Digital Twin in Russia, the cost of a project, and how to learn this. A digital twin is an accurate virtual copy of a real […]
The world around us is a collective result of numerous phenomena and processes from a variety of sciences, making it practically impossible to highlight the single most important one. Despite some degree of competition, many aspects of different sciences share similar features. Take geometry, for example: everything we see has a particular shape, one of the most common in nature is […]
Firefox 72 is now available. This is the first release for which the preparation time has been reduced from 6 to 4 weeks. The picture-in-picture mode is enabled on Linux and macOS platforms. In the OpenBSD builds, filesystem isolation is implemented using unveil(). Tracking protection now blocks requests to resources identified as collecting digital fingerprints (fingerprinting) by default. Sites can no longer request […]
The release of the specialized distribution Tails 4.2 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), based on the Debian package base and designed for ensuring anonymous internet access, has been announced. Anonymous access in Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections, except traffic through the Tor network, are blocked by a packet filter by default. To store user data persistently between sessions, […]