Category: Internet News

Online retailers have tested simplified payment for goods in the fast payment system

Online retailers Ozon and Ak Bars Bank have successfully tested the "instant account" feature of the fast payment system (FPS), which allows shopping in online stores through the Central Bank of Russia's service without a QR code. According to official representatives of the Central Bank, 36 banks have already connected to this system; however, at the moment, only 8 of them are testing the payment for goods and services. The Central Bank anticipates that […]

Introduction to the semantic differential method in 5 minutes

Introduction What might the knowledge of the semantic differential methodology be useful for? We can learn our position relative to competitors in the subconscious of consumers. It might seem to us that customers have a negative attitude toward our product, but what if we find out that they view our competitors even worse on the most significant criteria for us? We can find out how successful our advertising is compared to […]

Unboxing Intel NUC 9 Extreme on the Ghost Canyon platform: just add a graphics card

In the closing days of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, we managed to take a look inside the compact Intel NUC computer based on the Ghost Canyon hardware platform. The company released the first Next Unit of Computing back in 2012 and has been continuously enhancing the system's capabilities since. The latest upgrade iteration has the Intel CPU and Vega graphics processor housed on the same substrate […]

Tails 4.2.2 — emergency release

Tails is an operating system that can be run on almost any computer from a USB stick or DVD. It is designed to protect your privacy and anonymity and helps you achieve that. This is an emergency release that fixes critical vulnerabilities in the Tor Browser. Updates The Tor Browser has been updated to 9.0.4. A critical vulnerability in the JavaScript JIT compiler in Firefox and Tor Browser has been fixed. Mozilla is aware […]

Release of the Ubuntu GamePack 18.04 gaming platform

The Ubuntu GamePack 18.04 build is available for download, which includes tools to run over 55,000 games and applications, both specifically designed for the GNU/Linux platform and Windows games that can be run using PlayOnLinux, CrossOver, and Wine, as well as old games for MS-DOS. The distribution is built on Ubuntu 18.04 and includes all […]

Release of the distributed version control system Git 2.25

The release of the distributed version control system Git 2.25.0 is now available. Git is one of the most popular, reliable, and high-performance version control systems, offering flexible tools for nonlinear development based on branching and merging. To ensure the integrity of history and resistance to "backward" changes, implicit hashing of the entire previous history is used in each commit, and digital verification is also possible […]

How We Developed a System Analyst from Scratch

Are you familiar with the situation where your business needs are growing, but there aren't enough people to meet those needs? What should you do in such cases? Where can you find people with the necessary skills, and is it even worth pursuing? Since this problem is, to put it mildly, not new, solutions already exist. Some companies resort to outstaffing schemes to engage specialists […]

Root privileges will be removed by default from Kali Linux

For many years, Kali Linux has been known for its root access policy for default users, a practice inherited from BackTrack Linux. On December 31, 2019, the developers of Kali Linux decided to transition to a more 'classic' policy — the absence of root privileges for users in the default session. This change will be implemented in the 2020.1 release of the distribution, but if desired, users can […]

Linux in 2020 will finally be able to provide proper temperature control for SATA disks

One of the issues with Linux for over 10 years has been monitoring the temperature of SATA/SCSI disks. The fact is that this was implemented through third-party utilities and daemons rather than the kernel, so they needed to be installed separately, granted access, and so forth. However, it seems that this situation is about to change. Reports indicate that in Linux kernel 5.5, for NVMe drives, it is already possible to do without […]

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