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It starts here. 10-43: Someone says, "A scientist knows science like a fish knows hydrodynamics." There is no definition of Science here. I discovered (I think I mentioned this to you before) that in high school, different teachers talked about various subjects, and I could see that different teachers spoke about the same subjects differently. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Despite all the drawbacks of Internet Explorer, it still exists in Windows, including in the latest version. Moreover, it is part of both classic and future Microsoft Edge. Although the company itself has not recommended using it as a daily browser. Information has appeared on Reddit that enthusiasts have managed to run Internet Explorer on Windows 10 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Support for the Windows 7 operating system ends tomorrow, and in anticipation of this event, Microsoft has released a statement recommending that users, instead of upgrading to Windows 10, purchase new PCs. Notably, Microsoft is not just recommending new PCs but also suggests buying branded Surface devices, whose advantages are detailed in the aforementioned publication. 'Many Windows 7 users […]
The reporting time in Excel is rapidly diminishing — the trend towards convenient tools for presenting and analyzing information is evident in all areas. We have long discussed digitalizing the reporting process and have chosen the visualization and self-service analytics system Tableau. Alexander Bezugly, head of the analytics and reporting department at the M.Video-Eldorado Group, shared his experiences and outcomes in building a battle dashboard. Let me tell you right away, not […]
Imagine this scenario. A cold October morning, a design institute in the regional center of one of Russia's regions. Someone from the HR department visits one of the job listing pages on the institute's website, posted a couple of days ago, and sees a photo of a cat. The morning quickly stops being boring… In this article, Pavel Suprunyuk, technical director of the audit and consulting department at Group-IB, […]
Mozilla announced the start of testing a new mechanism for revocation of certificates — CRLite — in the Firefox nightly builds. CRLite allows for efficient certificate revocation checking using a database hosted on the user's system. The implementation of CRLite developed by Mozilla is published under the free MPL 2.0 license. The code for generating the database and server components is written in Python and Go. Added […]
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