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In early November, we announced the open beta of the Miro platform, held a conference on platform development with JetBrains, Stripe, and other companies (videos of all presentations), and launched an online competition for developers to create plugins. The competition has ended! Engineers from Poland, Switzerland, Slovakia, Belarus, Lithuania, Russia, and other countries participated. We are ready to announce the winners! 1 […]
Why 17, you might ask? Because my journey in IT began exactly 17 years ago. For the last decade, I have been working at 'Infosystems Jet', where my professional development took place. But today I will not talk about the twists and turns of corporate life, but rather about self-education and the literature that has helped me throughout these years. The first necessity for conscious self-organization […]
The Debian project has announced the start of a general resolution (GR) for project developers regarding support for multiple initialization systems, which will determine the project's future policy regarding its binding to systemd, support for alternative initialization systems, and interaction with derivative distributions that do not use systemd. The voting will last until December 27 inclusive, and the results will be announced on December 28. Recall that in 2014 […]
Microsoft has released a fresh update for its new Chromium-based Edge browser for the Canary and Dev update channels. The patch in version 80.0.353.0 brings improvements to the InPrivate window, which now includes the Bing search panel. This allows direct input of search queries into Bing, as is done with Google and other search engines, rather than first going to bing.com […]
The most notable changes include: The lockdown module, which restricts root user's access to kernel files and interfaces. Details. The virtiofs file system for forwarding specific host directories to guest systems. Interaction follows a 'client-server' model via FUSE. Details. The fs-verity file integrity control mechanism. Similar to dm-verity, but works at the level of Ext4 and F2FS file systems, not block devices. Details. […]
The release of Proxmox Virtual Environment 6.1 has taken place, a specialized Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, aimed at deploying and managing virtual servers using LXC and KVM, and capable of serving as a replacement for products like VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer. The size of the installation ISO image is 776 MB. Proxmox VE provides tools for deploying a fully ready virtual system […]
How often do we see 'news from the future' in the media, proudly announcing the planned successes of science for the benefit of the country's economy? Often, in the comments to such announcements and reports, we can find skepticism and calls to write only about events that have already occurred. We have little faith in bright and inspiring plans. Well, the domestic information space is not unique in this kind of publication. […]
Usually, we write in our blogs about the features of various complex technologies or share insights about what we are working on ourselves. But today we want to offer you something special. In the summer of 2019, renowned science fiction author Sergey Zhigarev wrote two stories for the literary project Selectel and RBC, but only one made it to the final edit. The second one […]
A major update of the digital audio workstation Reaper 6 has been released, developed by Cockos, currently consisting of one person. The previous release was notable for the launch of the program’s build for Linux, and the new release continues to explore the Linux-based platform market. Builds are provided in tarballs, accompanied by installation scripts and are independent of distribution-specific package formats. Installation images have been prepared for platforms […]
An attack technique (CVE-2019-14899) has been published, allowing packets in TCP connections passed through VPN tunnels to be spoofed, altered, or substituted. The issue affects Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Android, macOS, iOS, and other Unix-like systems. Linux supports the rp_filter (reverse path filtering) mechanism for IPv4, the activation of which in 'Strict' mode neutralizes this issue. This method allows packet substitution at the TCP connection level, occurring within encrypted […]
The W3C consortium has announced that WebAssembly technology has been given recommended standard status. WebAssembly provides a browser-independent universal low-level intermediate code for executing applications compiled from various programming languages. WebAssembly is positioned as a more promising and portable technology for creating high-performance web applications across browsers. WebAssembly can be used for tasks that require high performance, such as video encoding and audio processing, […]
The design of the Willow Cove processor core is based on Sunny Cove—the first Intel core with a truly new core design in the last 5 years. However, Sunny Cove is only implemented in 10nm Ice Lake processors, while Willow Cove cores are expected to appear in Tiger Lake CPUs (10nm+ process). The mass production of Intel's 10nm chips has been delayed until the end of 2020, […]