Category: Internet News

Trigeneration: an alternative to centralized energy supply

Compared to European countries, where distributed generation accounts for nearly 30% of total production today, in Russia, the share of distributed energy is estimated to be no more than 5-10%. Let's discuss whether Russian distributed energy has a chance to catch up with global trends, and whether consumers have motivation to move towards independent energy supply. Source: Beyond the numbers. […]

Janayugom — the world's first newspaper to fully transition to open source software

Janayugom is a daily newspaper published in the state of Kerala (India) in the Malayalam language and has approximately 100,000 subscribers. Until recently, they used proprietary Adobe PageMaker, but the age of the software (the last release was as far back as 2001), along with the lack of Unicode support, prompted management to look for alternatives. Discovering that the industry-standard Adobe InDesign, instead of a one-time […]

Formlabs has created a 3D printing division for the dental industry

Formlabs, a company specializing in developing technologies for 3D printing, has created a division called Formlabs Dental, which will produce 3D printers and components for the dental market. Formlabs has also announced the new Form 3B 3D printer aimed at simplifying the process of producing dental implants. The previously released Form 2 3D printer enabled the printing of 13 million components for the needs of dentists. A notable feature of the Form 3B printer is […]

Is there life after Senior? Or what we will be discussing at SECR-2019

Hello, Habr! For every team, there are just events, and then there are those that require special preparation. For us at Reksoft, it's the Software Engineering Conference Russia or SECR, which will take place on November 14-15 in St. Petersburg. For us, it's not just a gathering of developers, team leads, architects, designers, and testers, but almost like home, the very atmosphere of our offices in […]

The Cppcheck project is raising funds to implement improvements.

Cppcheck developer (Daniel Marjamäki) is planning to add software verification for C and C++ to its static analyzer. In verification mode, Cppcheck will issue warnings if it cannot confirm that the code is safe; however, this may lead to noise (multiple warnings). Implementation Plans The verification mode will be implemented incrementally. The first stage will involve […]

Release of NGINX Unit 1.13.0 application server

The release of NGINX Unit 1.13 has been finalized, which focuses on providing a solution for running web applications in various programming languages (Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Go, JavaScript/Node.js, and Java). Under NGINX Unit, multiple applications in different programming languages can run simultaneously, and their start parameters can be dynamically modified without the need to edit configuration files or restart. The code […]

Release of Firefox Lite 2.0, a compact browser for Android

The release of the Firefox Lite 2.0 web browser has been announced, positioned as a lightweight variant of Firefox Focus designed to operate on resource-constrained systems and low-speed connection channels. The project is developed by a Mozilla team from Taiwan and primarily aims at delivery in India, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, China, and developing countries. A key distinction of Firefox Lite from Firefox Focus is […]

GitHub has initiated a project to find vulnerabilities in open-source software

It seems that GitHub is seriously considering software security. First, there was the data storage on Svalbard and a financial support project for developers. Now, the GitHub Security Lab initiative has emerged, which invites all interested experts to participate in improving the security of open-source software. The initiative already includes F5, Google, HackerOne, Intel, IOActive, J.P. Morgan, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Mozilla, NCC Group, Oracle, Trail […]

FuryBSD — a new Live build of FreeBSD with the Xfce desktop.

The formation of experimental builds of the new Live distribution FuryBSD, based on FreeBSD 12.1 and the Xfce desktop, has begun. The project was founded by Joe Maloney, who works at iXsystems, which oversees TrueOS and FreeNAS, but FuryBSD is positioned as a community-supported independent project, not affiliated with iXsystems. The live image can be written to both DVD and USB Flash. A stationary mode is available […]

Docker sold part of its business related to the Docker Enterprise platform to Mirantis.

Mirantis, a company offering cloud solutions based on OpenStack and Kubernetes, has acquired part of Docker Inc's business related to the Docker Enterprise platform (the commercial version of Docker’s tools and engine for enterprises, including Docker Enterprise Container Engine, Docker Trusted Registry, and Docker Universal Control Plane). After the business split, Docker Inc will continue to operate as an independent company and […]

Brave browser 1.0 release, developed with the participation of the creator of JavaScript

After four and a half years of development and testing, the first stable release of the Brave web browser has been launched, developed under the leadership of Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript and former head of Mozilla. The browser is built on the Chromium engine and focuses on protecting user privacy. Builds are available for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. The project's code is available on GitHub, with specific […]

A Comparative Test of Old Mobile Phone Cameras and a Bit of History

While I am drawing illustrations of old phones, I found some camera phones in my collection and decided to conduct a comparative test to observe the progress made. The results turned out to be quite interesting. Additionally, I will discuss the history behind the creation of these devices. Having a camera in a phone was considered prestigious, even though the quality was initially laughable. The first phone with a camera was the Kyocera VP-210. It was released […]

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