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The Central Bank wants to add fast payments to the domestic messenger "Seraphim"

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The idea of import substitution continues to occupy the minds of officials in high offices. According to "Vedomosti," the Central Bank may integrate its Fast Payment System (FPS) into the domestic messenger "Serafim." This program is designed for state companies and serves as a sort of analog to China's WeChat. Interestingly, it is claimed that only domestic crypto algorithms are employed in it. Whether this is true remains unclear, but the application […]

The Microsoft SMS Organizer app for Android will eliminate spam in messages

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Microsoft has developed a new application called SMS Organizer for the Android mobile platform, designed for automatic sorting of incoming messages. Initially, this software was available only in India, but today there are reports that users from several other countries can download SMS Organizer. The SMS Organizer app uses machine learning technology to automatically sort incoming […]

Release of the new stable branch Tor 0.4.1

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The release of Tor 0.4.1.5 toolkit has been announced, which is used to organize the operation of the anonymous Tor network. Tor 0.4.1.5 is recognized as the first stable release of the 0.4.1 branch, which developed over the last four months. The 0.4.1 branch will be supported as part of the standard support cycle — updates will cease after 9 months or 3 months after the release of the 0.4.2.x branch. A long-term support (LTS) version is ensured […]

Malicious code detected in rest-client and 10 other Ruby packages

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A malicious code injection (CVE-2019-15224) has been discovered in the popular gem package rest-client, which has a total of 113 million downloads. This vulnerability downloads executable commands and sends information to an external host. The attack occurred through the compromise of the rest-client developer's account on rubygems.org, after which the attackers published versions 1.6.10-1.6.13 on August 13 and 14, which included malicious changes. Before the malicious versions were blocked, their […]

How I organized the project where there was a maze of direct hands (tslint, prettier settings, etc.)

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Hello again. This is Sergey Omelnitsky speaking. Today I will share one of my headaches with you, specifically what to do when a project is being developed by many programmers of different levels, using an Angular application as an example. It has been my experience that I worked for a long time only with my team, where we had long ago agreed on formatting rules, commenting, indentation, etc. We have gotten used to […]

How the largest video surveillance systems in the world work

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In previous posts, we discussed simple video surveillance systems in business; now we will talk about projects where the number of cameras counts in the thousands. Often the difference between the most expensive video surveillance systems and solutions that small and medium-sized businesses can implement today lies in the scale and budget. If there are no budget constraints for the project, you can directly […]

NVIDIA is preparing a mysterious graphics card GeForce RTX T10-8 based on the flagship TU102 GPU

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The latest beta version of the popular utility AIDA64, designed for diagnosing, testing, and gathering system information, has been updated with information about the mysterious NVIDIA GeForce RTX T10-8 graphics accelerator, which was previously unannounced and had not been mentioned anywhere. The only thing known about the GeForce RTX T10-8 accelerator is that it is built on the NVIDIA TU102 graphics processor. […]

A backdoor found in Webmin allows remote access with root privileges

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A backdoor (CVE-2019-15107) has been discovered in the Webmin package, which provides tools for remote server management. This backdoor was found in official project builds distributed through Sourceforge and recommended on the main website. The backdoor was present in builds from 1.882 to 1.921 inclusive (the code with the backdoor was absent in the git repository) and allowed remote execution of arbitrary shell commands on the system with root privileges without authentication. For […]

Release of Runtu XFCE 18.04.3 distribution

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The release of the Runtu XFCE 18.04.3 distribution has been presented, based on the package base of Xubuntu 18.04.3 LTS, optimized for Russian-speaking users and supplied with multimedia codecs and an expanded set of applications. The distribution is built using debootstrap and offers the Xfce 4.12 desktop with the xfwm window manager and the LightDM display manager. The size of the ISO image is 829 MB. The new release features the Linux kernel […]

Remote work in full-time mode: where to start if you're not a senior

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Today, many IT companies are facing the challenge of finding employees in their region. An increasing number of job offers in the labor market are related to the possibility of remote work. Full-time remote work implies that the employer and employee are bound by clear labor obligations: a contract or employment agreement; most often, a defined regulated work schedule, stable salary, vacations and […]

The approval has been given to discontinue the creation of repositories for the i686 architecture in Fedora 31.

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The FESCo committee (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), responsible for the technical development of the Fedora distribution, has approved the discontinuation of the main repositories for the i686 architecture. It should be noted that the initial consideration of this proposal was postponed to study the possible negative impact of discontinuing the supply of packages for i686 on local module builds. This decision complements the already implemented decision in the rawhide branch to stop the creation of bootable […]

Chrome will be less 'greedy' in terms of battery usage

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Thanks to the open-source Chromium, Microsoft has made its first significant and positive impact on the Google Chrome browser. Reports indicate that this new feature should resolve a long-standing issue with 'Chrome'—its 'greediness' regarding laptop battery consumption. Shawn Pickett from Microsoft stated that media content is cached to disk during download and playback. And this […]

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