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Anton Dyakin, Director of Academic Programs at Parallels, shared his thoughts on how the increase in retirement age is related to continuing education and what skills are essential to learn in the coming years. Here’s the story in the first person. By the will of fate, I am living my third, perhaps fourth, full professional life. The first was military service, which concluded with my commissioning as a reserve officer […]
As part of the System Transparency project and in partnership with Mullvad, the Supermicro X11SSH-TF server platform has been migrated to the coreboot system. This platform is the first modern server platform featuring the Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 processor, also known as Kabylake-DT. The following functions have been implemented: ASPEED 2400 SuperI/O and BMC drivers have been added. A BMC IPMI interface driver has been introduced. The boot functionality has been verified and measured. […]
Google has begun rolling out the final sixth beta version of the Android 10 Q operating system. It is currently available only for Google Pixel devices. For smartphones where the previous version is already installed, the new build installs quite quickly. There are not many changes in this version, as the codebase has already been frozen, and OS developers have focused on bug fixes. […]
An update for the Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS distribution has been released, which includes changes aimed at improving hardware support, updating the Linux kernel and graphical stack, fixing installer and bootloader bugs. It also includes the latest updates for several hundred packages addressing vulnerabilities and stability issues. Similar updates for Kubuntu 18.04.3 LTS and Ubuntu Budgie […]
Cruise, a company specializing in autonomous vehicle technology, has released the source code for its FwAnalyzer project, which provides tools for analyzing Linux-based firmware images and identifying potential vulnerabilities and data leaks. The code is written in Go and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. It supports the analysis of images using ext2/3/4, FAT/VFat, SquashFS, and UBIFS file systems. For disclosure […]
A year and a half ago, while reading about the vulnerabilities Meltdown and Spectre, I caught myself not fully understanding the difference between the abbreviations i.e. and e.g. Contextually, they seem clear, but later it feels like not entirely right. As a result, I created a small cheat sheet specifically for these abbreviations to avoid confusion. […]
Details have emerged about a new attack on websites using a frontend-backend model, such as those operating via content delivery networks, load balancers, or proxies. The attack allows for the injection of content into other requests processed in the same thread between the frontend and backend by sending specific requests. The proposed method has successfully been applied to execute an attack that intercepts user authentication parameters for the PayPal service, which has rewarded researchers […]
The Document Foundation has released version 6.3 of the LibreOffice office suite. Installation packages have been prepared for various distributions of Linux, Windows, and macOS, as well as a version for deploying the online version in Docker. Key improvements include a significant increase in the performance of Writer and Calc. Compared to the previous release, loading and saving certain types of documents is up to 10 times faster. In particular, […]
Last year, I spent the last couple of months preparing for an internship interview at Google (Google Internship). Everything went well: I got both the job and great experience. Now, two months after the internship, I want to share the document I used for interview preparation. For me, it was something like a cheat sheet before an exam. However, the process […]
The Document Foundation has announced the release of LibreOffice 6.3. Writer now allows background colors for table cells to be set from the Table toolbar. Indexes/table of contents can now be undone, and the update does not clear the undo history. Improved copying of tables from Calc to existing Writer tables: only visible cells in Calc are copied and pasted. The page background can now be set […]
Zhabogram is a transport (bridge, gateway) from the Jabber (XMPP) network to the Telegram network, written in Ruby. It is the successor to tg4xmpp. Dependencies: Ruby >= 1.9, xmpp4r == 0.5.6, tdlib-ruby == 2.0 with compiled tdlib == 1.3. Features include authorization in an existing Telegram account, synchronization of chat lists with the roster, synchronization of contact statuses with the roster, adding and removing Telegram contacts, and support for VCard with […]
Developers from 9elements have ported CoreBoot for the Supermicro X11SSH-TF server motherboard. The changes have already been integrated into the main CoreBoot codebase and will be part of the next significant release. The Supermicro X11SSH-TF has become the first modern server motherboard with an Intel Xeon processor that can be used with CoreBoot. The board supports Xeon processors (E3-1200V6 Kabylake-S or E3-1200V5 Skylake-S) and can […]