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Despite the fact that Intel has yet to release the long-awaited 10nm Ice Lake processors, it is already actively working on their successors — Tiger Lake. One such processor was discovered by the well-known leak source under the pseudonym KOMACHI ENSAKA in the UserBenchmark performance testing database. To start, let's remind that the release of the Tiger Lake processors is expected in […]
The release of the Duktape 2.4.0 JavaScript engine, aimed at embedding in the codebase of C/C++ projects, has been published. The engine is characterized by its compact size, high portability, and low resource consumption. The source code of Duktape is written in C and is distributed under the MIT license. The Duktape code occupies about 160 kB and consumes only 70 kB of RAM, and in low memory consumption mode, it is 27 kB […]
The Windows 10 operating system includes various troubleshooting tools that allow you to either save files or perform a clean reinstall of the system. However, it seems that the folks in Redmond are experimenting with other recovery formats. After all, a bootable USB drive or DVD is not always at hand, nor is there access to another computer. In the latest build of Windows 10 Insider Preview, numbered 18950, a section was discovered […]
We are launching a new course for beginners — "Start in Data Science." For just 990 rubles, you will dive into Data Science: learn about specializations, choose a profession, and enhance your skills in working with data. Data Science is the science of data and its analysis. Many believe that entering this field is very difficult: tedious, lengthy, and requires a physics or math education. But […]
It's been 'a thousand years' since I've written anything, but suddenly there was an unexpected reason to dust off the mini-series of publications on 'Starting Data Science from Scratch.' In a contextual advertisement on one of the social networks, as well as on my favorite 'Habr', I came across information about the course 'Start in Data Science.' It cost a mere pittance, and the course description was vibrant and promising. 'Why […]
The release of Wi-Fi daemon IWD 0.19 (iNet Wireless Daemon), developed by Intel as an alternative to wpa_supplicant for connecting Linux systems to wireless networks, is now available. IWD can serve as a backend for network configurators such as Network Manager and ConnMan. A key goal of developing this new Wi-Fi daemon is to optimize resource consumption, such as memory usage and disk size. IWD […]
The release of the tiling window manager i3wm 4.17 has taken place. The i3wm project was created from scratch after a series of attempts to address the shortcomings of the wmii window manager. i3wm features well-readable and documented code, uses xcb instead of Xlib, correctly supports operation in multi-monitor configurations, employs tree data structures for window positioning, provides an IPC interface, supports UTF-8, and maintains minimalism in window design. […]
Mathy Vanhoef and Eyal Ronen have discovered a new attack method (CVE-2019-13377) on wireless networks using WPA3 protection technology, which allows retrieval of password characteristics that can be used for offline password cracking. The issue arises in the current version of Hostapd. It is worth noting that these authors previously identified six vulnerabilities in WPA3 in April.
Law firm Tycko & Zavareei has filed a lawsuit related to a data breach affecting more than 100 million clients of Capital One banking holding, including details of approximately 140,000 social security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers. In addition to Capital One, GitHub is also included as a defendant, being accused of providing the means to host, display, and use the information obtained.
MAGMA (A collection of next-generation linear algebra libraries for use on GPUs. Developed and implemented by the same team that develops the LAPACK and ScaLAPACK libraries) has released a new important version 2.5.1 (2019-08-02): added support for Turing; it can now be built via cmake, for which the CMakeLists.txt has been corrected for proper spack installation; fixes for using without FP16; improved compilation on various […]
Previously, THQ Nordic announced the board game Darksiders: The Forbidden Land, which will only be sold as part of the Darksiders Genesis Nephilim Edition collector's edition. The Darksiders: The Forbidden Land board game is designed for five players: four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and a Master. It is a cooperative dungeon exploration game where War, Death, Fury, and Strife unite to defeat The Jailer […]
Hello everyone. This is Sergey Omelnitsky. Not long ago, I hosted a stream on reactive programming where I talked about asynchronicity in JavaScript. Today, I would like to summarize this material. But before we dive into the main content, we need to start with an introduction. So, let's begin with definitions: what is a stack and a queue? A stack is a collection where elements […]