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Good memory is an undeniable advantage for students and a skill that will undoubtedly be useful in life, regardless of your subjects. Today, we decided to start a series of materials on how to enhance memory — beginning with a brief overview: what types of memory exist and which memorization methods work reliably. Photo by jesse orrico — […]
Memory is an astonishing capacity of the brain, and despite being studied for quite some time, there are many misconceptions — or at least, not entirely accurate representations — about it. We will discuss some of the most popular misconceptions, why it’s not so easy to forget things, what drives us to ‘steal’ others' memories, and how fabricated recollections influence our […]
Siemens has released version 0.11 of the open-source hypervisor Jailhouse. The hypervisor supports operation on x86_64 systems with VMX+EPT or SVM+NPT (AMD-V) extensions, as well as on ARMv7 and ARMv8/ARM64 processors with virtualization extensions. A separate image generator for the Jailhouse hypervisor is being developed, which is based on Debian packages for supported devices. The project’s code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The hypervisor is implemented in […]
It has been announced that all formalities have been settled and the sale of Red Hat's business to IBM is officially completed. The deal was approved by the antitrust authorities in the countries where the companies are registered, as well as by shareholders and boards of directors. The transaction amounted to approximately $34 billion, at a price of $190 per share (currently, Red Hat's share price is $187, […]
In addition to the early review of the Radeon RX 5700 series graphics cards, a review of the Ryzen 3000 processors was also published, although it was supposed to be released only on Sunday, July 7. This time, the German resource PCGamesHardware.de stood out, which, of course, soon removed the page with the review of the Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 9 3900X processors, but screenshots of the charts with the results […]
The international antivirus company ESET warns of a new malware program that threatens users of torrent sites. The malware is called GoBot2/GoBotKR. It is distributed under the guise of various games and applications, as well as pirated copies of movies and series. After downloading such content, the user receives files that appear harmless at first glance. However, hidden within them is the malware. The activation of the malware occurs after clicking […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released Linux kernel 5.2. Among the most notable changes are: case-insensitive mode for Ext4, separate system calls for mounting FS, drivers for Mali 4xx/6xx/7xx GPUs, the ability to process changes to sysctl values in BPF programs, the device-mapper module dm-dust, protection against MDS attacks, support for Sound Open Firmware for DSP, […]
In the published June 25 release of the Strong_password gem 0.7, a malicious change (CVE-2019-13354) was identified that loads and executes external code controlled by an unknown attacker, hosted on Pastebin. The total number of project downloads is 247,000, while version 0.6 has around 38,000. The number of downloads for the malicious version is listed as 537, but it is unclear how accurate this is, considering that […]
Spotify continues to test a lighter version of its mobile client, which started last year. The developers aim to expand their presence in regions where internet speeds are low, and users mainly own entry-level and mid-range mobile devices. Recently, the Spotify Lite app has been officially available on the Google Play digital content store in 36 countries, and in the future […]
— Didn't you tell him? — What could I say?! – Tatiana exclaimed, genuinely indignant. – As if I know anything about your silly quest! — Why silly? – Sergey was equally surprised. — Because we will never find ourselves a new IT director this way! – Tatiana, as usual, started to blush from […]
Good day. Today we will talk about a tabletop role-playing system of our own design, inspired by both console Eastern games and our experience with Western tabletop giants. The latter turned out to be not as fantastical as one might hope — cumbersome in terms of rules, featuring somewhat sterile heroes and items, overloaded with bookkeeping. So why not write something of our own? [ … ]
A release of the Debian Edu 10 distribution, also known as Skolelinux, has been prepared for use in educational institutions. This distribution includes an integrated set of tools in a single installation image for the rapid deployment of both servers and workstations in schools, supporting both stationary workstations in computer labs and portable systems. Builds of size 404 [ … ] are available for download.
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