Category: Internet News

Passport data of officials and tourists has been made publicly available.

The Chairman of the Association of Data Market Participants, Ivan Begtin, reported that he managed to discover around 360,000 records with personal data publicly accessible. Among other things, personal information of several Russian politicians, bankers, businessmen, and other notable individuals was found. The data leak was identified after analyzing websites of 8 government information systems. Users' personal data was discovered after […]

New article: How much video memory is needed for modern games

This year can confidently be called the year of gaming graphics cards. In 2019, NVIDIA practically released its entire lineup - at the time of writing this article, the GeForce GTX 1650 with 4 GB of memory had already been introduced. Soon, AMD will unveil a series of gaming graphics adapters of the Navi generation, but this company has already introduced a record-breaking device - the Radeon VII, equipped with 16 GB […]

Google Translatotron – a technology for simultaneous speech translation that mimics the user's voice

Developers from Google have presented a new project that created a technology capable of translating spoken sentences from one language to another. The main difference of the new translator called Translatotron from its analogs is that it operates exclusively with audio, without using intermediate text. This approach has significantly sped up the translator's performance. Another notable […]

The new Microsoft Edge changes its theme along with Windows

The trend of dark themes in various programs, including browsers, continues to gain momentum. It was previously reported that the Edge browser introduced such a theme, but it had to be manually enabled with flags. Now there’s no need for that. In the latest build of Microsoft Edge Canary 76.0.160.0, they added a function similar to Chrome 74. We're talking about […]

How does your morning start?

— So, how are things? — I reply, "Fine." How could it be fine? It was fine until you showed up. You always choose the most inconvenient moment. That’s why I, you bastard, hate you. — How's the article? — you asked sarcastically. — Fine. — Honestly, I don’t want to go into details. — Are you sure it’s fine? — Absolutely. […]

Predicates of information hope

Something new is emerging within the well-trodden paths. The trampled and crushed cultural soil, from which it seems all the air has been driven out, is ready to perform what it does best—motheringly putting everything in its place. Starting as intellectual games of individuals, propelled by historical necessity, and receiving financial blessing from the global Machine, something that was once on its knees gains strength […]

Intel has released a new edition of the Clear Linux distribution for application developers.

Intel has announced an expansion of the Clear Linux distribution's application area, previously positioned as a specialized solution for container isolation. The new Clear Linux Developer Edition allows the distribution to be used on developers' systems as a user environment. The default desktop is GNOME, but KDE Plasma, Xfce, LXQt, Awesome, and i3 are also available as options. The Clear Linux distribution provides strict […]

Video: A Danish operative Nøkk will soon appear in Rainbow Six Siege.

Ubisoft continues to develop its tactical shooter Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege. This time, the focus is on the new operator Nøkk from the assault team, who will be part of the second season of the game's fourth year of support. She has long been a dark horse—few outside the Rainbow team know anything about her. A new teaser is dedicated to this character. Nøkk […]

Firefox will remove settings to disable multi-process mode.

Mozilla developers announced the removal of user-accessible settings in the Firefox codebase for disabling the multiprocess mode (e10s). The reason for discontinuing support for reverting to single-process mode is its low security and potential stability issues due to inadequate coverage during testing. Single-process mode is marked as unsuitable for everyday use. Starting with Firefox 68 […]

Intel is developing an open firmware ModernFW and a hypervisor in Rust.

Intel unveiled several new experimental open projects at the ongoing OSTS (Open Source Technology Summit) conference. As part of the ModernFW initiative, work is being done to create a scalable and secure replacement for UEFI and BIOS firmware. The project is in its early stages of development, but the proposed prototype already includes enough capabilities for organization […]

Intel: you don’t need to disable Hyper-Threading to protect against ZombieLoad

If, after the previous news about ZombieLoad, you are in a panic trying to figure out how to disable Intel Hyper-Threading to prevent the exploitation of a new vulnerability similar to Spectre and Meltdown, take a deep breath — Intel's official guidance actually does not recommend doing this in most cases. ZombieLoad is akin to previous attacks via 'side-channel attacks' that compel Intel processors to expose […]

Fujitsu Lifebook U939X: premium business-class convertible laptop

Fujitsu has announced the Lifebook U939X, a convertible laptop primarily aimed at corporate users. The new device features a 13.3-inch touchscreen display. It utilizes a Full HD panel with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels. The screen lid can be rotated 360 degrees to switch the device to tablet mode. The maximum configuration includes an Intel Core i7-8665U processor. This chip […]

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