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The semiconductor industry is quite young, and many large companies have only been around for a couple of decades. But there are veterans celebrating half-century anniversaries. One such company is Intel (which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year) and its long-time competitor AMD. Let’s recall some important milestones in the rich history of a company that was founded […]
To all, all, all teachers of computer science for children aged 10 to 14! A Russian translation of the course 'Introduction to Computer Science with MakeCode for Minecraft' is available at the link. The course page will most likely display in English and won't offer the option to switch to another language, but, like that groundhog, the Russian translation is indeed available. Here's what you need to do: […]
HIROSHI WATANABE/GETTY IMAGES In the book 'The Wealth of Nations', Adam Smith illustrates how the division of labor becomes the main source of productivity improvement. An example is the assembly line of a pin factory: 'One worker pulls the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, the fourth sharpens the end, and the fifth shapes the other end for attaching the head.' Thanks to specialization, focused on specific functions, each worker becomes highly skilled […]
Hello everyone! Recently, the results of the Stackoverflow Dev Survey 2019 became available. 90K developers from around the world participated in the survey, making the data not only interesting reading for discussion with colleagues but also a good source of analytics for professional discussion. Below are some interesting metrics that caught attention while reading. Some truly make you think: Programming — […]
Windows Lite is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated products from Microsoft. However, it seems users will need to be patient and wait a bit longer. Reports indicate that progress on supporting Win32 applications has not advanced as expected within the company. This will prevent Windows Lite from running classic versions of software, significantly limiting its scope. Notably, one of […]
Hello again, %username%! Thank you to everyone who appreciated my piece "The Most Frightening Poisons." It was very interesting to read the comments, regardless of their nature, and I enjoyed responding. I'm glad the "top list" was well-received. If it wasn't to your liking — well, I did everything I could. The comments and engagement inspired me to write the second part. […]
Hello everyone. Just over a year ago, I had to deal with a rather unpleasant situation involving suspicion of rabies infection. An article I read yesterday about vaccines for travelers reminded me of that case — particularly its lack of mention of rabies, even though it is a widely spread (especially in Russia, Asia, Africa, and America) and very insidious virus. To […]
A vulnerability has been identified in the Linux kernel (CVE-2019-11683) that allows remote denial of service through specially crafted UDP packets (packet-of-death). The issue is caused by a bug in the udp_gro_receive_segment handler (net/ipv4/udp_offload.c) with the implementation of GRO (Generic Receive Offload) technology and can lead to memory corruption in kernel areas when processing UDP packets with zero-padding (empty payload). The problem affects only kernel 5.0, which […]
Microsoft previously began using the open-source Chromium browser as the foundation for its Edge web browser. The application is already available for Windows 10, albeit in a test build. Google seems to fully support this move and welcomes Microsoft's contribution. However, some of the search giant's applications do not function correctly in Edge. For instance, […]
Network sources report that a new feature will soon be available to users in Google account settings. This tool will allow for the automatic deletion of location data, online activity, and app usage over a specified time period. The data deletion process will occur automatically, requiring users to simply select when this should happen. Available […]
Based on a conducted study, NetMarketShare published data on the global distribution of desktop operating systems. The report states that the market share of Windows 10 in April 2019 continued to gradually grow, increasing to 44.10%, while the figure for March was 43.62%. Despite the fact that […]
After a year and a half of development, KDE Partition Manager 4.0 has been released — a utility for working with storage devices and file systems, similar to GParted for Qt environments. The utility is built on the KPMcore library, which is also used by the universal installer Calamares, for example. What is noteworthy about this version? The program no longer requires root permissions to run; instead, it requests elevated permissions for specific operations through […]