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SciPy (pronounced as sigh pie) is a mathematical package based on numpy, which also includes libraries in C and Fortran. With SciPy, an interactive Python session transforms into a fully capable data processing environment, similar to MATLAB, IDL, Octave, R, or SciLab. This article will explore the key techniques of mathematical programming — solving constrained optimization problems for […]
The release of the in-memory data caching system Memcached 1.5.13 has occurred, which operates on a key/value format and is known for its simplicity. Memcached is commonly used as a lightweight solution to accelerate high-load websites by caching access to databases and intermediate data. The code is released under the BSD license. This new version is notable for the addition of TLS support for establishing an encrypted communication channel with […]
Oracle has released corrective updates for the virtualization system VirtualBox versions 6.0.6 and 5.2.28, which contain 39 fixes. The new releases also address 12 vulnerabilities, 7 of which are rated critical (CVSS Score 8.8). Details have not been disclosed, but judging by the CVSS level, the issues resolved include problems demonstrated at the Pwn2Own 2019 competition that allow execution from the guest system environment […]
Oracle has released a scheduled update plan for its products (Critical Patch Update), aimed at addressing critical issues and vulnerabilities. The April update resolved a total of 297 vulnerabilities. In the releases of Java SE 12.0.1, 11.0.3, and 8u212, 5 security issues were fixed. All vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely without authentication. One vulnerability specific to the Windows platform has been assigned […]
Funcom continues to develop the survival simulator Conan Exiles. The developers have introduced a new seasonal subscription: Conan Exiles – Year 2 Season Pass. This includes four downloadable expansions: 'Treasures of Turan', 'Horsemen of Hyboria', 'Blood and Sand', and 'Secrets of Acheron', with the first one already available. The subscription costs 899 rubles on Steam. 'By purchasing the season pass, you save 25% […]
A comparison of two approaches to structuring the Activity diagram (inspired by 'The Squirrel'). In the first part of the article 'From Process Modeling to the Design of Automated Systems', we modeled processes from a 'fairy tale' subject area — lines about the squirrel from A.S. Pushkin's 'The Tale of Tsar Saltan, His Glorious and Mighty Son Prince Guidon Saltanovich and the Beautiful Swan Princess'. And we began with […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing its own secure communication platform. The project is called RACE and aims to create a distributed anonymous system for communication. RACE is based on requirements for network resilience and the privacy of all its participants. Thus, DARPA places security at the forefront. Although technical […]
Google has finally implemented the tab scrolling feature, which has long been present in Firefox. It allows for not 'packing' dozens of tabs across the width of the screen, but only showing part of them. This feature can be disabled. Currently, it is only available in the test version of the Chrome Canary program. To enable it, you need to go to the flags section and activate it — chrome://flags/#scrollable-tabstrip. […]
The release of the main branch nginx 1.15.12 is available, which continues to develop new features (the parallel stable branch 1.14 only receives changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities). In version 1.15.12, a crash (segmentation fault) of the worker process has been fixed that could occur if variables were used in the ssl_certificate or ssl_certificate_key directives and the OCSP stapling mechanism was enabled, […]
On April 13, the American daily newspaper The New York Times published an article on its website discussing how the U.S. police turn to Google for assistance in investigating crimes when no other means are available to search for witnesses and suspects. The article tells the story of Jorge Molina — a simple warehouseman accused of murder committed in December […]
The Sun will hardly set twice below the horizon before all IT Jedi, Padawans, and Younglings flock to the star system 'Forest Depths' to affirm their IT status. The testing of the Force adepts will be handled by Rostelecom, RT Labs, and Habr. The initiation point will be the Russian Internet Forum (RIF), where warriors of information technology will gather for a council on numerous questions of galactic importance — small and medium business [...]
Surely, each of us has wondered what this dream team looks like? Is it Ocean's group of cool friends? Or perhaps the French national football team? Maybe it’s a team of developers from Google? In any case, we would like to be in such a team or even create one. Amid all this, I want to share […]