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1. The cost of a labeling machine for weight products is comparable to the cost of a project to implement an MES system. For simplicity, let both of them cost 7 million rubles. 2. The payback of marking lines is quite easy to calculate and is clear to the person at whose expense the banquet is paid: A team of 4 markers marks about 5 tons per shift; With an automated line accompanied by 3 […]
Futhark is a concurrency programming language that belongs to the ML family. Added: The internal representation of parallel structures has been revised and optimized. With rare exceptions, this can have a significant impact on performance. There is now support for structurally typed sums and pattern matching. But there remain some problems with sum-type arrays, which themselves contain arrays. Significantly reduced compilation time [...]
FreeBSD has fixed a vulnerability (CVE-2019-5611) that could cause a kernel crash (packet-of-death) by sending specially fragmented ICMPv6 MLD (Multicast Listener Discovery) packets. The problem is caused by missing a necessary check in the m_pulldown() call, which can result in non-contiguous strings of mbufs being returned, contrary to what the caller expected. The vulnerability was fixed in updates 12.0-RELEASE-p10, 11.3-RELEASE-p3 and 11.2-RELEASE-p14. As a security workaround, you can […]
According to online sources, the Tesla Roadster and the Starman dummy, sent into space on the Falcon Heavy rocket last year, made their first orbit around the Sun. Let us recall that in February 2018, SpaceX successfully launched its own Falcon Heavy rocket. To demonstrate the rocket's capabilities, it was necessary to provide a "dummy load". As a result, a roadster went into space […]
NVIDIA's quarterly results are still suffering due to not the most favorable comparison with the first half of last year, when the company's revenue was still significantly affected by the processes taking place in the cryptocurrency market. Video cards were bought up to mine cryptocurrencies; gamers didn’t have enough of them, and prices skyrocketed amid the shortage. Talking about the results of the second quarter of the current fiscal […]
After Xiaomi announced a new 64-megapixel matrix, there were rumors about a future Redmi smartphone that would use this sensor. Recently, a new Redmi device with model number M1908C3IC appeared on the website of the Chinese regulator, which uses a waterdrop notch display and a dual rear camera. It also has the Redmi logo on both sides and a fingerprint scanner on the back […]
The first release of the notqmail project has been presented, within which the development of a fork of the qmail mail server began. Qmail was created by Daniel J. Bernstein in 1995 with the goal of providing a more secure and faster replacement for sendmail. The last release of qmail 1.03 was published in 1998 and since then the official distribution has not been updated, but the server remains an example […]
IBM has announced that it is making the Power instruction set architecture (ISA) open source. IBM had already established the OpenPOWER consortium in 2013, providing licensing opportunities for POWER-related intellectual property and full access to specifications. At the same time, royalties continued to be collected for obtaining a license to produce chips. From now on, creating your own modifications of chips […]
Google, Mozilla and Apple announced that the “national security certificate” being implemented in Kazakhstan was placed on the list of revoked certificates. Use of this root certificate will now result in a security warning in Firefox, Chrome/Chromium and Safari, as well as derivative products based on their code. Let us recall that in July an attempt was made in Kazakhstan to establish a state […]
In 2020, Microsoft is rumored to replace the classic Edge browser that comes with Windows 10, to a new one built on Chromium. And now the software giant is one step closer to achieving this: Microsoft has released the public beta of its new Edge browser. It's available for all supported platforms: Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, as well as for […]
In the first part of the review of applications for e-books on the operating system Android the reasons were stated why not every application for the system Android will work correctly on e-readers running the same operating system. It was this unfortunate fact that prompted us to test numerous applications and select those that would work on e-readers (even if […]