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The project of a heavy lunar rover will be included in the new space program of the Russian Federation

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Roscosmos General Director Dmitry Rogozin, according to RIA Novosti, spoke about plans to implement a long-term lunar program. The current Federal Space Program of the Russian Federation until 2025 includes the Luna-25, Luna-26 and Luna-27 missions. The Luna-25 project is aimed at exploring the lunar surface in the circumpolar region, as well as developing soft landing technology. The Luna 26 mission envisages the creation of an orbital vehicle designed […]

Enter IT: my research on the transition to IT from other industries

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When recruiting IT personnel, I quite often come across resumes of candidates who changed their industry to IT after working for some time in other industries. According to my subjective feelings, there are from 20% to 30% of such specialists in the IT labor market. People get an education, often not even a technical one - an economist, an accountant, a lawyer, HR, and then, having gained work experience in their specialty, they move […]

My research - who works in IT - professions, skills, motivation, career development, technology

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I recently conducted a survey among professionals who had transitioned to IT from other industries. The results are available in this article. During the survey, I became curious about the ratio between colleagues who initially chose a career in IT and received specialized education, and those who received education in non-IT professions and transitioned from other industries. Also […]

ElectronMail 4.0.0

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A client for email services with end-to-end encryption has been released. The new version, ElectronMail 4.0.0, removes support for Tutanota and retains support for ProtonMail. The program was written by Vladimir Yakovlev using the Electron framework and is open source (MIT licensed). Its main differences from the free versions of the official clients are search capabilities, unlimited file size, and additional offline features. Package builds are available […]

Delta Chat 1.0 for Android released with a new core rewritten in Rust

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Delta Chat messenger version 1.0 has been released for the Android platform (the latest desktop version is 0.901, and the latest iOS version is 0.960). Delta Chat is notable for its use of regular email as a transport layer, translating instant messages into email (chat-over-email, a specialized email client that functions as a messenger). The application code is distributed under the GPLv3 license, and the core library is available under […]

Release of PyPy 7.3, a Python implementation written in Python

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A release of the PyPy 7.3 project has been formed, within the framework of which an implementation of the Python language written in Python is being developed (a statically typed subset of RPython, Restricted Python, is used). The release is prepared simultaneously for the PyPy2.7 and PyPy3.6 branches, providing support for Python 2.7 and Python 3.6 syntax. The release is available for Linux (x86, x86_64, PPC64, s390x, Aarch64, ARMv6 or ARMv7 with VFPv3), macOS (x86_64), […]

Release of the Bazel 2.0 build system

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A release of the open-source build tool Bazel 2.0 is available, developed by engineers from Google and used to build most of the company's internal projects. Bazel builds the project by running the necessary compilers and tests. It supports building and testing code in Java, C++, Objective-C, Python, Rust, Go and many other languages, as well as building mobile applications for Android and iOS. Code […]

Fear and nothing more: the ghost from PT was replaced by Shrek

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Blogger Lance McDonald and modder DropOff published a joint video in which they replaced the ghost of Lisa from PT with a model of Shrek from the cartoon of the same name. When transferred to the interactive teaser, the ogre adopted all the habits and features of the ghost - a detached look, twitching movements - which is why what is happening looks no less creepy than in the original. In its version [...]

Chinese hackers caught bypassing two-factor authentication

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Chinese hackers were caught bypassing two-factor authentication, but this is not certain. Below are the assumptions of the Dutch company Fox-IT, which specializes in cybersecurity consulting services. It is assumed, for which there is no direct evidence, that a group of hackers called APT20 is working for Chinese government agencies. Hacker activity attributed to the APT20 group was first discovered in 2011. In 2016–2017, the group […]

Electronics manufacturers: installing Russian software can disrupt the stability of devices

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The Association of Trading Companies and Manufacturers of Electrical and Computer Equipment (RATEK) believes that requirements for the mandatory presence of domestic software on electronic devices may result in a violation of the stability of their operation. Let us recall that Russian President Vladimir Putin recently signed a law according to which smartphones, computers and smart TVs must come with pre-installed Russian software. List of devices, software and order [...]

NVIDIA has fixed a "very serious" vulnerability in GeForce Experience

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NVIDIA has issued a bulletin in which it announced the closure of a serious vulnerability in the GeForce Experience utility, a software tool accompanying the company's graphics drivers for updating video card drivers and setting up graphics. The discovered vulnerability was designated CVE-2019-5702 and scored 8,4 on a 10-point scale. Note that to ensure that an attacker can influence the victim’s system using the CVE-2019-5702 vulnerability, a local […]

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