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Hard drive capacity continues to increase, but the growth rate has been steadily declining in recent years. So, in order to release the first 4 TB drive after 2 TB HDDs went on sale, the industry spent only two years, it took three years to reach the 8 TB mark, and it took another three years to double the capacity of a 3,5-inch hard drive once it was possible only […]
The new mid-range smartphone Sony Xperia 20 has not yet been officially presented. It is expected that the device will be announced at the annual IFA 2019 exhibition, which will be held in September. Despite this, the main characteristics of the new product were revealed by one of the online stores. According to published data, the Sony Xperia 20 smartphone is equipped with a 6-inch display with an aspect ratio of 21:9 and […]
Hi all. Today I want to tell you what exactly is wrong with IT education in Russia and what, in my opinion, should be done, and I will also give advice to those who are just enrolling yes, I know that it is already a little late. Better late than never. At the same time, I’ll find out your opinion, and maybe I’ll learn something new for myself. Please immediately [...]
The US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which deals with a number of defense-related projects, has published a new video showing a swarm of drones surrounding a target. This video was demonstrated as part of DARPA's OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program. The goal of the program is to develop technology […]
On August 7, at the Future Image Technology Communication Meeting in Beijing, Xiaomi not only promised to release a 64-megapixel smartphone this year, but also unexpectedly announced that it was working on a 100-megapixel device with a Samsung sensor. It is not clear when such a smartphone will be presented, but the sensor itself already exists: as expected, the Korean manufacturer announced this. Samsung […]
NVIDIA has introduced GPUDirect Storage, a new capability that allows GPUs to interface directly with NVMe storage. The technology uses RDMA GPUDirect to transfer data to local GPU memory without the need to use the CPU and system memory. The move is part of the company's strategy to expand its reach into data analytics and machine learning applications. Previously, NVIDIA released […]
On November 8, Kazan will host the Tatarstan developer conference - DUMP What will happen: 4 streams: Backend, Frontend, DevOps, Management Master classes and discussions Speakers of top IT conferences: HolyJS, HighLoad, DevOops, PyCon Russia, etc. 400+ participants Entertainment from conference partners and after-party Conference reports are designed for middle/middle+ level of developers Applications for reports are accepted until September 15 Until 1 […]
The FreeBSD developers have presented a plan to remove GCC 4.2.1 from the FreeBSD base system source code. GCC components will be removed before the FreeBSD 13 branch is forked, which will only include the Clang compiler. GCC can, if desired, be delivered from ports that offer GCC 9, 7 and 8, as well as already deprecated GCC releases […]
If you travel a lot and are a developer of websites, games, video effects or anything similar, then you probably know that startups from this field are welcomed in many countries. There are even specially adopted venture capital programs in India, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, China and other countries. But it’s one thing to announce a program, and another thing to analyze what has been done […]
Oracle has announced work to push DTrace-related changes upstream and plans to implement DTrace dynamic debugging technology on top of the native Linux kernel infrastructure, namely using subsystems such as eBPF. Initially, the main problem with using DTrace on Linux was incompatibility at the license level, but in 2018 Oracle relicensed the code […]
At the beginning of the year, I felt like I had hit a ceiling as an engineer. It seems like you read thick books, solve complex problems at work, speak at conferences. But that’s not the case. Therefore, I decided to return to the roots and, one by one, cover the skills that I once considered as a child to be basic for a programmer. First on the list was touch printing, which had long been [...]
The series of vulnerabilities (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) in Ghostscript, a set of tools for processing, converting and generating documents in PostScript and PDF formats, continues. Like previous vulnerabilities, the new problem (CVE-2019-10216) allows, when processing specially designed documents, to bypass the “-dSAFER” isolation mode (through manipulations with “.buildfont1”) and gain access to the contents of the file system, which can be used […]
