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Hello, Habr! ONYX BOOX has a large number of e-books for any task in its arsenal - it’s great when you have a choice, but if it’s very large, it’s easy to get confused. To prevent this from happening, we tried to make the most detailed reviews on our blog, from which the positioning of a particular device is clear. But a little over a month ago […]
Netflix ex-HR Pati McCord made a pretty interesting point in her book The Strongest: “A business owes its people nothing more than the confidence that the company makes a great product that serves its customers well and on time.” That's all. Shall we exchange opinions? Let’s say the position expressed is quite radical. It’s all the more interesting that it was voiced by a person who has been working in Silicon Valley for many years. An approach […]
A selection of events for the week. Business transformation: threats and opportunities August 13 (Tuesday) NizhSyromyatnicheskaya 10str.3 free On August 13, as part of an open lecture, invited experts from different companies will share their experience in implementing changes and discuss key issues related to business transformation. BestData. Anti-conference for FMCG August 14 (Wednesday) BolPolyanka 2/10 page 1 free With the adoption of 54-FZ, new sources […]
A Python application with an interface for automatically connecting to one of the NordVPN servers of the desired type, in a specific country, or to a selected server. You can select a server manually, based on statistics for each of the available ones. Latest changes: added the ability to crash; checked for DNS leaks; added support for connecting via Network Manager and openvpn; added […]
Google has decided to abandon the separate marking of EV (Extended Validation) certificates in Chrome. If previously for sites with similar certificates the name of the company verified by the certification authority was displayed in the address bar, now for these sites the same secure connection indicator will be displayed as for certificates with domain access verification. Starting with Chrome […]
Firefox 70, scheduled for release on October 22, revises how HTTPS and HTTP protocols are displayed in the address bar. Pages opened over HTTP will have an insecure connection icon, which will also be displayed for HTTPS in case of problems with certificates. The link for http will be displayed without specifying the “http://” protocol, but for HTTPS the protocol will be displayed for now. IN […]
The number of words “first” in the article is off the charts. First "Hello, World" program, first MUD game, first shooter, first deathmatch, first GUI, first desktop, first Ethernet, first three-button mouse, first ball mouse, first optical mouse, first full-page monitor -sized monitor), the first multiplayer game... the first personal computer. Year 1973 In the city of Palo Alto, in the legendary R&D laboratory […]
Stefan Sperling (stsp@), a ten-year contributor to the OpenBSD project and one of the main developers of Apache Subversion, is developing a new version control system called "Game of Trees" (got). When creating a new system, priority is given to simplicity of design and ease of use rather than flexibility. Got is currently still in development; it is developed exclusively on OpenBSD and its target audience […]
After more than four years of development, the release of the Xfce 4.14 desktop environment has been prepared, aimed at providing a classic desktop that requires minimal system resources to operate. Xfce consists of a number of interconnected components that can be used in other projects if desired. Among these components: a window manager, a panel for launching applications, a display manager, a manager for managing user sessions and […]
Almost a year and a half since the last release, the release of the network security scanner Nmap 7.80, designed to conduct a network audit and identify active network services, has been presented. 11 new NSE scripts are included to provide automation of various actions with Nmap. Signature databases have been updated to identify network applications and operating systems. Recently, the main work has been focused on [...]
Jyske Bank, Denmark's third-largest bank, said last week that its customers will now be able to take out a 10-year mortgage with a fixed interest rate of -0,5%, meaning customers will pay back less than they borrowed. In other words, if you bought a house with a $1 million loan and paid off the mortgage in 10 […]
Specialists from Cybersecurity Eclypsium conducted a study that discovered a critical flaw in software development for modern drivers for various devices. The company's report mentions software products from dozens of hardware manufacturers. The discovered vulnerability allows malware to escalate privileges, up to unlimited access to equipment. A long list of driver providers that are fully approved by Microsoft […]
