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The Document Foundation has released version 6.3 of the LibreOffice office suite. Installation packages have been prepared for various distributions of Linux, Windows, and macOS, as well as a version for deploying the online version in Docker. Key improvements include a significant increase in the performance of Writer and Calc. Compared to the previous release, loading and saving certain types of documents is up to 10 times faster. In particular, […]
There are less than twenty-four hours left until the launch of the new AMD EPYC™ Rome processors. In this article, we decided to recall the beginnings of the rivalry between the two largest CPU manufacturers. The first commercially available 8-bit processor in the world was the Intel® i8008, released in 1972. The processor had a clock speed of 200 kHz and was manufactured using a 10 µm (10000 nm) technology. […]
The essence of the story about the most popular package manager for Kubernetes could be illustrated with emojis: a box for Helm (it's the most fitting representation from the latest Emoji release); a lock for security; and a person for problem-solving. In reality, things will be a bit more complicated, and the narrative is full of technical details on how to make Helm secure. […]
Last year, I spent the last couple of months preparing for an internship interview at Google (Google Internship). Everything went well: I got both the job and great experience. Now, two months after the internship, I want to share the document I used for interview preparation. For me, it was something like a cheat sheet before an exam. However, the process […]
The Document Foundation has announced the release of LibreOffice 6.3. Writer now allows background colors for table cells to be set from the Table toolbar. Indexes/table of contents can now be undone, and the update does not clear the undo history. Improved copying of tables from Calc to existing Writer tables: only visible cells in Calc are copied and pasted. The page background can now be set […]
Zhabogram is a transport (bridge, gateway) from the Jabber (XMPP) network to the Telegram network, written in Ruby. It is the successor to tg4xmpp. Dependencies: Ruby >= 1.9, xmpp4r == 0.5.6, tdlib-ruby == 2.0 with compiled tdlib == 1.3. Features include authorization in an existing Telegram account, synchronization of chat lists with the roster, synchronization of contact statuses with the roster, adding and removing Telegram contacts, and support for VCard with […]
TL;DR: Haiku could become a fantastic desktop operating system with open source code. I truly want this, but there's still a lot of work to be done. I've been exploring Haiku for two days now, a surprisingly good operating system. It's the third day, and I'm enjoying this OS so much that I constantly think about how to make it a daily operating system. In terms of […]
Developers from 9elements have ported CoreBoot for the Supermicro X11SSH-TF server motherboard. The changes have already been integrated into the main CoreBoot codebase and will be part of the next significant release. The Supermicro X11SSH-TF has become the first modern server motherboard with an Intel Xeon processor that can be used with CoreBoot. The board supports Xeon processors (E3-1200V6 Kabylake-S or E3-1200V5 Skylake-S) and can […]
As part of the Advanced Protection program, Google's developers have implemented a reliable system to protect user accounts from targeted attacks. This program is continuously evolving, offering users new tools to safeguard their Google accounts against various types of attacks. Participants in the Advanced Protection program who have enabled synchronization in Chrome will soon automatically receive enhanced protection against […]
In June and July, nearly twenty companies approached us inquiring about the capabilities of virtual GPUs. One of the major subsidiaries of Sberbank is already using Cloud4Y's 'Graphics', but overall, the service isn't particularly popular. So, this level of interest has pleased us greatly. Noticing the rising interest in the technology, we decided to provide a bit more detail about vGPU. The 'data lakes' obtained from scientific […]
Lars Knoll, the creator of the KHTML engine, head of the Qt Project, and technical director of Qt Company, shared the plans for creating the next significant branch of the Qt framework. After the functionality of the Qt 5.14 branch is finalized, development will focus on preparing for the release of Qt 6, which is expected by the end of 2020. Qt 6 will evolve with an eye on […]
Researchers from Bitdefender have identified a new vulnerability (CVE-2019-1125) in the speculative execution mechanism of modern CPUs, named SWAPGS, corresponding to the processor instruction that causes the problem. The vulnerability allows a non-privileged attacker to determine the contents of kernel memory areas or running virtual machines. The issue has been confirmed in Intel processors (x86_64) and partially affects AMD processors, for which the main vector does not manifest […]