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The Taiwanese company CMC Magnetics has further solidified its position as a global leader in the production of optical discs for data storage. Recently, CMC Magnetics announced in a press release, in collaboration with the Japanese company Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC), an agreement to acquire Mitsubishi Chemical Media's division — the company Verbatim. The transaction is valued at $32 million. The completion of the deal and the transfer […]
The developers of the Wine project have warned about the potential issues regarding the availability of Wine for Ubuntu 19.10 if support for 32-bit x86 systems is dropped in this release. In deciding to drop support for the 32-bit x86 architecture, Ubuntu developers expected to either deliver a 64-bit version of Wine or to use the 32-bit version in a container based on Ubuntu 18.04. The problem is that […]
Stripe, a company specializing in developing online payment platforms, has open-sourced the project Sorbet, which provides a static type-checking system for the Ruby language. The code is written in C++ and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Type information in the code can be computed dynamically and also specified in the form of simple annotations that can be included in the code […]
Microsoft has expanded the reach of its Chromium-based Edge browser for users of Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Developers have released Canary preview builds for these operating systems. Reportedly, the new versions have almost the same functionality as the version for Windows 10, including compatibility mode with Internet Explorer. This should be of interest to business users who need […]
The success of an IT project heavily depends on how well the testing and quality assurance (QA) system is organized at all stages of its lifecycle. For a QA specialist, one of the most reliable ways to validate their professional skills is to hold an international ISTQB certification. Today, we will discuss what such a certification offers to the employee, employer, and business, as […]
The Ansible community continually delights with new content – plugins and modules – creating a lot of new work for those involved in Ansible maintenance, as new code needs to be integrated into repositories as quickly as possible. Meeting deadlines isn't always feasible, and the launch of some products ready for release gets postponed until the next official version of Ansible Engine. Until recently, […]
Being a system administrator in a small non-IT company is quite an adventure. The manager sees you as a freeloader, employees during tough times regard you as a deity of networks and hardware, during good times — as a fan of beer and gaming, the accounting department views you as an extension of 1C, and the entire company functions like a driver for successful printer operations. While you dream of a decent Cisco outfit, […]
As you may recall, in early May 2019, the president signed the law on "Sovereign Internet," which will come into effect on November 1. The law is nominally aimed at ensuring the stable operation of the Russian segment of the internet in the event of disconnection from the global network or coordinated attacks. So, what’s next? At the end of May, the Ministry of Digital Development prepared a draft government resolution on "Approval of the Procedure for Centralized Management of Communication Networks […]
Following the releases of Firefox 67.0.3 and 60.7.1, additional corrective releases 67.0.4 and 60.7.2 have been published, which resolved a second 0-day vulnerability (CVE-2019-11708) that allows bypassing the sandbox isolation mechanism. The issue exploits manipulation of the IPC call Prompt:Open to open web content chosen by the child process within the parent process, which does not apply sandboxing. In conjunction with another vulnerability, this issue enables bypassing all […]
Cumulative updates have been released for all supported branches of PostgreSQL: 11.4, 10.9, 9.6.14, 9.5.18, and 9.4.23. The release cycle for the 9.4 branch will continue until December 2019, 9.5 until January 2021, 9.6 until September 2021, 10 until October 2022, and 11 until November 2023. The new versions fix 25 bugs and address […]
Google has introduced the cryptographic protocol for confidential multi-party computation called Private Join and Compute, enabling analysis and computation on encrypted datasets from multiple participants while preserving the privacy of each participant's data (each participant cannot access the data of others but can perform aggregate computations on it without decryption). The code for the protocol's implementation is open-sourced under the […]
Have you ever met people who, at the first sign of trouble, don't try to overcome it themselves but run to a more experienced colleague for help? The senior colleague suggests a solution, and it seems everyone is happy, but the senior gets distracted, and the junior doesn't gain any experience. Then there are people who seem to be excellent specialists and professionals. But they have low […]