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Microsoft has released the source code of the SPTAG (Space Partition Tree And Graph) machine learning library, which implements an approximate nearest neighbor search algorithm. This library was developed at Microsoft's research division and the Microsoft Search Technology Center. In practice, SPTAG is used in the Bing search engine to determine the most relevant results based on the context of search queries. […]
One of the latest nearly independent Japanese display manufacturers, Japan Display (JDI), reported its performance for the fourth quarter of the 2018 fiscal year (the period from January to March 2019). Nearly independent means that almost 50% of Japan Display's shares are owned by foreign companies, specifically a Chinese-Taiwanese consortium, Suwa. Earlier this week, new partners were reported for the company […]
Why store all data in memory? When it comes to storing website or backend data, most rational people would choose an SQL database. However, sometimes it occurs to one that the data model may not fit SQL: for instance, when building search functionality or a social graph, complex relationships between objects need to be queried. The worst situation arises when working in a team, […]
The Khronos Consortium, which develops graphics standards, has announced the creation of a working group to advance open standards for 3D e-commerce. The group's main objectives include product visualization technologies based on WebGL and Vulkan, expanding the capabilities of the glTF graphic format, and developing methods for presenting products using virtual and augmented reality (based on the OpenXR standard). Members of the working group include […]
In 2017, Microsoft halted the development of the Paint graphic editor. Since then, the program has merely been carried over from version to version, without changing its core or adding anything new. There was then information that the application would 'move' to the Windows Store, and recently it became known that the program would not be removed from Windows 10 May 2019 Update. Now, it seems intentions […]
Intel has published information about a new class of vulnerabilities in its processors — MDS (Microarchitectural Data Sampling). Like past attacks in the Spectre class, these new issues could lead to the leakage of sensitive data from operating systems, virtual machines, and foreign processes. It is claimed that the problems were first identified by Intel's employees and partners during an internal audit. In June and August […]
The Clear Linux Developer Edition distribution has been released by Intel. Key features include: Full application isolation through containers (KVM). Applications are provided as Flatpak packages, which can in turn be bundled into bundles. There is also an application catalog with ready-made bundles for setting up the working environment. Distribution update modes: the ability to download necessary patches […]
A developer from Red Hat named Hans de Goede has introduced his project "Wayland Itches", aimed at stabilizing, fixing bugs, and addressing issues that arise when using Gnome on Wayland. The motivation behind this was the developer's desire to use Fedora as his primary desktop distribution, but he is currently forced to switch back to Xorg due to numerous minor problems. Among the described […]
The release of the Min web browser 1.10 has been published, offering a minimalist interface designed around address bar manipulations. The browser is built using the Electron platform, which allows for the creation of standalone applications based on the Chromium engine and Node.js platform. The Min interface is developed in JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. The code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Builds are available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Min supports navigation […]
Many have noticed that among millionaires, there are many Jews. And among high-ranking officials. And among prominent scientists (22% of Nobel laureates). This means that Jews make up only about 0.2% of the world's population, but they are significantly more represented among the successful. How do they achieve this? What makes Jews so special? I once heard about a study from an American university (the link is lost, but if anyone can […]
The Chairman of the Association of Data Market Participants, Ivan Begtin, reported that he managed to discover around 360,000 records with personal data publicly accessible. Among other things, personal information of several Russian politicians, bankers, businessmen, and other notable individuals was found. The data leak was identified after analyzing websites of 8 government information systems. Users' personal data was discovered after […]
As a developer of the PyGOST library (GOST cryptographic primitives in pure Python), I often receive questions about how to quickly implement a basic secure messaging system. Many think that applied cryptography is relatively straightforward, and that a .encrypt() call from a block cipher will suffice for safe transmission over a communication channel. Others believe that applied cryptography is the domain of a select few, and […]