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There have long been rumors that Google is working on an operating system for feature phones. In March of this year, mentions of a special mode that allows controlling the OS with buttons were found in the Chromium Gerrit repository, and now new information has emerged. The resource Gizchina published a screenshot of the main page of the Chrome browser, which has been adapted for feature phones. This […]
ASRock has introduced a rather unusual motherboard called the A320TM-ITX, designed in the less common Thin Mini-ITX form factor. The uniqueness of this product lies in the fact that such motherboards for AMD processors in the Socket AM4 implementation simply did not exist before. Thin Mini-ITX motherboards are distinguished not only by their small length and width (170 × 170 mm), […]
The ninth corrective update of the Debian 9 distribution is now available, which includes accumulated package updates and fixes in the installer. This release includes 70 updates addressing stability issues and 52 updates addressing vulnerabilities. Notable changes in Debian 9.9 include the removal of 5 packages: gcontactsync, google-tasks-sync, mozilla-gnome-keyring, tbdialout, and timeline due to incompatibility with the new ESR branches of Firefox […]
Good day. Over the past few years, I have dedicated myself to researching and creating various algorithms for spatial signal processing in adaptive antenna arrays, and I am currently continuing this work in my profession. Here, I would like to share the knowledge and tricks I have discovered. I hope this will be helpful for those beginning to study this field […]
At the beginning of the year, in our report on internet issues and accessibility for 2018-2019, we already mentioned that the spread of TLS 1.3 is inevitable. Some time ago, we deployed version 1.3 of the Transport Layer Security protocol, and after collecting and analyzing data, we are finally ready to discuss the specifics of this transition. IETF TLS working group chairs state: "In brief, TLS 1.3 must […]
Google has announced the recipients of the Open Source Peer Bonus, awarded for contributions to the development of open projects. A unique aspect of this award is that candidates are nominated by Google employees, but nominees do not need to be affiliated with the company. This year, the award has been expanded and now recognizes not only developers but also technical writers, designers, community activists, mentors, experts in […]
Mozilla plans to discontinue the use of IRC as the main platform for live communication among project participants. The IRC.mozilla.org server is set to be decommissioned in the coming months, following migration to one of the modern web-oriented communication platforms. A decision on the new platform has yet to be made, though it is known that Mozilla will not develop its own system but will utilize a popular […]
We explain what IoT Inspector is and how it works. / photo PxHere PD On the security of the Internet of Things, consulting firm Bain & Company (PDF, p.1) states that from 2017 to 2021, the IoT market volume will double: from $235 to $520 billion. Smart home gadgets will account for $47 billion. […]
About the Author: Allison Marsh is an adjunct professor of history at the University of South Carolina and one of the directors of the Ann Johnson Institute for Science, Technology, and Society. When it comes to establishing connections between two points, nothing beats a pigeon. Except perhaps the rare hawk. Bird espionage: in the 1970s, the CIA developed a tiny camera that turned homing pigeons into spies. For thousands of years, homing […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 4.7 is now available. Since the release of version 4.6, 34 bug reports have been closed and 264 changes made. The most significant changes include support added to ntdll for loading embedded libraries (provided by the Wine project rather than native Windows DLLs) in the PE (Portable Executable) format, including on Unix-like platforms. […]
Users of Docker Hub, the official container catalog for the Docker system, received a notification about a breach of the project's infrastructure. As a result of the attack, a database of accounts containing information on 190,000 service users was compromised, including hashes of their passwords and tokens for accessing repositories on GitHub and Bitbucket. To prevent the spread of the attack, assembly creation has been paused, and tokens […]
I invite you to review the report by Alexander Sigachev from Inventos titled 'The Development and Testing Process with Docker + Gitlab CI.' Those who are just starting to implement the development and testing process based on Docker + Gitlab CI often ask basic questions. Where to start? How to organize? How to test? This report is beneficial as it systematically describes the development process and […]