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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 […]
A few hours ago, some DockerHub users received emails stating: “On Thursday, April 25, 2019, we discovered unauthorized access to one of the DockerHub databases that stores some non-financial user data. After discovery, we immediately took all necessary measures to secure user data. We would now like to share the information, […]
Aiming to make biomanufacturing more accessible, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are combining 2D bio-printing, a robotic arm for 3D assembly, and instant freezing in a method that could one day allow for the printing of living tissues and even entire organs. By printing organs as thin sheets of tissue and then freezing them and stacking them sequentially, the new technology enhances the survival rate […]
Without a doubt, the number one premiere worldwide today is the release of the film ‘Avengers: Endgame.’ Google decided not to miss such an event: the company dedicated another doodle to it — a whimsical 'Easter egg' on the search page. If you enter queries like ‘Thanos,’ ‘Infinity Gauntlet,’ and so on in Russian, English, and obviously, […]
After three releases in the Apache Incubator, the NetBeans project became a Top-Level project in the Apache Software Foundation. In 2016, Oracle handed over the NetBeans project to ASF. According to the accepted procedure, all projects transferred to Apache first enter the Apache Incubator. During their time in the incubator, projects are aligned with ASF standards. An inspection for licensing [...].
According to leaked documents regarding Intel's upcoming plans in the processor market, the company's future appears anything but bright. If the documents are accurate, the increase in core counts in mainstream processors to ten will not occur before 2020, and 14nm processors will dominate the desktop segment until at least 2022, while the situation has become a sticking point [...].