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Mozilla launches website showing how users can be tracked

Mozilla has introduced the Track THIS service, which allows you to visually evaluate the methods of advertising networks that track visitor preferences. The service allows you to simulate four typical profiles of online behavior through the automated opening of about 100 tabs, after which advertising networks begin to offer content corresponding to the selected profile for several days. For example, if you select the profile of a very rich person, the advertisement will start to […]

OpenWrt release 18.06.04

An update to the OpenWrt 18.06.4 distribution has been prepared, aimed at use in various network devices such as routers and access points. OpenWrt supports many different platforms and architectures and has a build system that allows you to simply and conveniently cross-compile, including various components in the build, which makes it easy to create ready-made firmware or a disk image […]

Elea's space adventure is getting big updates and coming to PS4 soon

Soedesco Publishing and Kyodai Studio have decided to share news regarding the sci-fi adventure Elea, previously released on PC and Xbox One. Firstly, the surreal game will appear on PlayStation 25 on July 4. On this occasion, a story trailer is presented. The PS4 version will include all the updates and improvements made since its release on Xbox One and PC (including […]

Sberbank technology took first place in testing facial recognition algorithms

VisionLabs, part of the Sberbank ecosystem, came out on top for the second time in testing facial recognition algorithms at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). VisionLabs technology won first place in the Mugshot category and entered the top 3 in the Visa category. In terms of recognition speed, its algorithm is twice as fast as similar solutions of other participants. During […]

Google Photos users will be able to tag people in photos

Lead Google Photos developer David Lieb, during a conversation with users on Twitter, revealed some details about the future of the popular service. Despite the fact that the purpose of the conversation was to collect feedback and suggestions, Mr. Lieb, answering questions, talked about what new functions will be added to Google Photos. It was announced that […]

Android Academy in Moscow: Advanced Course

Hi all! Summer is a great time of year. Google I/O, Mobius and AppsConf have come to an end, and many students have already closed or are about to finish their sessions, everyone is ready to exhale and enjoy the warmth and sun. But not us! We have been preparing for this moment long and hard, trying to complete our work and projects, […]

Pitfalls on the path to becoming a programmer

Hello, Habr! In my spare time, reading an interesting article about becoming a programmer, I thought that, in general, you and I are walking through the same minefield with a rake on our career path. It begins with hatred of the education system, which supposedly “should” make seniors out of us, and ends with the realization that the heavy burden of education falls only […]

Theory instead of heuristics: getting better as frontend developers

Translation Becoming a better front-end developer using fundamentals instead of heuristics Our experience shows that non-technical and self-taught developers often rely not on theoretical principles, but on heuristic methods. Heuristics are patterns and proven rules that the developer has learned from practice. They may not work perfectly or to a limited extent, but sufficiently and not […]

Rest 1.36

The development team is excited to introduce Rust 1.36! What's new in Rust 1.36? Future trait stabilized, from new: alloc crate, MaybeUninit , NLL for Rust 2015, new HashMap implementation and a new flag -offline for Cargo. And now in more detail: In Rust 1.36, the Future trait has finally been stabilized. Crate alloc. As of Rust 1.36, parts of the std that depend […]

75 vulnerabilities fixed in Magento e-commerce platform

In the open platform for organizing e-commerce Magento, which occupies about 20% of the market for systems for creating online stores, vulnerabilities have been identified, the combination of which allows you to carry out an attack to execute your code on the server, gain full control over the online store and organize payment redirection. The vulnerabilities were fixed in Magento releases 2.3.2, 2.2.9 and 2.1.18, which in total fixed 75 issues […]

Italian regulator complains of financial damage due to Fiat Chrysler's move to London

Carmaker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles' (FCA) decision to move its financial and legal services offices out of Italy is a major blow to Italian tax revenues, Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) chief Roberto Rustichelli said on Tuesday. In his annual report to parliament, the head of the competition authority complained of a “significant economic loss of government revenue” caused by FCA moving its […]

MintBox 3: a compact and powerful PC with a fanless design

CompuLab, together with the developers of the Linux Mint operating system, are preparing to release the MintBox 3 computer, which combines such qualities as relatively small dimensions, speed and noiselessness. In the top version, the device will carry an Intel Core i9-9900K processor of the Coffee Lake generation. The chip contains eight computing cores with multi-threading support. Clock speeds range from 3,6 GHz to 5,0 […]