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Open beta version of iOS 13 and iPadOS released

Apple has released public beta versions of iOS 13 and iPadOS. Previously, they were available only to developers, but now they are available to everyone. One of the innovations in iOS 13 was faster loading of programs, a dark theme, and so on. We talk about this in more detail in our material. β€œTablet” iPadOS received an improved desktop, more icons and widgets, […]

Beeline will relieve users of the need to enter bank card details when making online purchases

VimpelCom (Beeline brand) was the first among Russian mobile operators to introduce Masterpass technology, developed by the Mastercard payment system. Masterpass is a bank card data storage facility protected by the Mastercard security system. The system allows you to make payments on sites marked with the Masterpass logo without re-entering your bank card details. This increases the convenience of online shopping and saves time. Thanks to […]

Two-factor authentication bypass apps found on Google Play

ESET reports that malicious applications have appeared in the Google Play Store that seek to gain access to one-time passwords to bypass two-factor authentication. ESET specialists have determined that the malware is disguised as the legal cryptocurrency exchange BtcTurk. In particular, malicious programs called BTCTurk Pro Beta, BtcTurk Pro Beta and BTCTURK PRO were detected. After downloading and installing [...]

Sberbank launches money transfer service from credit cards

Sberbank launched a service for money transfers from credit cards to debit cards between its clients on June 25. Currently, it can be used in the web version of the Sberbank Online application, and a little later this opportunity will also appear for users of the mobile application, RBC reports with reference to the bank’s press service. Instant money transfers from credit to debit cards of Sberbank can be […]

Raspberry Pi 4

Declared hardware: CPU BCM2711, 4 Cortex-A72 cores, 1,5 GHz. Now 28 nm instead of 40. GPU VideoCore Vl, declared support for OpenGL ES 3.0, H.265 decoding, H.264 encoding and decoding, 1 4K monitor at 60fps or 2 4K monitors at 30fps RAM 1, 2 or 4 GB to choose from (LPDDR4- 2400) Gigabit ethernet on PCI-E bus Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth […]

nginx 1.17.1

Nginx 1.17.1 has been released. 1.17 is the current mainline branch of nginx; the web server is being actively developed in this branch. The current stable branch of nginx is 1.16. The first, and currently last, release of this branch took place on April 23 Addition: limit_req_dry_run directive. Addendum: When using the hash directive in an upstream block, an empty hash key now causes a switch to round-robin […]

Release of PyOxidizer for packaging Python projects into self-contained executables

The first release of the PyOxidizer utility has been presented, which allows you to package a Python project into the form of a self-contained executable file, including the Python interpreter and all the libraries and resources necessary for the work. Such files can be executed in environments without Python tooling installed or regardless of the required version of Python. PyOxidizer can also generate statically linked executables that are not linked […]

Beta version of the Linux edition of the OpenXRay game engine is available

After six months of work on stabilizing the code, a beta version of the port of the OpenXRay game engine for Linux is available (for Windows, the latest build is February 221). Assemblies have been prepared so far only for Ubuntu 18.04 (PPA). The OpenXRay project is developing the X-Ray 1.6 engine used in the game STALKER: Call of Pripyat. The project was founded after the leak of the engine source codes and aims […]

Three Prominent Members Leave Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors

The Apache Software Foundation announced the departure of Apache co-founder Jim Jagielski, chairman of the board of directors Phil Steitz, and executive vice president Ross Gardler from the board of directors of the Apache Software Foundation. The reasons for the simultaneous departure of three prominent participants are not advertised. Source: opennet.ru

Decrypting a LUKS container at system boot time

Good day and night everyone! This post will be useful for those who use LUKS data encryption and want to decrypt disks under Linux (Debian, Ubuntu) at the stage of decrypting the root partition. And I could not find such information on the Internet. More recently, with the increase in the number of disks in the shelves, I ran into the problem of decrypting disks using the more than […]

Solution of WorldSkills tasks of the Network module in the competence of "SiSA". Part 1 - Basic Setup

The WorldSkills movement is aimed at providing participants with primarily practical skills that are in demand in the modern labor market. The β€œNetwork and System Administration” competency consists of three modules: Network, Windows, Linux. The tasks change from championship to championship, the conditions of the competition change, but the structure of the tasks for the most part remains unchanged. Network Island will be the first due to its simplicity relative to Linux and Windows islands. […]

How much do graduates of different Russian universities earn

How much do graduates of different Russian universities earn? We at My Circle have recently been working on the educational profile of our users, since we believe that education - both higher and additional - is the most important component of a modern career in IT. We recently added profiles of universities and additional institutions. education, where statistics on their graduates are collected, as well as the opportunity […]