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Microsoft refuses to provide police with facial recognition technology due to human rights violations

Microsoft has rejected a request from California law enforcement to use facial recognition technology created by the company. Microsoft President Brad Smith, at a speech at Stanford University, expressed concern that the performance of facial recognition technology when processing data from women and representatives of different ethnic groups is significantly reduced. The thing is that in order to train systems [...]

Network load balancer architecture in Yandex.Cloud

Hi, I'm Sergey Elantsev, I'm developing a network load balancer in Yandex.Cloud. Previously, I led the development of the L7 balancer for the Yandex portal - my colleagues joke that no matter what I do, it turns out to be a balancer. I will tell readers of Habr how to manage the load in a cloud platform, how we see the ideal tool to achieve this goal, and how we are moving towards building this tool. For […]

Fear and Loathing DevSecOps

We had 2 code analyzers, 4 dynamic testing tools, our own crafts and 250 scripts. Not that all this is needed in the current process, but once you start implementing DevSecOps, you have to go to the end. Source. Character creators: Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon. What is SecDevOps? What about DevSecOps? What are the differences? Application Security - what is it about? Why doesn't the classic approach work anymore? Yuri Shabalin knows the answer to all these questions […]

Free antiviruses and firewalls (UTM, NGFW) from Sophos

I'd like to tell you about free Sophos products that can be used both at home and in the enterprise (details below). Using top solutions from Gartner and NSS Labs will significantly improve your personal security. Free solutions include: Sophos UTM, XG Firewall (NGFW), Antivirus (Sophos Home with web filtering for Win/MAC; for Linux, Android) and removal tools […]

Video: Shao Kahn crushes enemies with his hammer in Mortal Kombat 11

During the announcement of Mortal Kombat 11, it was revealed that Outworld Emperor Shao Kahn was a bonus for pre-ordering the game. And only now NetherRealm Studios demonstrated the gameplay for this character. On the battlefield, he is a formidable opponent, actively using a war hammer. The Emperor is not very fast, but can close the distance with a dashing […]

Teasers hint at Google Pixel 3a and 3a XL announcement on May XNUMXth on Google I/O launch day

Teasers have appeared on the Google online store page hinting at the upcoming addition to the Pixel family of devices. “Meet a new hero on May 7th,” one teaser suggests, while others say that “Something big is coming to the world of Pixel on May 7th,” as well as that “help is on the way” and “the power is in your hands.” Let us remind you that on May XNUMX at the Shoreline Amphitheater […]

One Mix 2S Yoga Mini Laptop Gets Intel Core i7 Amber Lake Processor

Participants in the One Netbook project have released a convertible mini-laptop One Mix 2S Yoga Platinum Edition, which is already available for order in online stores. The device is a hybrid of a netbook and a tablet. The screen measures 7 inches diagonally and has a resolution of 1920 × 1200 pixels. Control with fingers and a special stylus is supported. The display lid can be rotated 360 degrees. […]

Israeli scientists 3D print a living heart

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have 3D printed a living heart using a patient's own cells. According to them, this technology can be further used to eliminate defects in a diseased heart and, possibly, perform transplantations. Printed by Israeli scientists in about three hours, the heart is too small for a human - about 2,5 centimeters or the size of a rabbit's heart. But […]

WhatsApp in the palm of your hand: where and how can you find forensic artifacts?

If you want to know what types of WhatsApp forensic artifacts exist on different operating systems and where exactly they can be found, then this is the place for you. With this article, Group-IB Computer Forensics Laboratory specialist Igor Mikhailov opens a series of publications about forensic research on WhatsApp and what information can be obtained by analyzing the device. Let us immediately note that in different operating rooms [...]

Building a tip calculator in Kotlin: how does it work?

We'll show you how to create a simple tip calculator app in Kotlin. Specifically, Kotlin 1.3.21. Android 4, Android Studio 3. This article will be of interest, first of all, to those who are just starting their journey in development. Android-apps. It allows you to understand what and how the app works. This calculator is useful when you need to calculate the tip amount from a group, […]

OpenSSH 8.0 release

After five months of development, the release of OpenSSH 8.0, an open implementation of a client and server for working over the SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols, was presented. Major changes: Experimental support for a key exchange method that is resistant to brute force on a quantum computer has been added to ssh and sshd. Quantum computers are radically faster at solving the problem of factoring a natural number into prime factors, which is the basis […]

Brutal action movie Redeemer: Enhanced Edition will be released on June 25

Buka and Sobaka Studio have announced the release date of the brutal action game Redeemer: Enhanced Edition on consoles - the game will be released on June 25. Let us remind you that the game debuted on PC (on Steam) on August 1, 2017. Last summer we learned that the authors decided to improve and expand Redeemer and release it on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, and […]

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