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Futuristic Human wireless headphones turn into a portable Bluetooth speaker

After nearly five years in development, Seattle tech startup Human has released wireless headphones, promising superior audio quality with 30mm drivers, 32-point touch controls, digital assistant integration, real-time foreign language translation, 9 hours of battery life, and range 100 feet (30,5 m). An array of four microphones forms an acoustic beam for […]

"Hacker"

In this humorous story, I wanted to fantasize about what a “hacking” of a washing machine might look like in the near future with the help of a voice interface, intelligent systems and the ubiquitous donation. Could not sleep. It’s 3:47 on a smartphone, but it’s already quite light outside the summer window. Yarik kicked off the edge of the blanket with his foot and sat down. * “I won’t get enough sleep again, I’ll […]

How to set up PVS-Studio in Travis CI using the PSP emulator as an example

Travis CI is a distributed web service for building and testing software that uses GitHub as source code hosting. In addition to the above operating scenarios, you can add your own thanks to the extensive configuration options. In this article we will configure Travis CI to work with PVS-Studio using the PPSSPP code example. Introduction Travis CI is a web service for building and […]

After cyberpunk: what you need to know about the current genres of modern science fiction

Everyone is familiar with works in the cyberpunk genre - new books, films and TV series about the dystopian world of future technology appear every year. However, cyberpunk is not the only genre of modern science fiction. Let's talk about trends in art that offer a variety of alternatives to it and force science fiction authors to turn to the most unexpected topics - from the traditions of the peoples of Africa to the “culture […]

Not Scanning Alone, or How to Build a Vulnerability Management Process in 9 Steps

On July 4th we held a large seminar on vulnerability management. Today we are publishing a transcript of the speech of Andrey Novikov from Qualys. He will tell you what steps you need to go through to build a vulnerability management workflow. Spoiler: we will only reach the halfway point before scanning. Step #1: Determine the maturity level of your vulnerability management processes At the very beginning, you need to understand at what […]

Enlightenment v0.23

Enlightenment is a window manager for X11. Improvements in the new release: Additional option for creating screenshots. The build system is now Meson Build. Music Control now supports the rage mpris dbus protocol. Added support for Bluez5 with updated module and device. Added the ability to enable or disable the dpms option. When switching windows using Alt-Tab, you can now also move them. […]

Document Collaboration System for Zimbra Open-Source Edition

The importance of collaborative document editing in modern business cannot be overestimated. The ability to draw up contracts and agreements with the participation of employees from the legal department, write commercial proposals under the supervision of superiors online, and so on, allows the company to save thousands of man-hours that were previously spent on numerous approvals. That is why one of the main innovations in Zextras Suite 3.0 was the appearance of Zextras […]

Linux 28 years old

28 years ago, Linus Torvalds announced on the comp.os.minix newsgroup that he had created a working prototype of a new Linux operating system. The system included ported bash 1.08 and gcc 1.40, which allowed it to be considered self-sufficient. Linux was created as a response to MINIX, the license of which did not allow the community to conveniently share developments (at the same time, MINIX of those years was positioned as an educational and […]

Go there - I don't know where

One day I found a form for a phone number behind the windshield of my wife’s car, which you can see in the photo above. A question popped into my head: why is there a form, but not a phone number? To which a brilliant answer was received: so that no one finds out my number. Hmmm... “My phone is zero-zero-zero, and don’t think that’s the password.” […]

Weston Composite Server 7.0 Release

A stable release of the composite server Weston 7.0 has been published, developing technologies that contribute to the emergence of full support for the Wayland protocol in Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE and other user environments. Weston's development aims to provide a high-quality code base and working examples for using Wayland in desktop environments and embedded solutions, such as platforms for automotive infotainment systems, smartphones, TVs and other consumer devices. […]

Android Studio 3.5

Android Studio 3.5, an integrated development environment (IDE) for working with the Android 10 Q platform, has been stable released. Read more about the changes in the release description and in the YouTube presentation. The developments received as part of the Project Marble initiative are presented. Source: linux.org.ru

Yaxim's XMPP client is 10 years old

The developers of yaxim, a free XMPP client for the Android platform, are celebrating the tenth anniversary of the project. Ten years ago, on August 23, 2009, the first yaxim commit was made, which means that today this XMPP client is officially half the age of the protocol it runs on. Since those distant times, many changes have occurred both in XMPP itself and in the Android system. 2009: […]