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Jyske Bank, Denmark's third-largest bank, said last week that its customers will now be able to take out a 10-year mortgage with a fixed interest rate of -0,5%, meaning customers will pay back less than they borrowed. In other words, if you bought a house with a $1 million loan and paid off the mortgage in 10 […]
The Gentoo project has announced a stabilization profile for the AArch64 (ARM64) architecture, which has been promoted to a primary architecture and is now fully supported and patched with vulnerabilities fixed. Supported ARM64 boards include Raspberry Pi 3 (Model B), Odroid C2, Pine (A64+, Pinebook, Rock64, Sopine64, RockPro64), DragonBoard 410c and Firefly AIO-3399J. Source: opennet.ru
Specialists from Cybersecurity Eclypsium conducted a study that discovered a critical flaw in software development for modern drivers for various devices. The company's report mentions software products from dozens of hardware manufacturers. The discovered vulnerability allows malware to escalate privileges, up to unlimited access to equipment. A long list of driver providers that are fully approved by Microsoft […]
What does it take for an IT company to be successful in 2019? Lecturers at conferences and meetups say a lot of loud words that are not always understandable to normal people. The struggle for deployment time, microservices, abandonment of the monolith, DevOps transformation and much, much more. If we discard verbal beauty and speak directly and in Russian, then it all comes down to a simple thesis: make a quality product, and […]
Censorship views the world as a semantic system in which information is the only reality, and what is not written about does not exist. — Mikhail Geller This digest is intended to increase the Community’s interest in the issue of privacy, which in the light of recent events is becoming more relevant than ever before. On the agenda: “Medium” completely switches to Yggdrasil “Medium” creates its own […]
Researchers from Check Point revealed details of a new attack technique against applications using vulnerable versions of SQLite at the DEF CON conference. The Check Point method considers database files as an opportunity to integrate scenarios for exploiting vulnerabilities in various internal SQLite subsystems that are not directly exploitable. Researchers have also prepared a technique for exploiting vulnerabilities with exploit coding in the form of […]
Canonical has released an update to the Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS distribution, which has received a number of innovations to improve performance. The build includes updates to the Linux kernel, graphics stack, and several hundred packages. Errors in the installer and bootloader have also been fixed. Updates are available for all distributions: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS, Kubuntu 18.04.3 LTS, Ubuntu Budgie 18.04.3 LTS, Ubuntu MATE 18.04.3 LTS, […]
Man of Medan, the first chapter in Supermassive Games' horror anthology The Dark Pictures, will be available at the end of the month, but we were able to see the first quarter of the game at a special private press screening. The parts of the anthology are not connected in any way by plot, but will be united by a common theme of urban legends. The events of Man of Medan revolve around the ghost ship Ourang Medan, […]
Recently, publisher 505 Games and developers from Remedy Entertainment began publishing a series of short videos designed to introduce the public to the upcoming action movie Control without spoilers. The first were videos dedicated to the environment, the background of what was happening in the Oldest House and some enemies. Now comes a trailer highlighting the combat system of this metroidvania adventure. While moving through the back streets of the twisted Old One […]
The latest AGESA microcode update (AM4 1.0.0.3 ABB), which AMD has already distributed to motherboard manufacturers, deprives all motherboards with Socket AM4.0 that are not built on the AMD X4 chipset from supporting the PCI Express 570 interface. Many motherboard manufacturers have independently implemented support for the new, faster interface on motherboards with system logic of the previous generation, that is […]
One step forward, two steps back. If you can only dream about a NAND flash cell with 16 bits written to each cell, then you can and should talk about writing five bits per cell. And they say. At the Flash Memory Summit 2019, Toshiba presented the idea of releasing a 5-bit NAND PLC cell as the next step after mastering the production of NAND QLC memory. […]
The resource Winfuture.de reports that the smartphone, previously listed under the name Motorola One Pro, will debut on the commercial market under the name Motorola One Zoom. The device will receive a quad rear camera. Its main component will be a 48-megapixel image sensor. It will be complemented by sensors with 12 million and 8 million pixels, as well as a sensor for determining the depth of the scene. Front 16 megapixel camera […]
