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The US Federal Trade Commission has decided to fine Facebook Inc. in the amount of $5 billion. The reason was a violation of a number of aspects relating to user data. We are talking about the scandalous data leak at Cambridge Analytica and the lengthy investigation into this incident. The company has already agreed to pay a fine, as well as to change the data privacy policy on the social network. Personally […]
The South Korean government has allowed domestic chipmakers such as Samsung Electronics to provide their equipment to conduct quality tests on products supplied by local suppliers. The country's authorities have promised to support domestic suppliers of products for Samsung and SK Hynix after Japan introduced restrictions on the export of high-tech materials used in the production of smartphone displays and memory chips to South Korea. “Usually if you […]
Former MachineGames employees Mihcael Paixao and Joel Jonsson have announced the creation of Bad Yolk Games studio in Sweden. Bad Yolk Games consists of 10 AAA game developers with a total of 14 released projects under their belt, including Chronicles of Riddick, EVE Online, Gears of War, Tom Clancy's The Division and The Darkness. The studio intends […]
Online sources report that Pegatron has entered the supply chain for third-generation Google Glass, which features a “lighter design” compared to previous models. Previously, Google Glass was assembled exclusively by Quanta Computer. Officials from Pegatron and Quanta Computer have so far refrained from commenting on customers or orders. The message notes […]
The Chinese company Lenovo will resume sales of smartphones under its brand on the Russian market. This was reported by Kommersant, citing information received from knowledgeable persons. In January 2017, Lenovo was the leader among all Chinese brands in the Russian smartphone market with 7% of the industry in units. But already in April of the same year, official deliveries of Lenovo cellular devices to our […]
The Honor brand, owned by Huawei, has officially unveiled the 9X and 9X Pro smartphones, which have recently become the subject of numerous rumors. The devices have an identical design. They are equipped with a Full HD+ display (2340 × 1080 pixels) with a diagonal of 6,59 inches and an aspect ratio of 19,5:9. The screen has no notch or hole at the top. The front camera is designed in the form of [...]
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced a decision to change the terms of the competition for the development of the Hyperloop vacuum train, which his company SpaceX has been conducting for the past four years. Next year, prototype capsule races will take place in a curved tunnel more than six miles (9,7 km) long, SpaceX's CEO said on Twitter on Sunday. Let us remind you that before this competition took place in [...]
Note Translation: Dailymotion is one of the world's largest video hosting services and therefore a notable user of Kubernetes. In this material, system architect David Donchez shares the results of creating the company's production platform based on K8s, which began with a cloud installation in GKE and ended as a hybrid solution, which allowed for better response times and savings on infrastructure costs. […]
The technology of mass production of processors previously provided great scope for those who wanted to get more performance for less money. Processor chips of different models of the same family were “cut” from common silicon wafers, their ability to operate at higher or lower frequencies was determined by testing and sorting. Overclocking made it possible to cover the difference in frequency between the younger and older models, since inexpensive processors are always […]
The purpose of this post is to show a debugging technique in debian/ubuntu related to "finding the source" in the system configuration file. Test example: after much mockery of the tar.gz copy of the installed OS and after restoring it and installing updates, we receive the message: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-54-generic W: initramfs-tools configuration sets RESUME=/dev/mapper/U1563304817I0-swap W: but no matching swap device is available. I: The initramfs […]
I would like to share my experience in the evolution of using database systems at the online language school GLASHA. The school was founded in 2012 and at the beginning of its work all 12 students studied there, so there were no problems with managing the schedule and payments. However, with the growth, development and emergence of new students, the question of choosing a base system [...]
Part 1. About the CPU Part 2. About Memory Today we will analyze the metrics of the disk subsystem in vSphere. A storage problem is the most common reason for a slow virtual machine. If, in the case of CPU and RAM, troubleshooting ends at the hypervisor level, then if there are problems with the disk, you may have to deal with the data network and storage system. I will discuss the topic [...]
