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Toshiba Memory Holdings Corporation announced that it will officially change its name to Kioxia Holdings on October 1, 2019. Around the same time, the Kioxia (kee-ox-ee-uh) name will be included in the names of all Toshiba Memory companies. Kioxia is a combination of the Japanese word kioku, meaning "memory", and the Greek word axia, meaning "value". Combining “memory” with […]
Higher education in Russia is a totem, a fetish, a fad and a fixed idea. Since childhood, we have been taught that “going to college” is a jackpot: all roads are open, employers are lined up, salaries are on the line. This phenomenon has historical and social roots, but today, along with the popularity of universities, higher education has begun to depreciate, and […]
Background It just so happened that I needed to store more than 1.5 TB of data somewhere, and also provide the ability for ordinary users to download it via a direct link. Since traditionally such amounts of memory go to VDS, the cost of renting which is not very much included in the project budget from the “nothing to do” category, and from the initial data I had […]
The series “Silicon Valley” is not only an exciting comedy about startups and programmers. It contains a lot of useful information for the development of a startup, presented in simple and accessible language. I always recommend watching this series to all aspiring startupers. For those who do not consider it necessary to spend time watching TV series, I have prepared a small selection of the most useful episodes […]
Bad for you, fake programmer. And I am real. No, I'm also a programmer. Not 1C, but “whatever they say it in”: when they wrote C++, when they used Java, when they wrote Sharps, Python, even in godless Javascript. And yes, I work for “uncle”. A wonderful uncle: he brought us all together and makes unreal money. And I work for him for a salary. And also […]
Dropbox has released a beta version of a new branch (77.3.127) of a desktop client for working with the Dropbox cloud service, which adds support for XFS, ZFS, Btrfs and eCryptFS for Linux. Support for ZFS and XFS is stated only for 64-bit systems. In addition, the new version provides display of the size of data saved through the Smarter Smart Sync function, and eliminates a bug that caused […]
Not long ago we published a semi-serious forecast “What you will pay for in 20 years.” These were our own expectations, based on developing technologies and scientific advances. But in the USA they went further. An entire symposium was held there, dedicated, among other things, to forecasting the future that awaits humanity in 2050. The organizers approached the issue with all seriousness: [...]
A method has been published that allows any Chrome add-on to execute external JavaScript code without granting the add-on extended permissions (without unsafe-eval and unsafe-inline in manifest.json). Permissions assume that without unsafe-eval the add-on can only execute code that is included in the local distribution, but the proposed method makes it possible to bypass this restriction and execute any JavaScript loaded […]
On August 22 – 25, near Minsk, the summer session of the International Conference of Developers and Users of Free Software Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe – LVEE 2019 will be held. The event brings together communication and recreation for specialists and enthusiasts in the field of free software, including the GNU/Linux platform, but not limited to it. Applications for participation and abstracts of reports are accepted until August 4. Source: […]
A vulnerability has been identified in the fbdev (Framebuffer) subsystem that can lead to a 64-byte kernel stack overflow when processing incorrectly formatted EDID parameters. Exploitation can be carried out by connecting a malicious monitor, projector or other output device (for example, a specially prepared device simulating a monitor) to the computer. Interestingly, Linus Torvalds was the first to respond to the vulnerability notice and suggested […]
Quietly and unnoticed, a few minutes ago, a minor release of Wire version 3.35 for Android took place. Wire is a free cross-platform messenger with E2EE by default (that is, all chats are secret), developed by Wire Swiss GmbH and distributed under the GPLv3 (clients) and AGPLv3 (server) licenses. At the moment the messenger is centralized, but there are plans for a subsequent federation […]
Former National Security Agency contractor Harold Martin, 54, was sentenced Friday in Maryland to nine years in prison for stealing vast amounts of classified material belonging to US intelligence agencies over a twenty-year period. Martin signed a plea agreement, although prosecutors never found evidence that he shared classified information with anyone. […]
