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Cougar Gemini M: backlit case for a compact computer

Cougar has announced the Gemini M computer case, which can be used to create a relatively compact gaming-class system. The new product allows the installation of Mini ITX and Micro ATX motherboards, and there are three slots for expansion cards. Dimensions are 210 Γ— 423 Γ— 400 mm. The case boasts an elegant design. The side wall is made of tempered glass, through which […]

Support for 32-bit packages for Ubuntu will end in the fall

Two years ago, the developers of the Ubuntu distribution stopped releasing 32-bit builds of the operating system. Now the decision has been made to complete the formation of the corresponding packages. The deadline is the fall release of Ubuntu 19.10. And the last LTS branch with support for 32-bit memory addressing will be Ubuntu 18.04. Free support will last until April 2023, and a paid subscription will provide coverage until 2028. […]

Intel in no hurry to expand manufacturing capacity in Israel

Intel should begin shipping 10nm Ice Lake processors for use in laptops by the second half of the year, since finished systems based on them should be on sale before the start of the Christmas shopping season. These processors will be produced using the second generation of 10nm technology, since the β€œfirstborns” of the technical process in the form of 10nm Cannon Lake processors did not receive more than two cores, […]

Microsoft Edge will allow you to uninstall PWAs through the Control Panel

Progressive web applications (PWAs) have been around for about four years. Microsoft actively uses them in Windows 10 along with the usual ones. PWAs work like regular apps and support Cortana integration, live tiles, notifications, and more. Now, as reported, new types of applications of this type may appear that will work in conjunction with the Chrome browsers and the new Edge. […]

Nginx recipes: basic authorization with captcha

To prepare authorization with captcha, we need nginx itself and its encrypted-session, form-input, ctpp2, echo, headers-more, auth_request, auth_basic, set-misc plugins. (I gave links to my forks, because I made some changes that have not yet been able to push into the original repositories. You can also use the ready-made image.) First, set the encrypted_session_key "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456"; Further, just in case, we disable the authorization header […]

Quarterly deliveries of cellular devices to Russia jumped by 15%

The GS Group analytical center has summed up the results of a study of the Russian market of mobile phones and smartphones in the first quarter of this year. It is reported that in the period from January to March inclusive, 11,6 million cellular devices were imported into our country. This is 15% more than the result for the first quarter of last year. For comparison: in 2018, the quarterly volume of mobile phone shipments […]

Anniversary DevConfX will take place this Friday, June 21, exclusive master classes on June 22

The DevConfX Anniversary Conference will be held this Friday. As always, all participants get a significant head start in knowledge for the year ahead and a chance to remain in demand by WEBa engineers. Reports that might interest you: PHP 7.4: arrow functions, typed properties, etc. Symfony: Development of abstract components and bundles Domain Driven Design TDD: how to leave from pain and […]

Two launches of OneWeb satellites on Soyuz rockets from the Kourou cosmodrome are scheduled for 2020

The CEO of Glavkosmos (a subsidiary of Roscosmos) Dmitry Loskutov, at the Le Bourget 2019 aerospace salon, as reported by TASS, spoke about plans to launch satellites of the OneWeb system from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana. The OneWeb project, we recall, involves the formation of a global satellite infrastructure to provide broadband Internet access around the world. For this purpose, […]

Release of the GNU nano 4.3 text editor

A release of the console text editor GNU nano 4.3 is available, offered as the default editor in many user distributions whose developers find vim too difficult to master. In the new release: Renewed support for reading and writing through named pipes (FIFO); Reduced startup time by performing full syntax parsing only when necessary; Added the ability to stop downloading [...]

GNU nano 4.3 "Musa Kart"

The release of GNU nano 4.3 has been announced. Changes in the new version: The ability to read and write to the FIFO has been restored. Startup times are reduced by allowing full parsing to occur only when necessary. Accessing help (^G) when using the –operatingdir switch no longer causes a crash. Reading a large or slow file can now be stopped using […]

Cyber ​​grandma, or how we hacked for a day

On April 7-8, there was an open hackathon in Kontur - a 27-hour programming marathon. Developers, testers, designers and interface designers gathered to tackle the challenges. Only the topic was not work problems, but games. The rules are terribly simple: you come without any preparations and after a day you show what you have done. The hackathon took place in five cities: Yekaterinburg, Izhevsk, Innopolis, Novosibirsk […]

Video: NVIDIA Interviews Cyberpunk 2077 Lead Designer on RTX and More

One of the most anticipated games, Cyberpunk 2077 from CD Projekt RED, received an official release date at E3 2019 - April 16, 2020 (PC, PS4, Xbox One). Also thanks to the cinematic trailer, it became known about the participation of Keanu Reeves in the game. Finally, the developers promised to implement support for NVIDIA RTX ray tracing in the project. It is no coincidence that NVIDIA decided to meet with [...]