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90 billion rubles for the development of artificial intelligence

On May 30 of this year, a meeting was held on the territory of Sberbank’s School 21 on the development of technologies in the field of artificial intelligence. The meeting can be considered a bit epoch-making - firstly, it was chaired by Russian President V.V. Putin, and the participants were presidents, general directors and deputy general directors of state corporations and large commercial companies. Secondly, neither more nor less was discussed, but the national […]

How to get the most out of a conference. Instructions for the little ones

Conferences are not something unusual or special for established professionals. But for those who are just trying to get back on their feet, the hard-earned money they shell out should bring maximum results, otherwise what was the point of sitting on doshiraki for three months and living in a dorm? This article does a pretty good job of explaining how to attend the conference. I suggest expanding a little […]

An Interactive Roadmap for Web Development Learners

The programming school codery.camp continues to develop in the village. We recently completed a complete redesign of the web development course, which is now available online. To arrange theoretical materials, we used an unusual solution - they are all combined into an interactive graph, which is convenient to use as a Roadmap for students of web development. The materials are interconnected and, in addition to the theory itself, contain exercises on […]

Fair Economy Talk

Prologue Garik: Doc, what is economics? Doc: What kind of economy are you interested in: the one that exists now or what it should ideally be like? These are very different areas, mostly mutually exclusive. Garik: What it should ideally be like. Doc: So fair? Garik: Exactly fair! What should we strive for if not justice?! Doc: And the brain dislocation […]

Free as in Freedom in Russian: Chapter 2. 2001: Hacker Odyssey

2001: A Hacker's Odyssey Two blocks east of Washington Square Park, Warren Weaver's building stands as brutal and imposing as a fortress. New York University's computer science department is located here. The industrial-style ventilation system creates a continuous curtain of hot air around the building, equally discouraging scurrying businessmen and loitering loafers. If the visitor still manages to overcome this line of defense, [...]

Digital events in Moscow from 17 to 23 June

A selection of events for the week Augmented intelligence and everyday life of the future. Lecture June 17 (Monday) Bersenevskaya embankment 14str.5A free Architects, developers, scientists, and even food designers from all over the world participate in Space10 projects. Creative director of the design studio Bas van de Poel will talk in more detail about the laboratory’s working methods and explain what the world will be like when all infrastructure becomes digital, what […]

OpenMandriva Lx 4.0

After several years of development since the previous significant release (almost three years), the next release of OpenMandriva is presented - Lx 4.0. The distribution has been developed by the community since 2012, after Mandriva SA abandoned further development. The new name was chosen by user vote because... the company refused to transfer the rights to the previous name. Today, the distinctive feature of OpenMandriva is the use of LLVM/clang with an emphasis […]

Meeting for Java developers: talking about asynchronous microservices and the experience of creating a large build system on Gradle

DINS IT Evening, an open platform bringing together technical specialists in the areas of Java, DevOps, QA and JS, will hold a meeting for Java developers on June 26 at 19:30 at Staro-Petergofsky Prospekt, 19 (St. Petersburg). Two reports will be presented at the meeting: “Asynchronous microservices – Vert.x or Spring?” (Alexander Fedorov, TextBack) Alexander will talk about the TextBack service, how they migrate from […]

SimbirSoft invites IT specialists to the Summer Intensive 2019

IT company SimbirSoft is once again organizing a two-week educational program for specialists and students in the field of information technology. Classes will be held in Ulyanovsk, Dimitrovgrad and Kazan. Participants will be able to get acquainted with the process of developing and testing a software product in practice, work in a team as a programmer, tester, analyst and project manager. The intensive conditions are as close as possible to the real tasks of an IT company. […]

Release of the distribution kit OpenMandriva Lx 4

Almost three years after the formation of the last significant branch, the OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 distribution was released. The project is being developed by the community after Mandriva SA transferred project management to the non-profit organization OpenMandriva Association. A 2.6 GB Live build is available for download (x86_64 and “znver1” build, optimized for AMD Ryzen, ThreadRipper and EPYC processors). Release […]

PCLinuxOS 2019.06 Linux distribution release

The release of the custom distribution PCLinuxOS 2019.06 has been presented. The distribution was founded in 2003 on the basis of Mandriva Linux, but later branched into an independent project. The peak of PCLinuxOS popularity came in 2010, in which, according to a survey of readers of the Linux Journal, PCLinuxOS was second in popularity only to Ubuntu (in the 2013 ranking, PCLinuxOS already took 10th place). The distribution aims […]

NYT: US steps up cyberattacks on Russian power grids

According to The New York Times, the United States has increased the number of attempts to penetrate Russia's electrical networks. This conclusion was made after conversations with former and current government officials. The publication's sources said that over the past three months there have been numerous attempts to place computer code in Russia's power grids. At the same time, other work was carried out, discussed [...]