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Cloudflare, Mozilla and Facebook develop BinaryAST to speed up JavaScript loading

Engineers from Cloudflare, Mozilla, Facebook and Bloomberg have proposed a new BinaryAST format to speed up the delivery and processing of JavaScript code when opening sites in a browser. BinaryAST takes the parsing phase to the server side and supplies an already formed Abstract Syntax Tree (AST). Upon receiving BinaryAST, the browser can immediately go to the compilation stage, bypassing the parsing of the JavaScript source code. […]

Japan Display suffers losses and cuts staff

One of the last almost independent Japanese display manufacturers, Japan Display (JDI) reported work in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2018 (the period from January to March 2019). Almost independent means that almost 50% of Japan Display's shares are owned by foreign companies, namely the Chinese-Taiwanese consortium Suwa. Earlier this week it was reported that the company's new partners […]

Logs of the front-end developer Habr: refactoring and reflecting

I have always been interested in how Habr is structured from the inside, how the workflow is structured, how communications are structured, what standards are used and how code is generally written here. Fortunately, I got such an opportunity, because I recently became part of the habra team. Using the example of a small refactoring of the mobile version, I’ll try to answer the question: what is it like to work here at the front. In the program: Node, Vue, Vuex and SSR with notes from personal experience […]

So what will happen to authentication and passwords? Part XNUMX of the Javelin Strong Authentication Status Report

Recently, research company Javelin Strategy & Research published a report, “The State of Strong Authentication 2019.” Its creators collected information about what authentication methods are used in corporate environments and consumer applications, and also made interesting conclusions about the future of strong authentication. We have already published the translation of the first part with the conclusions of the authors of the report on Habré. And now we present [...]

Effie 3D Platformer - Magic Shield, Cartoon Graphics, and a Return of Youth Story

Developers from the independent Spanish studio Inverge presented their new game Effie, which will be released on June 4 exclusively on PS4 (a little later, in the third quarter, it will also come to PC). This, we are promised, will be a classic 3D adventure platformer. The main character Galand, a young man cursed by an evil witch to premature old age, strives to regain his youth. In the adventure, a big […]

The Russian National Remote Sensing Center will have a distributed structure

Deputy Director of the Department of Navigation Space Systems of Roscosmos Valery Zaichko, as reported by the online publication RIA Novosti, revealed some details of the project to create the National Center for Remote Sensing of the Earth (ERS). Plans to form a Russian remote sensing center were reported back in 2016. The structure is designed to ensure the reception and processing of data from satellites such as “Meteor”, “Canopus”, “Resource”, “Arctic”, “Obzor”. The creation of the center will cost [...]

Corda - open source blockchain for business

Corda is a distributed Ledger for storing, managing and synchronizing financial commitments across different financial institutions. Corda has pretty good documentation with video lectures, which can be found here. I will try to briefly describe how Corda works inside. Consider the main features of Corda and its uniqueness among other blockchains: Corda does not have its own cryptocurrency. Corda does not use the concept of mining […]

Matryoshka Si. Layer system of the program language

Let's try to imagine chemistry without Mendeleev's Periodic Table (1869). How many elements had to be kept in mind, and in no particular order... (Then - 60.) To do this, it is enough to think about one or several programming languages ​​at once. Same feelings, same creative chaos. And now we can relive the feelings of XNUMXth century chemists when they were offered all their […]

Video: World War 3's major update brings new maps, weapons and tons of improvements

We already wrote about update 0.6 for the multiplayer shooter World War 3, which was originally scheduled for release in April and was delayed during testing. But now the independent Polish studio The Farm 51 has finally released a major update, Warzone Giga Patch 0.6, to which it dedicated a cheerful trailer. The video demonstrates the gameplay on the new maps “Polar” and “Smolensk”. These big and [...]

Stack Overflow Hack

Representatives of the discussion platform Stack Overflow announced that they had identified traces of attackers’ penetration into the project’s infrastructure. Details of the incident have not yet been provided; it is only reported that unauthorized access was committed on May 11 and the current progress of the investigation allows us to judge that user and client data were not affected. Stack Overflow engineers analyzed known vulnerabilities through which hacking could be carried out, and […]

Why CFOs are moving to an operating cost model in IT

What to spend money on so that the company can develop? This question keeps many CFOs awake. Each department pulls the blanket over itself, and you also need to take into account many factors that affect the spending plan. And these factors often change, forcing us to revise the budget and urgently seek funds for some new direction. Traditionally, when investing in IT CFOs, […]

How to disguise yourself on the Internet: comparing server and residential proxies

In order to hide the IP address or bypass content blocking, a proxy is usually used. They are of different types. Today we will compare the two most popular types of proxies - server and residential, and talk about their pros, cons and usage scenarios. How server proxies work Server (Datacenter) proxies are the most common type. When used, IP addresses are issued by cloud service providers. […]