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Lenovo unveils thin ThinkBook S laptops and powerful second-generation ThinkPad X1 Extreme

Lenovo has introduced a new series of thin and light laptops for business users called ThinkBook. In addition, the Chinese manufacturer introduced the ThinkPad X1 Extreme laptop of the second generation (Gen 2), which combines small thickness and powerful internals. At the moment, Lenovo has introduced only two ThinkBook S models in the new family, which are characterized by a small thickness. Friend […]

Sometimes more is less. When a decrease in load leads to an increase in latency

As in most of the posts, there was a problem with a distributed service, let's call this service Alvin. This time I didn't find the problem myself, I was informed by the guys from the client side. I woke up one day to a dissatisfied email due to long delays at Alvin, which we were planning to launch soon. Specifically, the client experienced 99th percentile latency in […]

GOG is giving away a keg of cards and The Witcher Deluxe Edition to Gwent players

The GOG.com store has launched a promotion that will appeal to all Gwent fans. CD Projekt RED is giving away a barrel of cards for its shareware project, and is also giving away a copy of the expanded version of the first The Witcher. To receive gifts, you just need to have Gwent installed in the GOG Galaxy launcher library. The first part of the Witcher series comes with a soundtrack, a digital art book, an exclusive interview […]

Video: Lenovo showed the world's first bendable PC

Foldable smartphones are already starting to be promoted as promising, but still experimental devices. Regardless of how successful this approach turns out to be, the industry has no plans to stop there. For example, Lenovo showed off the world's first foldable PC: a prototype ThinkPad laptop that uses the folding principle we're already familiar with from phone examples, but on a larger scale. Curious, […]

Robotization will affect women workers more than men

Experts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released the results of a study that examined the impact of robotization on the world of work. Robots and artificial intelligence systems have recently demonstrated rapid development. They are able to perform routine tasks with higher efficiency than humans. And therefore, robotic systems are being adopted by a variety of companies - from cellular […]

New Article: Gigabyte Aorus RGB M.2 NVMe SSD Review: Backlight Size Doesn't Matter

Today's review is interesting for at least two reasons. The first is an SSD produced by Gigabyte, which is not at all associated with storage devices. And yet, this Taiwanese manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards is systematically expanding the range of devices offered, adding more and more new types of computer equipment to the range. Not long ago we tested released under [...]

Exchange Vulnerability: How To Detect Privilege Elevation To Domain Admin

A vulnerability discovered this year in Exchange allows any domain user to gain domain administrator rights and compromise Active Directory (AD) and other connected hosts. Today we will explain how this attack works and how to detect it. Here's how this attack works: An attacker takes over the account of any domain user with an active mailbox in order to subscribe to the […]

Looking for vulnerabilities in UC Browser

Introduction At the end of March, we reported that we discovered a hidden ability to download and run unverified code in UC Browser. Today we will analyze in detail how this download occurs and how hackers can use it for their own purposes. Some time ago, UC Browser was advertised and distributed very aggressively: it was installed on users' devices using malware, distributed with […]

Fujitsu Lifebook U939X: convertible business laptop

Fujitsu has announced the Lifebook U939X convertible laptop, aimed primarily at corporate users. The new product is equipped with a 13,3-inch diagonal touch display. A Full HD panel with a resolution of 1920 Γ— 1080 pixels is used. The cover with the screen can be rotated 360 degrees to switch the device to tablet mode. The maximum configuration includes an Intel Core i7-8665U processor. This chip […]

All your analyzes are in the public domain

Hello again! I again found an open base with medical data for you. Let me remind you that quite recently there were three of my articles on this topic: the leakage of personal data of patients and doctors from the DOC + online medical service, the vulnerability of the Doctor Nearby service, and the leakage of data from ambulance stations. This time, the server […]

Part II. Ask Mom: How to communicate with customers and confirm the correctness of your business idea if everyone around is lying?

Continuation of the book's summary. The author tells how to distinguish false information from true information, communicate with the user and segment your audience First part False information Here are three types of false information that you need to pay close attention to, because it gives a false impression: Compliments; Chatter (general phrases, hypothetical reasoning, talk about the future); Ideas Compliments: Worrying remarks (after returning to the office): β€œThe meeting […]

Flexible and transparent: the Japanese introduced a "full-frame" fingerprint sensor

The annual Society of Information Display (SID) conference will be held May 14-16 in San Jose, California. For this event, the Japanese company Japan Display Inc. (JDI) has prepared an announcement of an interesting solution among fingerprint sensors. The new product, as reported in a press release, combines developments for fingerprint sensors on a glass substrate with a capacitive sensor and production technology on flexible plastic […]