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The launch of the Luna-29 apparatus with a planetary rover is scheduled for 2028

The creation of the automatic interplanetary station “Luna-29” will be carried out within the framework of the Federal Target Program (FTP) for a super-heavy rocket. This was reported by the online publication RIA Novosti, citing information received from sources in the rocket and space industry. Luna-29 is part of a large-scale Russian program to explore and develop the natural satellite of our planet. As part of the Luna-29 mission, it is planned to launch an automatic station [...]

Photos of the case reveal the design features of the smartphone Huawei Nova 5

Online sources have obtained “live” photographs of a protective case for the Huawei Nova 5 smartphone, which has not yet been officially presented. The photographs allow us to get an idea of ​​the design features of the upcoming device. As you can see, a triple camera will be located at the back of the smartphone. According to rumors, it will include sensors with 48 million and 12,3 million pixels, as well as […]

Google gives Chromebooks support for Linux

At the recent Google I/O developer conference, Google announced that Chromebooks released this year will be able to use the Linux operating system. This possibility, of course, existed before, but now the procedure has become much simpler and available out of the box. Last year, Google began providing the ability to run Linux on select laptops with […]

Blue Origin unveiled a vehicle for delivering cargo to the Moon

Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos announced the creation of a device that could be used in the future to transport various cargo to the surface of the Moon. He also noted that work on the device, which was named Blue Moon, had been carried out for three years. According to official data, the presented model of the device can deliver up to […]

Meeting of system operators of points of the network "Medium" in Moscow, May 18 at 14:00 at Patriarch's Ponds

On May 18 (Saturday) in Moscow at 14:00 at the Patriarch's Ponds there will be a meeting of system operators of points of the Medium network. We believe that the Internet should be politically neutral and free - the principles on which the World Wide Web was built - do not stand up to scrutiny. They are outdated. They are not safe. We live in Legacy. Any centralized network […]

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

Summary of an excellent book, in my opinion. I recommend it to anyone who is involved in UX research, wants to develop their product or create something new. The book teaches you how to ask questions correctly in order to get the most useful answers. The book contains many examples of constructing dialogues, and gives advice on how, where and when to conduct interviews. Lots of useful information. In the notes I tried […]

Thermaltake Level 20 RGB BattleStation: Backlit Computer Desk for $1200

Thermaltake has released the Level 20 RGB BattleStation computer desk, designed for demanding gamers who spend many hours in virtual space. The new product is equipped with a motorized drive for height adjustment in the range from 70 to 110 centimeters. This allows you to choose the optimal position. Additionally, users can play at a table while sitting or standing. There is a special control unit for adjusting [...]

Picreel and Alpaca Forms project code spoofing resulted in 4684 sites being compromised

Security researcher Willem de Groot reported that as a result of hacking the infrastructure, the attackers were able to introduce a malicious insert into the code of the Picreel web analytics system and the open platform for generating interactive web forms Alpaca Forms. Substitution of JavaScript code led to the compromise of 4684 sites using these systems on their pages (1249 - Picreel and 3435 - Alpaca Forms). Implemented […]

MSI Prestige PE130 9th: a powerful computer in a 13-liter case

MSI has released a high-performance computer Prestige PE130 9th on the Intel hardware platform, housed in a small form factor. The new product has dimensions of 420,2 × 163,5 × 356,8 mm. Thus, the volume is approximately 13 liters. The device is equipped with a ninth generation Intel Core i7 processor. The amount of DDR4-2400/2666 RAM can reach 32 GB. It is possible to install two 3,5-inch drives and a solid-state module […]

Amazon Redshift Parallel Scaling Guide and Test Results

We at Skyeng use Amazon Redshift, including parallel scaling, so we found this article by Stefan Gromoll, founder of dotgo.com, for intermix.io interesting. After the translation - a bit of our experience from the engineer according to Daniyar Belkhodzhaev. The Amazon Redshift architecture allows scaling by adding new nodes to the cluster. The need to cope with peak requests can lead to excessive […]

Vulnerability in the networking stack of the Linux kernel

A vulnerability (CVE-2019-11815) has been identified in the code of the TCP-based RDS protocol handler (Reliable Datagram Socket, net/rds/tcp.c), which can lead to access to an already freed memory area and denial of service (the possibility is not excluded). exploitation problem to organize code execution). The problem is caused by a race condition that can occur when executing the rds_tcp_kill_sock function while clearing […]