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Will YouTube survive as we know it?

At a time when the Russians are trying to fight against the isolation of the RuNet, residents of the European Union are taking to the streets demanding to stop the adoption of laws regulating the use of the YouTube platform. At the same time, the main slogan at the demonstrations is “No censorship on the Internet.” Article 13 MEPs plan to adopt laws on 27.03.2019 to change the current copyright law, making it […]

A game for Linux lovers and connoisseurs

Today, registration for participation in Linux Quest, a game for fans and experts in the Linux operating system, has opened. Our company already has a fairly large department of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), service availability engineers. We are responsible for the continuous and uninterrupted operation of the company's services and solve many other interesting and important tasks: we participate in the […]

Kubernetes 1.14: Highlights of what's new

This night will be the next release of Kubernetes - 1.14. According to the tradition that has developed for our blog, we talk about the key changes in the new version of this wonderful Open Source product. The information used to prepare this material is taken from the Kubernetes enhancements tracking table, CHANGELOG-1.14 and related issues, pull requests, Kubernetes Enhancement Proposals (KEP). Let's start with an important introduction from SIG cluster-lifecycle: dynamic […]

The smartphone was crushed in a blender to study its chemical composition

Dismantling smartphones in order to find out what components they are assembled from and what their maintainability is not uncommon in our time - recently announced or new items that have gone on sale are often subjected to this procedure. However, the purpose of the experiment by scientists at the University of Plymouth was not to identify which chipset or camera module is installed in the experimental device. And as a last resort, they […]

Tesla's electric car browser is moving to Chromium

The browser used in Tesla electric vehicles cannot boast of stability. Therefore, it is quite logical that it needs to be updated. Elon Musk, co-founder of the company, has already announced on Twitter that the developers intend to upgrade the car browser to Chromium, Google's open source browser project. It is important to note that we are talking about Chromium, and not about Google Chrome. However, with […]

Shooter Control from the authors of Quantum Break received a specific release date

Remedy Entertainment has announced that Control is coming to PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on August 27th. The game is a metroidvania with gameplay somewhat similar to Quantum Break. You will assume the role of Jessie Faden. The girl conducts her own investigation in the Federal Bureau of Control to find answers to some personal questions. However, the building is taken over by extraterrestrial […]

Enterprise IT infrastructure maturity levels

Annotation: Levels of maturity of the enterprise's IT infrastructure. Description of the advantages and disadvantages of each level separately. Analysts say that in a typical situation, more than 70% of the IT budget is spent on maintaining the infrastructure - servers, networks, operating systems and drives. Organizations, realizing how necessary it is to optimize the IT infrastructure and how important it is for it to be cost-effective, come to the conclusion that […]

Classification of handwritten drawings. Report in Yandex

A few months ago, our colleagues from Google held a competition on Kaggle to create a classifier for images obtained in the sensational game “Quick, Draw!”. The team, which included Yandex developer Roman Vlasov, took fourth place in the competition. At the January training session on machine learning, Roman shared the ideas of his team, the final implementation of the classifier, and interesting practices of his rivals. - Hi all! […]

With a flick of the wrist, the tablet turns into ... an additional monitor

Hello, attentive habrachitatel. After publishing a topic with photos of the workplaces of Khabrovites, I still waited for a reaction to the “Easter egg” in the photo of my cluttered workplace, namely, questions like: “What is this tablet with Windows and why are there such small icons on it?” The answer is similar to "the death of Koshcheeva" - after all, the tablet (regular iPad 3Gen) in our […]