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In their work, computer forensics experts frequently encounter cases where they need to quickly unlock a smartphone. For example, data from the phone is needed by investigators to understand the reasons behind a teenager's suicide. In another case, it may help track down a criminal group attacking long-haul drivers. Of course, there are also lighter stories — parents forgetting the password to a device, which has a video of […]
The SeaMonkey 2.53.4 internet application suite has been released, which combines a web browser, email client, RSS/Atom feed aggregation system, and WYSIWYG HTML page editor Composer within a single product. The pre-installed add-ons include the IRC client Chatzilla, a set of developer tools DOM Inspector, and the calendar-planner Lightning. The new release incorporates fixes and changes from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based on […]
The UBports project, which has taken over the development of the mobile platform Ubuntu Touch after it was abandoned by Canonical, has released the OTA-13 (over-the-air) firmware update for all officially supported smartphones and tablets that were equipped with Ubuntu-based firmware. The update has been prepared for smartphones including OnePlus One, Fairphone 2, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 2013, and Meizu […]
Hello everyone. This article is written for those who are still torn between choosing virtualization platforms and after reading the article from the series ‘We installed Proxmox and everything is great, 6 years uptime without a single downtime’. But after installing one or another boxed solution, the question arises: how can we tweak this and that so that monitoring is more […]
On September 23 at 20:00 MSK, Sergey Bondarev will conduct a free webinar ‘Overview of Kubespray Capabilities’, where he will explain how to prepare Kubespray for speed, efficiency, and fault tolerance. Sergey Bondarev will discuss the differences between the original version and our fork: Differences between the original version and our fork. Those who have already dealt with Kubespray might be wondering why I am contrasting Kubeadm with Kubespray, since Kubespray is for […]
Oracle has announced the implementation of a continuous delivery model for Solaris, under which new features and fresh package versions will soon appear in the Solaris 11.4 branch as part of monthly updates, without the creation of a new significant release of Solaris 11.5. The proposed model, which implies delivering new functionality in frequently released minor versions, will accelerate the enhancement of […]
Public discussion has begun on the draft legal act to amend the Federal Law 'On Information, Information Technology and Information Protection,' developed by the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications, and Mass Media. The law proposes to introduce a ban on the use within the territory of the Russian Federation 'encryption protocols that allow masking the name (identifier) of a web page or site on the Internet, except in cases established by […]
How did I come to this? Not long ago, I had to work on the backend of a high-load project, where it was necessary to organize the regular execution of a large number of background tasks with complex calculations and requests to third-party services. The project is asynchronous and before I arrived, it had a simple cron task execution mechanism: a loop checking the current […]
This week, the first graphics cards from the Ampere family — GeForce RTX 3080 — went on sale, and reviews have also been released. Next week, on September 24, sales of the flagship GeForce RTX 3090 will start, and testing results should also be available then. However, the Chinese resource TecLab decided not to wait for the specified NVIDIA deadline and presented a review of the GeForce […]
Andrew Huang, a well-known activist promoting free hardware ideas and the recipient of the 2012 EFF Pioneer Award, has introduced an open platform called 'Precursor,' designed for creating concepts for new mobile devices. Similar to how Raspberry Pi and Arduino enable the creation of Internet of Things devices, Precursor aims to provide the means to design and build various mobile […]
Raymond Hill, the author of the uBlock Origin ad-blocking system, has archived the uMatrix browser extension repository. This indicates the cessation of its development, with the code now available only in read-only mode. In a comment published two days ago, Raymond Hill cited that he can no longer and will not spend his time on […]
Hello, Habr! Last week, our online conference dedicated to Google Cloud solutions, Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir, concluded. Although the conference featured many interesting sessions and all content is available online, we understand that a single global conference cannot meet the interests of all developers and companies around the world. That’s why, to address the unique needs of users […]