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The release of the Firefox 79 web browser and the mobile version Firefox 68.11 for the Android platform has taken place. Additionally, updates for the long-term support branches 68.11.0 and 78.1.0 have been prepared. Soon, the Firefox 80 branch will enter beta testing, with the release scheduled for August 25. Key innovations include the addition of the ability to export credentials in CSV format in the password manager […]
The main goal of this article is to introduce those interested in lighting equipment to the technical solutions used by dishonest manufacturers from the Middle Kingdom to create counterfeit products that imitate well-known brands. Here, I will present my subjective opinion as someone who has encountered such equipment firsthand. This article should not be considered as a guide for action, so there will be no links […]
It is known that process flows created in Pega do not conform to any open standard, even though they resemble BPMN patterns. People who want to make the jump start their migration from Pega to Camunda by manually redrawing processes in the Modeler. However, manually redrawing process flows is tedious and time-consuming, especially if there are many of them or […]
Switching between tabs using a swipe is one of the most convenient ways to move from one webpage to another in a mobile browser. While this feature has been available in Google Chrome for quite some time, the mobile version of Firefox is still lacking this tool. It has now been revealed that developers at Mozilla will add the […] function to their browser.
Google has proposed the inclusion of the first set of patches with the implementation of components necessary for supporting the M:N thread model into the Linux kernel. Google's initiative is related to the unveiling of the previously closed API SwitchTo for the Linux kernel, which supports a multithreaded subsystem implemented in user space, utilizing the M:N thread model. This subsystem is used by Google to ensure […]
The release of the distributed source control system Git 2.28.0 is now available. Git is one of the most popular, reliable, and high-performance version control systems, providing flexible tools for nonlinear development based on branching and merging. Implicit hashing of the entire history in each commit is used to ensure the integrity of history and resilience against changes made "after the fact," and digital signatures can also be employed […]
What should you consider when choosing a VPN router for a distributed network? And what features should it have? This is the focus of our review of the ZyWALL VPN1000. Introduction Until now, most of our publications have been dedicated to smaller VPN devices for network access from remote locations. For example, for connecting various branches to the headquarters, accessing the network of small standalone […]
Hello, I am Dmitry Logvinenko — Data Engineer in the analytics department of the "Vezet" group of companies. I will tell you about a wonderful tool for developing ETL processes — Apache Airflow. However, Airflow is so versatile and multifaceted that you should consider it even if you are not dealing with data streams but need to periodically run certain processes and monitor their execution. […]
Switch, the operator of the Citadel Campus data center, along with Capital Dynamics, plans to invest $1.3 billion in creating a system of solar power plants and battery storage. The system will be quite large, with a total capacity of 555 MW from the solar plants and a total capacity of the Tesla Megapack "mega battery" of 800 MWh. Solar panels will be supplied by First Solar. According to the partners, the systems […]
After eight months of development, the release of the open-source hypervisor Xen 4.14 has been published. Companies such as Alibaba, Amazon, AMD, Arm, Bitdefender, Citrix, EPAM Systems, Huawei, and Intel participated in the development of this release. The release updates for the Xen 4.14 branch will continue until January 24, 2022, and publication of vulnerability fixes will last until July 24, 2023. Key changes in Xen […]
A new release of Telegram Desktop 2.2 is available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. The Telegram client software code is written using the Qt library and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. In the new version: The ability to quickly switch between multiple Telegram accounts linked to different phone numbers has been added. Support for storing and granting access to files of any type, up to […]
The "Meow" attack continues to gain momentum, during which unknown attackers are destroying data in publicly available unprotected installations of Elasticsearch and MongoDB. Isolated cases of cleaning (approximately 3% of all victims) have also been recorded for unprotected databases based on Apache Cassandra, CouchDB, Redis, Hadoop, and Apache ZooKeeper. The attack is carried out through a bot that scans standard database network ports. The study […]