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Moving is always a stress, no matter what. Whether it's moving from a less comfortable two-room apartment to a more comfortable one, relocating from one city to another, or even taking charge of your life and moving out of your parents' house at 40. With infrastructure relocation, it's not so simple either. It's one thing to have a small website with a couple of thousand visitors […]
The OnePlus 5 and 5T smartphones, the flagship devices of 2017, have started receiving the OxygenOS update. The current firmware build number 9.0.11 includes several minor improvements and, most importantly, a security patch dated February 2020. Back in 2018, OnePlus announced that every smartphone it produces would receive at least two Android version updates and 3 years […]
The new stable release of WebKitGTK 2.28.0, a port of the WebKit browser engine for the GTK platform, has been announced. WebKitGTK allows you to leverage all the capabilities of WebKit through a GNOME-oriented interface based on GObject and can be used to integrate web content processing tools into any applications, ranging from specialized HTML/CSS parsers to fully functional web browsers. Notable projects using WebKitGTK include Midori […]
Details have been revealed about a new class of attacks LVI (Load Value Injection, CVE-2020-0551) targeting speculative execution in Intel CPUs, which can be exploited to leak keys and sensitive data from Intel SGX enclaves and other processes. This new class of attacks is based on manipulations of the same microarchitectural structures as those found in MDS (Microarchitectural Data Sampling), Spectre […]
On March 11, 2020, after nearly nine months of development, a significant new release of the HestiaCP control panel for VPS servers has been launched. Notable features of this release include: Support for custom themes (yes, we now have a dark theme too); read-only/demo mode support; a compact (one-click) installer for popular web applications: WordPress, Laravel, OpenCart, Symfony Framework; complete support for multiple […]
PostgreSQL Anonymizer is a plugin for the PostgreSQL database management system that allows the hiding or alteration of confidential data or information that constitutes commercial secrets. Data is hidden on the fly, using user lists for anonymization and configured rule templates. The tool can be used to grant third parties access to the database (e.g., analytical services), automatically removing personal data from queries, such as phone numbers […]
On March 9, the mobile browser Firefox Preview version 4.0 was released. The browser is developed under the codename Fenix and is expected to replace the current Firefox browser for Android. It is based on the GeckoView engine, which is constructed on Firefox Quantum, along with a set of Mozilla Android Components libraries. GeckoView is a version of the Gecko engine packaged as a separate library with […]
Thousands of sales managers across the country log tens of thousands of contacts daily in our CRM system—records of communication with potential or already working clients. To find this client, we need to do it quickly, and this is most often done by title. Therefore, it’s no surprise that when analyzing yet another set of 'heavy' queries on […]
Have you heard about the achievements in machine learning, neural networks, and AI? Want to work in this field but don’t know where to start? Consider the field of Data Science! Big data offers an endless array of opportunities — helping to determine the likelihood of disease progression, identifying tumors on scans, displaying personalized advertisements, detecting fraudulent transactions, and much more. Here […]
Microsoft, along with partners from 35 countries, has begun implementing a plan to disrupt one of the world's largest botnet networks, Necurs, which comprises over 9 million infected computers. Company experts have monitored the network for about 8 years and planned actions to ensure that criminals can no longer use key elements of the botnet's infrastructure for […]
The release of the web browser Firefox 74 has taken place, along with the mobile version Firefox 68.6 for the Android platform. Additionally, an update for the long-term support branch 68.6.0 has been created. The Firefox 75 branch will soon enter beta testing, with the release scheduled for April 7 (the project has switched to a 4-5 week development cycle). Builds for the beta branch of Firefox 75 have begun to be developed for Linux […]
Firefox 74 is now available. The password manager has learned to sort entries in reverse order (Z-A). Global add-ons (for all users in the system, such as in %ProgramFiles%Mozilla Firefoxextensions) are now a thing of the past. This method of distribution is used for pre-installation in distributions, as well as for imposing add-ons when installing third-party software. Developers deemed this practice flawed, as it deprives users of the ability to remove such add-ons […]