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The search engine has long been an integral part of the entire Microsoft operating systems lineup, particularly Windows 10. It makes it easy to find documents, images, or applications. However, search issues in "the ten" occur regularly and quite often. That's why Microsoft is currently working on a new application, Indexer Diagnostics, which is already available in the Microsoft Store. According to the developers, […]
Online retailers Ozon and Ak Bars Bank have successfully tested the "instant account" feature of the fast payment system (FPS), which allows shopping in online stores through the Central Bank of Russia's service without a QR code. According to official representatives of the Central Bank, 36 banks have already connected to this system; however, at the moment, only 8 of them are testing the payment for goods and services. The Central Bank anticipates that […]
An important part of vulnerability management is to understand well and secure the supply chain of the software components that make up modern systems. Teams practicing agile methodologies and DevOps widely use libraries and frameworks with open source code to shorten development time and costs. However, this coin has a flip side: the possibility of inheriting […]
On January 9, the release of Pandas 1.0.0rc took place. The previous version of the library was 0.25. This first major release includes numerous wonderful innovations, such as improved automatic summarization of data frames, more output formats, new data types, and even a new documentation site. All changes can be viewed here; in this article, we will limit ourselves to a brief, less technical overview of the main points. The library can be installed […]
Introduction What might the knowledge of the semantic differential methodology be useful for? We can learn our position relative to competitors in the subconscious of consumers. It might seem to us that customers have a negative attitude toward our product, but what if we find out that they view our competitors even worse on the most significant criteria for us? We can find out how successful our advertising is compared to […]
In the closing days of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, we managed to take a look inside the compact Intel NUC computer based on the Ghost Canyon hardware platform. The company released the first Next Unit of Computing back in 2012 and has been continuously enhancing the system's capabilities since. The latest upgrade iteration has the Intel CPU and Vega graphics processor housed on the same substrate […]
It is well known that these six bytes, usually displayed in hexadecimal format, are assigned to a network card at the factory, and at first glance, they seem random. Some know that the first three bytes of the address are the manufacturer identifier, while the remaining three bytes are assigned to it. It is also known that you can assign yourself an arbitrary address. Many have heard about 'random addresses' in Wi-Fi. Let's investigate […]
We often have to work with SSL certificates. Let's recall the process of creating and installing a certificate (in general terms for most cases). Find a provider (a site where we can purchase an SSL). Generate a CSR. Send it to the provider. Confirm domain ownership. Obtain the certificate. Convert the certificate to the required format (optional). For example, from pem to PKCS #12. Install the certificate on […]
This lecture wasn't on the schedule, but it had to be added to avoid gaps between classes. The lecture essentially covers how we know what we know, if indeed we truly do know it. This topic is as old as time itself—it has been discussed for the last 4000 years, if not longer. In philosophy, for its […]
It starts here. 10-43: Someone says, "A scientist knows science like a fish knows hydrodynamics." There is no definition of Science here. I discovered (I think I mentioned this to you before) that in high school, different teachers talked about various subjects, and I could see that different teachers spoke about the same subjects differently. […]
Tails is an operating system that can be run on almost any computer from a USB stick or DVD. It is designed to protect your privacy and anonymity and helps you achieve that. This is an emergency release that fixes critical vulnerabilities in the Tor Browser. Updates The Tor Browser has been updated to 9.0.4. A critical vulnerability in the JavaScript JIT compiler in Firefox and Tor Browser has been fixed. Mozilla is aware […]
The Ubuntu GamePack 18.04 build is available for download, which includes tools to run over 55,000 games and applications, both specifically designed for the GNU/Linux platform and Windows games that can be run using PlayOnLinux, CrossOver, and Wine, as well as old games for MS-DOS. The distribution is built on Ubuntu 18.04 and includes all […]