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We propose to dive back down to a low level and talk about the security of x86-compatible computer platform firmware. This time, the main ingredient of the research is Intel Boot Guard (not to be confused with Intel BIOS Guard!) – a hardware-supported technology for trusted BIOS booting that the computer system vendor can permanently enable or disable during production. Well, the recipe for the study is familiar to us: […]
This article discusses how I organized a hackathon for my team for the first time. Experienced organizers may find the material too simple, and the story naive. I aimed it at those who are just starting to explore the format and are contemplating whether to host such an event. HFLabs handles complex tasks with data: we clean and enrich customer contacts for large companies and build client databases with hundreds of millions of records. Our Moscow offices employ 65 people, with around ten more working remotely from other […]
After a year of silence in development, work on the new branch of the fault-tolerant distributed file system LizardF 3.13 has resumed, and the second candidate for release has been published. Recently, there was a change in the ownership of the company developing LizardFS, with a new management team and new developers coming on board. The project has distanced itself from the community for the past two years and hasn't dedicated enough attention to it, but the new team aims to revive former […]
The non-profit organization lowRISC, with the participation of Google and other sponsors, presented the OpenTitan project on November 5, 2019, which it describes as "the first open-source project to create an open, high-quality hardware root of trust (RoT) architecture." OpenTitan, based on the RISC-V architecture, is a purpose-built chip designed for deployment in data center servers and any other equipment requiring […]
Until recently, IBM Watson Visual Recognition was primarily used for recognizing images as a whole. However, treating an image as a single entity is far from the most effective approach. Now, thanks to a new object recognition feature, IBM Watson users can train models on images with labeled objects for subsequent recognition in any frames. […]
Fault tolerance and high availability are significant topics, so we will dedicate separate articles to RabbitMQ and Kafka. This article is about RabbitMQ, while the next one will cover Kafka in comparison with RabbitMQ. The article is long, so get comfortable. We will examine fault tolerance strategies, consistency, and high availability (HA), as well as the trade-offs that each strategy entails. RabbitMQ can operate […]
The alpha release of the OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 distribution has been formed. The project is being developed by the community after Mandriva S.A. handed over project management to the non-profit organization 'OpenMandriva Association.' A Live build of size 2.7 GB (x86_64) is available for download. In this new version, the Clang compiler used for building packages has been updated to the LLVM 9.0 branch. In addition to the standard Linux kernel, for the compiled […]
WISE-PaaS — (Platform as a Service) is Advantech's cloud platform for the industrial Internet of Things, integrating various tools for data collection, processing, and visualization, automation, and management of devices and artificial intelligence and machine learning systems. The platform combines several ready-made software solution sets for building comprehensive systems in industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, etc. […]
The transition to Kubernetes and Linux infrastructures during the digital transformation of organizations leads to applications increasingly being built on microservices architecture and, as a result, often becoming complex in terms of routing requests between services. In Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh, we go beyond traditional routing and offer components for tracing and visualizing such requests, […]
Image — roboconstructor.ru A well-known parable states that when a young mother with a child in her arms approached the sage and asked at what age she should start raising her offspring, the elder replied that she was late by as many years as the child had already lived. The situation with choosing a future profession is quite similar. It's difficult to expect an infant to be aware of their inclinations and interests, […]
The distribution is based on the codebase of the Illumos project, which continues the development of OpenSolaris in areas such as the kernel, networking stack, file systems, drivers, and other components of the operating system. The distribution can be used both as a general-purpose OS and for building highly scalable storage systems. The system has full support for KVM and Bhyve hypervisors, as well as the Crossbow virtual networking stack and the file system […]
Valve has released a new version of the Proton project 4.11-8, which is based on the work of the Wine project and aims to enable the running of Linux gaming applications created for Windows and available in the Steam catalog. The project's developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows Linux users to directly run Steam gaming applications that are provided only for Windows. The package includes […]