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Hello everyone! We are launching a series of articles dedicated to solving practical tasks related to Natural Language Processing (NLP) and creating dialogue agents (chatbots) using the open-source library DeepPavlov developed by our team at the MIPT Laboratory of Neural Systems and Deep Learning. The main goal of this series is to introduce a wide range of developers to DeepPavlov and demonstrate how […]
An increasing number of users are migrating their entire IT infrastructure to the public cloud. However, if antivirus control is insufficient in the customer's infrastructure, serious cyber risks arise. Practice shows that up to 80% of existing viruses thrive well in virtual environments. In this post, we will discuss how to protect IT resources in the public cloud and why traditional antivirus solutions are not entirely suitable for these […]
The official Telegram channel of the Russian Fedora community announced the cessation of localized builds of the distribution previously released under the name Russian Fedora (RFR). Quoting: Dear RFRemix users and Russian Fedora repository maintainers! We inform you that the development of the RFRemix distribution, as well as support for the Russian Fedora repositories, is officially discontinued. The release of RFRemix 31 will not take place. The project has fulfilled its mission 100%: […]
Oracle has introduced the second beta release of the VirtualBox 6.1 virtualization system. Compared to the first beta release, the following changes have been made: Improved support for nested hardware virtualization on Intel CPUs, added the ability to run Windows on an external VM; support for the recompiler has been discontinued, and hardware virtualization support in the CPU is now mandatory for running virtual machines; The runtime has been adapted to work on hosts with large […]
The lightweight distribution MX Linux 19 has been released, created through the collaboration of communities around the antiX and MEPIS projects. The release is based on Debian's package base, enhanced by the antiX project and numerous custom applications that simplify the configuration and installation of software. By default, the Xfce desktop is offered. 32- and 64-bit builds are available for download, sized at 1.4 GB […]
It seems that Microsoft is seriously promoting its Mixer service with the help of popular streamers. This summer, the corporation reached an agreement with Ninja and reportedly paid Tyler Blevins around a billion dollars to switch to the new platform (though the specific amount was never disclosed). Now another well-known streamer, Michael Shroud Grzesiek, has announced that […]
Clouds are like a magic box — you specify what you need, and resources simply appear out of nowhere. Virtual machines, databases, networks — all belong solely to you. There are other tenants in the cloud, but in your universe, you are the sole ruler. You are confident that you will always receive the required resources, without having to consider anyone else, and you determine what […]
The scale of Amazon Web Services' network encompasses 69 zones worldwide across 22 regions: the USA, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. Each zone houses up to 8 data centers (DCs). Each DC contains thousands or hundreds of thousands of servers. The network is designed such that all unlikely scenarios of outages are accounted for. For example, all regions […]
In the official Telegram channel of the Russian Fedora community, an announcement was made regarding the cessation of localized builds of the distribution previously released under the name Russian Fedora (RFR). It is reported that the Russian Fedora project has accomplished its task: all its developments have been accepted into the official Fedora repositories and the RPM Fusion repository. The maintainers of Russian Fedora are now maintainers of Fedora and RPM Fusion, with user support and […]
Almost the entire development team at Skyeng, consisting of more than 100 people, works remotely, and the requirements for specialists have always been high: we were looking for senior, full-stack developers, and mid-level professionals. However, in early 2019, we hired three juniors for the first time. This was done for several reasons: hiring only super specialists does not solve all problems, and fostering a healthy atmosphere in […].
Researchers from the University of Hamburg and the University of Cologne have developed a new technique for attacking content delivery networks and caching proxies — CPDoS (Cache-Poisoned Denial-of-Service). This attack enables denial of access to a page by poisoning the cache. The problem is that CDNs cache not only successfully executed requests but also situations where the HTTP server returns an error. Generally, when there are issues with […].
For the past eight years, I have worked as a project manager (not coding at work), which has naturally negatively impacted my technical background. I decided to bridge my technology gap and pursue a career as a Data Engineer. The main skill of a Data Engineer is the ability to design, build, and maintain data warehouses. I have created a learning plan, and I think it will be beneficial not only for me. The plan […].