Category: Blog

The oracles come to aid

Blockchain oracles solve the problem of delivering information from the external world to the blockchain. However, it is important for us to know which ones we can trust. In our article about the launch of the Waves Oracles catalog, we discussed the significance of oracles for the blockchain. Decentralized applications do not have access to data outside of the blockchain. Therefore, small programs—oracles—are created to access the necessary […]

New versions of Wine 4.18 and Wine Staging 4.18

An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 4.18 is now available. Since the release of version 4.17, 38 bug reports have been closed and 305 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: Added many new VBScript features (for example, error handlers, Hour, Day, Month functions, etc.); Cleaned up and enhanced the functionality of quartz.dll; Exception handling has been added in ntdll and […]

EA has revealed the system requirements for Need for Speed Heat

Electronic Arts has published the system requirements for the racing game Need for Speed Heat on Origins. To run the game, you will need an Intel Core i5-3570 processor or similar, 8 GB of RAM, and a GTX 760 level graphics card. Minimum system requirements: Processor: Intel Core i5-3570/FX-6350 or similar; RAM: 8 GB; Graphics card: GeForce GTX 760/Radeon R9 280x or similar; Hard disk: 50 […]

How Lighting Affects Game Design and Gaming Experience

While waiting for the PS5 and Project Scarlett, which will support ray tracing, I pondered the lighting in games. I found a piece where the author explains what light is, how it affects design, alters gameplay, aesthetics, and experience, complete with examples and screenshots. During gameplay, you don’t notice it right away. Introduction Lighting is needed not only for […]

PDU and everything else: power distribution in the rack.

One of the racks for internal virtualization. We put effort into color coding the cables: orange indicates odd power input, while green signifies even. We often talk about the big stuff—chillers, diesel generators, switchgears. Today, we will discuss the 'smaller things'—the outlets in the racks, also known as Power Distribution Units (PDUs). In our data centers, there are over 4,000 racks filled with IT equipment, so […]

We cannot trust AI systems built on deep learning alone.

This text is not the result of scientific research but rather one of many opinions regarding our near-term technological development. It also serves as an invitation for discussion. Gary Marcus, a professor at New York University, believes that deep learning plays a crucial role in the advancement of AI. However, he also thinks that excessive enthusiasm for this method can lead to its discreditation. In his book Rebooting […]

Release of the lightweight distribution antiX 19

A lightweight Live distribution of AntiX 19 has been prepared, built on the Debian package base and targeted for installation on outdated hardware. The release is based on Debian 10 (Buster), but comes without the system manager systemd and with eudev instead of udev. The default user environment is created using the IceWM window manager, but fluxbox, jwm, and […] are also available for selection.

Automatic restoration of the last saved configuration in Mikrotik routers

Many have encountered the remarkable feature found, for example, in HPE switches—if the configuration is not saved manually for some reason, the previous saved configuration is applied after a reboot. The technology can be merciless (forget to save—start over), but it is fair and reliable. However, MikroTik devices lack such a feature in their base, although there is a long-known saying: 'remote router configuration […]

Your internet radio

Many of us enjoy listening to the radio in the mornings. One beautiful morning, I realized that I no longer wanted to listen to local FM stations. They were uninteresting. But this habit proved to be detrimental. So, I decided to replace my FM receiver with an internet receiver. I quickly bought parts on AliExpress and assembled the internet receiver. About the internet receiver. The heart of the receiver is the ESP32 microcontroller. The firmware is from […]

Strengthening isolation between sites in Chrome

Google has announced enhancements to Chrome's site isolation mode, which ensures that pages from different websites are processed in separate isolated processes. The site-level isolation mode helps protect users from attacks that may occur via third-party blocks used on the site, such as iframe embeds, or to prevent data leakage through the embedding of legitimate blocks (for example, with requests […])

The release date of Windows 10 November 2019 Update is now known

Last week, Microsoft officially stated that the next version of its desktop OS will be called the Windows 10 November 2019 Update. Now, details have emerged about the release timeline. It is noted that the new version will be released in November, specifically on the 12th. The rollout of the update will occur in phases. The patch will be offered to everyone using Windows 10 May 2019 Update or […]

The book 'The Selfish Mitochondria: How to Maintain Health and Delay Aging'

The dream of every person is to stay young for as long as possible. We do not want to age and fall ill, fearing everything — cancer, Alzheimer's disease, heart attacks, strokes
 It’s time to figure out where cancer comes from, whether there is a connection between heart failure and Alzheimer's disease, infertility and hearing loss. Why do antioxidant supplements sometimes do more harm than good? And most importantly: can we […]

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