Copilot Overview in Xcode on SwiftUI
So, I finally got around to Copilot. I was really curious how exactly it could help me with writing code. So, tekkixocatans, if you’re interested, I invite you to read…
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Code without if and while: five programming languages not in English
Hello, tekkix! My name is Yura, I am the team lead of the Waterbase project at KION, and in my free time, I love reading about what's new in the world of IT and what…
Ancient Technologies: ATAPI IDE, Part One, Preparatory
One day I wanted to build a PC no older than the first Pentium for DOS and WIN9x games. And I wanted to organize it not as just another huge box on the desk, but in the…
Echo of Eternity
Seryozha died on Wednesday. His avatar was activated on Friday.
Writing a Simple Virtual Machine
Hello everyone! I decided to try writing my own emulator to systematize my knowledge in computer architecture. We will emulate the CPU, opcodes, memory, and also add…
Artificial intelligence and motivation: how algorithms teach us to set goals
The creation of machine learning algorithms pursues many goals. One of them is to understand how our brain works, an amazing supercomputer that learns on the fly, predicts…
The history of "World Backup Day" [and a compact solutions digest] is a good reason to make a backup
March 31 is a day meant to bring together those who make backups and those who don't yet. And to quickly reduce the number of the latter. At beeline cloud, we've decided…
fail2ban + Traefik — blocking HTTP DDoS flood
On the access nodes where our clients create tunnels, we currently use Traefik for HTTP traffic termination. Recently, we encountered a problem where one of the domains…
Top infosec news for March 2025
Hello everyone! Time to refresh your memory on the key information security events from last month. The main one, undoubtedly, was Signalgate involving top U.S. officials,…
How a Former Employee Transferred Data to Competitors
In the small company TechnoSoft, which specialized in business automation software, a Friday evening seemed ordinary. The sales manager—a young, attractive girl with…
April Fools' joke that almost got me fired
Everyone should play one great joke at least once in their life. In this article, I will talk about mine. The story is true, only the names have been removed to protect…
Replacement of Langchain: How OpenAI Agents SDK Handles Deep Search?
Agents are super buggy. In our company projects, we noticed that Langchain started to perform worse. In multi-agent systems, agents often loop because they don’t understand…
How the call for papers at OFFZONE works: from submission to presentation
Getting to OFFZONE as a speaker is not the easiest task. Every year we get questions: how does the CFP work? which topics are better to choose? how to submit an application…
Unboxing a Coil of VVGng Cable
The article about how to blink an LED using Arduino was quite well received by the Tekkix audience. At the end of that article, there was a poll with a long list of topics…
IDOR & UUIDs for PII Leakage
Hello, today I will share with you another report. The vulnerability we will discuss is IDOR. Using it, I was able to expose personally identifiable information (PII…
How to Protect Wealth Using IT and "Hostile" Interfaces?
A good interface should help the user. But what if I say that sometimes a good interface should hinder them?
Routine and the Meaning of Life
Light weekend post, with all that implies: take it with either kind humor or harsh satire, but do not treat it as something serious.
Anomaly detection and leak prevention — how signature-based analysis helps detect internal threats
Hello, tekkix! My name is Alexander Shcherbakov. I will tell you how Privileged Access Management systems help control the actions of privileged users with the help of…
