Essays
A security researcher tears down the affordable NanoKVM hardware KVM switch and discovers an undocumented microphone, hardcoded encryption keys, pre-installed hacking tools, and communication with Chinese servers — raising serious questions about supply chain trust.
Essays
A deep look at why Firefox for Android stands out as the best mobile browser, thanks to its extension support, privacy features, and sync capabilities that no Chromium-based competitor can match.
Education
A robotics school founder with 9 years of experience and 120,000 readers describes the collapse of Russian provincial education — teacher shortages, poverty wages, zero disciplinary authority — and details the gamified self-paced learning system he built to solve the motivation crisis, using diamonds, rating battles, and Minecraft-integrated Python courses.
Science
The Soviet ekranoplan "Lun" — a hybrid between a ship and an aircraft that skims over water using the ground effect — was one of the most audacious engineering projects of the Cold War. This is the story of its creation, its fearsome armament, its brief service life, and its unlikely second life as a museum exhibit on the shores of the Caspian Sea.
Essays
A hands-on demonstration of the infamous Intel Pentium FDIV bug on original hardware, showing how a lookup table error in the SRT-4 division algorithm cost Intel $475 million.
Networking
IPv6 was supposed to save the internet from address exhaustion back in the 1990s, yet three decades later the transition remains incomplete. This article explores the technical, economic, and regulatory reasons why IPv4 stubbornly refuses to die.
Essays
A veteran computer science coach sounds the alarm about widespread cheating in Russian school olympiads, arguing the crisis is organizational rather than technological and threatens one of the Soviet education system's finest achievements.
Essays
A nostalgic journey of building a modern ZX Spectrum-compatible computer from an unfinished ZX Evolution project, complete with custom case modifications, integrated display, floppy drive, hard disk, and expansion cards.
Programming
A blunt, frustrated takedown of every group perpetuating AI hype — from executives promising imminent AGI to managers forcing adoption, developers boasting about 10x productivity, and government officials funding data centers nobody needs. The conclusion: most people understand nothing but pretend otherwise.
Programming
A developer's 30-year journey from a university ASCII art experiment to building a custom image codec (BABE) and a peer-to-peer terminal video calling application that runs at 25 FPS over ~100 KB/s with no GUI required.
Essays
Angara Security's incident response team dissects malicious Android APK files distributed via messengers under the guise of personal item sales, revealing the Mamont backdoor family capable of stealing SMS, executing USSD commands, and harvesting personal data.
Programming
A Senior Developer with 10 years of experience discovers that knowing frameworks and libraries is not the same as understanding computation — and that a single frozen CPU fan can expose a decade of blind spots.