Technology companies patent a lot of technologies, but not all of them find their way into mass-produced products. Perhaps the same fate awaits Apple's new patent, which describes a technology that allows it to show false data to outsiders who are trying to spy on what is displayed on the device's screen. On March 12, Apple filed a new application called "Gaze-Aware Display Encryption" […]
Tavis Ormandy, a security researcher at Google, is developing the LoadLibrary project, which aims to port DLLs compiled for Windows for use in Linux applications. The project provides a layer library with which you can load a DLL file in PE/COFF format and call the functions defined in it. The PE/COFF bootloader is based on the ndiswrapper code. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. […]
Red Hat has published a report analyzing the risks associated with quickly resolving vulnerabilities identified in Red Hat products during 2019. During the year, 1313 vulnerabilities were fixed in Red Hat products and services (3.2% more than in 2018), of which 27 were classified as critical issues. Total Red Hat security team in 2019 […]
The release of the system programming language Rust 1.42, founded by the Mozilla project, has been published. The language focuses on safe memory management, provides automatic memory management, and provides the means to achieve high job parallelism while avoiding the use of a garbage collector and runtime. Rust's automatic memory management saves the developer from manipulating pointers and protects against issues that arise from […]
Quite a lot is already known about one of the most anticipated smartphones of this spring, Xiaomi Redmi Note 9. But there is one detail that haunts many fans of the Chinese brand - the processor of the new smartphone. According to the latest data, the device will receive a completely new processor manufactured by MediaTek. Previously, it was assumed that the smartphone would receive a Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G chipset, aimed at mid-range […]
Apple has indefinitely closed all of its 17 Apple Stores in Italy due to the ongoing spread of the coronavirus epidemic, Bloomberg reported, citing the company's Italian website. It should be noted that the closure of Apple stores was purely a formality, given that as of March 9, restrictive measures had already been taken in all regions of Italy. […]
The American aerospace company Blue Origin has completed construction of its own Mission Control Center at Cape Canaveral. It will be used by company engineers for future launches of the New Glenn rocket. In honor of this, Blue Origin's Twitter account posted a short video showing the interior of the Mission Control Center. In the video you can see a shiny space filled with rows of […]
A new release of the APT package manager has been released, number 2.0. Changes: Commands that accept package names now support wildcards. Their syntax is aptitude-like. Attention! Masks and regular expressions are no longer supported! Templates are used instead. New "apt satisfy" and "apt-get satisfy" commands to satisfy dependencies that have been specified. Pins could be specified by source packages by adding src: […]
On March 12, it was announced the release of a new version of the Tails 4.4 distribution, based on Debian GNU/Linux. Tails is distributed as a live image for USB flash drives and DVDs. The distribution aims to maintain privacy and anonymity when using the Internet by redirecting traffic through Tor, leaves no traces on the computer unless otherwise specified, and allows the use of the latest cryptographic utilities. […]
ALT Linux developers have announced the release of quarterly “starter builds” of the distribution. “Starter builds” are small live builds with various graphical environments, plus server, rescue and cloud; available for free download and unlimited use under GPL terms, easy to customize and generally intended for experienced users; the kit is updated quarterly. They do not pretend to have complete solutions, [...]
The fourth version of OpenShift was released relatively recently. The current version 4.3 has been available since the end of January and all the changes in it are either something completely new that was not in the third version, or a major update of what appeared in version 4.1. Everything that we will tell you now needs to be known, understood and taken into account by those who work [...]
In the previous post about PDUs, we said that some racks have an ATS installed - automatic transfer of reserve. But in fact, in a data center, ATSs are placed not only in the rack, but along the entire electrical path. In different places they solve different problems: in the main distribution boards (MSB) the AVR switches the load between input from the city and […]
