The Firefox 73 web browser was released, as well as the mobile version of Firefox 68.5 for the Android platform. In addition, an update to the long-term support branch 68.5.0 has been created. In the near future, the Firefox 74 branch will enter the beta testing stage, the release of which is scheduled for March 10 (the project has moved to a 4-week development cycle). Main innovations: In the mode of accessing DNS over HTTPS […]
A release of the KDE Plasma 5.18 custom shell is available, built using the KDE Frameworks 5 platform and the Qt 5 library using OpenGL/OpenGL ES to speed up rendering. You can evaluate the performance of the new version through a Live build from the openSUSE project and builds from the KDE Neon User Edition project. Packages for various distributions can be found on this page. The new version is attributed […]
Andrey Konovalov from Google is developing a new USB Raw Gadget module that allows you to emulate USB devices in user space. An application for inclusion of this module in the main Linux kernel is under consideration. The USB Raw Gadget is already being used by Google to simplify fuzz testing of the USB kernel stack using the syzkaller toolkit. The module adds a new programming interface to the kernel subsystem […]
The release of gplaycli version 3.27 took place - a console client for the Google Play Android application store, written in Python 3 under the GNU AGPL license. Changes in the new version concern API updates from Google services. In addition to the source code, the release is available via pip and as a deb package. Main features of the program: Search and download free and purchased applications in [...]
On February 12, 2020, the LTS version of the Ubuntu distribution was released. Also released were versions of the distribution with alternative desktop environments: Kubuntu 18.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu Budgie 18.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu MATE 18.04.4 LTS, Lubuntu 18.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu Kylin 18.04.4 LTS and Xubuntu 18.04.4 LTS . The main improvements and innovations include the following: The kernel has been updated to […]
As of December 31, 2019, we have 124 operational hard drives. Of these, 956 are bootable and 2 are data. In this review, we will look at failure statistics among data hard drives. We will also consider 229 and 122 TB versions of disks and the new 658 TB, which we have been actively using since the beginning of the fourth quarter […]
Salute, Khabrovsk residents. In anticipation of the start of the “AWS for Developers” course, we prepared a translation of interesting material. In many of the use cases that we, as bakdata, see on our clients' sites, relevant information is hidden in relationships between entities, for example when analyzing relationships between users, dependencies between elements, or connections between sensors. Such use cases are usually modeled on a graph. Earlier this year […]
Scheme of data leakage through Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD) due to name collision (in this case, a collision of an internal domain with the name of one of the new gTLDs, but the essence is the same). Source: University of Michigan research, 2016 Mike O'Connor, one of the oldest investors in domain names, is putting up for sale the most dangerous and controversial item in his collection: the corp.com domain for $1,7 […]
Epic Games continues to host game giveaways in its store. Until February 20, each user of the service can add two projects to their personal library at once - Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Aztez. After this, users will be able to pick up the Faeria card game for free. It differs from other representatives of the genre in the ability to quickly build a deck, the changing battlefield […]
SmileGate Entertainment's free-to-play online tactical shooter CrossFire is extremely popular in Asia (though it is played in 80 countries) and has 1 billion registered players since its launch in 2007 (the number of concurrent players reaches 6 million). It is not surprising that they decided to film this project. Sony Pictures is collaborating with South Korea's Smilegate on the project. Chuck […]
Specialists from the consulting company Juniper Research conducted a study of the contactless payments market, based on which they made their own forecast regarding the development of this area in the future. According to them, by 2024, the volume of transactions made using the Apple Pay system will be $686 billion, or approximately 52% of the global contactless payment market. The report states that by 2024 […]
Soedesco and Zanardi and Liza have announced that the Steam Early Access tactical action game Dog Duty will be available on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch - along with the full PC version - this spring. Porting to consoles will be handled by Soedesco Studios. Currently, Dog Duty has entered the final […]
