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Firefox nightly builds offer redesigned address bar

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In the nightly builds of Firefox, on the basis of which the Firefox 2 release will be formed on December 71, a new design for the address bar is activated. The most noticeable change is the move away from displaying the list of recommendations across the entire width of the screen in favor of transforming the address bar into a clearly defined window. To disable the new appearance of the address bar, the option “browser.urlbar.megabar” has been added to about:config. Megabar continues […]

Call of Duty: Mobile has been downloaded 35 million times – the game has already brought in impressive income

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Call of Duty: Mobile started very well. According to the Sensor Tower agency, the number of downloads of the game exceeded 2 million as of October 20. And currently, according to internal data from Activision Blizzard, the shooter has been downloaded more than 35 million times. Call of Duty: Mobile has racked up more than $2 million spent on 20 million installs so far, […]

Video: impressive costumes of superheroes in the announcement of the VR action movie Avengers: Damage Control

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Marvel Studios has enlisted the help of developers from ILMxLAB and announced the game Avengers: Damage Control. This is a VR action game in which users will have to fight side by side with a variety of superheroes from the known universe. Actress Letitia Wright took part in the announcement of the project as Shuri, the princess of Wakanda from Marvel films. This character has an important role in Avengers: […]

Russians are increasingly becoming victims of stalker software

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A study conducted by Kaspersky Lab suggests that stalker software is rapidly gaining popularity among online attackers. Moreover, in Russia the growth rate of attacks of this type exceeds global indicators. So-called stalker software is special surveillance software that claims to be legal and can be purchased online. Such malware can operate completely unnoticed [...]

Ubisoft removes microtransactions from Ghost Recon: Breakpoint to speed up account leveling

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Ubisoft has removed sets of microtransactions with cosmetics, skill unlocks and experience multipliers from the shooter Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. As a company employee reported on the forum, the developers accidentally added these kits ahead of time. A Ubisoft representative emphasized that the company wants to maintain in-game balance so that users do not complain about the impact of microtransactions on gameplay. “On October 1st, some […]

mastodon v3.0.0

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Mastodon is called a “decentralized Twitter,” in which microblogs are scattered across many independent servers interconnected into one network. There are a lot of updates in this version. Here are the most important ones: OStatus is no longer supported, the alternative is ActivityPub. Removed some obsolete REST APIs: GET /api/v1/search API, replaced by GET /api/v2/search. GET /api/v1/statuses/:id/card, the card attribute is now used. POST /api/v1/notifications/dismiss?id=:id, instead of […]

Budgie 10.5.1 release

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Budgie desktop 10.5.1 has been released. In addition to bug fixes, work was done to improve the UX and adaptation to GNOME 3.34 components was carried out. Main changes in the new version: added settings for font smoothing and hinting; compatibility with components of the GNOME 3.34 stack is ensured; displaying tooltips in the panel with information about the open window; in the settings the option has been added [...]

PostgreSQL 12 release

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The PostgreSQL team has announced the release of PostgreSQL 12, the latest version of the open source relational database management system. PostgreSQL 12 has significantly improved query performance - especially when working with large volumes of data, and has also optimized the use of disk space in general. Among the new features: implementation of the JSON Path query language (the most important part of the SQL/JSON standard); […]

Chrome will start blocking HTTP resources on HTTPS pages and checking the strength of passwords

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Google has warned of a change in its approach to handling mixed content on pages opened over HTTPS. Previously, if there were components on pages opened via HTTPS that were loaded from without encryption (via the http:// protocol), a special indicator was displayed. In the future, it has been decided to block the loading of such resources by default. Thus, pages opened via “https://” will be guaranteed to contain only resources loaded […]

Budgie Desktop Release 10.5.1

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The developers of the Linux distribution Solus presented the release of the Budgie 10.5.1 desktop, in which, in addition to bug fixes, work was done to improve the user experience and adaptation to the components of the new version of GNOME 3.34. The Budgie desktop is based on GNOME technologies, but uses its own implementations of the GNOME Shell, panel, applets, and notification system. The project code is distributed under the license [...]

How we conquered Sign In with Apple at Parallels

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I think many people already heard Sign In with Apple (SIWA for short) after WWDC 2019. In this article I will tell you what specific pitfalls I had to face when integrating this thing into our licensing portal. This article is not really for those who have just decided to understand SIWA (for them I have provided a number of introductory links at the end […]

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