After a long time, Acer has joined Dell, HP, Lenovo and other manufacturers who offer firmware updates for their systems through the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS). This service provides resources for software and hardware manufacturers to keep their products updated. Simply put, it allows you to update UEFI and other firmware files automatically without user intervention. […]
The German government is opposed to granting regulatory approval for the use of digital currency in the European Union, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday, citing a member of Germany's conservative CDU party, whose leader is Chancellor Angela Merkel. CDU lawmaker Thomas Heilmann said in an interview with Spiegel that once a digital currency issuer begins to dominate the […]
A mixture of horror and survival simulator in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Chernobylite will appear in Steam Early Access on October 16, announced developers from The Farm 51 studio. In October, players will be able to explore the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, as well as the terrifying abandoned kindergarten in Kopachi, the mysterious Eye of Moscow and some areas of Pripyat. An early version will feature part of the story campaign, lasting approximately […]
The Czech company Škoda, owned by the Volkswagen group, is demonstrating the latest cars with an electrified powertrain at the 2019 Frankfurt Motor Show. The cars are part of the Škoda iV family. These are the Superb iV with a hybrid powertrain and the CITIGOe iV with all-electric drive. It is reported that a hybrid version of the Superb sedan will be available early next year. This car will receive efficient […]
Initially, the first part of the sci-fi adventure Deliver Us The Moon, subtitled Fortuna, was released on PC in September 2018, and this year the developers were going to release the full game in versions for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. However, studio KeokeN Interactive and publisher Wired Productions have revised their plans once again, so the game is now […]
The next version of QMapShack has been released - a program for working with a variety of online mapping services (WMS), GPS tracks (GPX/KML) and raster and vector map files. The program is a further development of the QLandkarte GT project and is used for planning and analyzing travel and hiking routes. The prepared route can be exported to different formats and used on different devices and in different navigation […]
This week, September 10, after two years of development, the next version of the CAD layouts of integrated circuits (ICs) KLayout was released. This cross-platform CAD is written in C++ using the Qt toolkit and is distributed under the terms of the GPLv2 license. There is also a feature to view PCB layout files in Gerber format. Python and Ruby extensions are supported. Main changes of release 0.26 Added […]
A release of QMapShack 1.13.2, a program for tourists, is available, which can be used at the stage of planning trips for laying a route, as well as for saving information about the routes traveled, keeping a travel diary or preparing travel reports. QMapShack is a revised and conceptually different offshoot of the QLandkarte GT program (developed by the same author), ported to Qt5. The code is distributed under license […]
The release of the PulseAudio 13.0 sound server is presented, which acts as an intermediary between applications and various low-level sound subsystems, abstracting work with the hardware. PulseAudio allows you to control the volume and mixing of audio at the level of individual applications, organize the input, mixing and output of audio in the presence of several input and output channels or sound cards, allows you to change […]
An experimental release of the open source implementation of the Win32 API is available - Wine 4.16. Since the release of version 4.15, 16 bug reports have been closed and 203 changes have been made. The most important changes: Improved stability of mouse capture functions in games; Improved cross-compilation support in WineGCC; Improved compatibility with Windows debuggers; Moved kernel32 control code to kernelbase […]
Programmer's Day is traditionally celebrated on the 256th day of the year. The number 256 was chosen because it is the number of numbers that can be expressed in one byte (from 0 to 255). We all chose this profession in different ways. Some came to it by accident, others chose it on purpose, but now we are all working together on one common cause: we are creating the future. We create […]
Signing delays are common for any large company. An exception was the agreement between Tom Hunter and one network pet store for thorough pentesting. We had to check the site, and the internal network, and even a working Wi-Fi. It is not surprising that the hands were itching before all the formalities were settled. Well, just scan the site just in case, it is unlikely […]
