An experimental release of an open implementation of the Win32 API, Wine 4.6, is available. Since the release of version 4.5, 50 bug reports have been closed and 384 changes have been made. The most important changes: Added an initial implementation of the backend to WineD3D based on the Vulkan graphics API; Added the ability to load Mono libraries from shared directories; Libwine.dll is no longer required when using Wine DLL […]
The GNU Project has published the release of the GNU Emacs 26.2 text editor. Until the release of GNU Emacs 24.5, the project developed under the personal leadership of Richard Stallman, who handed over the post of project leader to John Wiegley in the fall of 2015. The most notable improvements include compatibility with the Unicode 11 specification, the ability to build Emacs modules outside the Emacs source tree, […]
A few days ago, one of the Dutch publications published a scandalous article in which they reported the alleged theft of one of ASML's technologies in order to transfer them to the authorities in China. ASML designs and manufactures equipment for the production and testing of semiconductors, which, by definition, is of interest to China and beyond. As ASML builds its manufacturing relationships with Chinese […]
Good day everyone! This time I decided to describe a situation that seems to be not particularly described on the Internet, although there are some hints of it, but most of it was just a long methodical digging of the code and the wiki of Mikrotik itself. Actually the task: to implement with the help of SMS the control of several devices, using the example of turning ports on and off. Available: Secondary router […]
The Yandex company has opened registration for the programming championship, in which specialists from Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan can take part. The competition will take place in four areas: front-end and back-end development, data analytics and machine learning. The competition takes place in two stages, several hours each, and in each stage you need to write programs to solve a certain number of problems. It is important to note, […]
This year, Samsung has launched an offensive in the budget segment, taking on its competitors with the new Galaxy M series of devices, specially designed for those who want good value for money. So far, the company has presented three promising models in the form of the Galaxy M10, M20 and M30. But the Korean electronics manufacturer is not done yet: […]
On Saturday morning, the largest aircraft in the world, Stratolaunch, made its first flight. The machine, weighing almost 227 tons and with a wingspan of 117 meters, took off at approximately 17:00 Moscow time from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, USA. The first flight lasted almost two and a half hours and ended with a successful landing around 19:30 […]
[:ru] After six months of development, Cisco has published the release of Snort 2.9.13.0, a free attack detection and prevention system that combines signature matching methods, protocol inspection tools, and anomaly detection mechanisms. Main innovations: Added support for reloading rules after updating them; Implemented a script for adding a package to the blacklist with a guarantee that a new session will […]
[:en] A new significant release of the GNU project's implementation of the AWK programming language, Gawk 5.0.0, has been introduced. AWK was developed in the 70s of the last century and has not undergone significant changes since the mid-80s, in which the main backbone of the language was defined, which allowed the original stability and simplicity of the language to be preserved over the past decades. Despite his advanced age, […]
[:ru] The NixOS 19.03 distribution has been released, based on the Nix package manager and providing a number of its own developments that simplify system setup and maintenance. For example, NixOS uses a single system configuration file (configuration.nix), provides the ability to quickly roll back updates, supports switching between different system states, supports installation of individual packages by individual users (the package is placed in the home directory), simultaneous […]
Headup Games and Devespresso Games have announced that the release of the PC version of the role-playing adventure Vambrace: Cold Soul, previously announced for April 25, has been postponed to May 28. The game is still scheduled for release on consoles in the third quarter of 2019. At the Game Developers Conference and PAX East 2019, the development team collected a lot of feedback after […]
Facebook may be bringing Messenger chats back to its main app. This feature is currently being tested and will only be available to everyone in the future. It is currently unclear when the merger will take place. Blogger-analyst Jane Manchun Wong said on Twitter that Facebook plans to return chats from the special Messenger messaging application to the main one. She published […]
