Life seems to be easy for IT engineers. They earn good money and move freely between employers and countries. But this is all for a reason. The “typical IT guy” has been staring at the computer since school, and then at the university, master’s degree, graduate school... Then work, work, work, years of production, and only then the move. And then work again. Of course, from the outside it may seem [...]
The Linux version of the free BlueMail email client was recently released. You might think that another mail client for Linux is not needed. And you are absolutely right! After all, there are no source codes here, which means that your letters can be read by many people - from client developers to fellow majors. So what is BlueMail famous for? Nobody knows for sure. What it is written on is also [...]
A week ago, a 48-hour hackathon was held in Kazan - the final of the all-Russian Digital Breakthrough competition. I would like to share my impressions of this event and find out your opinion on whether it is worth holding such events in the future. What are we talking about? I think many of you have now heard the phrase “Digital Breakthrough” for the first time. I also had not heard about this competition until now. So I’ll start with [...]
The protocol previously received $5 million from Status.im in 2017, which allowed the developers to stabilize the specification, client and server reference implementations, hire UI/UX professionals to work on a global redesign, and significantly improve end-to-end encryption. After this, cooperation was established with French government agencies, which needed a secure means for internal communications. On that […]
Presented is the release of the open-source build tool Bazel 1.0, developed by engineers from Google and used to build most of the company's internal projects. Release 1.0 marked the transition to semantic release versioning and was also notable for introducing a large number of changes that broke backwards compatibility. The project code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Bazel builds the project by running the necessary compilers and tests. […]
The developers of the anonymous Tor network have warned of a major purge of nodes that use outdated software that has been discontinued. On October 8, about 800 outdated nodes operating in relay mode were blocked (in total there are more than 6000 such nodes in the Tor network). The blocking was accomplished by placing blacklist directories of problem nodes on the servers. Excluding bridge nodes that have not been updated from the network […]
The release of KnotDNS 2.9.0 has been published, a high-performance authoritative DNS server (the recursor is designed as a separate application) that supports all modern DNS capabilities. The project is developed by the Czech name registry CZ.NIC, written in C and distributed under the GPLv3 license. KnotDNS is distinguished by its focus on high performance query processing, for which it uses a multi-threaded and mostly non-blocking implementation that scales well […]
Mozilla developers have reported the successful completion of work to remove XML Binding Language (XML) components from Firefox code. The work, which has been ongoing since 2017, removed approximately 300 different XBL bindings from the code and rewrote approximately 40 lines of code. These components were replaced with analogues based on Web Components, written […]
Cisco has published the release of Snort 2.9.15.0, a free attack detection and prevention system that combines signature matching techniques, protocol inspection tools, and anomaly detection mechanisms. The new release adds the ability to detect RAR archives and files in egg and alg formats in transit traffic. New debugging calls have been implemented to display information about the definition […]
Adam Jackson, who was responsible for preparing several past releases of X.Org Server, proposed in his report at the XDC2019 conference to switch to a new release numbering scheme. In order to more clearly see how long ago a particular release was published, by analogy with Mesa, it was proposed to reflect the year in the first number of the version. The second number will indicate the serial number of the significant […]
As you know, at the recent Surface event, Microsoft introduced a version of Windows 10 for a completely new category of computing devices. We are talking about dual-screen foldable devices that combine the features of laptops and tablets. At the same time, according to experts, the Windows 10X operating system (Windows Core OS) is intended not only for this category. The fact is that Windows […]
When you want to submit your research paper to a journal. You must select a target journal for your field of study and the journal must be indexed in any of the major indexing databases such as ISI, Scopus, SCI, SCI-E or ESCI. But identifying a target journal with a good citation record is not so easy. In this article, the publishing house […]
