The release of SQLite 3.30.0, a lightweight DBMS designed as a plug-in library, has been published. The SQLite code is distributed as a public domain, i.e. may be used without restrictions and free of charge for any purpose. Financial support for SQLite developers is provided by a specially created consortium, which includes companies such as Adobe, Oracle, Mozilla, Bentley and Bloomberg. Main changes: Added the ability to use the expression […]
PayPal, which owns the payment system of the same name, announced its intention to leave the Libra Association, an organization that plans to launch a new cryptocurrency, Libra. Let us recall that it was previously reported that many members of the Libra Association, including Visa and Mastercard, decided to reconsider the possibility of their participation in the project to launch a digital currency created by Facebook. PayPal representatives announced that […]
It became known that Sberbank completed an internal investigation, which was carried out due to a data leak on the credit cards of clients of the financial institution. As a result, the bank's security service, interacting with representatives of law enforcement agencies, was able to identify an employee born in 1991 who was involved in this incident. The identity of the culprit is not disclosed; it is only known that he was the head of a sector in one of the business units […]
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. The media industry is a great example of making this mission a reality. We live in an era where more content is being created and consumed, in more ways and on more devices. At IBC 2019, we shared the latest innovations we are currently working on and […]
Hi all! In this article I would like to talk about how the IT team of the online hotel booking service Ostrovok.ru set up online broadcasts of various corporate events. In the Ostrovok.ru office there is a special meeting room - “Big”. Every day it hosts working and informal events: team meetings, presentations, trainings, master classes, interviews with invited guests and other interesting events. State […]
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); […]
Two years after the release of the third version, Caliber 4.0 was released. Caliber is free software for reading, creating and storing books of various formats in an electronic library. The program code is distributed under the GNU GPLv3 license. Caliber 4.0. includes several interesting features, including new content server capabilities, a new eBook viewer that focuses on text […]
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 […]
MaSzyna is a free railway transport simulator created in 2001 by Polish developer Martin Wojnik. The new version of MaSzyna contains more than 150 scenarios and about 20 scenes, including one realistic scene based on the real Polish railway line “Ozimek - Częstochowa” (total track length about 75 km in the southwestern part of Poland). Fictional scenes are presented as […]
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 [...]
The ALT community mailing lists have just received news of the public availability of the first builds for low-cost, affordable Raspberry Pi 4 single-board computers based on the Sisyphus free software repository. The regular prefix in the name of the build means that it will now be produced on a regular basis according to the current state of the repository. In fact, prototypes have already been presented to the public […]
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 […]
