This morning in Seoul, South Korea, Intel held the “Memory and Storage Day 2019” event dedicated to future plans in the memory and solid-state drive market. There, company representatives spoke about future Optane models, progress in the development of five-bit PLC NAND (Penta Level Cell) and other promising technologies that it plans to promote over the coming years. Also […]
The Document Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the development and support of open source software, announced the release of LibreOffice 6.3.2, a corrective release of the LibreOffice 6.3 “Fresh” family. The newest version (“Fresh”) is recommended for technology enthusiasts. It contains new features and improvements to the program, but may contain bugs that will be fixed in future releases. Version 6.3.2 includes 49 bug fixes, […]
This is how it usually happens: we write a list of what has been done for the month, and then the names of employees who are ready to answer any of your questions. But today there will be a crumpled issue - some of the colleagues are sick and have moved away, the list of visible changes this time is not very long. And I’m still trying to finish reading posts and comments to posts about karma, disadvantages, […]
From the beginning of today to the present, JSOC CERT experts have recorded a massive malicious distribution of the Troldesh encrypting virus. Its functionality is broader than just that of an encryptor: in addition to the encryption module, it has the ability to remotely control a workstation and download additional modules. In March of this year, we already informed about the Troldesh epidemic - then the virus masked its delivery […]
An experimental release of an open implementation of the Win32 API is available - Wine 4.17. Since the release of version 4.16, 14 bug reports have been closed and 274 changes have been made. The most important changes: Mono engine updated to version 4.9.3; Added support for compressed textures in DXTn format to d3dx9 (transferred from Wine Staging); An initial version of the Windows Script runtime library (msscript) has been proposed; IN […]
The theme of moving your mortal body from one country to another is explored, it would seem, from all sides. Some say it's time. Someone says that the first ones don’t understand anything and it’s not time at all. Someone writes how to buy buckwheat in America, and someone writes how to find a job in London if you only know swear words in Russian. However, what does […]
Oracle has shared plans for support for Java SE and Solaris. The previously published schedule indicated that the Java SE 8 branch will be supported until March 2025, and the Java SE 11 branch until September 2026. At the same time, Oracle notes that these deadlines are not final and support will be extended at least until 2030, since […]
The new browser with the self-explanatory name Next is focused on keyboard control, so it does not have a familiar interface as such. The keyboard shortcuts are similar to those used in Emacs and vi. The browser can be customized and supplemented with extensions in the Lisp language. There is the possibility of a “fuzzy” search - when you do not need to enter consecutive letters of a specific word/words, [...]
More than 6 years after the last update, fetchmail 6.4.0, a program for delivering and redirecting email, was released, allowing you to retrieve mail using the POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP, KPOP, IMAP, ETRN and ODMR protocols and extensions, and filter received correspondence , distribute messages from one account to multiple users and redirect to local mailboxes […]
On September 24, 2019, an entry about the release of the KnotDNS 2.8.4 DNS server appeared on the developer’s website. The project developer is the Czech domain name registrar CZ.NIC. KnotDNS is a high-performance DNS server that supports all DNS features. Written in C and distributed under the GPLv3 license. To ensure high performance query processing, a multi-threaded and, for the most part, non-blocking implementation is used, highly scalable [...]
Another Indie and Semisoft have announced that the Japanese-style role-playing game Legrand Legacy: Tale of Fatebounds will be released on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on October 3. Legrand Legacy: Tale of Fatebounds was released on PC on January 24, 2018, and a year later came to Nintendo Switch. The game has mostly positive user reviews: [...]
The final version of the cryproarmpkcs utility has been released. The fundamental difference from previous versions is the addition of functions related to the creation of self-signed certificates. Certificates can be created either by generating a key pair or using previously created certificate requests (PKCS#10). The created certificate, along with the generated key pair, is placed in a secure PKCS#12 container. The PKCS#12 container can be used when working with openssl […]
