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Hardware-accelerated video has appeared in the layer for running Linux applications in Windows

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Microsoft announced the implementation of support for hardware-accelerated video encoding and decoding in WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), a layer for running Linux applications on Windows. The implementation makes it possible to use hardware acceleration of video processing, encoding and decoding in any applications that support VAAPI. Acceleration is supported for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA graphics cards. GPU-accelerated video running with WSL […]

Paywall bypass plugin removed from Mozilla catalog

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Mozilla removed the Bypass Paywalls Clean add-on from its addons.mozilla.org (AMO) catalog, which had 145 users, without prior notice or disclosure of reasons. According to the author of the add-on, the reason for the removal was a complaint that the add-on violated the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). In the future, the add-on will not be able to be restored in the Mozilla catalog, so […]

KiCad 7.0 release

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After a year of development, the release of the free PCB design computer-aided design system KiCad 7.0.0 has been published. This is the first major release since the project was taken over by the Linux Foundation. Builds are prepared for various distributions of Linux, Windows and macOS. The code is written in C++ using the wxWidgets library and distributed under the GPLv3 license. KiCad provides tools for editing electrical circuits […]

Google intends to add telemetry to the toolkit for the Go language

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Google plans to add telemetry collection to the Go language toolkit and enable sending the collected data by default. The telemetry will cover command-line utilities developed by the Go language development team, such as the "go" utility, the compiler, the gopls and govulncheck applications. The collection of information will be limited only to the accumulation of information about the features of the utilities, i.e. telemetry will not be added to user […]

NetworkManager 1.42.0 release

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A stable release of the interface is available to simplify network settings - NetworkManager 1.42.0. Plugins for VPN support (Libreswan, OpenConnect, Openswan, SSTP, etc.) are developed within their own development cycles. Main new features of NetworkManager 1.42: The nmcli command-line interface provides support for configuring an authentication method based on the IEEE 802.1X standard, which is widely used to secure corporate wireless networks and […]

Android 14 preview

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Google has introduced the first test version of the open mobile platform Android 14. Android 14 is expected to be released in the third quarter of 2023. To evaluate the new features of the platform, a preliminary testing program has been proposed. Firmware builds are prepared for Pixel 7/7 Pro, Pixel 6/6a/6 Pro, Pixel 5/5a 5G, and Pixel 4a (5G) devices. Android 14 Key New Features: Continued work to improve […]

Dismissal of a part of employees of GitHub and GitLab

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GitHub intends to cut about 10% of the company's staff in the next five months. Additionally, GitHub will not renew office leases and will only switch to remote work of employees. The cuts were also announced by GitLab, which will lay off 7% of its employees. The reason given is the need to cut costs amid the global economic downturn and the transition of many companies to […]

Phishing attack on Reddit employees led to the leak of the source code of the platform

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Discussion platform Reddit disclosed information about the incident, as a result of which unknown persons gained access to the internal systems of the service. The systems were compromised as a result of compromised credentials of one of the employees who became a victim of phishing (the employee entered his credentials and confirmed the two-factor authentication login on a fake site that mimics the interface of the company's internal gateway). Using a captured account […]

Work on GTK5 will begin at the end of the year. Intention to develop GTK in languages ​​other than C

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The developers of the GTK library plan to form an experimental 4.90 branch at the end of the year, which will develop functionality for a future release of GTK5. Prior to work on GTK5, in addition to the spring release of GTK 4.10, it is planned to publish a release of GTK 4.12 in the autumn, which will include developments related to color management. The GTK5 branch will include changes that break compatibility at the API level, […]

Release of Electron 23.0.0, a platform for building applications based on the Chromium engine

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The release of the Electron 23.0.0 platform has been prepared, which provides a self-sufficient framework for developing multi-platform user applications based on Chromium, V8 and Node.js components. The significant version number change is due to the update to the Chromium 110 codebase, the Node.js 18.12.1 framework, and the V8 11 JavaScript engine. Among the changes in the new release: Added support for the WebUSB API, allowing […]

The Thunderbird mail client is scheduled for a complete redesign of the interface

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The developers of the Thunderbird email client have published a development plan for the next three years. At the specified time, the project intends to achieve three main goals: Redesigning the user interface from scratch in order to create suitable for different categories of users (beginners and old-timers), easily customizable to their own preferences and a coherent design system. Improving the reliability and compactness of the codebase, rewriting deprecated code and […]

Heroes of Might and Magic 2 open engine release - fheroes2 - 1.0.1

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The fheroes2 1.0.1 project release is available, which recreates the Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine from scratch. The project code is written in C++ and distributed under the GPLv2 license. To run the game, game resource files are required, which can be obtained, for example, from the demo version of Heroes of Might and Magic II or from the original game. Main changes: Redesigned significant […]

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