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EFF believes that replacing Tracking Cookies with FLoCs could lead to new problems

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The human rights organization EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) criticized the FLoC API promoted by Google as part of the Privacy Sandbox initiative. Let us remind you that in Chrome 89 the experimental implementation of a series of APIs has begun that can replace third-party Cookies used to track movements. In the future, Google plans to completely phase out the use of Cookies for tracking and end support for third-party […]

Proton close to full support for 7000 Windows games

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The Proton project, in which Valve is developing an add-on for Wine to run gaming applications created for Windows and presented on Steam on Linux, has almost reached the mark of 7 thousand confirmed games with platinum support. For comparison, a year ago, a similar level of support covered about 5 thousand games. The Platinum level means that the game is fully […]

Release of the program for working with maps and satellite images SAS. Planet 201212

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A stable release of SAS.Planet has been published - a program for working with maps and satellite images that supports viewing, downloading, gluing and exporting to various formats. It supports working with materials provided by such services as Google Earth, Google Maps, Bing Maps, DigitalGlobe, Kosmosnimki, Yandex.maps, Yahoo! Maps, VirtualEarth, Gurtam, OpenStreetMap, eAtlas, iPhone maps, General Staff maps, etc. All downloaded maps remain in […]

Qubes 4.0.4 OS update using virtualization for application isolation

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An update to the Qubes 4.0.4 operating system has been created, which implements the idea of ​​using a hypervisor for strict isolation of applications and OS components (each class of applications and system services runs in separate virtual machines). A 4.9 GB installation image has been prepared for download. To work, you need a system with 4 GB of RAM and a 64-bit Intel or AMD CPU with support for VT-x technologies […]

ONLYOFFICE Docs 6.2 Online Editors Release

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A new release of ONLYOFFICE DocumentServer 6.2 is available with a server implementation for ONLYOFFICE online editors and collaboration. Editors can be used to work with text documents, tables and presentations. The project code is distributed under the free AGPLv3 license. An update to the ONLYOFFICE DesktopEditors product, built on a single code base with online editors, is expected in the near future. Desktop editors are designed as applications for [...]

Release of Electron 12.0.0, a platform for building applications based on the Chromium engine

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The release of the Electron 12.0.0 platform has been prepared, which provides a self-sufficient framework for developing multi-platform user applications, using Chromium, V8 and Node.js components as a basis. The significant change in version number is due to an update to the Chromium 89 codebase, the Node.js 14.16 platform and the V8 8.9 JavaScript engine. In the new release: The transition to the new LTS branch of the Node.js 14 platform has been carried out (previously […]

Red Hat doubled the minimum subscription price for RHEL for virtual machines

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Enterprises using the Self-support tariff plan have noticed a significant increase in subscription costs when using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server on virtual machines. Red Hat has retired the old Self-support subscription option RH0197181 in favor of the new RH00005. According to Red Hat representatives, the sale of new subscriptions under the RH0197181 tariff was stopped back in 2015, […]

Google introduced Flutter 2 framework and Dart 2.12 language

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Google introduced the Flutter 2 user interface framework, which marked the transformation of the project from a framework for developing mobile applications into a universal framework for creating any type of program, including desktop programs and web applications. Flutter is considered as an alternative to React Native and allows you to produce applications for different platforms based on one code base, including iOS, Android, […]

Bug in Linux kernel 5.12-rc1 leading to data loss in FS

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Linus Torvalds warned users about identifying a critical problem in the experimental release of kernel 5.12-rc1, advised not to install this version for testing and renamed the Git tag “v5.12-rc1” to “v5.12-rc1-dontuse”. The problem occurs when using a swap file and can lead to data corruption in the file system in which the file is located. In particular, the changes proposed in 5.12-rc1 disrupted the normal operation […]

Chrome shortens release cycle and introduces Extended Stable edition

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The developers of the Chrome browser announced that they are shortening the development cycle for new releases from six to four weeks, which will speed up the delivery of new features to users. It is noted that optimizing the release preparation process and improving the testing system allows releases to be generated more frequently without compromising quality. The change will take effect starting with the release of Chrome 94, which will be released in the third […]

Release of Free Heroes of Might and Magic II 0.9.1

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The fheroes2 0.9.1 project is now available, attempting to recreate Heroes of Might and Magic II. The project code is written in C++ and distributed under the GPLv2 license. To run the game, files with game resources are required, which can be obtained, for example, from the demo version of Heroes of Might and Magic II. Major changes: Added a "quick battle" option so players can instantly win […]

The Brave project bought out the Cliqz search engine and will begin developing its search engine

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The Brave company, which develops a web browser of the same name focused on protecting user privacy, announced the purchase of technologies from the search engine Cliqz, which closed last year. It is planned to use Cliqz's developments to create its own search engine, tightly integrated with the browser and not tracking visitors. The search engine is committed to preserving privacy and will be developed with the participation of the community. The community will not only be able to [...]

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