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Release of the programming language Haxe 4.2

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A release of the Haxe 4.2 toolkit is available, which includes the multi-paradigm high-level programming language of the same name with strong typing, a cross-compiler and a standard library of functions. The project supports translation to C++, HashLink/C, JavaScript, C#, Java, PHP, Python and Lua, as well as compilation to JVM, HashLink/JIT, Flash and Neko bytecode, with access to the native capabilities of each target platform. The compiler code is distributed under the license [...]

Port scan resulted in subnet blocking by ISP due to being on UCEPROTECT list

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Vincent Canfield, administrator of email and hosting reseller cock.li, discovered that his entire IP network was automatically added to the UCEPROTECT DNSBL list for port scanning from neighboring virtual machines. Vincent’s subnet was included in the Level 3 list, in which blocking is carried out based on autonomous system numbers and covers entire subnets from which […]

Wine 6.2 release, Wine staging 6.2 and Proton 5.13-6

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An experimental release of an open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 6.2 - took place. Since the release of version 6.1, 51 bug reports have been closed and 329 changes have been made. The most important changes: The Mono engine has been updated to version 6.0 with DirectX support. Added support for the NTDLL debugger API. The WIDL (Wine Interface Definition Language) compiler has expanded support for WinRT IDL (Interface Definition Language). […]

Release of the distribution kit OpenMandriva Lx 4.2

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After a year of development, the release of the OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 distribution was presented. The project is being developed by the community after Mandriva SA handed over the management of the project to the non-profit organization OpenMandriva Association. Available for download is a 2.4 GB Live build (x86_64), a “znver1” build optimized for AMD Ryzen, ThreadRipper and EPYC processors, as well as images for use on Pinebook Pro ARM devices, […]

Yandex identified an employee who provided access to other people's mailboxes

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Yandex announced the identification of a dishonest employee who provided unauthorized access to mailboxes in the Yandex.Mail service. One of the three main administrators of the service’s technical support service, who had full access to the infrastructure, was caught in fraud with mailboxes. As a result of the incident, 4887 Yandex.Mail user mailboxes were compromised. Currently, Yandex is holding […]

The possibility of executing user code in the context of the kernel was detected and fixed in the futex system call

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In the implementation of the futex (fast userspace mutex) system call, stack memory usage after free was detected and eliminated. This, in turn, allowed the attacker to execute his code in the context of the kernel, with all the ensuing consequences from a security point of view. The vulnerability was in the error handler code. A fix for this vulnerability appeared on the Linux mainline on January 28 and […]

Loss of 97% of the audience: fewer people play Cyberpunk 2077 on Steam than The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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At its launch on December 12, Cyberpunk 2077 saw incredible online play on Steam. Then the number of simultaneously playing users exceeded one million, and this is a record figure among single projects on the Valve site. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt at the start of sales did not achieve such results. But two months have passed since the release of the cyberpunk action role-playing game, and the state of affairs […]

333M SSDs shipped last year

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The past 2020 was a turning point for the industry in the sense that for the first time in history, the number of shipped solid-state drives (SSDs) exceeded the number of classic hard drives (HDDs). In physical terms, the former increased over the year by 20,8%, in capacity terms - by 50,4%. A total of 333 million SSDs were shipped, their gross capacity reaching 207,39 exabytes. The relevant statistics were […]

Apple promises free Apple Watch repair if it stops charging

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Apple has allowed all Apple Watch owners to repair their watch free of charge if it freezes in Power Reserve mode. Gizmochina writes about it. The company is looking to fix a problem that appeared after the release of a new version of watchOS. Cult of MacSource: 3dnews.ru

Russian 4G/LTE base station compatible with 5G networks created

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The Rostec State Corporation spoke about the development of a new base station for fourth generation cellular networks 4G/LTE and LTE Advanced: the solution provides high data transfer rates. The station complies with the 3GPP Release 14 specification. This standard provides throughput up to 3 Gbit/s. In addition, compatibility with fifth generation mobile networks is ensured: it is possible to implement 5G protocols on the same hardware […]

SpaceX plans to roll out low-income access and telephony through Starlink

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A new SpaceX document outlines Starlink's plans to provide phone service, voice calls even when there is no power, and cheaper plans for low-income people through the government's Lifeline program. Details are contained in Starlink's petition to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for Eligible Carrier (ETC) status in […]

In Russia, created an unusual supersensitive detector of terahertz radiation

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Physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with colleagues from Moscow State Pedagogical University and the University of Manchester have created a highly sensitive terahertz radiation detector based on the tunneling effect in graphene. In fact, a field-effect tunnel transistor was turned into a detector, which could be opened by signals “from the air”, and not transmitted through conventional circuits. Quantum tunneling. Image source: Daria Sokol, MIPT press service The discovery made, […]

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