According to reports from online sources, the website eBay.com uses a special script to scan the ports of visitors' PCs to detect remote access programs. Many of the scanned network ports are utilized by popular remote management tools such as Windows Remote Desktop, VNC, TeamViewer, and others. Enthusiasts from Bleeping Computer conducted a study that confirmed eBay.com is indeed scanning 14 different […]
The studio Frogwares has announced Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One — a prequel to the series, which they hinted at earlier in their microblog. The game will be released in 2021 for PC (Steam, EGS, GOG), PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X, with the exact date currently unknown. Frogwares will self-publish the game. The cinematic trailer accompanying the announcement initially shows a young Sherlock […]
A new hardware support database for BSD systems has been opened, prepared by the creators of the Linux-Hardware.org database. Among the most sought-after features of the database are driver searches for devices, functionality tests, anonymization of collected system logs, and statistical reports. The use cases for the database are diverse — you can simply generate a list of all devices, send logs to developers for bug fixes, or save a 'snapshot' of the current state of the computer for future reference, […]
In the announcement of the preliminary version of the Linux kernel 5.7-rc7, after a general overview of the fixes, Linus Torvalds mentioned that the most significant improvement for him over the week was the update of his main workstation. For the first time in the last 15 years, his system is equipped with a processor not from Intel. The new configuration features an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970x CPU with 32 cores (64 threads) […]
About two weeks ago, I contacted Yandex's technical support regarding video filtering in child mode. Honestly, I have wanted to reach out about inappropriate content for children for some time, but like it usually happens — it was postponed. Besides, it’s Yandex! They know better what you meant to find. It turned out that […]
It has been a year since we've been hearing about the advantages of the revolutionary technological standard Wi-Fi 6. The Russian regulatory framework for this standard is going through the approval stages and will come into force in a few months, creating conditions for the certification of communication devices. I will focus on what the leading vendor in the corporate wireless networks sector offers, the company […]
On May 22, 2020, an article by scientists from research and academic institutions in Australia, China, and Canada titled "Ultra-dense optical data transmission over standard fibre with a single chip source" was published in Nature Communications. Naturally, such a title wasn't suitable for a wider audience, so news coverage focused on the record of 44.2 Tb/s achieved (some […
The head of ION LANDS, Marko Dieckmann, published the first-ever footage of the first-person mode in the cyberpunk adventure Cloudpunk on the studio's official microblog. Currently, the ability to switch cameras in Cloudpunk is in the testing phase. To try the feature yourself, switch to the beta version of the game through its properties in the Steam library. The transition from third-person […]
According to reports from online sources, the Google Messages app, which serves as the default messaging tool on Android smartphones, might soon introduce support for end-to-end encryption. Mentions of this feature were discovered in the code of one of the app's beta versions. Enthusiasts examined the code of internal build Google Messages version 6.2 and found references to several new features, most notably […]
Developers of the Chromium project analyzed 912 dangerous and critical vulnerabilities detected in stable releases of Chrome since 2015, concluding that 70% of them were caused by unsafe memory handling (pointer errors in C/C++ code). Half of these issues (36.1%) were due to buffer access after the associated memory had been released […]
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SQLite 3.32.0 has been released, a lightweight DBMS presented as a plug-in library. The SQLite code is released into the public domain, meaning it can be used without restrictions and free of charge for any purpose. Financial support for the SQLite developers is provided by a specially formed consortium that includes companies like Adobe, Oracle, Mozilla, Bentley, and Bloomberg. Key changes: An approximate version of the command has been implemented […]