The Google Assistant virtual assistant for the Android platform is becoming more useful for people with visual impairments as well as those learning foreign languages. Developers have added the capability for the assistant to read aloud the contents of web pages. Google states that this new function combines many of the company's advancements in speech technology. As a result, this feature works more naturally […]
In the nightly builds of Firefox, which will form the basis of the Firefox 75 release, the ability to install and open websites as applications is added, allowing users to work with the site like a regular desktop program. To enable this, you need to add the setting "browser.ssb.enabled=true" in about:config, after which the menu item "Install […]" will appear in the context menu for page actions (the three dots in the address bar).
Microsoft has released PowerShell 7.0, the source code of which was opened in 2016 under the MIT license. The new shell version is prepared not only for Windows but also for Linux and macOS. PowerShell is optimized for automating command line operations and provides built-in tools for processing structured data in formats such as JSON, […]
A new version of the tool for sending and receiving data over the network — curl 7.69.0 — is now available, providing flexible request formatting with parameters such as cookie, user_agent, referer, and any other headers. cURL supports HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/2.0, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, Telnet, FTP, LDAP, RTSP, RTMP, and other network protocols. An update for the concurrently developed library libcurl has also been released.
LetsEncrypt, which offers free SSL certificates for encryption, is forced to revoke some certificates. The issue is related to a software bug in the management software Boulder, used for building the CA. Typically, the DNS CAA record check is carried out simultaneously with the domain ownership confirmation, and most subscribers receive the certificate immediately after verification, but the software developers have made it so that the verification result...
Hello. My name is Vanya, and I am a Java developer. It just so happens that I work a lot with PostgreSQL – I configure databases, optimize their structure, enhance performance, and I even play DBA on weekends. Recently, I've cleaned up several databases in our microservices and developed the java library pg-index-health, which simplifies this process, saves me time, and helps […]
Researchers from Soluble have discovered a new way to register domains with homoglyphs, visually similar to other domains but differing due to the presence of characters with different meanings. Such internationalized domain names (IDNs) can initially appear indistinguishable from domains of well-known companies and services, allowing their use for phishing, including obtaining valid TLS certificates for them. […]
The release of Samba 4.12.0 has been announced, continuing the development of the Samba 4 branch with a fully implemented domain controller and Active Directory service, compatible with the Windows 2000 implementation and capable of serving all supported Microsoft versions of Windows clients, including Windows 10. Samba 4 is a multifunctional server product that also provides file server, printing service, and identity server (winbind) capabilities. Key changes […]
Alongside email encryption and the use of digital signatures, one of the most effective and low-cost ways to protect email from hacking is a proper password security policy. Passwords written on paper, stored in shared files, or simply not complex enough always represent a significant vulnerability in an organization's information security and can lead to serious incidents with tangible consequences for […]
After I finished the New Year's Olivier salad, I found myself with nothing to do, so I decided to download all the articles from Habr (and related platforms) to explore. There ended up being several interesting storylines. The first of these is the evolution of the format and themes of articles over the 12 years of the website's existence. For example, the dynamics of certain topics are quite indicative. Continuation — below the cut. The process […]
The release of the main branch of nginx 1.17.9 has been formed, continuing the development of new features (the parallel stable branch 1.16 only includes changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities). Key changes: Specifying multiple 'Host' header lines in a request is prohibited; Fixed a bug where nginx ignored additional 'Transfer-Encoding' header lines in a request; Fixes to prevent leaks […]
The release of DragonFlyBSD 5.8 is available, an operating system with a hybrid kernel created in 2003 for the alternative development of the FreeBSD 4.x branch. Notable features of DragonFly BSD include the distributed versioned file system HAMMER, support for booting 'virtual' kernels as user processes, the ability to cache data and metadata of the FS on SSD drives, taking into account context-sensitive symbolic links, the ability to freeze processes […]