Peter Robinson of the Red Hat Release Engineering Team has published a proposal to accept the Internet of Things distribution as an official edition of Fedora 33. Thus, starting with Fedora 33, Fedora IoT will be shipped along with Fedora Workstation and Fedora Server. The proposal has not yet been officially approved, but its publication was previously agreed upon […]
Major Linux distributions have compiled a corrective update to the GRUB2 bootloader package to address issues that arose after the BootHole vulnerability was fixed. After installing the first update, some users experienced the inability to boot their systems. Booting issues have occurred on some systems with BIOS or UEFI in Legacy mode, and have been caused by retrogressive changes, causing […]
A study from BSD-Hardware.info suggests that FreeBSD's hardware support is not as bad as people say. The assessment took into account that not all equipment on the market is equally popular. There are widely used devices that require support, and there are rare devices whose owners can be counted on one hand. Accordingly, the weight of each individual device was taken into account in the assessment [...]
The next release of Qt Visual Graph Editor 0.6, a multi-platform visual graph editor, has taken place. The main area of application of QVGE is the “manual” creation and editing of small graphs as illustrative materials (for example, for articles), creation of diagrams and quick workflow prototypes, input-output from open formats (GraphML, GEXF, DOT), saving images in PNG /SVG/PDF, etc. QVGE is also used for scientific purposes […]
This series of articles is devoted to the study of the construction activity of the main city of Silicon Valley - San Francisco. San Francisco is the technological “Moscow” of our world, on the example of which (with the help of open data) one can observe the development of the construction industry in large cities and capitals. Plotting and calculations were carried out in Jupyter Notebook (on the Kaggle.com platform). Data on more than a million permits for […]
One common type of attack is spawning a malicious process in a tree under perfectly legitimate processes. Suspicion can be caused by the path to the executable file: malware often uses the AppData or Temp folders, which is not typical for legitimate programs. To be fair, some auto-update utilities run in AppData, so just checking […]
Long before the era of Zoom arrived during the coronavirus pandemic, kids stuck within the four walls of their homes had to keep learning. And they succeeded thanks to telephone teaching “teach-a-phone”. As the pandemic rages on, all schools in the US are closed, and students are struggling to continue their education at home. In Long Beach, California, a group of high school students are the first […]
Smartphones from the Huawei Mate 40 family will be presented in the fall, but there are already plenty of rumors about upcoming new products on the Internet. However, until now there has been no information about what the new Chinese flagships will look like. Twitter blogger @OnLeaks filled this gap. In collaboration with HandsetExpert.com, he presented renders of the Mate 40. The first thing that catches your eye […]
Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra showed the world how big the main camera unit can be. After this, Huawei P40 Pro entered the market, which proved that manufacturers were no longer afraid to increase the size of this module. Apparently, Xiaomi will soon release Mi 10 Pro Plus with a truly huge main camera unit. Pictures of the protective case were leaked online, [...]
Bandai Namco Entertainment and Slightly Mad Studios have published a new trailer for the racing simulator Project CARS, which they called “What Drives You.” In addition, pre-orders of the standard and deluxe editions have become available on all platforms. The latter includes three days of early access to the simulator and a season pass consisting of four add-ons. In addition to this, up to [...]
The Pale Moon 28.12 web browser was released, branching from the Firefox code base to provide higher performance, preserve the classic interface, minimize memory consumption and provide additional customization options. Pale Moon builds are created for Windows and Linux (x86 and x86_64). The project code is distributed under the MPLv2 (Mozilla Public License). The project adheres to the classic interface organization, without […]
A new version of the compiler for the Vala programming language 0.49.1 has been released. The Vala language provides syntax similar to C# and Java, and provides easy integration with libraries written in C, both with and without the Glib Object System (Gobject). In the new version: Added experimental support for the with expression; Removed support for the command line parameter –use-header, which is now enabled by default; […]
