An experimental release of an open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 5.14 - took place. Since the release of version 5.13, 26 bug reports have been closed and 302 changes have been made. The most important changes: Work continues to restructure console support. An initial version of the Webdings font has been proposed. Conversion of MSVCRT libraries to PE format has begun. Error reports related to the operation of games and applications are closed: [...]
The fifth corrective update of the Debian 10 distribution has been published, which includes accumulated package updates and fixes bugs in the installer. The release includes 101 updates to fix stability issues and 62 updates to fix vulnerabilities. One of the changes in Debian 10.5 is the elimination of a vulnerability in GRUB2, which allows you to bypass the UEFI Secure Boot mechanism and install unverified malware. […]
There are hundreds of articles on the Internet about the benefits of analyzing customer behavior. Most often this applies to the retail sector. From the analysis of grocery baskets, ABC and XYZ analysis to retention marketing and personal offers. Various techniques have been used for decades, the algorithms are thought out, the code is written and debugged - take it and use it. In our case, one fundamental problem arose - we […]
Distributed computing company Neocortix announced that it has completed porting Folding@Home and Rosetta@Home to the 64-bit Arm platform, enabling modern smartphones, tablets and embedded systems like the Raspberry Pi 4 to contribute to the research and development of a COVID vaccine. -19. Four months ago, Neocortix announced the launch of the Rosetta@Home port, allowing Arm devices to participate in […]
Advance notice: this post is purely Friday, and more entertaining than technical. Funny stories about engineering fakups, tales from the dark side of the work of a cellular operator and other frivolous rustle are waiting for you. If I embellish something somewhere, it’s only for the benefit of the genre, but if I’m lying, then all this is the work of the days so past that no one […]
International Data Corporation (IDC) has seen significant growth in demand for tablet PCs globally after several quarters of declining sales. In the second quarter of this year, tablet shipments worldwide reached 38,6 million units. This is an 18,6% increase compared to the same period in 2019, when deliveries amounted to 32,6 million units. This sharp increase is explained […]
In the last century, Matrox was famous for its proprietary GPUs, but this decade has already changed the supplier of these critical components twice: first to AMD and then to NVIDIA. Introduced in January, the Matrox D1450 four-port HDMI boards are now available to order. Matrox's product specialization these days is limited to components for creating multi-monitor configurations […]
In June, the mid-range smartphone OPPO Reno 4 Pro debuted in the Chinese market with a Snapdragon 765G processor providing 5G support. Now an international version of this device has been announced, which has received a different computing platform. In particular, the Snapdragon 720G chip is used: this product contains eight Kryo 465 computing cores with a clock speed of up to 2,3 GHz and an Adreno 618 graphics accelerator. […]
After 7 months of active development, the release of the program for organizing and processing digital photos Darktable 3.0 is available. Darktable acts as a free alternative to Adobe Lightroom and specializes in non-destructive work with raw images. Darktable provides a large selection of modules for performing all kinds of photo processing operations, allows you to maintain a database of source photos, visually navigate through existing images and […]
The Wayland developers have announced the first release of a new package, wayland-utils, which will provide Wayland-related utilities, similar to how the wayland-protocols package provides additional protocols and extensions. Currently, only one utility is included, wayland-info, designed to display information about the Wayland protocols supported by the current composite server. The utility is a separate [...]
Two vulnerabilities have been identified in X.Org Server and libX11: CVE-2020-14347 - failure to initialize memory when allocating buffers for pixmaps using the AllocatePixmap() call can lead to the X client leaking memory contents from the heap when the X server is running with elevated privileges. This leak can be used to bypass Address Space Randomization (ASLR) technology. When combined with other vulnerabilities, the problem […]
TL;DR: An overview article - a guide to comparing environments for running applications in containers. The possibilities of Docker and other similar systems will be considered. A bit of history, where it all came from History The first well-known way to isolate an application is chroot. The system call of the same name provides a change to the root directory - thus providing access to the program that called it, access only to files inside this directory. But […]
