It has been revealed that Microsoft will soon stop supporting the Windows 10 build released in October 2018 (version 1809). To keep the 'ten' up to date, the company releases massive updates for it twice a year. The update from October 2018 can certainly be considered the most unfortunate of them. And now, its support days are numbered. It's hard to describe how poorly this […]
The release of the web browser Firefox 73 has taken place, as well as the mobile version Firefox 68.5 for the Android platform. Additionally, a long-term support update 68.5.0 has been formed. The Firefox 74 branch will soon enter the beta testing phase, with its release scheduled for March 10 (the project has switched to a 4-week development cycle). Key innovations: In the mode of accessing DNS over HTTPS […]
Andrey Konovalov from Google is developing a new USB Raw Gadget module that allows the emulation of USB devices in user space. A proposal to include this module in the main body of the Linux kernel is under review. The USB Raw Gadget is already being used by Google to simplify fuzzing testing of the kernel's USB stack using the syzkaller toolkit. The module adds a new programming interface to the kernel's subsystem […]
On February 12, 2020, the LTS version of the Ubuntu distribution was released. Also released were versions of the distribution with alternative desktop environments: Kubuntu 18.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu Budgie 18.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu MATE 18.04.4 LTS, Lubuntu 18.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu Kylin 18.04.4 LTS, and Xubuntu 18.04.4 LTS. Key improvements and innovations include the following: The kernel has been updated to version […]
As of December 31, 2019, we have 124,956 functional hard drives. Of these, 2,229 are boot drives and 122,658 contain data. In this review, we will examine the failure statistics among data hard drives. We will also look at the 12 and 14 TB versions of the disks and the new 16 TB ones, which we have been actively using since the beginning of the fourth quarter […]
The data leak scheme through Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD) during name collisions (in this case, a collision of the internal domain name with one of the new gTLDs, but the essence remains the same). Source: research from the University of Michigan, 2016 Mike O’Connor, one of the oldest investors in domain names, is putting the most dangerous and controversial lot from his collection up for sale: the domain corp.com for $1.7 […]
The release of the Cryptsetup 2.3 utility suite has taken place, designed for configuring disk encryption on Linux using the dm-crypt module. It supports working with dm-crypt partitions, LUKS, LUKS2, loop-AES, and TrueCrypt with VeraCrypt extensions. Also included are the veritysetup and integritysetup utilities for configuring data integrity control mechanisms based on dm-verity and dm-integrity modules. A key improvement in the new […]
The release of the MATE 1.24 desktop environment has been announced, continuing the development of the GNOME 2.32 codebase while maintaining the classic desktop design concept. Installation packages for MATE 1.24 will soon be prepared for Arch Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, ALT, and other distributions. In this new release: The first results of the initiative to port MATE applications to Wayland have been introduced. […]
The release of the free non-linear video editing system OpenShot 2.5.0 has been announced. The project code is provided under the GPLv3 license: the interface is written in Python and PyQt5, the video processing core (libopenshot) is written in C++ and utilizes FFmpeg capabilities, and the interactive timeline is built using HTML5, JavaScript, and AngularJS. For Ubuntu users, packages with the latest OpenShot release are available through a specially prepared PPA repository, […]
A new release of the Tails live distribution has been launched, focused on ensuring anonymity and protecting personal data online. This distribution is intended solely for booting from removable media, preferably write-protected. All network connections are routed solely through the TOR network. Your data is not saved anywhere unless you explicitly specify otherwise. No information is left on the computer, […]
The release of MATE desktop environment version 1.24 has taken place. New features include: Adaptations for working with Wayland for the Eye Of MATE application, panel-multimonitor applets, and panel-background. Improved Wayland support for the MATE panel. The system monitor applet can now display information about NVMe drives. Enhanced support for high-resolution displays (window manager marco, network settings applet, Control Center, etc.). Profile support has been improved […]
In today's world, the use of software for modeling deposits and mining operations is no longer extraordinary. There is a sufficient number of software products on the market that, depending on the manufacturer's modifications, meet nearly all the needs concerning the mining-geological conditions of enterprises and the processes carried out by mining engineers, geologists, and surveyors. The specific characteristics of this industry in Russia, evident to the professionals working here, […]