Researchers from the NCC Group have published the results of an audit of the free Zephyr project, which is developing a real-time operating system (RTOS) aimed at equipping devices that comply with the Internet of Things concept (IoT). The audit identified 25 vulnerabilities in Zephyr and 1 vulnerability in MCUboot. Zephyr is being developed with the participation of Intel companies. In total, 6 […]
The first release of the new main branch of nginx 1.19 has been presented, within which the development of new features will continue. The parallel-maintained stable branch 1.18.x contains only changes related to the elimination of serious bugs and vulnerabilities. Next year, based on the main branch 1.19.x, a stable branch 1.20 will be formed. Main changes: Added the ability to verify client certificates using external […]
Changes in the compiler: * The class deallocator has been permanently removed * Ability to report line numbers in GNU style * Added experimental generation of C++ headers from external (extern) C|C++ declarations: DMD can now write C++ header files containing bindings for declarations in existing D files , marked extern(C) or extern(C++). Changes in runtime: * Added missing in […]
Matrix is a free protocol for implementing a federated network based on a linear history of events within an acyclic graph (DAG). The protocol previously received $5 million from Status.im in 2017, which allowed the developers to stabilize the specification, client and server reference implementations, hire UI/UX professionals to work on a global redesign, significantly improve […]
Previously, the company conducted testing, the last round of which included Mattermost, Matrix with the Riot client, Rocket.Chat and Slack. Other options were discarded due to complexity or inability to integrate with Mozilla single sign-on (IAM). As a result, Matrix was chosen and hosting from the protocol developer (New Vector) - Modular. The departure from IRC is due to the lack of necessary functionality and development […]
In Europe, they decided that consent to the setting of cookies should be explicit and forbade pre-setting the appropriate checkboxes on banners. There is an opinion that the decision will complicate web surfing and will have far-reaching consequences in the legal field. We understand the situation. Photo - Jade Wulfraat - Unsplash What the court decided In early October, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that […]
The Bank outsources its projects to many contractors. "Outsiders" write code, then transmit the results in a not very convenient form. Specifically, the process looked like this: they handed over a project that passed functional tests with them, and then it was tested already inside the banking perimeter for integration, load, and so on. It was often found that the tests were failing. Then everything went back to the external developer. How […]
Fallback mode (also referred to as IPKVM), which allows you to connect to a VPS without RDP directly from the hypervisor layer, saves 15-20 minutes per week. First and foremost, don't piss people off. All over the world, support is divided into lines, and the employee should be the first to try the typical solutions. If the task is knocked out of their limits - transfer to the second line. So, […]
Blizzard Entertainment will not be hosting BlizzCon this year. The reason was the novel coronavirus pandemic. The company usually held the event in November. In early April of this year, Blizzard warned that the festival might not take place. Despite the official cancellation of the event, Blizzard is considering the possibility of holding a virtual event. “We are now discussing how we could unite [...]
The latest experimental app from Facebook R&D is called CatchUp and is designed for organizing group voice calls. The user can use the status to indicate his readiness to accept the call and up to eight people will be able to join the conversation. The application allows you to create groups of your friends or family members so that, if necessary, […]
Many manufacturers are installing high refresh rate displays in their flagship mobile devices. OnePlus is no exception, its new smartphones use 90-Hz matrices. However, apart from smoother interface operation, a high refresh rate does not bring significant advantages. In theory, it could provide a smoother gaming experience, but most games are capped at 60fps. […]
Behavior Interactive studio announced that the multiplayer action game Dead by Daylight will have a chapter dedicated to Silent Hill. It will feature two new characters: killer Pyramid Head and survivor Cheryl Mason, as well as a new map - Midwich Elementary School. Horrible events have happened at Midwich Primary School, and something terrible will happen there again. Pyramid head with a huge […]
