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FOSS News #15 Free and Open Source News Review May 4-10, 2020

Hi all! We continue to review the news of free and open source software and hardware (and a little coronavirus). All the most important things about penguins and not only in Russia and the world. Participation of the Open Source community in the fight against COVID-19, a prototype of a possible final solution to the problem of running Windows applications in GNU/Linux, the start of sales of a de-googled /e/OS smartphone from Fairphone, an interview with one […]

Observer: System Redux will be 20% longer than the original

In mid-April, Bloober Team announced Observer: System Redux, an expanded edition of Observer for the next generation of consoles. Development manager Szymon Erdmanski spoke in more detail about the project in a recent interview with GamingBolt. He talked about the added content in System Redux, technical improvements and versions for different platforms. Journalists asked the head of the project how much […]

Rumors: the new part of Test Drive Unlimited will be subtitled Solar Crown

YouTuber Alex VII drew attention to the registration by Nacon (formerly Bigben Interactive), which owns the rights to the Test Drive series, of the Test Drive Solar Crown trademark. Nacon filed an application for the trademark at the beginning of April, but the incident remained unnoticed until the publication of the corresponding Alex VII video. A few days before the Nacon brand […]

The .РФ domain is 10 years old

Today the domain zone .РФ celebrates its tenth anniversary. It was on this day, May 12, 2010, that the first Cyrillic top-level domain was delegated to Russia. The .РФ domain zone became the first among national Cyrillic domain zones: in 2009, ICANN approved an application for the creation of a Russian top-level domain .РФ, and soon the registration of names for owners […]

Microsoft and Intel will make it easier to identify malware by converting it into images

It has become known that specialists from Microsoft and Intel are jointly developing a new method for identifying malicious software. The method is based on deep learning and a system for representing malware in the form of graphic images in grayscale. The source reports that Microsoft researchers from the Threat Protection Analytics Group, together with colleagues from Intel, are studying […]

Facebook removed Instagram Lite and is developing a new version of the app

Facebook has removed the “lite” Instagram Lite app from Google Play. It was released in 2018 and was intended for users in Mexico, Kenya and other developing countries. Unlike a full-fledged application, the simplified version took up less memory, worked faster and was economical on Internet traffic. However, it was deprived of some functions such as sending messages. It is reported that […]

Intel will move all current SSDs to 144-layer 3D NAND memory next year

For Intel, the production of solid-state memory continues to be an important, although far from highly profitable, activity. At a special briefing, company representatives explained that deliveries of drives based on 144-layer 3D NAND memory will begin this year, and next year it will extend to the entire current range of SSDs. Compared to Intel's progress in increasing storage density […]

Elon Musk told when Neuralink will start to really chip the human brain

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, in a recent Joe Rogan podcast, discussed details about the potential of Neuralink technology, which is tasked with combining the human brain with a computer. In addition, he said when the technology is going to be tested on people. According to him, this will happen very soon. According to Musk, […]

Xiaomi to launch Redmi K30 5G Speed ​​Edition smartphone next week

The Redmi brand, formed by the Chinese company Xiaomi, has published a teaser image indicating the imminent release of the productive K30 5G Speed ​​Edition smartphone with support for fifth-generation mobile networks. The device will debut this coming Monday – May 11th. It will be offered through the online marketplace JD.com. The teaser says that the smartphone is equipped with a display with an oblong hole in the upper right corner: […]

In-kernel implementation of WireGuard for OpenBSD announced

On Twitter, EdgeSecurity, the founder of which is the author of WireGuard, announced the creation of a native and fully supported implementation of VPN WireGuard for OpenBSD. To confirm the words, a screenshot demonstrating the work was published. The readiness of patches for the OpenBSD kernel was also confirmed by Jason A. Donenfeld, author of WireGuard, in the announcement of an update to the wireguard-tools utilities. Currently only external patches are available, [...]

Thunderspy - A series of attacks on Thunderbolt hardware

Information has been disclosed on seven vulnerabilities in Thunderbolt hardware, collectively codenamed Thunderspy, that could bypass all major Thunderbolt security components. Based on the identified problems, nine attack scenarios are proposed, implemented if the attacker has local access to the system through connecting a malicious device or manipulating the firmware. Attack scenarios include capabilities to […]

Fast routing and NAT in Linux

With the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses, many telecom operators are faced with the need to organize the access of their customers to the network using address translation. In this article, I'll show you how you can get Carrier Grade NAT performance on commodity servers. A Bit of History The topic of IPv4 address space exhaustion is not new. At some point, waiting queues appeared in RIPE […]