The FreeBSD developers announced the plan to remove GCC 4.2.1 from the source code of the FreeBSD base system. GCC components will be removed by the time the FreeBSD 13 branch is created, which will include only the Clang compiler. GCC can still be installed from the ports, where GCC 9, 7, and 8 are available, as well as already deprecated releases of GCC […]
Bandai Namco Entertainment has released another trailer for its psychological thriller The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan. Back in July, the developers announced that the upcoming game would feature two multiplayer modes. A week ago, they released a trailer dedicated to the two-player gameplay mode called 'Shared Story'. Now, they have released a video that discusses 'Movie Night'. Supermassive Games noted that […]
The EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) project, which maintains a repository of additional packages for RHEL and CentOS, has announced that the EPEL 8 repository is ready for release. The repository was created two weeks ago and is now deemed ready for integration. Through EPEL, users of distributions compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux are offered an additional set of packages from Fedora Linux, supported by communities […]
A corrective update for Firefox 68.0.2 has been released, addressing several issues: A vulnerability (CVE-2019-11733) allowing saved passwords to be copied without entering the master password has been fixed. When using the 'copy password' option provided in the context menu while in the Saved Logins dialog ('Page Info / Security / View Saved Password'), copying to the clipboard is performed without the need to enter a password (the password input dialog appears, but the data is copied […]
Updates for the stable branch of OpenBSD have been announced. Previously, using the '-stable' branch only allowed for binary updates to the base system through syspatch. Packages were built once for the release branch and were no longer updated. Now, however, three branches are planned to be supported: '-release': a frozen branch, from which packages are built once for release and no longer […]
At times, a technical support engineer faces a tough choice: to adopt a dialogue model of 'We are committed to high service culture!' or 'Click the button — get the result'? ...With a wing made of cotton broken, We'll lie in the clouds like in tombs. We poets are rarely saints, We poets are often blind. (Oleg Ladyzhensky) Working in Technical Support is not just about funny stories about self-jumping […]
Even though it's August, we are not taking it easy and continue to prepare for the new business season. Introducing 3CX v16 Update 3 Alpha! This release adds automatic configuration of SIP trunks based on information received from DNS, automatic reconnection of mobile clients for Android and iOS, audio recognition, and drag-and-drop of attachments into the web client chat window. The new release features […]
Wine is a program for running Windows applications on Unix-based computers. Running Wine on Windows has been the dream of fans who answer the call of their hearts: 'We do what we must because we are not obligated to do it,' at least since 2004 when someone attempted to compile Wine in Cygwin and broke the host system registry. The justification: 'What about old applications, […]
Over many years, the Linux operating system has become just as high-quality and reliable as Windows and macOS. However, it still has a fundamental drawback related to the inability to handle data correctly when there is insufficient RAM. On systems with limited RAM, it's common to encounter situations where the OS freezes and does not respond to commands. At the same time, it is impossible […]
Researchers from Boston University have developed an attack method (CVE-2019-11728) that allows scanning of IP addresses and open network ports in a user's internal network, separated from the external network by a firewall, or on the current system (localhost). The attack can be executed by opening a specially crafted page in a browser. The proposed technique is based on the use of the HTTP header Alt-Svc (HTTP Alternate Services, RFC-7838). The issue manifests itself […]
In the planned release of Firefox 70 on October 22, it has been decided to prohibit the display of authentication requests initiated from iframe blocks loaded from another domain (cross-origin). This change will allow the blocking of certain abuses and transition to a model where credentials are requested only from the primary domain of the document displayed in the address bar. Another noteworthy change in Firefox 70 will be […]
The Apache Foundation has released its report for the 2019 financial year (from April 30, 2018, to April 30, 2019). The total assets for the reporting period amounted to $3.8 million, which is $1.1 million more than for the 2018 financial year. The equity increased by $645,000 over the year, totaling $2.87 million. The majority of the funds were received […]