Category: Internet News

Release of Integrated Internet Applications Suite SeaMonkey 2.53.4

The SeaMonkey 2.53.4 internet application suite has been released, which combines a web browser, email client, RSS/Atom feed aggregation system, and WYSIWYG HTML page editor Composer within a single product. The pre-installed add-ons include the IRC client Chatzilla, a set of developer tools DOM Inspector, and the calendar-planner Lightning. The new release incorporates fixes and changes from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based on […]

Thirteenth firmware update for Ubuntu Touch

The UBports project, which has taken over the development of the mobile platform Ubuntu Touch after it was abandoned by Canonical, has released the OTA-13 (over-the-air) firmware update for all officially supported smartphones and tablets that were equipped with Ubuntu-based firmware. The update has been prepared for smartphones including OnePlus One, Fairphone 2, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 2013, and Meizu […]

Solaris has transitioned to a continuous delivery model for updates.

Oracle has announced the implementation of a continuous delivery model for Solaris, under which new features and fresh package versions will soon appear in the Solaris 11.4 branch as part of monthly updates, without the creation of a new significant release of Solaris 11.5. The proposed model, which implies delivering new functionality in frequently released minor versions, will accelerate the enhancement of […]

Russia intends to ban protocols that conceal website names.

Public discussion has begun on the draft legal act to amend the Federal Law 'On Information, Information Technology and Information Protection,' developed by the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications, and Mass Media. The law proposes to introduce a ban on the use within the territory of the Russian Federation 'encryption protocols that allow masking the name (identifier) of a web page or site on the Internet, except in cases established by […]

Initial independent tests of the GeForce RTX 3090: only 10% more powerful than the GeForce RTX 3080.

This week, the first graphics cards from the Ampere family — GeForce RTX 3080 — went on sale, and reviews have also been released. Next week, on September 24, sales of the flagship GeForce RTX 3090 will start, and testing results should also be available then. However, the Chinese resource TecLab decided not to wait for the specified NVIDIA deadline and presented a review of the GeForce […]

The Precursor platform for creating open mobile devices has been introduced

Andrew Huang, a well-known activist promoting free hardware ideas and the recipient of the 2012 EFF Pioneer Award, has introduced an open platform called 'Precursor,' designed for creating concepts for new mobile devices. Similar to how Raspberry Pi and Arduino enable the creation of Internet of Things devices, Precursor aims to provide the means to design and build various mobile […]

Development of the uMatrix project has been discontinued.

Raymond Hill, the author of the uBlock Origin ad-blocking system, has archived the uMatrix browser extension repository. This indicates the cessation of its development, with the code now available only in read-only mode. In a comment published two days ago, Raymond Hill cited that he can no longer and will not spend his time on […]

Release of the 4MLinux 34.0 distribution

Release 4MLinux 34.0 has been published, a minimalist user distribution that is not a fork of any other projects and utilizes a graphical environment based on JWM. 4MLinux can serve not only as a live environment for multimedia playback and user tasks but also as a recovery system and a platform for launching LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, MariaDB, and […]

Release of Vue.js 3.0.0, the framework for building user interfaces

The Vue.js development team has announced the official release of Vue.js 3.0 'One Piece', a significant new release of the framework that, according to the developers, 'provides improved performance, smaller package sizes, better integration with TypeScript, new APIs for addressing large-scale tasks, and a solid foundation for future framework iterations in the long term.' The project's code is distributed under the MIT license. Vue is a progressive […]

A vulnerability in Firefox for Android allows control of the browser via public Wi-Fi

A serious vulnerability has been identified in the implementation of the SSDP protocol in Firefox for Android, which is used for discovering network services in the local network. This vulnerability allows an attacker on the same local or wireless network to respond to Firefox's probing requests with a UPnP XML 'LOCATION' message containing intent commands, which can open an arbitrary URI in the browser or trigger handlers of other applications. […]

The Raspberry Pi 4 now supports booting from USB drives

The default eeprom firmware with a bootloader for Raspberry Pi 4 boards has been enhanced to support booting from USB drives. Previously, Raspberry Pi 4 boards could only boot from an SD card or over the network. Experimental support for USB booting was added in May, but it was unavailable in the default firmware. The initial lack of USB boot capability and […]

Red Hat is developing a new filesystem NVFS, optimized for NVM memory.

Mikuláš Patočka, one of the developers of LVM and the author of several inventions related to optimizing storage system performance, who works at Red Hat, presented in the Linux kernel developers mailing list a new filesystem called NVFS, aimed at creating a compact and fast filesystem for non-volatile memory (NVM, non-volatile memory, such as NVDIMM), combining RAM performance with the capability of […]

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