ProHoster > Blog > Internet News

Category: Internet News

Internet News Section

The creation of the Rust Foundation, independent of Mozilla, has been announced.

Posted on

The main development team of the Rust programming language (Rust Core Team) and Mozilla have announced plans to create an independent non-profit organization, the Rust Foundation, by the end of the year. This organization will be entrusted with the intellectual property related to the Rust project, including trademarks and domain names associated with Rust, Cargo, and crates.io. The organization will also be responsible for organizing project funding. Recall that […]

Release of Parrot 4.10 distribution with a selection of programs for security testing

Posted on

The release of Parrot 4.10, based on the Debian Testing package base and including a set of tools for system security testing, forensic analysis, and reverse engineering, is now available. Several ISO images are offered for download with the MATE environment (full 4.2 GB and minimal 1.8 GB), with the KDE desktop (2 GB), and with the Xfce desktop (1.7 GB). The Parrot distribution […]

Chrome 86 will feature protection against unsafe submission of web forms

Posted on

Google announced the introduction of protection against insecure submission of web forms in the upcoming release of Chrome 86. This protection targets forms displayed on pages loaded via HTTPS but submitting data without encryption over HTTP, which creates risks of data interception and modification during MITM attacks. Three changes have been implemented for such mixed web forms: Autocompletion of any mixed input forms has been disabled, […]

Tor security council report: malicious exit nodes used sslstrip.

Posted on

The essence of what happened In May 2020, a group of outgoing nodes was discovered that interfered with outbound connections. Specifically, they left almost all connections untouched but intercepted connections to a small number of cryptocurrency exchanges. If users visited the HTTP version of the site (i.e., unencrypted and unauthenticated), the malicious nodes prevented redirecting to the HTTPS version (i.e., encrypted and authenticated). If the user did not notice the substitution […]

Notepad++ is blocked in China

Posted on

The developers of Notepad++, the free (GPLv3) code editor for the Windows platform, have announced the project’s blockage in China. Despite only supporting the Windows platform, Notepad++ is very popular among Ubuntu users and ranks 5th among the most popular snap packages for developers (runs via Wine). It is speculated that the reason for Notepad++’s blockage was the project’s involvement in actions against […]

Hacking of the build server and compromise of the Libretro community repositories developing RetroArch

Posted on

The Libretro community, responsible for developing the RetroArch game console emulator and the Lakka distribution for creating game consoles, has warned about the hacking of project infrastructure elements and vandalism in the repositories. Attackers were able to gain access to the build server (buildbot) and repositories on GitHub. On GitHub, the attackers accessed all repositories of the Libretro organization by exploiting the account of a trusted project member. […]

Instagram Will Ask to Confirm Identity of 'Suspicious' Account Owners

Posted on

The social network Instagram continues to ramp up efforts to combat bots and accounts used for manipulating platform users. This time, it's been announced that Instagram will be requesting account owners suspected of 'potentially misleading behavior' to confirm their identity. According to Instagram, the new policy will not affect the majority of social media users, as it […]

The Kosmonaut Browser Engine, Written in Rust, Unveiled

Posted on

As part of the Kosmonaut project, a browser engine entirely written in Rust and utilizing some developments from the Servo project is being developed. The code is licensed under MPL 2.0 (Mozilla Public License). OpenGL bindings gl-rs in Rust are used for rendering. Window management and OpenGL context creation are implemented using the Glutin library. HTML and CSS parsing is handled by the html5ever and cssparser components, […]

🥇 Paragon Software has released a GPL implementation of NTFS for the Linux kernel | ProHoster

Posted on

The night builds of Firefox have added support for hardware-accelerated video decoding in sessions based on WebRTC technology, used in web applications for video conferencing. Acceleration has been implemented using VA-API (Video Acceleration API) and FFmpegDataDecoder, and is available for both Wayland and X11. The implementation for X11 is based on the use of a new backend utilizing EGL. To enable acceleration in […]

Paragon Software has released a GPL implementation of NTFS for the Linux kernel.

Posted on

Konstantin Komarov, founder and CEO of Paragon Software, published a set of patches in the Linux kernel mailing list with a full implementation of the NTFS file system, supporting read and write modes. The code is open under the GPL license. The implementation supports all features of the current NTFS 3.1 version, including extended file attributes, data compression mode, and efficient handling of holes in files […]

Overview of computers with Elbrus processors. Components and tests.

Posted on

Video blogger Dmitry Bachilo, specializing in computers, released a review of two different computers based on Elbrus processors. One is based on Elbrus 1C+, the other on Elbrus 8C. In the videos, you can see their internals and admire not only the Russian processors but also the domestic SSD, motherboard, and more. The performance tests conducted by him showed the following results: Benchmark […]

SQLite DB Release 3.33

Posted on

The release of SQLite 3.33.0 has been published, a lightweight DBMS presented as a plug-in library. SQLite code is distributed as public domain, meaning it can be used without restrictions and free of charge for any purpose. Financial support for SQLite developers is provided by a specially created consortium, which includes companies such as Adobe, Oracle, Mozilla, Bentley, and Bloomberg. Key changes: Implemented UPDATE FROM expression […]

« to the beginning 639 640 641 642 643 644 645 646 647 648 to the end »
Buy reliable website hosting with DDoS protection, VPS VDS servers 🔥 Buy reliable website hosting with DDoS protection, VPS VDS servers | ProHoster