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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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
An experimental release of the open-source implementation of WinAPI — Wine 5.15 has been announced. Since the release of version 5.14, 27 bug reports have been closed and 273 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: the addition of the initial implementation of the XACT Engine sound libraries (Cross-platform Audio Creation Tool, xactengine3_*.dll), including the interfaces IXACT3Engine, IXACT3SoundBank, IXACT3Cue, IXACT3WaveBank, and IXACT3Wave; the formation of a mathematical library in MSVCRT has begun, implemented […]
According to data from the Ember analytical center, the share of solar and wind energy in global energy has doubled since 2015. Currently, it accounts for about 10% of the total energy produced, approaching the level of nuclear power plants. Alternative energy sources are gradually displacing coal, whose production decreased by a record 8.3% in the first half of 2020 compared to […]
Source Parts has announced the release of the Pocket Popcorn Computer (Pocket P.C.) development efforts. After the device is put on sale under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license, files with PCB design, schematics, 3D-printing models, and assembly instructions will be published. The released information will allow third-party manufacturers to use the Pocket P.C. as a prototype for development […]
After two years of development, the release of GNU Mcron 1.2 has been published, which evolves the cron system implemented in the Guile language. The new release features significant code cleanup—entirely rewritten in C, and the project now includes only source code in Guile. Mcron is 100% compatible with Vixie cron and can act as […]
Jeff Wilcox from the Microsoft Open Source Programs Office introduced the new site opensource.microsoft.com, which aggregates information about Microsoft’s open projects and the company's participation in the open-source ecosystem. The site also displays Microsoft employees' real-time activity in projects on GitHub, including the projects in which […]
An update for the Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS distribution has been released. This is the final update which includes changes related to hardware support improvements, updates to the Linux kernel and graphics stack, as well as bug fixes in the installer and bootloader. Future updates for the 18.04 branch will limit themselves to addressing vulnerabilities and issues affecting stability. Similar updates for Kubuntu 18.04.5 LTS, Ubuntu Budgie 18.04.5 LTS, […]
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