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According to reports from online sources, the website eBay.com uses a special script to scan the ports of visitors' PCs to detect remote access programs. Many of the scanned network ports are utilized by popular remote management tools such as Windows Remote Desktop, VNC, TeamViewer, and others. Enthusiasts from Bleeping Computer conducted a study that confirmed eBay.com is indeed scanning 14 different […]
The studio Frogwares has announced Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One — a prequel to the series, which they hinted at earlier in their microblog. The game will be released in 2021 for PC (Steam, EGS, GOG), PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X, with the exact date currently unknown. Frogwares will self-publish the game. The cinematic trailer accompanying the announcement initially shows a young Sherlock […]
A new hardware support database for BSD systems has been opened, prepared by the creators of the Linux-Hardware.org database. Among the most sought-after features of the database are driver searches for devices, functionality tests, anonymization of collected system logs, and statistical reports. The use cases for the database are diverse — you can simply generate a list of all devices, send logs to developers for bug fixes, or save a 'snapshot' of the current state of the computer for future reference, […]
In the announcement of the preliminary version of the Linux kernel 5.7-rc7, after a general overview of the fixes, Linus Torvalds mentioned that the most significant improvement for him over the week was the update of his main workstation. For the first time in the last 15 years, his system is equipped with a processor not from Intel. The new configuration features an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970x CPU with 32 cores (64 threads) […]
The head of ION LANDS, Marko Dieckmann, published the first-ever footage of the first-person mode in the cyberpunk adventure Cloudpunk on the studio's official microblog. Currently, the ability to switch cameras in Cloudpunk is in the testing phase. To try the feature yourself, switch to the beta version of the game through its properties in the Steam library. The transition from third-person […]
According to reports from online sources, the Google Messages app, which serves as the default messaging tool on Android smartphones, might soon introduce support for end-to-end encryption. Mentions of this feature were discovered in the code of one of the app's beta versions. Enthusiasts examined the code of internal build Google Messages version 6.2 and found references to several new features, most notably […]
Developers of the Chromium project analyzed 912 dangerous and critical vulnerabilities detected in stable releases of Chrome since 2015, concluding that 70% of them were caused by unsafe memory handling (pointer errors in C/C++ code). Half of these issues (36.1%) were due to buffer access after the associated memory had been released […]
SQLite 3.32.0 has been released, a lightweight DBMS presented as a plug-in library. The SQLite code is released into the public domain, meaning it can be used without restrictions and free of charge for any purpose. Financial support for the SQLite developers is provided by a specially formed consortium that includes companies like Adobe, Oracle, Mozilla, Bentley, and Bloomberg. Key changes: An approximate version of the command has been implemented […]
After three and a half years since the last release, the GoboLinux 017 distribution has been formed. GoboLinux uses a stack-based model for creating the directory tree instead of the traditional file hierarchy found in Unix systems, where each program is installed in a separate directory. The installation image size is 1.9 GB, which can also be used to explore the capabilities of the distribution in live mode. The root in GoboLinux […]
A new version of the GDB debugger, 9.2, has been released, which offers only bug fixes compared to version 9.1. GDB supports source-level debugging for a wide range of programming languages (Ada, C, C++, Objective-C, Pascal, Go, etc.) on various hardware (i386, amd64, ARM, Power, Sparc, RISC-V, etc.) and software platforms (GNU/Linux, *BSD, Unix, Windows, macOS). Starting […]
The Children and Youth Center for Technical Creativity and Information Technologies, in partnership with Calculate Linux, is holding the first open competition for children and teenagers in GNU/Linux. Participants will be offered theoretical questions and practical tasks of varying complexity. The competition will start online in Russian on May 25, 2020, at 1 PM Moscow time. Participation is free. All participants will receive diplomas. […]
Checkpoint has introduced the Safe-Linking protection mechanism, which complicates the creation of exploits that manipulate the definition or modification of pointers to buffers allocated during a malloc call. While Safe-Linking does not completely block the possibility of exploiting vulnerabilities, it significantly complicates the creation of certain categories of exploits with minimal overhead, as in addition to the exploitable buffer overflow, one must find another vulnerability that causes information leakage about […]